Present characteristics of symptomatic Entamoeba histolytica infection in the big cities of Japan.

abstract：:The epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States prompted us to explore the association between diabetes and tuberculosis (TB) on the South Texas-Mexico border, in a large population of mostly non-hospitalized TB patients. We examined 6 years of retrospective data from all TB patients (n=5049) in South Texas and n...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Restrepo BI,Fisher-Hoch SP,Crespo JG,Whitney E,Perez A,Smith B,McCormick JB,Nuevo Santander Tuberculosis Trackers.

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to determine the prevalence of HIV infection and risk factors for HIV infection in various population subgroups in Ethiopia. Serum panels from blood donors (n = 2610), from various population subgroups in Ethiopia were tested for anti-HIV-1/2 by ELISA. All ELISA repeatedly reactive samples were subjected f...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sentjens RE,Sisay Y,Vrielink H,Kebede D,Adèr HJ,Leckie G,Reesink HW

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:In 2005, a serological study was carried out on horses in five ecologically contrasted zones of the Senegal River basin (Senegal) to assess West Nile virus (WNV) transmission and investigate underlying environmental risk factors. In each study zone, horses were randomly selected and blood samples taken. A land-cover m...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chevalier V,Dupressoir A,Tran A,Diop OM,Gottland C,Diallo M,Etter E,Ndiaye M,Grosbois V,Dia M,Gaidet N,Sall AA,Soti V,Niang M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many years of state-sponsored efforts to eradicate the disease from cattle through testing and slaughter, bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is still regarded as the most important and complex of animal health challenges facing the British livestock agricultural industry. This paper provides a historical analysis of th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Robinson PA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of hepatitis B virus markers in the adult Swedish population was investigated according to age, sex, origin and demographic stratum. Sera were collected from 3382 persons in 1990-1. The sera were selected on a statistical basis considered to be representative of the Swedish population from adults aged >...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Christenson B,Böttiger M,Grillner L

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimethoprim resistance was examined in faecal bacteria obtained from chickens, sheep, cattle and pigs. The incidence of trimethoprim resistance in porcine strains was 17% (157/922) and, whereas 15.8% (146/922) of these bacteria were highly resistant, only 4% (37/922) of the isolates possessed trimethoprim resistance ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Amyes SG

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging infections pose a constant threat to society and can require a substantial response, thus systems to assess the threat level and inform prioritization of resources are essential. A systematic approach to assessing the risk from emerging infections to public health in the UK has been developed. This qualitativ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Morgan D,Kirkbride H,Hewitt K,Said B,Walsh AL

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection is decreasing in developed countries. In this study we included 22,612 patients in whom a first culture of gastric biopsy (routinely performed in our medical centres) yielded an interpretable result over a 20-year period (1988-2007) in Brussels. The effects of patients' ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Miendje Deyi VY,Vanderpas J,Bontems P,Van den Borre C,De Koster E,Cadranel S,Burette A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe the features of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in Madagascar, a randomized sero-epidemiological survey was undertaken in the general population > or = 1 year old of two provinces which represents 45% of the total population. In the 921 sera tested, the prevalence of HBV markers was 20.5% for HBsAg, 38.2...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Boisier P,Rabarijaona L,Piollet M,Roux JF,Zeller HG

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito-borne Sindbis virus (SINV) causes rash-arthritis syndrome in Finland. Major outbreaks with approximately 7-year cycles have caused substantial burden of illness. Forest dwelling grouse are suspected to be amplifying hosts, with the infection transmitted to humans by mosquito bites. SINV infection surveillance...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Jalava K,Sane J,Ollgren J,Ruuhela R,Rätti O,Kurkela S,Helle P,Hartonen S,Pirinen P,Vapalahti O,Kuusi M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurred in the Isle of Thanet during December 1990 and January 1991. A total of 47 cases ranging in age from 2 months to 85 years were identified in residents from the Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate areas, with dates of onset of illness from 3 December to 14 January. A case-control...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Joseph C,Hamilton G,O'Connor M,Nicholas S,Marshall R,Stanwell-Smith R,Sims R,Ndawula E,Casemore D,Gallagher P

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:West Nile virus (WNV) is now endemic in the USA. After the widespread surge of virus activity across the USA, research has flourished, and our knowledge base has significantly expanded over the past 10 years since WNV was first recognized in New York City. This article provides a review of the virology of WNV, history...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Murray KO,Walker C,Gould E

