Costs and benefits of a subtype-specific surveillance system for identifying Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreaks.

abstract：:We obtained ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences from residents of Amazonas state, Brazil, with Mansonella parasitemias. Phylogenetic analysis of these sequences confirm that M. ozzardi and M. perstans parasites occur in sympatry and reveal the close relationship between M. perstans in Africa and Brazil, providin...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Tavares da Silva LB,Crainey JL,Ribeiro da Silva TR,Suwa UF,Vicente AC,Fernandes de Medeiros J,Pessoa FA,Luz SL

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1997-2005 tularemia outbreak in Bulgaria affected 285 people. Ten strains were isolated from humans, a tick, a hare, and water. Amplified fragment length polymorphism typing of the present isolates and of the strain isolated in 1962 suggests that a new genetic variant caused the outbreak. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kantardjiev T,Ivanov I,Velinov T,Padeshki P,Popov B,Nenova R,Mincheff M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a case of hepatitis E acquired after persons ate wild boar meat. Genotype 3 hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA was detected in both patient serum and wild boar meat. These findings provided direct evidence of zoonotic foodborne transmission of HEV from a wild boar to a human. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Li TC,Chijiwa K,Sera N,Ishibashi T,Etoh Y,Shinohara Y,Kurata Y,Ishida M,Sakamoto S,Takeda N,Miyamura T

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni, a major cause of bacterial foodborne illnesses, is considered highly susceptible to environmental stresses. In this study, we extensively investigated the stress tolerance of 121 clinical strains of C. jejuni against 5 stress conditions (aerobic stress, disinfectant exposure, freeze-thaw, heat tr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Oh E,Chui L,Bae J,Li V,Ma A,Mutschall SK,Taboada EN,McMullen LM,Jeon B

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 2015-2016, several outbreaks of tilapia lake virus infection occurred among tilapia in Thailand. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the virus from Thailand grouped with a tilapia virus (family Orthomyxoviridae) from Israel. This emerging virus is a threat to tilapia aquaculture in Asia and worldwide. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Surachetpong W,Janetanakit T,Nonthabenjawan N,Tattiyapong P,Sirikanchana K,Amonsin A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residents of the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam have a long tradition of eating raw fish. Fish-borne zoonotic trematodes (FZTs) are estimated to infect ≈1 million persons in Vietnam. It remains uncertain at what stages in the aquaculture production cycle fish become infected with FZTs. Newly hatched fish (...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Phan VT,Ersbøll AK,Nguyen TT,Nguyen KV,Nguyen HT,Murrell D,Dalsgaard A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective testing of 3,232 serum samples from the general population and 518 serum samples from a high-risk group showed no evidence of human exposure to Neospora caninum in England. Results were obtained by using immunofluorescence antibody testing and ELISA to analyze frequency distribution. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： McCann CM,Vyse AJ,Salmon RL,Thomas D,Williams DJ,McGarry JW,Pebody R,Trees AJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is a neglected zoonotic disease. In 2015, leptospirosis was diagnosed in 2 prison inmates in South Africa. Using real-time PCR and DNA sequencing, we identified Leptospira interrogans serogroup Icterohaemorrhagiae in rodents and water samples within the prison. Leptospirosis might be frequently underdiag...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Naidoo K,Moseley M,McCarthy K,Chingonzoh R,Lawrence C,Setshedi GM,Frean J,Rossouw J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, occurs throughout Southeast Asia. We descript ten cases that occurred in the Torres Strait islands of northern Australia during 2000 and 2001. Preceding heavy rain may have contributed to the outbreak. The successful use of azithromycin in two pediatric patients is also ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Faa AG,McBride WJ,Garstone G,Thompson RE,Holt P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings among a cohort of 26 patients who had hematologic malignancies and hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection support that HEV can induce chronic hepatitis. However, a 3-month course of ribavirin can induce a rapid viral clearance, reducing the risk for chronic hepatitis and enabling continuation of cytotoxic treatmen...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Tavitian S,Peron JM,Huguet F,Kamar N,Abravanel F,Beyne-Rauzy O,Oberic L,Faguer S,Alric L,Roussel M,Gaudin C,Ysebaert L,Huynh A,Recher C

