Changing epidemiology of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Thailand.

abstract：:A matched and serologically confirmed case-control study was carried out to investigate the source of an outbreak of acute hepatitis involving 290,000 cases in the suburbs of Shanghai, in January 1988. A total of 132 patients with acute hepatitis from six different hospitals were chosen as cases and the same number of...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tang YW,Wang JX,Xu ZY,Guo YF,Qian WH,Xu JX

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous modelling studies have estimated that between 1% and 10% of human salmonella infections are attributable to pig meat consumption. In response to this food safety threat the British pig industry have initiated a salmonella monitoring programme. It is anticipated that this programme will contribute to achieving...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hill AA,Snary EL,Arnold ME,Alban L,Cook AJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Records of absenteeism from primary schools are valuable data for infectious diseases surveillance. However, the analysis of the absenteeism is complicated by the data features of clustering at zero, non-independence and overdispersion. This study aimed to generate an appropriate model to handle the absenteeism data c...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Song XX,Zhao Q,Tao T,Zhou CM,Diwan VK,Xu B

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether straight-line distance from residential compounds to healthcare facilities influenced mortality, the incidence of pneumonia and vaccine efficacy against pneumonia in rural Gambia. Clinical surveillance for pneumonia was conducted on 6938 children living in the catchment areas of the two largest...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zaman SM,Cox J,Enwere GC,Bottomley C,Greenwood BM,Cutts FT

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overuse of antibiotics and the rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance prompted the launch of an antimicrobial stewardship programme in 2011. This study aimed to investigate the trends and correlations between antibiotic consumption and resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary hospital of northwest China...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zhang D,Cui K,Wang T,Dong H,Feng W,Ma C,Dong Y

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic relationships between various serotypes and serogroups of meningococcal strains were investigated by restriction fragment-length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis using a number of random DNA probes and a probe containing a truncated copy of the meningococcal insertion sequence IS1106. The data were used to est...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ni H,Knight AI,Cartwright KA,McFadden JJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deterministic models were employed to investigate the biology of Trypanosoma evansi infection in the Indonesian buffalo. Models were fitted to two age-structured data sets of infection. The Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) model was the best supported description of this infection, although the results of the an...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Coen PG,Luckins AG,Davison HC,Woolhouse ME

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clusters of Salmonella Enteritidis cases were identified by the Minnesota Department of Health using both pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) single nucleotide polymorphism analysis from 1 January 2015 through 31 December 2017. The median turnaround time for obtaining WGS results ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Rounds JM,Taylor AJ,Eikmeier D,Nichols MM,Lappi V,Wirth SE,Boxrud DJ,Smith KE,Medus C

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Mexican Americans living in South Texas. We tested plasma for the presence of HCV antibody from the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort (CCHC), a randomized, population-based cohort in an economically disadvantaged Mexican...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Watt GP,Vatcheva KP,Beretta L,Pan JJ,Fallon MB,McCormick JB,Fisher-Hoch SP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and microbiological characteristics of catheter-related bloodstream infection (CR-BSI) due to uncommon microorganisms was assessed in a retrospective case-control study over a 9-year period in a tertiary teaching hospital. Uncommon microorganisms were defined as those representing <0·5% of all CR-BSI. Dia...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Reigadas E,Rodríguez-Créixems M,Sánchez-Carrillo C,Martín-Rabadán P,Bouza E

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cross-sectional study conducted between March 1993 and February 1995, 7103 indiscriminately collected foxes were examined for Trichinella larvae. A total of 3295 serum samples were serologically investigated with an ELISA based on excretory-secretory antigen. The proportion of serologically positive animals range...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Wacker K,Rodriguez E,Garate T,Geue L,Tackmann K,Selhorst T,Staubach C,Conraths FJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals developing an HIV seroconversion illness may experience rapid disease progression. Information on seroconversion illness is rarely collected in most cohort studies, thus the aim of this study was to assess the value of the HIV test interval (the time between last negative and first positive HIV tests) as a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors：

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological model was developed for rabies, linking the risk of disease in a secondary species (cats) to the temporal dynamics of disease in a wildlife reservoir (raccoons). Data were obtained from cats, raccoons, and skunks tested for rabies in the northeastern United States during 1992-2000. An epizootic algo...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gordon ER,Curns AT,Krebs JW,Rupprecht CE,Real LA,Childs JE

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the effect of Toxoplasma gondii infection on the cerebrum and neuropsychiatric patients has been increasingly highlighted. However, there is limited information about the epidemiology of T. gondii infection in psychiatric patients in Shandong province, eastern China. Therefore, through a case-control ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Cong W,Dong W,Bai L,Wang XY,Ni XT,Qian AD,Zhu XQ

