Serologic evidence of human monocytic and granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Israel.

abstract：:Countries must be prepared to respond to public health threats associated with emergencies, such as natural disasters, sociopolitical conflicts, or uncontrolled disease outbreaks. Rapid vaccination of populations vulnerable to epidemic-prone vaccine-preventable diseases is a major component of emergency response. Emer...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Walldorf JA,Date KA,Sreenivasan N,Harris JB,Hyde TB

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by Baylisascaris procyonis is an uncommon but devastating cause of eosinophilic meningitis. We report the first case-patient, to our knowledge, who recovered from B. procyonis eosinophilic meningitis without any recognizable neurologic deficits. The spectrum of illness for this organism may be wider than pre...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Pai PJ,Blackburn BG,Kazacos KR,Warrier RP,Bégué RE

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the detection of Bordetella holmesii as a cause of whooping cough in Spain. Prevalence was 3.9% in 2015, doubling to 8.8% in 2016. This emergence raises concern regarding the contribution of B. holmesii to the reemergence of whooping cough and the effectiveness of the pertussis vaccine. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mir-Cros A,Codina G,Martín-Gómez MT,Fàbrega A,Martínez X,Jané M,Van Esso D,Cornejo T,Rodrigo C,Campins M,Pumarola T,González-López JJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease occurs in specific geographic regions of the United States. We present a method for defining high-risk counties based on observed versus expected number of reported human Lyme disease cases. Applying this method to successive periods shows substantial geographic expansion of counties at high risk for Lyme...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kugeler KJ,Farley GM,Forrester JD,Mead PS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A (H5N1) viruses are strong candidates for causing the next influenza pandemic if they acquire the ability for efficient human-to-human transmission. A major public health goal is to make efficacious vaccines against these viruses by using novel approaches, including cell-culture system, reverse genetics, an...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Haque A,Hober D,Kasper LH

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puumala virus causes nephropathia epidemica, a rodent-borne zoonosis that is endemic to Europe. We sequenced the complete Puumala virus genome that was directly recovered from a person who died and compared it with those of viruses from local bank voles. The virus strain involved was neither a unique nor rare genetic ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Plyusnina A,Razzauti M,Sironen T,Niemimaa J,Vapalahti O,Vaheri A,Henttonen H,Plyusnin A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filarial parasite Loa loa overlaps geographically with Onchocera volvulus and Wuchereria bancrofti filariae in central Africa. Accurate information regarding this overlap is critical to elimination programs targeting O. volvulus and W. bancrofti. We describe a case of loiasis in a traveler returning from Bioko Isl...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Priest DH,Nutman TB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the emergence and spread of virulent subtypes of Cryptosporidium hominis, the predominant species responsible for human cryptosporidiosis. We conducted sequence analyses of 32 genetic loci of 53 C. hominis specimens isolated from a longitudinally followed cohort of children living in a small comm...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Li N,Xiao L,Cama VA,Ortega Y,Gilman RH,Guo M,Feng Y

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a pilot study that attempted to infect human volunteers with Cyclospora cayetanensis. Seven healthy volunteers ingested an inoculum of Cyclospora oocysts (approximately 200-49,000 oocysts). The volunteers did not experience symptoms of gastroenteritis, and no oocysts were detected in any stool samples duri...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Alfano-Sobsey EM,Eberhard ML,Seed JR,Weber DJ,Won KY,Nace EK,Moe CL

