Experiences with the Dutch Working Party on antibiotic policy (SWAB).

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：:The need for timely establishment of diagnostic assays arose when Germany was confronted with the first travel-associated outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Europe. We describe our laboratory experiences during a large contact tracing investigation, comparing previously publish...

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

authors： Konrad R,Eberle U,Dangel A,Treis B,Berger A,Bengs K,Fingerle V,Liebl B,Ackermann N,Sing A

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe clonal shifts in vanA Enterococcus faecium isolates from clinical samples obtained from patients in Denmark from 2015 to the first quarter (Q1) of 2019. During Q1 2019, the vancomycin-variable enterococci (VVE) ST1421-CT1134 vanA E. faecium became the most dominant vanA E. faecium clone and has spread to a...

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

authors： Hammerum AM,Justesen US,Pinholt M,Roer L,Kaya H,Worning P,Nygaard S,Kemp M,Clausen ME,Nielsen KL,Samulioniené J,Kjærsgaard M,Østergaard C,Coia J,Søndergaard TS,Gaini S,Schønning K,Westh H,Hasman H,Holzknecht BJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary findings suggest ongoing HCV transmission among MSM infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and that enhanced surveillance for newly acquired HCV in MSM is feasible. ...

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

authors： Ruf M,Cohuet S,Maguire H,Brant LJ,Ramsay M,Lattimore S,Delpech V,SNAHC Steering Group.

更新日期：2008-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:After an initial peak in the mid-1980s, HIV incidence in men who have sex with men (MSM) declined in most western industrialised countries and then levelled off during the 1990s. Since the late 1990s, increasing numbers of newly diagnosed HIV infections in MSM have been observed in the majority of countries with large...

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

authors： Marcus U,Voss L,Kollan C,Hamouda O

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wet cooling systems are often associated with large outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease. Several European countries have legislation for registering such systems. The authors aimed to obtain an overview of the situation in Europe. A questionnaire survey was sent to 35 of the countries that collaborate in the European W...

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

authors： Ricketts KD,Joseph C,Lee J,Wewalka G,European Working Group for Legionella Infections.

更新日期：2008-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Since October 2008, a total of 143 cases of rubella have affected the two Austrian provinces Styria and Burgenland. The index case occurred in mid-October 2008, but was not notified to the public health authorities until February 2009, when the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety was asked to investigate a clus...

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

authors： Schmid D,Kasper S,Kuo HW,Aberle S,Holzmann H,Daghofer E,Wassermann-Neuhold M,Feenstra O,Krischka C,Allerberger F

更新日期：2009-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In Italy, B and C are the predominant serogroups among meningococci causing invasive diseases. Nevertheless, in the period from 2013 to 2016, an increase in serogroup W Neisseria meningitidis (MenW) was observed. This study intends to define the main characteristics of 63 MenW isolates responsible of invasive meningoc...

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

authors： Fazio C,Neri A,Vacca P,Ciammaruconi A,Arghittu M,Barbui AM,Vocale C,Bernaschi P,Isola P,Galanti IA,Mencacci A,De Nittis R,Chironna M,Giammanco A,Pagani E,Bisbano A,Stefanelli P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a large West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic in northeastern Italy in 2008, human and animal surveillance activities were implemented in Emilia Romagna. Human surveillance was performed by serology or genome detection on blood and cerebrospinal fluid for all suspected cases suffering from acute meningoencephalitis...

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

authors： Angelini P,Tamba M,Finarelli AC,Bellini R,Albieri A,Bonilauri P,Cavrini F,Dottori M,Gaibani P,Martini E,Mattivi A,Pierro AM,Rugna G,Sambri V,Squintani G,Macini P

更新日期：2010-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein describe and analyse the first outbreak of severe pneumonia caused by human adenovirus type1 (HAdV C type 1), which included immunocompetent patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) of Marseille, France, and occurred between September and October 2012. Seven successive patients were diagnosed by HAdV specifi...

