Europe makes progress in preparing for influenza pandemic, but further work needed.

abstract：:Conjugate vaccines have reduced pneumococcal disease in vaccinated children and unvaccinated adults, but non-vaccine serotypes are of concern, particularly if antibiotic resistant. We reviewed Streptococcus pneumoniae collected via: (i) the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) surveillances from 2001-...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Sheppard C,Fry NK,Mushtaq S,Woodford N,Reynolds R,Janes R,Pike R,Hill R,Kimuli M,Staves P,Doumith M,Harrison T,Livermore DM

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundStrategies to control varicella vary across Europe. Evidence from established programmes has prompted the United Kingdom to re-evaluate the need for universal vaccination. The burden of complicated varicella is a key parameter in the cost-effectiveness analysis.AimOur objective was to estimate the burden of ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Bernal JL,Hobbelen P,Amirthalingam G

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new azole resistance mechanism in Aspergillus fumigatus consisting of a TR46/Y121F/T289A alteration in the cyp51A gene was recently described in the Netherlands. Strains containing these mutations are associated with invasive infection and therapy failure. This communication describes the first case of fatal invasiv...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Vermeulen E,Maertens J,Schoemans H,Lagrou K

更新日期：2012-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Between November 2013 and August 2014, nine cases of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O117:H7 VT1 were confirmed in adult men. Further investigation using semi-structured interviews revealed that eight cases were United Kingdom (UK)-born men who have sex with men (MSM) who had sexually acquired infection in th...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Simms I,Gilbart VL,Byrne L,Jenkins C,Adak GK,Hughes G,Crook PD

更新日期：2014-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In January-February 2008, one imported case of measles initiated a series of exposures with around 380 nosocomial secondary contacts. Susceptible individuals were traced early and control measures were initiated that managed to limit the consequences considerably. Only four secondary cases were identified by the end o...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Follin P,Dotevall L,Jertborn M,Khalid Y,Liljeqvist JA,Muntz S,Qvarfordt I,Söderström A,Wiman A,Ahrén C,Osterberg P,Johansen K

更新日期：2008-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an under-recognised cause of acute hepatitis in high-income countries. The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of testing, diagnosis, surveillance activities, and data on confirmed cases in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). A semi-structured survey was develope...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Aspinall EJ,Couturier E,Faber M,Said B,Ijaz S,Tavoschi L,Takkinen J,Adlhoch C,The Country Experts.

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1), involving 81 cases with symptoms of influenza-like illness, was confirmed in June 2009 in a complex of schools in Paris, France. At that time, there was no community transmission in France. The index case, a 10-year-old girl, had travelled to the United Kingdom with her ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Carrillo-Santisteve P,Renard-Dubois S,Cheron G,Csaszar-Goutchkoff M,Lecuit M,Lortholary O,Bello P

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman with controlled HIV infection developed in late August 2016 a pruritic rash with fever and conjunctival hyperaemia after a trip to the French Caribbean islands. On day 3 after symptom onset, Zika virus RNA was detected in plasma, urine and vaginal samples with respective viral loads of 3.8, 6.1 and 5.3 log cop...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Penot P,Brichler S,Guilleminot J,Lascoux-Combe C,Taulera O,Gordien E,Leparc-Goffart I,Molina JM

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:First infections with the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus were identified on Reunion Island in July 2009. By the end of July, sustained community transmission of the virus was established. Pandemic H1N1 influenza activity peaked during week 35 (24 to 30 August), five weeks after the beginning of the epidemic and ha...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Thouillot F,Do C,Balleydier E,Rachou E,Staikowsky F,Morbidelli P,Jacques-Antoine Y,Bourde A,Lagrange-Xelot M,Poubeau P,Winer A,Gauzere B,Michault A,Jaffar-Bandjee M,Henrion G,Filleul L,D'Ortenzio E

更新日期：2009-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the first general outbreak of verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC) in Denmark. Twenty five patients, 18 children and seven adults, with culture-confirmed VTEC O157:H- infection and indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis DNA profiles, were identified during a six month period from Se...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Jensen C,Ethelberg S,Gervelmeyer A,Nielsen EM,Olsen KE,Mølbak K,The Outbreak Investigation Team

