Tickborne relapsing fever in Israel.

abstract：:We report a case of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi in Singapore, a malaria-free country. Diagnosis was confirmed by PCR with validated species-specific primers. In industrialized countries, free-ranging primates are a potential source of P. knowlesi human infection. P. knowlesi infection is a differential diag...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ng OT,Ooi EE,Lee CC,Lee PJ,Ng LC,Pei SW,Tu TM,Loh JP,Leo YS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tuberculosis (TB) notification rate is high and increasing in 2 communities in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2002, we conducted a prevalence survey among adults > or = 15 years of age to determine the TB prevalence rate; 15% of households in these communities were randomly sampled. All persons living in sampled hous...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： den Boon S,van Lill SW,Borgdorff MW,Enarson DA,Verver S,Bateman ED,Irusen E,Lombard CJ,White NW,de Villiers C,Beyers N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This 2-year cross-sectional evaluation of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections involved all Israeli medical centers that treat cystic fibrosis patients. The study comprised 186 patients whose sputum was analyzed for NTM. The prevalence of NTM isolates was 22.6%, and 6.5% and 10.8% of the patients fulfilled th...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Levy I,Grisaru-Soen G,Lerner-Geva L,Kerem E,Blau H,Bentur L,Aviram M,Rivlin J,Picard E,Lavy A,Yahav Y,Rahav G

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:The role of rats in human hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections remains controversial. A genetically distinct HEV was recently isolated from rats in Germany, and its genome was sequenced. We have isolated a genetically similar HEV from urban rats in Los Angeles, California, USA, and characterized its ability to infect la...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Purcell RH,Engle RE,Rood MP,Kabrane-Lazizi Y,Nguyen HT,Govindarajan S,St Claire M,Emerson SU

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjustable rate mortgages and the downturn in the California housing market caused a 300% increase in notices of delinquency in Bakersfield, Kern County. This led to large numbers of neglected swimming pools, which were associated with a 276% increase in the number of human West Nile virus cases during the summer of 2...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Reisen WK,Takahashi RM,Carroll BD,Quiring R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While studying respiratory infections in Peru, we identified Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) in a nasopharyngeal swab, indicating that this alphavirus can be present in human respiratory secretions. Because VEEV may be infectious when aerosolized, our finding is relevant for the management of VEEV-infected...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Juarez D,Guevara C,Wiley M,Torre A,Palacios G,Halsey ES,Ampuero S,Leguia M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance was enhanced and a retrospective interview study performed in 1998-99 to determine incidence, causes, and costs of foodborne illnesses in Uppsala, Sweden. Sixty-eight percent of the detected foodborne illness incidents were single cases, and 32% were outbreaks. Most (85%) of the incidents came to the atte...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lindqvist R,Andersson Y,Lindbäck J,Wegscheider M,Eriksson Y,Tideström L,Lagerqvist-Widh A,Hedlund KO,Löfdahl S,Svensson L,Norinder A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primers were used to amplify a 561-bp region of the 16S rRNA gene of Ehrlichia phagocytophila from Ixodes scapularis ticks and small mammals collected in Rhode Island and Connecticut. DNA sequences for all 50 E. phagocytophila-positive samples collected from 1996 through 1998 in southwestern Connecticut were identical...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Massung RF,Mauel MJ,Owens JH,Allan N,Courtney JW,Stafford KC 3rd,Mather TN

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent autochthonous transmission of Plasmodium vivax malaria in previously malaria-free temperate regions has generated renewed interest in the epidemiology of this disease. Accurate estimates of the incubation period and time to relapse are required for effective malaria surveillance; however, this information is cu...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lover AA,Coker RJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurred in and around Clitheroe, Lancashire, in northwest England, during March 2000. Fifty-eight cases of diarrhea with Cryptosporidium identified in stool specimens were reported. Cryptosporidium oocysts were identified in samples from the water treatment works as well as domestic t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Howe AD,Forster S,Morton S,Marshall R,Osborn KS,Wright P,Hunter PR

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections of mammals by species in the phylum Oomycota taxonomically and molecularly similar to known Lagenidium giganteum strains have increased. During 2013-2014, we conducted a phylogenetic study of 21 mammalian Lagenidium isolates; we found that 11 cannot be differentiated from L. giganteum strains that the US En...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vilela R,Taylor JW,Walker ED,Mendoza L

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial treatments and vaccines can alter bacterial interactions in the nasopharynx, thereby altering disease processes. To better understand these interactions, we examined colonization rates of 3 respiratory bacterial pathogens among 320 children when healthy and at onset of acute otitis media (AOM). Bacterial...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Xu Q,Almudervar A,Casey JR,Pichichero ME

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health surveillance is essential for detecting and responding to infectious diseases and necessary for compliance with the revised International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005. To assess reporting capacities and compliance with IHR of all 50 states and Washington, DC, we sent a questionnaire to respective epidem...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Armstrong KE,McNabb SJ,Ferland LD,Stephens T,Muldoon A,Fernandez JA,Ostroff S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a hematology unit in the Netherlands, the incidence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Enterobacter cloacae and Escherichia coli increased from from 1996 to 1999. Clonal spread of single genotypes of both ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli and Enterobacter cloacae from patient to patient was documented by pulsed-field gel ele...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： van Belkum A,Goessens W,van der Schee C,Lemmens-den Toom N,Vos MC,Cornelissen J,Lugtenburg E,de Marie S,Verbrugh H,Löwenberg B,Endtz H