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive and skin community-associated (CA)-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from children were matched with invasive CA-methicillin-sensitive S. aureus strains during 2000-2004. Isolates were analyzed for presence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin. A USA400 lineage clone (n = 6) and the predominant U...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jaggi P,Paule SM,Peterson LR,Tan TQ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus infection during pregnancy increased the risk for any neurologic congenital anomaly in the infant by roughly 50% and for other congenital malformations of brain 4-fold. Our results show an association between dengue during pregnancy and congenital anomalies of the brain, suggesting that flaviviruses other...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Paixão ES,Teixeira MG,Costa MDCN,Barreto ML,Rodrigues LC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification and prioritization of effective food safety interventions require an understanding of the relationship between food and pathogen from farm to consumption. Critical to this cause is food attribution, the capacity to attribute cases of foodborne disease to the food vehicle or other source responsible for ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Batz MB,Doyle MP,Morris G Jr,Painter J,Singh R,Tauxe RV,Taylor MR,Lo Fo Wong DM,Food Attribution Working Group.

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By applying cumulative sums (CUSUM), a quality control method commonly used in manufacturing, we constructed a process for detecting unusual clusters among reported laboratory isolates of disease-causing organisms. We developed a computer algorithm based on minimal adjustments to the CUSUM method, which cumulates sums...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hutwagner LC,Maloney EK,Bean NH,Slutsker L,Martin SM

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homelessness is an increasing public health problem. Because of poor living conditions and limited access to healthcare systems, homeless persons are exposed to many communicable infections. We summarize the intervention measures reported to be efficient for the control and the prevention of common transmissible infec...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Badiaga S,Raoult D,Brouqui P

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously unidentified strain of avian hepatitis E virus (aHEV) is now endemic among chickens in Taiwan. Analysis showed that the virus is 81.5%-86.5% similar to other aHEVs. In Taiwan, aHEV infection has been reported in chickens without aHEV exposure, suggesting transmission from asymptomatic cases or repeated in...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hsu IW,Tsai HJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the global incidence and clinical effects of human trichinellosis, we analyzed outbreak report data for 1986-2009. Searches of 6 international databases yielded 494 reports. After applying strict criteria for relevance and reliability, we selected 261 reports for data extraction. From 1986 through 2009, ther...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Murrell KD,Pozio E

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first two recognized cases of rapidly fatal hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Pennsylvania occurred within an 8-month period in 1997. Illness in the two patients was confirmed by immunohistochemical techniques on autopsy material. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis of tissue from one patient a...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Rhodes LV 3rd,Huang C,Sanchez AJ,Nichol ST,Zaki SR,Ksiazek TG,Humphreys JG,Freeman JJ,Knecht KR

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All hepatitis E virus (HEV) variants reported to infect humans belong to the species Orthohepevirus A (HEV-A). The zoonotic potential of the species Orthohepevirus C (HEV-C), which circulates in rats and is highly divergent from HEV-A, is unknown. We report a liver transplant recipient with hepatitis caused by HEV-C i...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sridhar S,Yip CCY,Wu S,Cai J,Zhang AJ,Leung KH,Chung TWH,Chan JFW,Chan WM,Teng JLL,Au-Yeung RKH,Cheng VCC,Chen H,Lau SKP,Woo PCY,Xia NS,Lo CM,Yuen KY

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified 131 strains of Vibrio fluvialis among 400 nonagglutinating Vibrio spp. isolated from patients with diarrhea in Kolkata, India. For 43 patients, V. fluvialis was the sole pathogen identified. Most strains harbored genes encoding hemolysin and metalloprotease; this finding may contribute to understanding o...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chowdhury G,Pazhani GP,Dutta D,Guin S,Dutta S,Ghosh S,Izumiya H,Asakura M,Yamasaki S,Takeda Y,Arakawa E,Watanabe H,Mukhopadhyay AK,Bhattacharya MK,Rajendran K,Nair GB,Ramamurthy T

