The risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome following infection with Campylobacter jejuni.

abstract：:Listeriosis is a foodborne disease associated with significant mortality. This study attempts to identify risk factors for sporadic listeriosis in Australia. Information on underlying illnesses was obtained from cases' treating doctors and other risk factors were elicited from the patient or a surrogate. We attempted ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Dalton CB,Merritt TD,Unicomb LE,Kirk MD,Stafford RJ,Lalor K,OzFoodNet Working Group.

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to identify risk factors and assess the impact of coincidental antibiotic therapy on carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Index children from birth to 3 years and their households were recruited from primary health-care registers in four UK general practices. Nasopharyngeal swabs were taken monthly f...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pebody RG,Morgan O,Choi Y,George R,Hussain M,Andrews N

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Travel is a risk factor for Legionnaires' disease. In 2008, two cases were reported in condominium guests where we investigated a 2001 outbreak. We reinvestigated to identify additional cases and determine whether ongoing transmission resulted from persistent colonization of potable water. Exposures were assessed by m...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Silk BJ,Moore MR,Bergtholdt M,Gorwitz RJ,Kozak NA,Tha MM,Brown EW,Winchester JL,Labus BJ,Rowley P,Middaugh JP,Fields BS,Hicks LA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of foodborne illness outbreak investigations has evolved, shifting away from large-scale community case-control studies towards more focused case exposure assessments and sub-cluster investigations to identify contaminated food sources. Criteria to include or exclude cases are established to increase the ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Firestone MJ,Lee P,Hedberg CW

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The colonization resistance (CR) of the digestive tract was determined in 10 healthy volunteers by oral contamination with a neomycin resistant Escherichia coli (NR-E. coli) strain and measurement of the faecal concentration of this strain during 14 days after the contamination. This 'gold standard' was compared with ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Apperloo-Renkema HZ,van der Waaij D

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether exposure to inactivated rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) can produce an antigenic response in rabbits and protect them from a subsequent challenge with virulent virus. The aim was to determine if the spreading of baits containing RHDV, which is a common management practice in Ne...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Henning J,Meers J,Davies PR

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses (NoVs) are major causal agents of acute gastroenteritis in humans. NoV GII.4 is the predominant genotype globally. However, uncommon and minor types of NoVs are consistently detected and some have been shown to dominate over GII.4. Therefore, the prevalence of dominant and uncommon NoVs makes the identific...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lee JW,Lee SG,Cho HG,Park YJ,Yun JW,Park CJ,Paik SY

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrences of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) and Vibrio cholerae infected patients in Hong Kong were reviewed for the 13-year period 1989-2001. Peak activity of CFP preceded peak activity of cholera in nine of the years except in 4 years (1990, 1991, 1992, 1996) where it was observed that the total number of cholera ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kwan LC,Cheung DK,Kam KM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic analyses of bartonella have suggested divergence between bartonellae that infect mammals native to the Old and New Worlds. We characterized bartonella isolated from Eastern grey squirrels (Sciurius carolinensis) in the United States and from grey and red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in the United Kingdom ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bown KJ,Ellis BA,Birtles RJ,Durden LA,Lello J,Begon M,Bennett M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One thousand adults aged between 18 and 35 years were investigated for nasal colonization with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). Each volunteer completed a questionnaire to assess the presence or absence of risk factors for hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) carriage. All MRSA iso...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mollaghan AM,Lucey B,Coffey A,Cotter L

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using DNA probes specific for the genes encoding Vero cytotoxins 1 and 2 in hybridization experiments on faecal samples, Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) of serogroup O 157 were detected in 21 of 63 cases of haemorrhagic colitis, 9 of 31 cases of non-bloody diarrhoea and 14 of 68 cases of haemolytic ur...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kleanthous H,Fry NK,Smith HR,Gross RJ,Rowe B

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory-based surveillance of invasive pneumococcal infections in adults in Finland from 1983 to 1992 identified 862 episodes of pneumococcal bacteraemia and 97 episodes of meningitis. The overall incidence of invasive pneumococcal infections was 9.1 per 100,000 for all adults per year, but 27.1, 35.8, and 44.5 per...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sankilampi U,Herva E,Haikala R,Liimatainen O,Renkonen OV,Leinonen M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical, microbiological, and pathological characteristics and the outcomes of skin and soft-tissue infection (SSTI) caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). Medical records of 50 patients with SSTI caused by NTM identified from 2005 to 2008 and 63 patients previously...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chen HY,Chen CY,Huang CT,Ruan SY,Chou CH,Lai CC,Liao CH,Tan CK,Huang YT,Yu CJ,Hsueh PR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of patients with severe invasive group-G streptococcal (Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis) infections has been increasing in Japan. The emm genotypes and SmaI-digested pulsed-field gel electrophoresis DNA profiles were variable among the strains isolated, suggesting there has not been clonal exp...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ikebe T,Murayama S,Saitoh K,Yamai S,Suzuki R,Isobe J,Tanaka D,Katsukawa C,Tamaru A,Katayama A,Fujinaga Y,Hoashi K,Watanabe H,Working Group for Streptococci in Japan.

