Low rates of ehrlichiosis and Lyme borreliosis in English farmworkers.

abstract：:We sought to systematically review the published literature describing the epidemiological aspects of the first wave of pandemic A(H1N1) 2009 influenza in the Southern Hemisphere. Fifteen studies were included in this review, originating from South America, Australia or New Zealand, and Africa. Across the different st...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Falagas ME,Koletsi PK,Baskouta E,Rafailidis PI,Dimopoulos G,Karageorgopoulos DE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and reproducible typing system based on restriction fragment size of chromosomal DNA was developed to compare isolates of Streptococcus uberis obtained from the bovine mammary gland. The endonuclease giving the most useful restriction patterns was Hind III. Although seven other endonucleases (Bgl 1, Eco R1, N...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hill AW,Leigh JA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole apples have not been previously implicated in outbreaks of foodborne bacterial illness. We investigated a nationwide listeriosis outbreak associated with caramel apples. We defined an outbreak-associated case as an infection with one or both of two outbreak strains of Listeria monocytogenes highly related by who...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Angelo KM,Conrad AR,Saupe A,Dragoo H,West N,Sorenson A,Barnes A,Doyle M,Beal J,Jackson KA,Stroika S,Tarr C,Kucerova Z,Lance S,Gould LH,Wise M,Jackson BR

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dutch and modified Hald source attribution models were adapted to Italian Salmonella data to attribute human infections caused by the top 30 serotypes between 2002 and 2010 to four putative sources (Gallus gallus, turkeys, pigs, ruminants), at the points of animal reservoir (farm), exposure (food), and both combin...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mughini-Gras L,Barrucci F,Smid JH,Graziani C,Luzzi I,Ricci A,Barco L,Rosmini R,Havelaar AH,VAN Pelt W,Busani L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature on reported cases of a number of foodborne illnesses in England and Wales were investigated. We also explored whether the impact of temperature had changed over time. Food poisoning, campylobacteriosis, salmonellosis, Salmonella Typhimurium infections and Salmonella Enteritidis infections we...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lake IR,Gillespie IA,Bentham G,Nichols GL,Lane C,Adak GK,Threlfall EJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the joint association of patient and strain characteristics with the outcome of meningococcal disease (MD), data were collected on 563 consecutive cases of MD reported between 1989 and 1990 in The Netherlands. The meningococcal isolates were characterized with regard to their surface characteristics. Se...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Scholten RJ,Bijlmer HA,Valkenburg HA,Dankert J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses, along with rotaviruses, are among the leading causes of gastroenteritis worldwide and novel strains are periodically emerging. In August 2015, an unusual increase of gastroenteritis cases occurred in a touristic district in Kassandra peninsula, Chalkidiki, Northern Greece. Seven stool specimens from cases...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tryfinopoulou K,Kyritsi M,Mellou K,Kolokythopoulou F,Mouchtouri VA,Potamiti-Komi M,Lamprou A,Georgakopoulou T,Hadjichristodoulou C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UK guidelines recommend routine HIV testing in high prevalence emergency departments (ED) and targeted testing for HBV and HCV. The 'Going Viral' campaign implemented opt-out blood-borne virus (BBV) testing in adults in a high prevalence ED, to assess seroprevalence, uptake, linkage to care (LTC) rates and staff time ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Parry S,Bundle N,Ullah S,Foster GR,Ahmad K,Tong CYW,Balasegaram S,Orkin C

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus (DM) is currently known to be one of the risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and the proportion of DM in PTB is rising along with the increased prevalence of DM in countries with high PTB burden. This study was designed to explore the impact of DM on clinical presentation and treatment outc...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hongguang C,Min L,Shiwen J,Fanghui G,Shaoping H,Tiejie G,Na L,Zhiguo Z

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose an age-structured mathematical model for respiratory syncytial virus in which children aged <1 year are especially considered. Real data on hospitalized children in the Spanish region of Valencia were used in order to determine some seasonal parameters of the model. Weekly predictions of the number of child...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Acedo L,Díez-Domingo J,Moraño JA,Villanueva RJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In April 2015, Finnish public health authorities alerted European Union member states of a possible multi-country Salmonella enteritidis outbreak linked to an international youth ice-hockey tournament in Latvia. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Finnish and Latvian authorities initiated an...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pärn T,Dahl V,Lienemann T,Perevosčikovs J,De Jong B

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines are the cornerstone of influenza control policy, but can suffer from several drawbacks. Seasonal influenza vaccines are prone to production problems and low efficacies, while pandemic vaccines are unlikely to be available in time to slow a rapidly spreading global outbreak. Antiviral therapy was found to be b...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kramer SC,Bansal S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orf of the hand is an uncommon zoonotic infection caused by a dermotropic DNA virus that belongs to the Parapoxvirus genus of the family Poxviridae. It is transmitted to humans through contact with infected sheep and goats and is reported as an occupational disease. We report nine cases of human orf seen in the hands ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Uzel M,Sasmaz S,Bakaris S,Cetinus E,Bilgic E,Karaoguz A,Ozkul A,Arican O

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongyloides stercoralis is rarely recognized as a major public health issue, probably because its burden is largely underestimated. We reviewed the literature (both PubMed and 'grey' literature) about the prevalence of strongyloidiasis in Latin America, an area of presumable high endemicity. There were finally 88 pa...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Buonfrate D,Mena MA,Angheben A,Requena-Mendez A,Muñoz J,Gobbi F,Albonico M,Gotuzzo E,Bisoffi Z,COHEMI Project Study Group.