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was undertaken to analyse the impact of the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic on frontline public health workers in the Netherlands and to consider its implications for future pandemics. A structured, self-administered questionnaire was made available online (26 March to 26 May 2010) for frontlin...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Vinck L,Isken L,Hooiveld M,Trompenaars M,Ijzermans J,Timen A

更新日期：2011-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) disseminates between hospitals serving one patient catchment area. Successful prevention and control requires concerted efforts and regional surveillance. Forty hospitals located in the German EUREGIO have established a network for combating MRSA. In 2007 they agreed u...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Jurke A,Kock R,Becker K,Thole S,Hendrix R,Rossen J,Daniels-Haardt I,Friedrich A

更新日期：2013-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A distinct cluster of highly pathogenic avian influenzaviruses of subtype A(H5N1) has been found to emergewithin clade 2.2.1.2 in poultry in Egypt since summer2014 and appears to have quickly become predominant.Viruses of this cluster may be associated withincreased incidence of human influenza A(H5N1) infectionsin Eg...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Arafa AS,Naguib MM,Luttermann C,Selim AA,Kilany WH,Hagag N,Samy A,Abdelhalim A,Hassan MK,Abdelwhab EM,Makonnen Y,Dauphin G,Lubroth J,Mettenleiter TC,Beer M,Grund C,Harder TC

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from early clinical trials have shown that a single dose of pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine may generate sufficient antibody response, but the relevance of this fact to public health decision making has yet to be clarified. The present study compares the risk of clinical attack (i.e. clinical attack rate) betw...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Nishiura H,Iwata K

更新日期：2009-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has emerged as a frequent pathogen in blood cultures in Pirkanmaa Hospital District (HD), Finland. To study risk factors for MRSA bacteraemia and the adequacy of empirical antimicrobial treatment, we retrospectively reviewed the hospital records of 102 patients, 51 wit...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Rahikka P,Syrjänen J,Vuento R,Laine J,Huttunen R

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS) in Rome, in collaboration with the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) in London, and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Diseases Control (SIIDC) in Stockholm, is conducting a scientific and technical analysis ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Salmaso S

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 2013, Italy declared a national outbreak of hepatitis A, which also affected several foreign tourists who had recently visited the country. Molecular investigations identified some cases as infected with an identical strain of hepatitis A virus subgenotype IA. After additional European Union/European Economic A...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Severi E,Verhoef L,Thornton L,Guzman-Herrador BR,Faber M,Sundqvist L,Rimhanen-Finne R,Roque-Afonso AM,Ngui SL,Allerberger F,Baumann-Popczyk A,Muller L,Parmakova K,Alfonsi V,Tavoschi L,Vennema H,Fitzgerald M,Myrmel M,G

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundProtozoan enteroparasites Cryptosporidium species and Giardia duodenalis are major contributors to the burden of gastrointestinal illness in children globally, whereas the stramenopile Blastocystis species has been associated with irritable bowel syndrome and skin disorders.AimTo investigate the carriage of ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Reh L,Muadica AS,Köster PC,Balasegaram S,Verlander NQ,Chércoles ER,Carmena D

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denmark is currently experiencing an outbreak of syphilis that began in 2003 and has continued in 2004. Data from the national surveillance system show that most cases are in men who have sex with men (MSM), and that a large proportion of these patients are also HIV positive. The proportion of known HIV positive cases...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Cowan S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present preliminary results of a case-control study to estimate influenza vaccine effectiveness in Spain, from week 50 of 2010 to week 6 of 2011. The adjusted effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza due to any type of influenza virus was 50% (95% CI: -6 to 77%) for the trivalent se...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Savulescu C,Jiménez-Jorge S,de Mateo S,Ledesma J,Pozo F,Casas I,Larrauri A,cycEVA Study Team.

