Domestic and travel-related foodborne gastrointestinal illness in a population health survey.

abstract：:Estimation of farm prevalence is common in veterinary research. Typically, not all animals within the farm are sampled, and imperfect tests are used. Often, assumptions about herd sizes and sampling proportions are made, which may be invalid in smallholder settings. We propose an alternative method for estimating farm...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Beauvais W,Orynbayev M,Guitian J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP2C19 polymorphisms and smoking influence the efficacy of H. pylori eradication therapy, but interaction between the two have hitherto not been examined. A total of 142 H. pylori-positive patients who received triple drug therapy with lansoprazole, amoxicillin and clarithromycin were categorized into three groups wi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Suzuki T,Matsuo K,Sawaki A,Wakai K,Hirose K,Ito H,Saito T,Nakamura T,Yamao K,Hamajima N,Tajima K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite considerable efforts to control tuberculosis (TB) among Ethiopian immigrants in Israel, an outbreak of TB among second-generation Ethiopian immigrants that involved native Israelis occurred between January 2011 and December 2019. The aim of this article is to report on this outbreak and discuss the patient and...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bishara H,Green M,Chemtob D,Saffouri A,Zelikman L,Weiler-Ravell D

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:India is experiencing a substantial decrease in early childhood exposure to hepatitis A virus (HAV). Kerala has experienced several hepatitis A outbreaks in young adults/adults in the recent past. The current hepatitis outbreak occurred in Nellikuzhi, Kerala state, India in December 2016. Investigation was carried by ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gurav YK,Retheesh Babu G,Vinu KP,Lole KS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is a granulomatous disease, infectious and transmissible, which affects the skin and peripheral nerves, having Mycobacterium leprae as causative agent. The manifestation of this disease causes cutaneous lesions, peripheral neuropathies and, in more extreme cases, may generate deformities and disabilities in af...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gomes Lima Santos N,Perez Pereira Ramos K,Shanmugam S,Oliveira de Carvalho F,Garcez Barreto Teixeira L,Ramos Silva É,de Vasconcelos Cerqueira-Braz J,Santos Nunes P,Antunes de Souza Araújo A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated risk factors for severe acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) among hospitalised children 8 months were at greater risk from influenza-associated ICU admissions and long hospital stay. Children with ADV had increased LOS across all ages. In the first 2 years of life, the effects of different viruse...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Prasad N,Trenholme AA,Huang QS,Thompson MG,Pierse N,Widdowson MA,Wood T,Seeds R,Taylor S,Grant CC,Newbern EC,SHIVERS team.

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we applied the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique to evaluate the genetic diversity in Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida (formerly Pasteurella piscicida), an important pathogen for different marine fish. Regardless of the oligonucleotide primer employed, the 29 isolates of Ph. damse...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Magariños B,Toranzo AE,Barja JL,Romalde JL

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group L, beta-haemolytic streptococci can cause infection in dogs, pigs, cattle and sheep but there have been very few reports in man. In studies of skin infection in meat handlers we cultured group L streptococci from clinically infected wounds, impetigo and paronychia of 15 patients involved in the slaughter and pro...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Barnham M,Neilson DJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1989-2002, we studied the antimicrobial resistance of 3928 blood culture isolates of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi (S. Typhi) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Overall 32% (1270) of the strains were multidrug-resistant (MDR, resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole); first detected i...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Rahman M,Siddique AK,Shoma S,Rashid H,Salam MA,Ahmed QS,Nair GB,Breiman RF

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this research was to determine whether trappers in northern Alaska acquired immunity to rabies virus from non-bite exposures while trapping and skinning arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus). In coastal Alaska recurring epizootics presumably provide trappers ample opportunity for contact with rabid animals. Ser...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Follmann EH,Ritter DG,Beller M

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of dengue haemorrhagic fever is a public health problem in Latin America and the Caribbean. This study, carried out in French Guiana where malaria is endemic, evaluated the value and the limitations of a non-specific alert system including all patients admitted to the emergency department of Cayenne Hosp...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Carme B,Sobesky M,Biard MH,Cotellon P,Aznar C,Fontanella JM

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human salmonellosis linked to contact with live poultry is an increasing public health concern. In 2012, eight unrelated outbreaks of human salmonellosis linked to live poultry contact resulted in 517 illnesses. In July 2012, PulseNet, a national molecular surveillance network, reported a multistate cluster of a rare ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nakao JH,Pringle J,Jones RW,Nix BE,Borders J,Heseltine G,Gomez TM,McCLUSKEY B,Roney CS,Brinson D,Erdman M,McDANIEL A,Behravesh CB

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available data sources on disease due to Bordetella pertussis, including notifications, hospital admissions, deaths, and an enhanced laboratory-based surveillance system commenced in January 1994, were reviewed for the period 1995-7. Pertussis notifications continued their approximately 3-year cycle although at histor...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Van Buynder PG,Owen D,Vurdien JE,Andrews NJ,Matthews RC,Miller E