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the frequency of Campylobacter as the principal cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in the UK, outbreaks attributed to this pathogen are rare. One hundred and fourteen general foodborne outbreaks of campylobacteriosis were reported to the Health Protection Agency from 1992 to 2009 with most occurring in food se...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Little CL,Gormley FJ,Rawal N,Richardson JF

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS) are reportable diseases, the third most common causes for hospitalization of children in Thailand. Data collected from the Ministry of Public Health were analysed for trends. Rates of DHF increased in Thailand until 1987 when the largest epidemic ever, 32...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chareonsook O,Foy HM,Teeraratkul A,Silarug N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) Dhaka we studied the trends in cholera for the period January 1992 to May 1995. Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal emerged as a second aetiologic agent of cholera in Dhaka in January 1993. In 1993, the majority of cholera cases was due to V. c...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Faruque AS,Fuchs GJ,Albert MJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic oligodeoxynucleotide of 40 nucleotides corresponding to nucleotides 33-72 of the gene coding for the viral protein VP7 of rotavirus, was used as a nucleic acid probe to develop a non-radioactive hybridization method for rotavirus detection. The probe was labelled at the 3' end with biotin-7-dATP. The sensi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fernández J,Sandino A,Yudelevich A,Avendaño LF,Venegas A,Hinrichsen V,Spencer E

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on the clinical profiles of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) case-patients and the management of acyclovir prescriptions. We designed a study on the causes of encephalitis in France in 2007. Case-patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were enrolled in all the hospitals that volunteered to parti...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Stahl JP,Mailles A,De Broucker T,Steering Committee and Investigators Group.

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the joint association of patient and strain characteristics with the outcome of meningococcal disease (MD), data were collected on 563 consecutive cases of MD reported between 1989 and 1990 in The Netherlands. The meningococcal isolates were characterized with regard to their surface characteristics. Se...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Scholten RJ,Bijlmer HA,Valkenburg HA,Dankert J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in Helicobacter pylori seroprevalence were studied determining IgG and IgA antibodies of 408 randomly selected adults aged 15-74 years living in Vammala, Finland in 1973 and of 504 similarly selected subjects in 1994. Seroprevalence increased by age at both time points. The age-adjusted seroprevalence rate was...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kosunen TU,Aromaa A,Knekt P,Salomaa A,Rautelin H,Lohi P,Heinonen OP

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：: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：:This longitudinal field study investigated the hypothesis that persistently high antibody levels indicate a high risk of Salmonella Dublin shedding in animals in 14 endemically infected dairy herds. A hierarchical multivariable logistic regression was used to analyse 6614 paired faecal cultures and four types of tempo...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nielsen LR

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite Department of Health recommendations, universal antenatal testing for hepatitis B virus (HBV) is not performed throughout Scotland. We describe the evaluation of an assay to document past or present infection with HBV, by identifying maternal antibody in routine Guthrie dried neonatal blood spot samples taken ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tappin DM,Greer K,Cameron S,Kennedy R,Brown AJ,Girdwood RW

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annual overviews of waterborne disease outbreaks associated with untreated recreational water use provided by authorities responsible for bathing-water quality and public health in The Netherlands revealed 742 outbreaks during 1991-2007 mainly comprising of skin conditions (48%) and gastroenteritis (31%) and involving...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Schets FM,De Roda Husman AM,Havelaar AH

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:SUMMARY Wild canids are potential hosts for numerous species of Bartonella, yet little research has been done to quantify their infection rates in South America. We sought to investigate Bartonella seroprevalence in captive wild canids from 19 zoos in São Paulo and Mato Grosso states, Brazil. Blood samples were collec...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fleischman DA,Chomel BB,Kasten RW,André MR,Gonçalves LR,Machado RZ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMMARY Environmental samples are a cost-saving and easy-to-use approach to diagnose paratuberculosis at the herd level. Detailed knowledge concerning its uncertainties in herds with a low prevalence of Mycobacterium avium spp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is required to design sampling strategies in control programmes. Thi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Donat K,Kube J,Dressel J,Einax E,Pfeffer M,Failing K

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of spread of Helicobacter pylori infection is subject to ongoing debate. Recent studies among patients with gastrointestinal disorders suggest a potential role of conjugal transmission. In this study, the clustering of H. pylori infection was assessed among 110 employees of a health insurance company and thei...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Brenner H,Rothenbacher D,Bode G,Dieudonné P,Adler G

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00