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

authors： Cassir N,Hraiech S,Nougairede A,Zandotti C,Fournier PE,Papazian L

更新日期：2014-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that preparedness for effectively facing a major influenza epidemic should involve the training of physicians in the management of contagious diseases and upgrading hospital resources and procedures [1]. Children would be particularly vulnerable during an influenza pandem...

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

authors： Giacomet V,Tarallo L,De Marco G,Giannattasio A,Barbarino A,Guarino A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 31 August, a veterinarian and a farmworker were hospitalised for skin lesions. Both had been exposed to a dead cow on 19 August on a farm near Rome, where eight further cattle died of confirmed anthrax later the same month. At admission, the first case showed a black depressed eschar and another smaller lesion on o...

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

authors： Nicastri E,Vairo F,Mencarini P,Battisti A,Agrati C,Cimini E,Carrara S,D'Arezzo S,Adone R,Vulcano A,Iannetta M,Capone A,Petrosillo N,Fasanella A,Ippolito G,Italian Anthrax Team Members

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive meningococcal disease surveillance in Europe combines isolate characterisation and epidemiological data to support public health intervention. A representative European Meningococcal Strain Collection (EMSC) of IMD isolates was obtained, and whole genome sequenced to characterise 799 EMSC isolates from the ep...

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

authors： Bratcher HB,Brehony C,Heuberger S,Pieridou-Bagatzouni D,Křížová P,Hoffmann S,Toropainen M,Taha MK,Claus H,Tzanakaki G,Erdôsi T,Galajeva J,van der Ende A,Skoczyńska A,Pana M,Vaculíková A,Paragi M,Maiden MC,Caugant DA

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new SARS-CoV-2 lineages with the N501Y mutation in the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein spread rapidly in the United Kingdom. We estimated that the earlier 501Y lineage without amino acid deletion Δ69/Δ70, circulating mainly between early September and mid-November, was 10% (6-13%) more transmissible t...

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

authors： Leung K,Shum MH,Leung GM,Lam TT,Wu JT

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1994 to 2009, national field epidemiology training programmes (FETP) have been installed in Spain, Germany, Italy, France and Norway. During their two year duration, different components of the FETP are devised as follows: 63-79 weeks are spent on projects in hosting institutes, 2-26 weeks in outside projects, 9-...

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

authors： Krause G,Aavitsland P,Alpers K,Barrasa A,Bremer V,Helynck B,Perra A

更新日期：2009-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in Denmark was enhanced during the 2009–10 winter season with a system monitoring the burden of the pandemic on intensive care units (ICUs), in order to inform policymakers and detect shortages in ICUs in a timely manner. Between week 46 of 2009 and week 11 of 2010, all ...

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

authors： Gubbels S,Perner A,Valentiner-Branth P,Molbak K

更新日期：2010-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the pre-vaccination era, rubella was regarded as only a mild exanthematous acute viral infection of children. The devastating effects of the disease were first identified in the early 1940s by an Australian ophthalmologist, and further confirmed during the 1962-65 rubella pandemic in Europe and the United States. T...

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

authors： Lévy-Bruhl D,Six C,Parent I

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles cases are increasing in Ireland, with 320 cases notified since August 2009. Nearly two-thirds of these cases (n=206) were unvaccinated. In the early stages of the outbreak a substantial number of cases were linked to the Traveller community with some cases also reported among the Roma community, other citizens...

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

authors： Gee S,Cotter S,O'Flanagan D,National Incident Management Team.

更新日期：2010-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of trichinellosis in Italy and France at the end of 1975 implicated the horse, an animal not considered previously to be at risk of this disease. European regulations at that time concerned only the control of pork. The obligation to search for ...

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

authors： Maillot E

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:In August 2011, a case of canine rabies was notified to the French veterinary services. The dog was a three-month-old puppy illegally imported from Morocco that presented behavioural changes on 1 August and was admitted to a veterinary clinic on 6 August. It died the following day and the body was shortly sent to the ...

