Genotyping, Orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and plague pandemics.

abstract：:To enhance the timeliness of medical evaluation for cholera-like illness during the 2011 cholera outbreak in Hispaniola, printed Travel Health Alert Notices (T-HANs) were distributed to travelers from Haiti to the United States. Evaluation of the T-HANs’ influence on travelers’ health care–seeking behavior suggested T...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Selent MU,McWhorter A,De Rochars VM,Myers R,Hunter DW,Brown CM,Cohen NJ,Molinari NA,Warwar K,Robbins D,Heiman KE,Newton AE,Schmitz A,Oraze MJ,Marano N

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested for enterovirus D68 in fecal samples collected during June-September 2016 from 567 patients with acute flaccid paralysis in 7 West Africa nations. Children <5 years old comprised 64.3% of enterovirus D68 positive patients. Our findings emphasize the need for active surveillance for acute flaccid myelitis. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fall A,Ndiaye N,Messacar K,Kebe O,Jallow MM,Harouna H,Kiori DE,Sy S,Goudiaby D,Dia M,Niang MN,Ndiaye K,Dia N

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highland areas where malaria transmission is unstable are targets for malaria elimination because transmission decreases to low levels during the dry season. In highland areas of Kipsamoite and Kapsisiywa, Kenya (population approximately 7,400 persons), annual household indoor residual spraying with a synthetic pyreth...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： John CC,Riedesel MA,Magak NG,Lindblade KA,Menge DM,Hodges JS,Vulule JM,Akhwale W

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is the first confirmation of Rickettsia felis in Australia. The organism was identified from 4 species of fleas obtained from dogs and cats in Western Australia, by using polymerase chain reaction amplification and DNA sequencing of the citrate synthase and outer membrane protein A genes. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Schloderer D,Owen H,Clark P,Stenos J,Fenwick SG

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in persons in 2 rural communities in southeastern Bolivia and the presence of HEV in human and swine fecal samples. HEV seroprevalence was 6.3%, and HEV genotype 3 strains with high sequence homology were detected. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Dell'Amico MC,Cavallo A,Gonzales JL,Bonelli SI,Valda Y,Pieri A,Segund H,Ibañez R,Mantella A,Bartalesi F,Tolari F,Bartoloni A

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Q fever, and Lyme disease are endemic to southern Kazakhstan, but population-based serosurveys are lacking. We assessed risk factors and seroprevalence of these zoonoses and conducted surveys for CCHF-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the Zhambyl region of Kazakhsta...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Head JR,Bumburidi Y,Mirzabekova G,Rakhimov K,Dzhumankulov M,Salyer SJ,Knust B,Berezovskiy D,Kulatayeva M,Zhetibaev S,Shoemaker T,Nicholson WL,Moffett D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance for alveolar echinococcosis in central Europe was initiated in 1998. On a voluntary basis, 559 patients were reported to the registry. Most cases originated from rural communities in regions from eastern France to western Austria; single cases were reported far away from the disease-"endemic" zone through...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kern P,Bardonnet K,Renner E,Auer H,Pawlowski Z,Ammann RW,Vuitton DA,Kern P,European Echinococcosis Registry.

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible mink encepholapathy (TME) is a foodborne transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of ranch-raised mink; infection with a ruminant TSE has been proposed as the cause, but the precise origin of TME is unknown. To compare the phenotypes of each TSE, bovine-passaged TME isolate and 3 distinct natural bo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Baron T,Bencsik A,Biacabe AG,Morignat E,Bessen RA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental status after acute West Nile virus infection has not been examined objectively. We compared Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status scores of 116 patients with West Nile fever or West Nile neuroinvasive disease. Mental status was poorer and cognitive complaints more frequent with West Nile neuroinvasive diseas...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Haaland KY,Sadek J,Pergam S,Echevarria LA,Davis LE,Goade D,Harnar J,Nofchissey RA,Sewel CM,Ettestad P

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waddlia chondrophila is an intracellular bacterium suspected to cause human and bovine abortion. We confirmed an association between antibodies against W. chondrophila and human miscarriage and identified this organism in placenta or genital tract of women who had had miscarriages. These results suggest a possible rol...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Baud D,Goy G,Osterheld MC,Croxatto A,Borel N,Vial Y,Pospischil A,Greub G

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further assess the geographic occurrence, possible vectors, and prevalence of Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, we analyzed spleen tissues from 276 voles trapped close to human settlements in France; 5 were infected with the organism. Sequencing showed the isolates carried the same genotype as the bacteria that c...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vayssier-Taussat M,Le Rhun D,Buffet JP,Maaoui N,Galan M,Guivier E,Charbonnel N,Cosson JF

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endemic scrub typhus was recently detected on Chiloé Island in southern Chile. We report a series of cases, acquired over a wide geographical range in continental Chile during 2016-2018, demonstrating that this emerging rickettsial infection is also found on the mainland of South America. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Weitzel T,Martínez-Valdebenito C,Acosta-Jamett G,Jiang J,Richards AL,Abarca K

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White-nose syndrome has devastated bat populations in eastern North America. In Midwestern United States, prevalence increased quickly in the first year of invasion (2012-13) but with low population declines. In the second year (2013-14), environmental contamination led to earlier infection and high population decline...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Langwig KE,Hoyt JR,Parise KL,Kath J,Kirk D,Frick WF,Foster JT,Kilpatrick AM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who had initial infection with mixed strains of drug-susceptible and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis was presumed to have acquired drug resistance before confirmation that sequential strains were genotypically distinct. Transmitted infection with mixed strains is likely underappreciated; identifying these i...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Baffoe-Bonnie A,Houpt ER,Turner L,Dodge D,Heysell SK