更新日期：2004-01-01 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 epidemiological target of lockdowns is to drive down the effective reproduction number (Rt) to less than 1. A key unknown is the duration that lockdowns need to be in place to achieve this and which lockdown measures are effective. Daily number of laboratory confirmed community coronavirus 2019 cases were extracte...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Yung CF,Saffari E,Liew C

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the prevalence of mumps antibodies in the Israeli population in relation to mumps vaccination policy and past and subsequent incidence of disease. The levels of specific IgG antibodies against mumps were tested in 3330 residual sera collected during 1997-1998 from an age-stratified population sample. Again...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Muhsen Kh,Aboudy Y,Mendelson E,Green MS,Cohen D

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In March 2020, China had periodically controlled the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) epidemic. We reported the results of health screening for COVID-19 among returned staff of a hospital and conducted a summary analysis to provide valuable experience for curbing the COVID-19 epidemic and rebound. In total, 4729 retu...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Duan P,Deng ZQ,Pan ZY,Wang YP

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1989-2002, we studied the antimicrobial resistance of 3928 blood culture isolates of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi (S. Typhi) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Overall 32% (1270) of the strains were multidrug-resistant (MDR, resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole); first detected i...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Rahman M,Siddique AK,Shoma S,Rashid H,Salam MA,Ahmed QS,Nair GB,Breiman RF

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the incidence, risk factors for, and the influence of bloodstream infections (BSIs) on mortality of patients in intensive-care units (ICUs), prospectively collected data from all patients with a stay in an ICU >48 h, during a 1-year period, were analysed. Of 572 patients, 148 developed a total of 232 BSI ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pratikaki M,Platsouka E,Sotiropoulou C,Vassilakopoulos T,Paniara O,Roussos C,Routsi C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence data by age of new episodes of influenza-like illness reported by sentinel general practice networks in England and Wales and in The Netherlands over a 10-year period were examined to provide estimates of the consulting population during influenza epidemic periods. Baseline levels of recording in each age gr...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fleming DM,Zambon M,Bartelds AI

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available data sources on disease due to Bordetella pertussis, including notifications, hospital admissions, deaths, and an enhanced laboratory-based surveillance system commenced in January 1994, were reviewed for the period 1995-7. Pertussis notifications continued their approximately 3-year cycle although at histor...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Van Buynder PG,Owen D,Vurdien JE,Andrews NJ,Matthews RC,Miller E

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate associations between indicators of livestock farming intensity (manure surplus and livestock density) and acute gastroenteritis hospitalization (AGH) rate, we conducted an ecological study on 306 selected agricultural municipalities of Quebec. We estimated the AGH rate for the period 2000-2004 from the Que...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Febriani Y,Levallois P,Lebel G,Gingras S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-month survey on the incidence of campylobacter infection in 1217 patients with diarrhoea was carried out in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Campylobacters were isolated from 55 (4.5%) patients, second in prevalence to salmonellas (6.2%). Shigellas were isolated from 4.2% of patients. Campylobacter isolation rates were high...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zaman R

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypermucoviscous (HV) isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae have been linked to virulence potential in experimental infections. We examined 33 isolates of K. pneumoniae from patients with bacteraemia for the HV phenotype on agar culture, and determined their virulence potential by screening for capsular (K) serotype by po...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Jung SW,Chae HJ,Park YJ,Yu JK,Kim SY,Lee HK,Lee JH,Kahng JM,Lee SO,Lee MK,Lim JH,Lee CH,Chang SJ,Ahn JY,Lee JW,Park YG

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical features, treatment and outcome were assessed retrospectively by means of a questionnaire in 174 patients in general practice whose vaginal swabs yielded beta-haemolytic streptococci. These were compared with 96 patients whose swabs yielded no recognized microbial pathogens. Patients with group B streptococci...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lewis RF

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial use in pig farming is influenced by a range of risk factors, including herd characteristics, biosecurity level, farm performance, occurrence of clinical signs and vaccination scheme, as well as farmers' attitudes and habits towards antimicrobial use. So far, the effect of these risk factors has been expl...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Collineau L,Bougeard S,Backhans A,Dewulf J,Emanuelson U,Grosse Beilage E,Lehébel A,Lösken S,Postma M,Sjölund M,Stärk KDC,Visschers VHM,Belloc C

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) regulation in adults is influenced by early psychosocial adversity, but the role of infectious disease history is poorly understood. We studied the association between cumulative pathogen burden and cortisol profile over the day in a sample of 317 healthy men and women aged ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Steptoe A,Gylfe A,Shamaei-Tousi A,Bergstrom S,Henderson B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2002, the burden of norovirus (NoV) infection in Ireland has increased. Outbreaks in institutional settings are the most common causing widespread disruption to health service delivery. This is the first national study of NoV in the Republic of Ireland and its aim was to identify the major NoV strains circulatin...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Waters A,Coughlan S,Dunford L,Hall WW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess and describe the current spectrum of emerging zoonoses between 2000 and 2006 in European countries. A computerized search of the Medline database from January 1966 to August 2006 for all zoonotic agents in European countries was performed using specific criteria for emergence. F...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Vorou RM,Papavassiliou VG,Tsiodras S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00