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the clinical characteristics of, and outcomes and risk factors for hospital mortality of 390 patients admitted with severe sepsis or septic shock in an intensive care unit (ICU). Prospectively collected data from patients collected between 1 July 2004 and 30 June 2006 were analysed. Overall hos...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Khwannimit B,Bhurayanontachai R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wells-Riley equation for modelling airborne infection in indoor environments is incorporated into an SEIR epidemic model with a short incubation period to simulate the transmission dynamics of airborne infectious diseases in ventilated rooms. The model enables the effect of environmental factors such as the ventil...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Noakes CJ,Beggs CB,Sleigh PA,Kerr KG

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis is famous for dramatically reducing puerperal mortality while he was an Assistant in Vienna's largest hospital, the Allgemeines Krankenhaus; he did this, mainly, by requiring medical personnel to disinfect their hands by washing in a chlorine solution. But Semmelweis was soon removed from his po...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Jadraque PP,Carter KC

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roughly half (54%) of the 910 young conscripts at a garrison in Finland were vaccinated with commercial influenza vaccines in autumn 1998. During the influenza outbreak in February 1999, 12 H3N2-subtype virus strains were isolated from vaccinated patients, and 11 such strains were isolated from unvaccinated patients. ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pyhälä R,Ikonen N,Haanpää M,Santanen R,Tervahauta R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an economically important, acute or sub-acute, viral disease of cattle that occurs across Africa and in the Middle East. The aim of this study was to investigate if lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) can be transmitted mechanically by African brown ear ticks (Rhipicephalus appendiculatus Neum....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tuppurainen ES,Lubinga JC,Stoltsz WH,Troskie M,Carpenter ST,Coetzer JA,Venter EH,Oura CA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targets for maximum acceptable levels of Salmonella in pigs and pork are to be decided. A stochastic simulation model accounting for herd and abattoir information was used to evaluate food safety and economic consequences of different surveillance and control strategies, based among others on Danish surveillance data....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Baptista FM,Halasa T,Alban L,Nielsen LR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-home and kindergarten transmissions were the reported major modes of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) transmission in preschool children. However, infection at home is not common and 65-80% of cases do not attend preschool. We conducted a matched case-control study to explore the role of public playgrounds i...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Xie YH,Chongsuvivatwong V,Tan Y,Tang ZhZ,Sornsrivichai V,McNeil EB

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the most cost-effective strategy for the prevention and control of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in intensive care units (ICUs) in areas with limited health resources. The study was conducted in 12 ICUs of four hospitals. The total cost for the prevention of MDROs and the...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Wang Y,Yuan Y,Lin L,Tan X,Tan Y

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of 165 nucleotides at the 3' end of the 1D (VP1) gene of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus was determined for 44 type Asia 1 strains isolated from throughout Asia between 1954-92. Analysis of the relationships between the virus genomes showed epidemiological links not previously evident. The possible ori...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ansell DM,Samuel AR,Carpenter WC,Knowles NJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enrichment culture is often used to isolate Campylobacter. This study compared isolation of Campylobacter spp. from 119 broiler chicken environments from two farms, using Preston and modified Exeter (mExeter) and modified Bolton (mBolton) enrichments. mExeter was significantly more effective in isolating Campylobacter...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Williams LK,Sait LC,Cogan TA,Jørgensen F,Grogono-Thomas R,Humphrey TJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first study to provide a comprehensive insight into the molecular epidemiology of endemic Clostridium difficile and particularly that associated with a recently recognized epidemic strain. We DNA fingerprinted all C. difficile isolates from the stools of patients with symptomatic antibiotic-associated diar...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fawley WN,Wilcox MH

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to limited data, we conducted a meta-analysis to re-evaluate the relationship between obesity and coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19). Literature published between 1 January 2020 and 22 August 2020 was comprehensively analysed, and RevMan3.5 was used for data analysis. A total of 50 studies, including data on 18 260 378...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Yang J,Ma Z,Lei Y

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Several typing systems have been described for Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli, to assess the complex epidemiology of these important enteric pathogens. In the present study two typing methods, slide agglutination according to the Lior scheme, and the demonstration of restriction-fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Burnens AP,Wagner J,Lior H,Nicolet J,Frey J

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) virulence markers (stx1, stx2, eae, ehxA) in E. coli strains isolated from young calves aged fewer than 7 days (bobby calves). In total, 299 recto-anal mucosal swabs were collected from animals at two slaught...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Irshad H,Cookson AL,Prattley DJ,Dufour M,French NP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food poisoning due to Salmonella typhimurium phage type 141 was unusual in the Sheffield area before 1984. The sudden increase in incidence of this phage type during 1984 and 1985, and its causative role in several small outbreaks in this period have been investigated. Epidemiological and laboratory investigations sug...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chapman PA,Rhodes P,Rylands W

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annual periodicities of reported chickenpox cases have been observed in several countries. Of these, Japan has reported a two-peaked, bimodal annual cycle of reported chickenpox cases. This study investigated the possible underlying association of the bimodal cycle observed in the surveillance data of reported chicken...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Harigane K,Sumi A,Mise K,Kobayashi N

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1976 and 1986, 258 incidents of suspected scombrotoxic fish poisoning were reported in Britain. Histamine analysis was carried out on 240 fish samples from these incidents, and 101 were found to contain greater than 5 mg histamine/100 g fish. The symptoms most consistently reported were rash, diarrhoea, flushi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bartholomew BA,Berry PR,Rodhouse JC,Gilbert RJ,Murray CK

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00