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the meningococcal insertion sequence IS1301 was analysed in 496 strains of different serogroups and clonal lineages of Neisseria meningitidis, and in 64 neisserial strains other than N. meningitidis. IS1301 was found in meningococci, but not in apathogenic Neisseria sp. and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. T...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hilse R,Stoevesandt J,Caugant DA,Claus H,Frosch M,Vogel U

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 7 patients with nosocomial Legionnaires' disease to determine the relationship between isolates of Legionella pneumophila recovered from potable water and those recovered from patients. Potable water was cultured from all rooms in which patients had stayed prior to the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease. Th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Marrie TJ,Johnson W,Tyler S,Bezanson G,Haldane D,Burbridge S,Joly J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent polio outbreaks in Syria and Ukraine, and isolation of poliovirus from asymptomatic carriers in Israel have raised concerns that polio might endanger Europe. We devised a model to calculate the time needed to detect the first case should the disease be imported into Europe, taking the effect of vaccine coverage...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bencskó G,Ferenci T

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Australia's National Immunisation Program (NIP) provides free influenza vaccination for children at high risk of severe influenza; a pilot-funded programme for vaccine in all children aged 6 months to <5 years in one of eight states, has seen poor vaccine impact, related to recent vaccine safety concerns. This retrosp...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Li-Kim-Moy J,Yin JK,Blyth CC,Kesson A,Booy R,Cheng AC,Macartney K

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective primary prevention of congenital toxoplasmosis requires up to date information on locally relevant risk factors for infection in pregnant women. In Naples, risk factors for toxoplasma infection were compared in recently infected women (as assessed by detection of specific IgM in serum) and susceptible, IgG n...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Buffolano W,Gilbert RE,Holland FJ,Fratta D,Palumbo F,Ades AE

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to investigate space-time patterns of Campylobacter spp. colonization in broiler flocks in Norway. Data on the Campylobacter spp. status at the time of slaughter of 16 054 broiler flocks from 580 farms between 2002 and 2006 was included in the study. Spatial relative risk maps together with ma...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Jonsson ME,Norström M,Sandberg M,Ersbøll AK,Hofshagen M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 10-year period 1978-87 there were 48 outbreaks of food poisoning in Scottish hospitals affecting a total of 2287 persons of whom 12 died. This compared with 50 outbreaks during the previous 5 years (1973-77) when over 1500 persons and 7 deaths were recorded. Although the incidence of outbreaks has decreased...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Collier PW,Sharp JC,MacLeod AF,Forbes GI,Mackay F

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) is an epidemic disease with a fascinating history from Hippocrates' times, through the 6th century 'Yellow Plague', to epidemics in Ireland, Scotland and England in the 19th century and two large Afro-Middle Eastern pandemics in the 20th century. An endemic focus persists in Ethiopia...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Warrell DA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many infectious diseases in humans may manifest with no or mild symptoms. While numerous studies have estimated the proportion of infectious individuals in whom symptoms are absent during the entire course of infection, the contribution of asymptomatic cases to the overall cumulative incidence is difficult to untangle...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Champredon D,Moghadas SM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targets for maximum acceptable levels of Salmonella in pigs and pork are to be decided. A stochastic simulation model accounting for herd and abattoir information was used to evaluate food safety and economic consequences of different surveillance and control strategies, based among others on Danish surveillance data....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Baptista FM,Halasa T,Alban L,Nielsen LR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The co-existence of stroke and HIV has increased in recent years, but the impact of HIV on post-stroke outcomes is poorly understood. We examined the impact of HIV on inpatient mortality, length of acute hospital stay and complications (pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis and convulsions), in hospitalized strokes i...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Cumming K,Tiamkao S,Kongbunkiat K,Clark AB,Bettencourt-Silva JH,Sawanyawisuth K,Kasemsap N,Mamas MA,Seeley JA,Myint PK

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicella vaccine was licensed in Canada in 1998, and a publicly funded vaccination programme introduced in the province of Alberta in 2001. In theory the vaccination programme might increase the burden of disease from shingles, making it important to develop baseline data against which future comparisons can be made....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Russell ML,Schopflocher DP,Svenson L,Virani SN

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 3-year period Branhamella catarrhalis was isolated in significant numbers from 239 (1.3%) of 19,488 specimens of sputum sent for routine microbiological examination at a 700-bed general hospital. The majority of patients (83%) were over 60 years of age and 65% were male. There was a distinct seasonal variatio...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： DiGiovanni C,Riley TV,Hoyne GF,Yeo R,Cooksey P

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed prevalence of and risk factors for candidaemia following Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) using longitudinal population-based surveillance. Of 13 615 adults with CDI, 113 (0·8%) developed candidaemia in the 120 days following CDI. In a matched case-control analysis, severe CDI and CDI treatment with v...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Vallabhaneni S,Almendares O,Farley MM,Reno J,Smith ZT,Stein B,Magill SS,Smith RM,Cleveland AA,Lessa FC

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large outbreaks of Q fever in The Netherlands have provided a unique opportunity for studying longitudinal serum antibody responses in patients. Results are presented of a cohort of 344 patients with acute symptoms of Q fever with three or more serum samples per patient. In all these serum samples IgM and IgG against ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Teunis PF,Schimmer B,Notermans DW,Leenders AC,Wever PC,Kretzschmar ME,Schneeberger PM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the increased prevalence of hepatitis B and C in most migrant groups in The Netherlands, a national screening policy for these infections is not available. In order to estimate the prevalence of hepatitis B and C in the largest group of first-generation migrants (FGM) in The Netherlands, we conducted a screeni...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Richter C,Beest GT,Sancak I,Aydinly R,Bulbul K,Laetemia-Tomata F,De Leeuw M,Waegemaekers T,Swanink C,Roovers E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00