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Changes in the frequency of serogroup B non serotypable (B:NT) meningococci isolated in England and Wales were investigated by T-track fingerprint analysis, DNA nucleotide sequence determination, and serotyping by whole cell ELISA and dot blot assay. Seventy-three per cent of the isolates designated as B:NT by the Men...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Urwin R,Feavers IM,Jones DM,Maiden MC,Fox AJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous respiratory tract infections (RTI) and antibiotics consumption as possible risk factors for extended duration of PRP carriage were investigated in 24 children (cases) with previous carriage of penicillin-resistant pneumococci (PRP) for a duration exceeding 120 days (median 168 days) and a control group of 53 ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gunnarsson O,Ekdahl K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella bronchiseptica is a potential zoonotic pathogen, which mainly causes respiratory diseases in humans and a variety of animal species. B. bronchiseptica is one of the important pathogens isolated from rabbits in Fujian Province. However, the knowledge of the epidemiology and characteristics of the B. bronchis...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Wang J,Sun S,Chen Y,Chen D,Sang L,Xie X

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis was identified as the cause of a die-off which occurred among a colony of semi-free-living common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). During the outbreak 5 out of 62 animals died of tularaemia in a research facility located in the district of Goettingen, Germany. All animals had been born at the fac...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Splettstoesser WD,Mätz-Rensing K,Seibold E,Tomaso H,Al Dahouk S,Grunow R,Essbauer S,Buckendahl A,Finke EJ,Neubauer H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) has been known to affect elephants for thousands of years. It was put into spotlight when few circus elephants were diagnosed carrying Mycobacterium (M.) tuberculosis. Because of the zoonotic risk and high susceptibility to M. tuberculosis, periodic testing was enacted since, in captive breeding prog...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hermes R,Saragusty J,Moser I,Holtze S,Nieter J,Sachse K,Voracek T,Bernhard A,Bouts T,Göritz F,Hildebrandt TB

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding infection dynamics in animal hosts is fundamental to managing spillover and emergence of zoonotic infections. Hendra virus is endemic in Australian pteropodid bat populations and can be lethal to horses and humans. However, we know little about the factors driving Hendra virus prevalence in resevoir bat ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Páez DJ,Giles J,McCallum H,Field H,Jordan D,Peel AJ,Plowright RK

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year study from January 1981 to December 1982 was undertaken to determine the role of viruses in the causation of diarrhoea in hospitalized children in Pune, Maharashtra State, India. The stool samples of 426 children (213 diarrhoeal and 213 non-diarrhoeal controls) were investigated by electron microscopy and ELI...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Singh PB,Sreenivasan MA,Pavri KM

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging vector-borne arbovirus with a zoonotic life-cycle whose main reservoir hosts are birds. In humans and horses, WNV infections rarely result in clinical disease but on occasions - depending on factors such as climatic conditions, insect communities and background immunity levels in l...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ferraguti M,LA Puente JM,Soriguer R,Llorente F,Jiménez-Clavero MÁ,Figuerola J

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite national guidance recommending testing and vaccination of household contacts of hepatitis B-infected pregnant women, provision and uptake of this is sub-optimal. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of in-home dried blood spot (DBS) testing to increase testing and vaccination of household contacts of ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Keel P,Edwards G,Flood J,Nixon G,Beebeejaun K,Shute J,Poh J,Millar A,Ijaz S,Parry J,Mandal S,Ramsay M,Amirthalingam G

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subtypes of Campylobacter isolates from human infections in two Danish counties were compared to isolates from retail food samples and faecal samples from chickens, pigs and cattle. During a 1-year period, 1285 Campylobacter isolates from these sources were typed by two methods: 'Penner' heat-stable serotyping and...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nielsen EM,Fussing V,Engberg J,Nielsen NL,Neimann J

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The screening of 2000 women of childbearing age in Cork between 2004 and 2006 produced 37 erythromycin-resistant group B streptococcus (GBS) isolates. PCR analysis was performed to determine the basis for erythromycin resistance. The ermTR gene was most frequently expressed (n = 19), followed by the ermB gene (n = 8)....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kiely RA,Lucey B,Cotter L

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two elementary schools were served lunches that were cooked in the same kitchen. An outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 occurred at one school where the dishes that were prepared for the school were lukewarm and kept for 33 min at an average temperature of 45 degrees C before serving. However, no outbreak occurred at...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hara-Kudo Y,Watanabe H,Konuma H

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:The dramatic decline of the native red squirrel in the UK has been attributed to both direct and disease-mediated competition with the grey squirrel where the competitor acts as a reservoir host of squirrelpox virus (SQPV). SQPV is threatening red squirrel conservation efforts, yet little is known about its epidemiolo...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bruemmer CM,Rushton SP,Gurnell J,Lurz PW,Nettleton P,Sainsbury AW,Duff JP,Gilray J,McInnes CJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00