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

authors： Mailles A,Boisseleau D,Dacheux L,Michalewiscz C,Gloaguen C,Ponçon N,Bourhy H,Callon H,Vaillant V,Dabosville I,Morineau-Le Houssine P

更新日期：2011-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the actions of public health experts in cooperation with specialists in sexually transmitted diseases (STD), epidemiologists and (molecular) microbiologists to investigate the possible introduction of the swCT variant in the Netherlands: 1. Investigating trends in CT epidemiology Result: STD surv...

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

authors： Morré SA,Catsburg A,de Boer M,Spaargaren J,de Vries HJ,Schirm J,Savelkoul PH,van Steenbergen J,Swaan C

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some influenza surveillance systems, timely transport to laboratories for reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing is challenging.Guidelines suggest that samples can be stored at 4°Cfor up to 96 hours but the effect of longer storage times has not been systematically evaluated. We collected ...

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

authors： Caselton D,Arunga G,Emukule G,Muthoka P,Mayieka L,Kosgey A,Ochola R,Waiboci L,Feikin D,Mott J,Breiman R,Katz M

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2010/11, the influenza season in England was marked by a relative increase in impact on the population compared to that seen during the 2009/10 pandemic, with the same influenza subtype, A(H1N1)pdm09, circulating. The peaks in critical care bed occupancy in both seasons coincided with peaks in influenza A(H1N1)pdm0...

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

authors： Green HK,Ellis J,Galiano M,Watson JM,Pebody RG

更新日期：2013-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Several European countries reported outbreaks of severe disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in the late 1980s. This marked a departure from the previous decades, where very few such outbreaks were noted. These changes in disease occurrence formed part of a global phenomenon, the reasons for which have yet to be e...

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

authors： Lamagni TL,Efstratiou A,Vuopio-Varkila J,Jasir A,Schalén C,Strep-EURO.

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 24 December to 24 July 2015, 174 cases were reported in a nationwide salmonellosis outbreak in Sweden: 108 cases were connected to a single restaurant. A spice mix, containing dried vegetables from the restaurant tested positive for the outbreak strain. Additional spice mixes with similar content from different s...

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

authors： Jernberg C,Hjertqvist M,Sundborger C,Castro E,Lofdahl M,Pääjärvi A,Sundqvist L,Löf E

更新日期：2015-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 52 cases of measles linked to music and arts festivals in England and Wales, between mid-June and mid-October 2016. Nearly half were aged 15 to 19 years. Several individuals who acquired measles at one festival subsequently attended another festival while infectious, resulting in multiple interlinked outbrea...

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

authors： le Polain de Waroux O,Saliba V,Cottrell S,Young N,Perry M,Bukasa A,Ramsay M,Brown K,Amirthalingam G

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of serological surveillance is to monitor levels of immunity to particular diseases within a population in order to enhance the quality of information on which public health measures, such as vaccination programmes, are based. Serological surv ...

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

authors： Osborne K,Weinberg J,Miller E

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) was established to harmonise clinical antimicrobial breakpoints and to define breakpoints for new agents in Europe. Data from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) external quality assessment (EQA) exercises from 20...

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

authors： Brown D,Canton R,Dubreuil L,Gatermann S,Giske C,MacGowan A,Martinez-Martinez L,Mouton J,Skov R,Steinbakk M,Walton C,Heuer O,Struelens MJ,Diaz Hogberg L,Kahlmeter G

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:IntroductionAedes albopictus (Skuse) is an important vector of arboviral diseases, including dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus disease. Monitoring insecticide resistance and mechanisms by which the mosquito develops resistance is crucial to minimise disease transmission.AimTo determine insecticide resistance status a...

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

authors： Kasai S,Caputo B,Tsunoda T,Cuong TC,Maekawa Y,Lam-Phua SG,Pichler V,Itokawa K,Murota K,Komagata O,Yoshida C,Chung HH,Bellini R,Tsuda Y,Teng HJ,Filho JLL,Alves LC,Ng LC,Minakawa N,Yen NT,Phong TV,Sawabe K,Tomit

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00