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the usefulness of noninvasive cutaneous swab specimens for detecting rickettsiae, we tested skin eschars from 6 guinea pigs and from 9 humans. Specimens from eschars in guinea pigs were positive for rickettsiae as long as lesions were present. Optimal storage temperature for specimens was 4 degrees C for ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bechah Y,Socolovschi C,Raoult D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis occurred in Delhi, India, during August and September 1996. The etiologic agent was confirmed as enterovirus type 70 by a modified centrifugation-enhanced culture method followed by immunofluorescence and neutralization tests. After nearly a decade, this virus is reemerg...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Maitreyi RS,Dar L,Muthukumar A,Vajpayee M,Xess I,Vajpayee RB,Seth P,Broor S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human penicilliosis marneffei is an emerging infectious disease caused by the fungus Penicillium marneffei. High prevalence of infection among bamboo rats of the genera Rhizomys and Cannomys suggest that these rodents are a key facet of the P. marneffei life cycle. We trapped bamboo rats during June 2004-July 2005 acr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cao C,Liang L,Wang W,Luo H,Huang S,Liu D,Xu J,Henk DA,Fisher MC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tuberculosis (TB) notification rate is high and increasing in 2 communities in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2002, we conducted a prevalence survey among adults > or = 15 years of age to determine the TB prevalence rate; 15% of households in these communities were randomly sampled. All persons living in sampled hous...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： den Boon S,van Lill SW,Borgdorff MW,Enarson DA,Verver S,Bateman ED,Irusen E,Lombard CJ,White NW,de Villiers C,Beyers N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Travelers' diarrhea is a major public health problem. From patients in whom diarrhea developed after travel to India, 5 enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strains carrying β-lactamase CTX-M-15 were identified; 3 belonged to clonal complex sequence type 38. This β-lactamase contributes to the multidrug resistance of en...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Guiral E,Mendez-Arancibia E,Soto SM,Salvador P,Fabrega A,Gascon J,Vila J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) is a European hantavirus that causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS); case-fatality rates in Balkan countries are as high as 12%. To determine causative agents, we examined 126 cases of DOBV-associated HFRS in central and southern European Russia. In central Russia (Lipetsk, ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Klempa B,Tkachenko EA,Dzagurova TK,Yunicheva YV,Morozov VG,Okulova NM,Slyusareva GP,Smirnov A,Kruger DH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subclinical infection of vaccinated chickens with a highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N2) virus was identified through routine surveillance in China. Investigation suggested that the virus has evolved into multiple genotypes. To better control transmission of the virus, we recommend a strengthened program of educa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ma QX,Jiang WM,Liu S,Wang SC,Zhuang QY,Hou GY,Liu XM,Sui ZH,Chen JM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) isolates that are genetically homogenous and from the Beijing family has been reported in Russia. To map TB transmission caused by these strains, new genotyping systems are needed. Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRUs) offer the possibility of rapid PCR-based typing...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nikolayevskyy V,Gopaul K,Balabanova Y,Brown T,Fedorin I,Drobniewski F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of treatment failure caused by a strain of USA300 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with intermediate susceptibility to vancomycin and reduced susceptibility to daptomycin. The strain was isolated from the bone of a 56-year-old man with lumbar osteomyelitis afte...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Graber CJ,Wong MK,Carleton HA,Perdreau-Remington F,Haller BL,Chambers HF

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe incidence and risk factors for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus infection in healthcare personnel during the June-September 2009 epidemic in Singapore. Personnel contributed 3 serologic samples during June-October 2009, with seroconversion defined as a ≥4-fold increase in hemagglutination inhibition titers to pa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chen MI,Lee VJ,Barr I,Lin C,Goh R,Lee C,Singh B,Tan J,Lim WY,Cook AR,Ang B,Chow A,Tan BH,Loh J,Shaw R,Chia KS,Lin RT,Leo YS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus is typically considered a blood culture contaminant; however, its presence in blood cultures can indicate true bacteremia. We report 4 episodes of B. cereus bacteremia in 3 persons who inject drugs. Multilocus sequence typing showed that the temporally associated infections were caused by unrelated clo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Schaefer G,Campbell W,Jenks J,Beesley C,Katsivas T,Hoffmaster A,Mehta SR,Reed S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in humans, associated with a new coronavirus, was reported in Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America in early 2003. To address speculations that the virus originated in domesticated animals, or that domestic species were susceptible to the virus, we inoculated...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Weingartl HM,Copps J,Drebot MA,Marszal P,Smith G,Gren J,Andova M,Pasick J,Kitching P,Czub M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central venous catheters, often needed by cancer patients, can be the source of Nocardia bacteremia. We evaluated the clinical characteristics and outcomes of 17 cancer patients with Nocardia bacteremia. For 10 patients, the bacteremia was associated with the catheter; for the other 7, it was a disseminated infection....

