Arcobacter butzleri: underestimated enteropathogen.

abstract：:We used portable genome sequencing to investigate reported dengue virus transmission in Angola. Our results show that autochthonous transmission of dengue serotype 2 (cosmopolitan genotype) occurred in January 2018. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hill SC,Neto de Vasconcelos J,Granja BG,Thézé J,Jandondo D,Neto Z,Mirandela M,Sebastião CDS,Cândido ALM,Clemente C,Pereira da Silva S,de Oliveira T,Pybus OG,Faria NR,Afonso JM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new approach for infectious disease surveillance that facilitates rapid identification of known and emerging pathogens. The process uses broad-range polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify nucleic acid targets from large groupings of organisms, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for accurate ma...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sampath R,Hofstadler SA,Blyn LB,Eshoo MW,Hall TA,Massire C,Levene HM,Hannis JC,Harrell PM,Neuman B,Buchmeier MJ,Jiang Y,Ranken R,Drader JJ,Samant V,Griffey RH,McNeil JA,Crooke ST,Ecker DJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a 2014 outbreak of severe respiratory illness caused by enterovirus D68 in the United States, sporadic cases of acute flaccid myelitis have been reported worldwide. We describe a cluster of acute flaccid myelitis cases in Argentina in 2016, adding data to the evidence of association between enterovirus D68 and t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Carballo CM,Erro MG,Sordelli N,Vazquez G,Mistchenko AS,Cejas C,Rodriguez M,Cisterna DM,Freire MC,Contrini MM,Lopez EL

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vellore, a region in southern India, has a high incidence of severe human infections with Beta-hemolytic group C and G streptococci (GCGS). To determine the causative species in these infections, we conducted 16S rRNA gene sequencing: Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (81%) and S. anginosus (19%) were the ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Reissmann S,Friedrichs C,Rajkumari R,Itzek A,Fulde M,Rodloff AC,Brahmadathan KN,Chhatwal GS,Nitsche-Schmitz DP

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Rickettsia felis has been reported to be a cause of fever in sub-Saharan Africa, but this association has been poorly evaluated in Gabon. We assessed the prevalence of this bacterium among children <15 years of age in 4 areas of Gabon; the locations were in urban, semiurban, and rural areas. DNA samples from 410 febri...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mourembou G,Lekana-Douki JB,Mediannikov O,Nzondo SM,Kouna LC,Essone JC,Fenollar F,Raoult D

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directors of all major BioSafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratories in the United States met in 2008 to review the current status of biocontainment laboratory operations and to discuss the potential impact of a proposed 2-person security rule on maximum-containment laboratory operations. Special attention was paid to the va...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： LeDuc JW,Anderson K,Bloom ME,Carrion R Jr,Feldmann H,Fitch JP,Geisbert JB,Geisbert TW,Holbrook MR,Jahrling PB,Ksiazek TG

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are first-line treatments for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. ACT resistance is spreading in Asia but not yet in Africa. Reduced effects of ACT partner drugs have been reported but with little information regarding widely used artesunate/amodiaquine (ASAQ). W...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Msellem M,Morris U,Soe A,Abbas FB,Ali AW,Barnes R,Frumento P,Ali AS,Mårtensson A,Björkman A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the seroprevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in an affected area in northern Iran in April 2020. Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 were detected in 528 persons by using rapid tests. Adjusted prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity was 22.2% (95% CI 16.4%-28.5%). ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Shakiba M,Nazemipour M,Salari A,Mehrabian F,Nazari SSH,Rezvani SM,Ghasempour Z,Heidarzadeh A,Mansournia MA

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,068 asymptomatic close contacts of patients with severe acute respiratory (SARS) from the 2003 epidemic in Hong Kong were serologically tested, and 2 (0.19%) were positive for SARS coronavirus immunoglobulin G antibody. SARS rarely manifests as a subclinical infection, and at present, wild animal species ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Leung GM,Chung PH,Tsang T,Lim W,Chan SK,Chau P,Donnelly CA,Ghani AC,Fraser C,Riley S,Ferguson NM,Anderson RM,Law YL,Mok T,Ng T,Fu A,Leung PY,Peiris JS,Lam TH,Hedley AJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We screened salivary glands from adult deer ticks collected near Spooner and Hayward, Wisconsin, to determine whether deer tick virus, a recently described flavivirus, occurs with other tickborne agents in the upper Midwest. Intraacinar inclusions suggestive of replicating virus were detected in 4 (4.6%) of 87 ticks. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ebel GD,Foppa I,Spielman A,Telford SR 2nd

