Molecular analysis of echovirus 13 isolates and aseptic meningitis, Spain.

abstract：:VEB-1 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii was responsible for an outbreak in hospitals in France. A national alert was triggered in September 2003 when 4 hospitals reported clusters of A. baumannii infection with similar susceptibility profiles. Case definitions and laboratory guidelines...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Naas T,Coignard B,Carbonne A,Blanckaert K,Bajolet O,Bernet C,Verdeil X,Astagneau P,Desenclos JC,Nordmann P,French Nosocomial Infection Early Warning Investigation and Surveillance Network.

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytic ehrlichiosis is a febrile illness caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis, an intracellular bacterium transmitted by ticks. In Mexico, a case of E. chaffeensis infection in an immunocompetent 31-year-old woman without recognized tick bite was fatal. This diagnosis should be considered for patients with fever, ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sosa-Gutierrez CG,Solorzano-Santos F,Walker DH,Torres J,Serrano CA,Gordillo-Perez G

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a 2014 outbreak of severe respiratory illness caused by enterovirus D68 in the United States, sporadic cases of acute flaccid myelitis have been reported worldwide. We describe a cluster of acute flaccid myelitis cases in Argentina in 2016, adding data to the evidence of association between enterovirus D68 and t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Carballo CM,Erro MG,Sordelli N,Vazquez G,Mistchenko AS,Cejas C,Rodriguez M,Cisterna DM,Freire MC,Contrini MM,Lopez EL

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a surveillance study of patients in a long-term care facility and the affiliated acute care hospital in the United States, we identified a Clostridioides difficile strain related to the epidemic PCR ribotype (RT) 027 strain associated with hospital outbreaks of severe disease. Fifteen patients were infected wit...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Skinner AM,Petrella L,Siddiqui F,Sambol SP,Gulvik CA,Gerding DN,Donskey CJ,Johnson S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community transmission of influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was followed by high rates of hospital admissions in the Wellington region of New Zealand, particularly among Maori and Pacific Islanders. These findings may help health authorities anticipate the effects of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in other communities. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Verrall A,Norton K,Rooker S,Dee S,Olsen L,Tan CE,Paull S,Allen R,Blackmore TK

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated cost-effectiveness of annually vaccinating children not at high risk with inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) to range from US $12,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) saved for children ages 6-23 months to $119,000 per QALY saved for children ages 12-17 years. For children at high risk (preexisting ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Prosser LA,Bridges CB,Uyeki TM,Hinrichsen VL,Meltzer MI,Molinari NA,Schwartz B,Thompson WW,Fukuda K,Lieu TA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vancouver Island, Canada, reports the world's highest incidence of Cryptococcus gattii infection among humans and animals. To identify key biophysical factors modulating environmental concentrations, we evaluated monthly concentrations of C. gatti in air, soil, and trees over a 3-year period. The 2 study datasets were...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Uejio CK,Mak S,Manangan A,Luber G,Bartlett KH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR amplification indicated the minimum infection rate of Rickettsia spp. was 0.66% in Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks collected from Shandong Province, China. Phylogenetic analysis based on the rrs, gltA, ompA, and ompB genes indicated that the ticks carried R. japonica, Candidatus Rickettsia longicornii, and a novel...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Qin XR,Han HJ,Han FJ,Zhao FM,Zhang ZT,Xue ZF,Ma DQ,Qi R,Zhao M,Wang LJ,Zhao L,Yu H,Liu JW,Yu XJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria are human pathogens with increasing incidence and prevalence worldwide. Mycobacterium shimoidei is a rare cause of pulmonary disease, with only 15 cases previously reported. This series documents an additional 23 cases of M. shimoidei from Queensland, Australia, and highlights the pathogeni...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Baird TM,Carter R,Eather G,Thomson R

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Outbreaks of West Nile (WN) virus occurred in the New York metropolitan area in 1999 and 2000. Nineteen patients diagnosed with WN infection were hospitalized in New York and New Jersey in 2000 and were included in this review. Eleven patients had encephalitis or meningoencephalitis, and eight had meningitis alone. Ag...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Weiss D,Carr D,Kellachan J,Tan C,Phillips M,Bresnitz E,Layton M,West Nile Virus Outbreak Response Working Group.

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better define areas of human Lyme disease risk, we compared US surveillance data with published data on the seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies among domestic dogs. Canine seroprevalence >5% was a sensitive but nonspecific marker of human risk, whereas seroprevalence <1% was associated with minimal ri...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mead P,Goel R,Kugeler K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism attacks warrant urgent public health and medical responses. Response plans for these events may include use of medications and vaccines for which the effects on pregnant women and fetuses are unknown. Healthcare providers must be able to discuss the benefits and r...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cono J,Cragan JD,Jamieson DJ,Rasmussen SA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used physician sentinel surveillance to identify 25 (7.7%) mild to severe infections with enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in children and adults among 325 outpatients with acute respiratory infections in Germany during August-October 2014. Results suggested low-level circulation of enterovirus D68 in Germany. Viruses were...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Reiche J,Böttcher S,Diedrich S,Buchholz U,Buda S,Haas W,Schweiger B,Wolff T

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified Salmonella genomic island I (SGI1) in an isolate of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi B. This antibiotic-resistance gene cluster, which confers multidrug resistance, has been previously identified in S. enterica serotype Typhimurium phage types DT 104 and DT 120 and in S. enterica serotype Agon...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Meunier D,Boyd D,Mulvey MR,Baucheron S,Mammina C,Nastasi A,Chaslus-Dancla E,Cloeckaert A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pandemic influenza planning is well under way across the globe. Antiviral drugs and vaccines have dominated the therapeutic agenda. Far less work has been conducted on stockpiling and planning for deployment of antimicrobial drugs against secondary bacterial pneumonia, a cause of substantial illness and death in previ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gupta RK,George R,Nguyen-Van-Tam JS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assembled a collection of 73 Capnocytophaga canimorsus isolates obtained from blood cultures taken from patients treated at Helsinki University Hospital (Helsinki, Finland) during 2000-2017. We serotyped these isolates by PCR and Western blot and attempted to correlate pathogen serovar with patient characteristics....