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Al Akhrass F,Hachem R,Mohamed JA,Tarrand J,Kontoyiannis DP,Chandra J,Ghannoum M,Haydoura S,Chaftari AM,Raad I

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective, observational, population-based study to investigate the effect of staphylococcal infections on the hospitalization of children in California during 1985-2009. Hospitalized children with staphylococcal infections were identified through the California Office of Statewide Health Planning a...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gutierrez K,Halpern MS,Sarnquist C,Soni S,Arroyo AC,Maldonado Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus strain sequence type (ST) 398 has emerged during the last decade, largely among persons who have contact with swine or other livestock. Although colonization with ST398 is common in livestock workers, infections are not frequently documented. We report recurrent ST398-IIa infection in an Iowa far...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wardyn SE,Stegger M,Price LB,Smith TC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected Marburg virus genome in Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) captured in Zambia in September 2018. The virus was closely related phylogenetically to the viruses that previously caused Marburg outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This finding demonstrates that Zambia is at risk for Marb...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kajihara M,Hang'ombe BM,Changula K,Harima H,Isono M,Okuya K,Yoshida R,Mori-Kajihara A,Eto Y,Orba Y,Ogawa H,Qiu Y,Sawa H,Simulundu E,Mwizabi D,Munyeme M,Squarre D,Mukonka V,Mweene A,Takada A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The massive reemergence of diphtheria in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union marked the first large-scale diphtheria epidemic in industrialized countries in 3 decades. Factors contributing to the epidemic included a large population of susceptible adults; decreased childhood immunization, which com...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vitek CR,Wharton M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the epidemiology of relapsing fever from 1971 to 2003 in Israel. In civilians, incidence declined from 0.35 to 0.11 cases per 100,000 persons annually; in military personnel it averaged 6.4 cases per 100,000 persons annually. These data imply that the pathogen and vector continue to exist in Israel. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sidi G,Davidovitch N,Balicer RD,Anis E,Grotto I,Schwartz E

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2015, Clostridium difficile testing rates among 30 US community, multispecialty, and cancer hospitals were 14.0, 16.3, and 33.9/1,000 patient-days, respectively. Pooled hospital onset rates were 0.56, 0.84, and 1.57/1,000 patient-days, respectively. Higher testing rates may artificially inflate reported rates of C....

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kamboj M,Brite J,Aslam A,Kennington J,Babady NE,Calfee D,Furuya Y,Chen D,Augenbraun M,Ostrowsky B,Patel G,Mircescu M,Kak V,Tuma R,Karre TA,Fry DA,Duhaney YP,Moyer A,Mitchell D,Cantu S,Hsieh C,Warren N,Martin S

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hantaviruses are carried by numerous rodent species throughout the world. In 1993, a previously unknown group of hantaviruses emerged in the United States as the cause of an acute respiratory disease now termed hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Before than, hantaviruses were known as the etiologic agents of hemorrh...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Schmaljohn C,Hjelle B

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination with the 13-valent conjugated pneumococcal disease (PCV13) has reduced invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), but there have been reports of vaccine failures. We performed a prospective study in children aged 2-59 months who received diagnoses of IPD during January 2012-June 2016 in 3 pediatric hospitals in ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hernández S,Moraga-Llop F,Díaz A,de Sevilla MF,Ciruela P,Muñoz-Almagro C,Codina G,Campins M,García-García JJ,Esteva C,Izquierdo C,González-Peris S,Martínez-Osorio J,Uriona S,Salleras L,Domínguez Á

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00