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Puerto Rico, risk for transmission of B-virus from free-ranging rhesus monkeys to humans has become a serious challenge. An incident with an injured rhesus monkey, seropositive for B-virus, resulted in inappropriate administration of antiviral postexposure prophylaxis. This incident underscores the importance of ed...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jensen K,Alvarado-Ramy F,González-Martínez J,Kraiselburd E,Rullán J

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae in O-group 139 was first isolated in 1992 and by 1993 had been found throughout the Indian subcontinent. This epidemic expansion probably resulted from a single source after a lateral gene transfer (LGT) event that changed the serotype of an epidemic V. cholerae O1 El Tor strain to O139. However, some ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Garg P,Aydanian A,Smith D,J Glenn M Jr,Nair GB,Stine OC

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During November 2008-July 2009, we investigated the origin of unknown fever in Senegalese patients with a negative malaria test result, focusing on potential rickettsial infection. Using molecular tools, we found evidence for Rickettsia felis-associated illness in the initial days of infection in febrile Senegalese pa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Socolovschi C,Mediannikov O,Sokhna C,Tall A,Diatta G,Bassene H,Trape JF,Raoult D

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to estimate the global occurrence of zoonotic tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium bovis or M. caprae infections in humans by performing a multilingual, systematic review and analysis of relevant scientific literature of the last 2 decades. Although information from many parts of the world was not availa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Müller B,Dürr S,Alonso S,Hattendorf J,Laisse CJ,Parsons SD,van Helden PD,Zinsstag J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated two fatal cases of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection in a community nursing home in western Sydney, Australia. Two elderly women had lived in the same room, and the onset of their illness was 5 days apart. Hib isolates from blood cultures showed identical profiles by pulsed field g...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Heath TC,Hewitt MC,Jalaludin B,Roberts C,Capon AG,Jelfs P,Gilbert GL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1992 to 1999, we analyzed >2.5 million cases of influenzalike illness (ILI). Nationwide influenza epidemics generally lasted 3-4 months in winter. Kriging analysis, which illustrates geographic movement, showed that the starting areas of peak ILI activity were mostly found in western Japan. Two spreading patterns...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sakai T,Suzuki H,Sasaki A,Saito R,Tanabe N,Taniguchi K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a new polyomavirus in skin lesions from a patient with trichodysplasia spinulosa (TS). Apart from TS being an extremely rare disease, little is known of its epidemiology. On the basis of knowledge regarding other polyomaviruses, we anticipated that infections with trichodysplasia spinulosa-associated pol...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： van der Meijden E,Kazem S,Burgers MM,Janssens R,Bouwes Bavinck JN,de Melker H,Feltkamp MC

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signs and symptoms of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) serogroup O157:H7 infection range from mild gastrointestinal to bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). We assessed the association between Shiga toxin gene (stx) subtype and disease severity for »3,000 patients with STEC O157:H7 in Engla...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Byrne L,Adams N,Jenkins C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connecticut established telephone-based gram-positive rod (GPR) reporting primarily to detect inhalational anthrax cases more quickly. From March to December 2003, annualized incidence of blood isolates was 21.3/100,000 persons; reports included 293 Corynebacterium spp., 193 Bacillus spp., 73 Clostridium spp., 26 Lact...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Begier EM,Barrett NL,Mshar PA,Johnson DG,Hadler JL,Connecticut Bioterrorism Field Epidemiology Response Team.

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropheryma whipplei endocarditis differs from classic Whipple disease, which primarily affects the gastrointestinal system. We diagnosed 28 cases of T. whipplei endocarditis in Marseille, France, and compared them with cases reported in the literature. Specimens were analyzed mostly by molecular and histologic techniq...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fenollar F,Célard M,Lagier JC,Lepidi H,Fournier PE,Raoult D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The United Kingdom and United States have recently experienced large outbreaks of mumps, which raises concerns about vaccine effectiveness. The effectiveness of the mumps component of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine was estimated using the screening method. In England from January 2004 through March 2005, 31...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cohen C,White JM,Savage EJ,Glynn JR,Choi Y,Andrews N,Brown D,Ramsay ME

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 4 cases of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 13-associated pneumonia. These cases originate from a broad geographic range that includes Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand. L. pneumophila serogroup 13 pneumonia has a clinically diverse spectrum that ranges from relatively mild, community-acquired pneumonia...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Faris B,Faris C,Schousboe M,Heath CH

更新日期：2005-09-01 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

abstract：:Interspecies transmission of equine influenza A(H3N8) virus has resulted in establishment of a canine influenza virus. To determine if something similar could happen with cats, we experimentally infected 14 cats with the equine influenza A(H3N8) virus. All showed clinical signs, shed virus, and transmitted the virus t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Su S,Wang L,Fu X,He S,Hong M,Zhou P,Lai A,Gray G,Li S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding which emerging infectious diseases are of international public health concern is vital. The International Health Regulations include a decision instrument to help countries determine which public health events are of international concern and require reporting to the World Health Organization (WHO) on th...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Edelstein M,Heymann DL,Giesecke J,Weinberg J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00