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new approach for infectious disease surveillance that facilitates rapid identification of known and emerging pathogens. The process uses broad-range polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify nucleic acid targets from large groupings of organisms, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for accurate ma...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sampath R,Hofstadler SA,Blyn LB,Eshoo MW,Hall TA,Massire C,Levene HM,Hannis JC,Harrell PM,Neuman B,Buchmeier MJ,Jiang Y,Ranken R,Drader JJ,Samant V,Griffey RH,McNeil JA,Crooke ST,Ecker DJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe the epidemiology and clinical course of patients hospitalized with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Kenya, we reviewed medical records of 49 such patients hospitalized during July-November 2009. The median age (7 years) was lower than that in industrialized countries. More patients had HIV than the general Kenyan p...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Osoro EM,Munyua P,Muthoka P,Gikundi S,Njenga MK,Lifumo S,Achilla R,Waiboci L,Nzioka C,Omolo J,Feikin DR,Breiman RF,Katz MA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pacific broad tapeworm Adenocephalus pacificus (syn. Diphyllobothrium pacificum) is the causative agent of the third most common fish-borne cestodosis among humans. Although most of the nearly 1,000 cases among humans have been reported in South America (Peru, Chile, and Ecuador), cases recently imported to Europe...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kuchta R,Serrano-Martínez ME,Scholz T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of transfusion-associated bacteremia caused by Psychrobacter arenosus. This psychrotolerant bacterium was previously isolated in 2004 from coastal sea ice and sediments in the Sea of Japan, but not from humans. P. arenosus should be considered a psychrotolerant bacterial species that can cause transfu...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Caspar Y,Recule C,Pouzol P,Lafeuillade B,Mallaret MR,Maurin M,Croize J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eczema herpeticum can clinically resemble smallpox. On the basis of the algorithm for rapid evaluation of patients with an acute generalized vesiculopustular rash illness, our patient met criteria for high risk for smallpox. The Tzanck preparation was critical for rapid diagnosis of herpetic infection and exclusion of...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Boyd DA,Sperling LC,Norton SA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an 8-year study period, Arcobacter butzleri was the fourth most common Campylobacter-like organism isolated from 67,599 stool specimens. Our observations suggest that A. butzleri displays microbiologic and clinical features similar to those of Campylobacter jejuni; however, A. butzleri is more frequently associ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vandenberg O,Dediste A,Houf K,Ibekwem S,Souayah H,Cadranel S,Douat N,Zissis G,Butzler JP,Vandamme P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Haiti is considered chloroquine susceptible, although resistance transporter alleles associated with chloroquine resistance were recently detected. Among 49 patients with falciparum malaria, we found neither parasites carrying haplotypes associated with chloroquine resistance nor insta...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Neuberger A,Zhong K,Kain KC,Schwartz E

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of recurrent coccidioidal meningitis in which a fungal biofilm on the tip of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt tubing was likely responsible for a 4-year persistence of Coccidioides immitis, despite the patient's taking an adequate dosage of fluconazole. Fungal biofilms should be considered as a cause for...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Davis LE,Cook G,Costerton JW

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective study on all cases of pneumococcal septic arthritis (SA) in patients >18 years of age reported to the Picardie Regional Pneumococcal Network in France during 2005-2016. Among 1,062 cases of invasive pneumococcal disease, we observed 16 (1.5%) SA cases. Although SA is uncommon in adult pati...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Dernoncourt A,El Samad Y,Schmidt J,Emond JP,Gouraud C,Brocard A,El Hamri M,Plassart C,Rousseau F,Salle V,Diouf M,Varon E,Hamdad F

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a detention facility experiencing a coronavirus disease outbreak and evaluate testing strategies, we conducted a prospective cohort investigation in a facility in Louisiana, USA. We conducted SARS-CoV-2 testing for detained perso...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wallace M,James AE,Silver R,Koh M,Tobolowsky FA,Simonson S,Gold JAW,Fukunaga R,Njuguna H,Bordelon K,Wortham J,Coughlin M,Harcourt JL,Tamin A,Whitaker B,Thornburg NJ,Tao Y,Queen K,Uehara A,Paden CR,Zhang J,Tong S

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00