更新日期：2011-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The public health implications of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Europe have changed due to increasing numbers of hepatitis E cases and recent reports of chronic, persistent HEV infections associated with progression to cirrhosis in immunosuppressed patients. The main infectious risk for such immunosuppressed patients is ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Domanović D,Tedder R,Blümel J,Zaaijer H,Gallian P,Niederhauser C,Sauleda Oliveras S,O'Riordan J,Boland F,Harritshøj L,Nascimento MSJ,Ciccaglione AR,Politis C,Adlhoch C,Flan B,Oualikene-Gonin W,Rautmann G,Strengers P,H

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Monophasic variant of Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhimurium (monophasic S. Typhimurium), with antigenic structure 1,4,[5],12:i:-, appears to be of increasing importance in Europe. In Italy, monophasic S. Typhimurium represented the third most frequent Salmonella serovar isolated from human cases ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Cito F,Baldinelli F,Calistri P,Di Giannatale E,Scavia G,Orsini M,Iannetti S,Sacchini L,Mangone I,Candeloro L,Conte A,Ippoliti C,Morelli D,Migliorati G,Barile NB,Marfoglia C,Salucci S,Cammà C,Marcacci M,Ancora M,Di

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite measures taken in France since 1990 to control the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the incidence of BSE cases notified in France by the BSE Epidemiological Surveillance Network has been rising in recent years. By 1 July 2000, 103 ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Savey M,Coudert M,Agrech AE,Calavas D,Ducrot C,Baron S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing unprecedented levels of insecurity and violence. We evaluate the likely impact in terms of added transmissibility and cases of major security incidents in the Butembo coordination hub. We also show that despite this additional burden,...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Jombart T,Jarvis CI,Mesfin S,Tabal N,Mossoko M,Mpia LM,Abedi AA,Chene S,Forbin EE,Belizaire MRD,de Radiguès X,Ngombo R,Tutu Y,Finger F,Crowe M,Edmunds WJ,Nsio J,Yam A,Diallo B,Gueye AS,Ahuka-Mundeke S,Yao M,Fa

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 28 August 2009, French authorities reported five cases of chikungunya fever on Reunion Island: three confirmed, one probable, and one suspected case under investigation. All three confirmed patients presented with an acute febrile syndrome, arthralgia, myalgia and cutaneaous rash. All live in the same area on the w...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： D'Ortenzio E,Grandadam M,Balleydier E,Dehecq JS,Jaffar-Bandjee MC,Michault A,Andriamandimby SF,Reynes JM,Filleul L

更新日期：2009-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundCampylobacter is the main cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. The main transmission route is through consumption of food contaminated with Campylobacter species or contact with infected animals. In Latvia, the prevalence of campylobacteriosis is reported to be low (4.6 cases per 100,000 population ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Meistere I,Ķibilds J,Eglīte L,Alksne L,Avsejenko J,Cibrovska A,Makarova S,Streikiša M,Grantiņa-Ieviņa L,Bērziņš A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria incidence is reportedly declining steadily in many parts of the world, including in at least several African countries. The incidence of imported malaria is also declining in a number of European countries. However, incidence rates in travellers, both European tourists and the so called VFR (visiting friends a...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Bisoffi Z

更新日期：2008-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe Zika virus (ZIKV) vertical transmission in an imported case in Spain, in a 17-week pregnant woman. ZIKV IgG, IgM and RNA were detected in serum in week 17. At 19 weeks, ultrasound scan revealed fetal malformations and ZIKV was detected in the amniotic fluid. Pregnancy was terminated at week 21; autopsy of ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Perez S,Tato R,Cabrera JJ,Lopez A,Robles O,Paz E,Coira A,Sanchez-Seco MP,Vazquez A,Carballo R,Quintas C,Pousa A

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The worrying increase of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Amsterdam was investigated in two studies carried out by the department of AIDS research of the municipal health service. The results indicate that the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapies (HAART) may have had an influence on the increa...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Stolte G,Dukers NH,de Wit JB,Fennema H,Coutinho RA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 10 September 2011, a patient in his 50s was admitted to hospital in Ancona, Italy, after six days of high fever and no response to antibiotics. West Nile virus (WNV) infection was suspected after tests to determine the aetiology of the fever were inconclusive. On 20 September, WNV-specific IgM and IgG antibodies we...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Bagnarelli P,Marinelli K,Trotta D,Monachetti A,Tavio M,Del Gobbo R,Capobianchi M,Menzo S,Nicoletti L,Magurano F,Varaldo P

更新日期：2011-10-27 00:00:00