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hess E,Renzi F,Karhunen P,Dol M,Lefèvre A,Antikainen J,Carlier E,Hästbacka J,Cornelis GR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of body lice among 2,288 sheltered homeless persons in the city of Marseille during 2000-2017 was 12.2% and significantly decreased over time. We report a positive association between body lice infestations and older age, duration of stays in France for migrants, frequent consumption of alcohol, and tob...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ly TDA,Touré Y,Calloix C,Badiaga S,Raoult D,Tissot-Dupont H,Brouqui P,Gautret P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease caused by predominantly vectorborne Leishmania spp. In the United States, canine visceral leishmaniasis is common among hounds, and L. infantum vertical transmission among hounds has been confirmed. We found that L. infantum from hounds remains infective in sandflies, underscoring t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Schaut RG,Robles-Murguia M,Juelsgaard R,Esch KJ,Bartholomay LC,Ramalho-Ortigao M,Petersen CA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late summer of 1998, veterinary authorities in Tuscany, Italy, received reports of cases of neurologic disease among horses residing in a large wetland area located in the provinces of Florence and Pistoia. West Nile virus was isolated from two of the six horses that died or were euthanized. A retrospective...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Autorino GL,Battisti A,Deubel V,Ferrari G,Forletta R,Giovannini A,Lelli R,Murri S,Scicluna MT

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:In March 2017, a patient became febrile within 4 days after visiting a rustic conference center in Austin, Texas, USA, where Austin Public Health suspected an outbreak of tickborne relapsing fever a month earlier. Evaluation of a patient blood smear and molecular diagnostic assays identified Borrelia turicatae as the ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bissett JD,Ledet S,Krishnavajhala A,Armstrong BA,Klioueva A,Sexton C,Replogle A,Schriefer ME,Lopez JE

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baylisascaris procyonis, a common roundworm of raccoons, causes severe or fatal human infections, often in suburban areas. To evaluate the effectiveness of a baiting strategy requiring minimal labor, we distributed medicated baits near raccoon latrines in suburban Chicago, Illinois, USA. This strategy lowered B. procy...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Page K,Smyser TJ,Dunkerton E,Gavard E,Larkin B,Gehrt S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported autochthonous dengue fever transmission in the United States has been limited to 5 south Texas border counties since 1980. We conducted a cross-sectional serosurvey in Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (n = 600), in 2004 to assess dengue seroprevalence. Recent dengue infection was detected...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Brunkard JM,Robles López JL,Ramirez J,Cifuentes E,Rothenberg SJ,Hunsperger EA,Moore CG,Brussolo RM,Villarreal NA,Haddad BM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent Hendra virus outbreak at a veterinary clinic in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, involved 5 equine and 2 human infections. In contrast to previous outbreaks, infected horses had predominantly encephalitic, rather than respiratory, signs. After an incubation period of 9-16 days, influenza-like illnesses develo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Playford EG,McCall B,Smith G,Slinko V,Allen G,Smith I,Moore F,Taylor C,Kung YH,Field H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphyllobothriosis is reemerging because of global importation and increased popularity of eating raw fish. We detected Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense plerocercoids in the musculature of wild pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) from Alaska, USA. Therefore, salmon from the American and Asian Pacific coasts and elsewher...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kuchta R,Oros M,Ferguson J,Scholz T

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective study of Salmonella Newport infections among Wisconsin residents during 2003-2005. Multidrug resistance prevalence was substantially greater in Wisconsin than elsewhere in the United States. Persons with multidrug-resistant infections were more likely than persons with susceptible infectio...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Karon AE,Archer JR,Sotir MJ,Monson TA,Kazmierczak JJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preventing campylobacteriosis depends on a thorough understanding of its epidemiology. We used case-case analysis to compare cases of Campylobacter coli infection with cases of C. jejuni infection, to generate hypotheses for infection from standardized, population-based sentinel surveillance information in England and...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gillespie IA,O'Brien SJ,Frost JA,Adak GK,Horby P,Swan AV,Painter MJ,Neal KR,Campylobacter Sentinel Surveillance Scheme Collaborators.

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From July to September 1999, a widespread outbreak of meningoencephalitis associated with West Nile virus (Flavivirus, Flaviviridae) occurred in southern Russia, with hundreds of cases and dozens of deaths. Two strains of West Nile virus isolated from patient serum and brain-tissue samples reacted in hemagglutination-...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lvov DK,Butenko AM,Gromashevsky VL,Larichev VP,Gaidamovich SY,Vyshemirsky OI,Zhukov AN,Lazorenko VV,Salko VN,Kovtunov AI,Galimzyanov KM,Platonov AE,Morozova TN,Khutoretskaya NV,Shishkina EO,Skvortsova TM

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the epidemiologic characteristics of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Bulgaria, as well as the first genetic characterization of the virus strains circulating in the country in 2002 to 2003 that caused disease in humans. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Papa A,Christova I,Papadimitriou E,Antoniadis A

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00