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus gattii is a fungal pathogen endemic in tropical and subtropical regions. Isolated cases and outbreaks have been reported in areas of North America and Europe, expanding the distribution pattern beyond warmer regions. We describe a case of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt infection by C. gattii in an immunocomp...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Moritz D,Mena Lora A,Blumer B,Harrington AT

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report Rickettsia parkeri and Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae in ticks of the Amblyomma maculatum group collected from dogs in Sonora, Mexico. Molecular characterization of these bacteria was accomplished by DNA amplification and sequence analysis of portions of the rickettsial genes gltA, htrA, ompA, and ompB. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Delgado-de la Mora J,Sánchez-Montes S,Licona-Enríquez JD,Delgado-de la Mora D,Paddock CD,Beati L,Colunga-Salas P,Guzmán-Cornejo C,Zambrano ML,Karpathy SE,López-Pérez AM,Álvarez-Hernández G

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Bedaquiline is recommended by the World Health Organization for the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB). We pooled data from 5 cohorts of patients treated with bedaquiline in France, Georgia, Armenia, and South Africa and in a multicountry study. The rate of cu...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mbuagbaw L,Guglielmetti L,Hewison C,Bakare N,Bastard M,Caumes E,Fréchet-Jachym M,Robert J,Veziris N,Khachatryan N,Kotrikadze T,Hayrapetyan A,Avaliani Z,Schünemann HJ,Lienhardt C

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by Baylisascaris procyonis is an uncommon but devastating cause of eosinophilic meningitis. We report the first case-patient, to our knowledge, who recovered from B. procyonis eosinophilic meningitis without any recognizable neurologic deficits. The spectrum of illness for this organism may be wider than pre...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Pai PJ,Blackburn BG,Kazacos KR,Warrier RP,Bégué RE

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 58 adult patients with melioidosis in Cambodia (2007-2010). Diabetes was the main risk factor (59%); 67% of infections occurred during the rainy season. Bloodstream infection was present in 67% of patients, which represents 12% of all bloodstream infections. The case-fatality rate was 52% and associated wi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vlieghe E,Kruy L,De Smet B,Kham C,Veng CH,Phe T,Koole O,Thai S,Lynen L,Jacobs J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large size and complexity of the human genome have limited the identification and functional characterization of components of the innate immune system that play a critical role in front-line defense against invading microorganisms. However, advances in genome analysis (including the development of comprehensive s...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Qureshi ST,Skamene E,Malo D

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:False-negative results for Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein (HRP) 2-based rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are increasing in Eritrea. We investigated HRP gene 2/3 (pfhrp2/pfhrp3) status in 50 infected patients at 2 hospitals. We showed that 80.8% (21/26) of patients at Ghindae Hospital and 41.7% (10/24) at Ma...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Berhane A,Anderson K,Mihreteab S,Gresty K,Rogier E,Mohamed S,Hagos F,Embaye G,Chinorumba A,Zehaie A,Dowd S,Waters NC,Gatton ML,Udhayakumar V,Cheng Q,Cunningham J

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:The California serogroup of orthobunyaviruses comprises a group of mosquitoborne viruses, including La Crosse (LACV), snowshoe hare (SSHV), Tahyna (TAHV), Jamestown Canyon (JCV), and Inkoo (INKV) viruses, that cause neurologic disease in humans of differing ages with varying incidences. To determine how the pathogenes...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Evans AB,Winkler CW,Peterson KE

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested for dengue seroconversion among 104 Israeli young adults who traveled to tropical countries for at least 3 months. Seven (6. 7%) seroconverted during travel; four (3.8%) had immunoglobulin (Ig) M antibodies; one was symptomatic with borderline IgM and a rise in IgG; two others (1.9%) had a rise in IgG titers...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Potasman I,Srugo I,Schwartz E

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On April 23, 2009, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) was notified of a school outbreak of respiratory illness; 2 days later the infection was identified as pandemic (H1N1) 2009. This was the first major outbreak of the illness in the United States. To guide decisions on the public healt...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Balter S,Gupta LS,Lim S,Fu J,Perlman SE,New York City 2009 H1N1 Flu Investigation Team.

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a retrospective study on circulation of Zika virus in Cambodia during 2007-2016 among patients with dengue-like symptoms and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Our findings suggest that Zika virus in Cambodia belongs to the Asia genotype, is endemic, has low prevalence, and has had low-level impact on public health...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Duong V,Ong S,Leang R,Huy R,Ly S,Mounier U,Ou T,In S,Peng B,Ken S,Buchy P,Tarantola A,Horwood PF,Dussart P

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Market surveillance showed continuing circulation of avian influenza A(H5N6) virus in live poultry markets in Guangdong Province in 2017, despite compulsory vaccination for avian influenza A(H5Nx) and A(H7N9). We analyzed H5N6 viruses from 2014-2018 from Guangdong Province, revealing antigenic drift and decreased anti...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bai R,Sikkema RS,Li CR,Munnink BBO,Wu J,Zou L,Jing Y,Lu J,Yuan R,Liao M,Koopmans MPG,Ke CW

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00