Cyclosporiasis outbreak, Indonesia.

abstract：:We used multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis and multiple antigen sequence typing to characterize isolates of Bordetella pertussis strains circulating in Denmark during periods with and without pertussis vaccination coverage. Our results show substantial shifts in the B. pertussis population over time and...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Petersen RF,Dalby T,Dragsted DM,Mooi F,Lambertsen L

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Dengue was first reported in Puerto Rico in 1899 and sporadically thereafter. Following outbreaks in 1963 and 1969, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has worked closely with the Puerto Rico Department of Health to monitor and reduce the public health burden of dengue. During that time, evolving epidemiolo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sharp TM,Ryff KR,Santiago GA,Margolis HS,Waterman SH

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines available to school administrators to support school closure decisions during influenza outbreaks are usually not evidence-based. Using empirical data on absentee rates of elementary school students in Japan, we developed a simple and practical algorithm for determining the optimal timing of school closures...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sasaki A,Hoen AG,Ozonoff A,Suzuki H,Tanabe N,Seki N,Saito R,Brownstein JS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (the cause of Lyme borreliosis) seropositivity in Germany, we tested serum samples from health survey (2008-2011) participants. Seroprevalence was 5.8% among women and 13.0% among men; infection risk was highest among persons >60 years of age. Public health interventions, incl...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wilking H,Fingerle V,Klier C,Thamm M,Stark K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To confirm whether respiratory virus infections increase susceptibility to invasive pneumococcal pneumonia, we examined data from 11 influenza seasons (1994-2005) in the United States. Invasive pneumococcal pneumonia was significantly associated with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus activities in 5 seasons. A...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Zhou H,Haber M,Ray S,Farley MM,Panozzo CA,Klugman KP

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few data exist about perceptions regarding the etiology of foodborne illness. Among public health staff throughout Tennessee, the three pathogens most commonly believed to cause foodborne illness in the United States actually account for only 12% of disease. Fewer than 3% of respondents correctly identified the leadin...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jones TF,Gerber DE

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred specimens were collected from pediatric patients hospitalized in Singapore; 21 of these specimens tested positive for human metapneumovirus (HMPV), with the A2 genotype predominating. A 5% infection rate was estimated, suggesting that HMPV is a significant cause of morbidity among the pediatric population...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Loo LH,Tan BH,Ng LM,Tee NW,Lin RT,Sugrue RJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:We report the first genetic characterization of wildtype measles viruses from Uganda. Thirty-six virus isolates from outbreaks in 6 districts were analyzed from 2000 to 2002. Analyses of sequences of the nucleoprotein (N) and hemagglutinin (H) genes showed that the Ugandan isolates were all closely related, and phylog...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Muwonge A,Nanyunja M,Rota PA,Bwogi J,Lowe L,Liffick SL,Bellini WJ,Sylvester S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeless persons in San Francisco, California, USA,have been shown to have head and body lice infestations and Bartonella quintana infections. We surveyed a self selected population of homeless persons in San Francisco to assess infestations of head and body lice, risks of having body lice, and presence of B. quintana...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bonilla DL,Cole-Porse C,Kjemtrup A,Osikowicz L,Kosoy M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine risk for mycosis among persons with silicosis, we examined US mortality data for 1979-2004. Persons with silicosis were more likely to die with pulmonary mycosis than were those without pneumoconiosis or those with more common pneumoconioses. Health professionals should consider enhanced risk for mycosis fo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Iossifova Y,Bailey R,Wood J,Kreiss K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Powassan virus (POWV) lineage II is an emerging tickborne flavivirus with an unknown seroprevalence in humans. In a Lyme disease-endemic area, we examined the seroreactivity to POWV in 2 patient cohorts and described the clinical features of the POWV-seroreactive patients. POWV disease might be less neuroinvasive than...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Frost HM,Schotthoefer AM,Thomm AM,Dupuis AP 2nd,Kehl SC,Kramer LD,Fritsche TR,Harrington YA,Knox KK

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infection is a well-known complication of breast implant surgery. We identified Mycobacterium senegalense, the principal pathogen of bovine farcy of cattle, in a woman after implant-based breast reconstruction. This finding indicates that unusual pathogens should be considered as an etiology of infected brea...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Carretero O,Reyes C,San-Juan R,Chaves F,López-Roa P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faced with an epidemic of an infectious disease, persons may take precautionary actions to try to reduce their risk. Such actions include avoiding situations that persons perceive to be risky, which can have negative health and economic effects. Therefore, we conducted a population-based survey of persons' precautiona...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sadique MZ,Edmunds WJ,Smith RD,Meerding WJ,de Zwart O,Brug J,Beutels P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of influenza A(H7N2) virus in cats in a shelter in New York, NY, USA, resulted in zoonotic transmission. Virus isolated from the infected human was closely related to virus isolated from a cat; both were related to low pathogenicity avian influenza A(H7N2) viruses detected in the United States during the e...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Marinova-Petkova A,Laplante J,Jang Y,Lynch B,Zanders N,Rodriguez M,Jones J,Thor S,Hodges E,De La Cruz JA,Belser J,Yang H,Carney P,Shu B,Berman L,Stark T,Barnes J,Havers F,Yang P,Trock SC,Fry A,Gubareva L,Brese

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：: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：:To investigate feed as a source for fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in broiler chickens, we compared antimicrobial drug-resistant E. coli from broiler feed and broilers with ciprofloxacin-resistant human clinical isolates by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Feed was implicated as a source for ciprofl...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Thorsteinsdottir TR,Haraldsson G,Fridriksdottir V,Kristinsson KG,Gunnarsson E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed results of recent microbiologic surveillance of meningitis in northern Cameroon. During the 2007 and 2008 meningitis seasons, all 57 identified meningococcal isolates were serogroup W135. This situation might indicate that the area is experiencing a period between epidemic waves due to 2 different clones o...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Massenet D,Inrombe J,Mevoula DE,Nicolas P

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the genetic diversity of measles virus (MV) in Nigeria (2004-2005) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (2002-2006). Genotype B3 strains circulating in Kinshasa, DRC, in 2002-2003 were fully replaced by genotype B2 in 2004 at the end of the second Congo war. In Nigeria (2004-2005), two geneti...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kremer JR,Nkwembe E,Bola Oyefolu AO,Smit SB,Pukuta E,Omilabu SA,Adu FD,Muyembe Tamfum JJ,Muller CP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report new molecular evidence of locally acquired dengue virus infections in Ghana. We detected dengue viral RNA among children with suspected malaria by using a multipathogen real-time PCR. Subsequent sequence analysis revealed a close relationship with dengue virus serotype 2, which was implicated in a 2016 outbr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Amoako N,Duodu S,Dennis FE,Bonney JHK,Asante KP,Ameh J,Mosi L,Hayashi T,Agbosu EE,Pratt D,Operario DJ,Fields B,Liu J,Houpt ER,Armah GE,Stoler J,Awandare GA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We documented a 6-fold increase in the frequency of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from clinical samples in Botswana during 2011-2014. Because antituberculosis treatment is often initiated only on the basis of acid-fast bacilli smear-positive microscopy results, some patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial in...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mbeha B,Mine M,Motswaledi MS,Dewar J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory-confirmed cases of subclinical infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus in humans are rare, and the true number of these cases is unknown. We describe the identification of a laboratory-confirmed subclinical case in a woman during an influenza A(H5N1) contact investigation in northern Vietnam. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Le MQ,Horby P,Fox A,Nguyen HT,Le Nguyen HK,Hoang PM,Nguyen KC,de Jong MD,Jeeninga RE,Rogier van Doorn H,Farrar J,Wertheim HF

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the Temporal Exposure Response Surfaces modeling technique to examine the association between gastroenteritis-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations in the elderly and drinking water turbidity before and during the 1993 Milwaukee waterborne Cryptosporidium outbreak. Before the outbreak, the rate of...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Naumova EN,Egorov AI,Morris RD,Griffiths JK

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oropouche fever is a neglected arthropodborne disease and zoonosis responsible for several outbreaks of a febrile disease in Central and South America. We present a clinical case of aseptic meningoencephalitis in an immunocompetent patient that resulted from Oropouche virus acquired in northern Brazil but diagnosed in...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vernal S,Martini CCR,da Fonseca BAL

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective investigation of skin and soft tissue infections caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains among inmates in a Wisconsin correctional facility suggested a shift in MRSA genotype. Case timeline indicated a displacement of USA400 clone by USA300 clone. The U...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Stemper ME,Brady JM,Qutaishat SS,Borlaug G,Reed J,Reed KD,Shukla SK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In winter 2015-16, norovirus GII.17 Kawasaki 2014 emerged as a cause of sporadic gastroenteritis in children in Italy. Median patient age was higher for those with GII.17 than GII.4 infection (55 vs. 24 months), suggesting limited cross-protection for older children. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Giammanco GM,De Grazia S,Bonura F,Cappa V,Muli SL,Pepe A,Medici MC,Tummolo F,Calderaro A,Di Bernardo F,Dones P,Morea A,Loconsole D,Catella C,Terio V,Bànyai K,Chironna M,Martella V

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Babesia microti, an intraerythrocytic parasite, is tickborne in nature. In contrast to transmission by blood transfusion, which has been well documented, transmission associated with solid organ transplantation has not been reported. We describe parasitologically confirmed cases of babesiosis diagnosed ≈8 weeks posttr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Brennan MB,Herwaldt BL,Kazmierczak JJ,Weiss JW,Klein CL,Leith CP,He R,Oberley MJ,Tonnetti L,Wilkins PP,Gauthier GM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laparoscopic gastric banding is a common bariatric procedure worldwide. Rapidly growing mycobacteria are environmental organisms increasingly seen as pathogens,often in infected prosthetic material. We report 18 cases of infection associated with laparoscopic gastric banding caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum and M. ab...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wright HL,Thomson RM,Reid AB,Carter R,Bartley PB,Newton P,Coulter C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00