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses occupy a unique position in biology. Although they possess some of the properties of living systems such as having a genome, they are actually nonliving infectious entities and should not be considered microorganisms. A clear distinction should be drawn between the terms virus, virion, and virus species. Speci...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： van Regenmortel MH,Mahy BW

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:We report a laboratory-confirmed case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in a pregnant woman. Although the patient had respiratory failure, a healthy infant was subsequently delivered, and the mother is now well. There was no evidence of viral shedding at delivery. Antibodies to SARS virus were detected in co...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Robertson CA,Lowther SA,Birch T,Tan C,Sorhage F,Stockman L,McDonald C,Lingappa JR,Bresnitz E

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Imported malaria has been an increasing problem in several Western countries in the last 2 decades. To calculate the risk factors of age, sex, and travel destination in Swedish travelers, we used data from the routine reporting system for malaria (mixture of patients with and without adequate prophylaxis), a database ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Askling HH,Nilsson J,Tegnell A,Janzon R,Ekdahl K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary bloodstream infection (BSI) is a leading, preventable infectious complication in critically ill patients and has a negative impact on patients' outcome. Surveillance definitions for primary BSI distinguish those that are microbiologically documented from those that are not. The latter is known as clinical seps...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hugonnet S,Sax H,Eggimann P,Chevrolet JC,Pittet D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastomyces dermatitidis, a fungus that can cause fatal infection in humans and other mammals, is not readily recoverable from soil, its environmental reservoir. Because of the red fox's widespread distribution, susceptibility to B. dermatitidis, close association with soil, and well-defined home ranges, this animal h...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nemeth NM,Campbell GD,Oesterle PT,Shirose L,McEwen B,Jardine CM

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saudi Arabia has reported >80% of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases worldwide. During April 2015-February 2016, Saudi Arabia identified and tested 57,363 persons (18.4/10,000 residents) with suspected MERS-CoV infection; 384 (0.7%) tested positive. Robust, extensive, and timely surveill...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Saeed AA,Abedi GR,Alzahrani AG,Salameh I,Abdirizak F,Alhakeem R,Algarni H,El Nil OA,Mohammed M,Assiri AM,Alabdely HM,Watson JT,Gerber SI

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective serosurvey of 1,000 persons in Israel who had fever of undetermined cause to look for Ehrlichia chaffeensis antibodies. Four of five cases with antibodies reactive to E. chaffeensis were diagnosed in the summer, when ticks are more active. All patients had influenzalike symptoms with high ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Keysary A,Amram L,Keren G,Sthoeger Z,Potasman I,Jacob A,Strenger C,Dawson JE,Waner T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 420 rodents in China were examined for Francisella tularensis by polymerase chain reaction. The infection rates were 4.76% in total, and 11.65%, 10.00%, 6.56%, 1.77%, and 0% in Jilin, Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Zhejiang, respectively. Sequence analysis showed that all the detected agents be...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Zhang F,Liu W,Chu MC,He J,Duan Q,Wu XM,Zhang PH,Zhao QM,Yang H,Xin ZT,Cao WC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baylisascaris procyonis, a common roundworm of raccoons, causes severe or fatal human infections, often in suburban areas. To evaluate the effectiveness of a baiting strategy requiring minimal labor, we distributed medicated baits near raccoon latrines in suburban Chicago, Illinois, USA. This strategy lowered B. procy...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Page K,Smyser TJ,Dunkerton E,Gavard E,Larkin B,Gehrt S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a preliminary comparison of the relative sensitivity of a cross-section of published human rhinovirus (HRV)-specific PCR primer pairs, varying the oligonucleotides and annealing temperature. None of the pairs could detect all HRVs in 2 panels of genotyped clinical specimens; >1 PCR is required for accurat...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Faux CE,Arden KE,Lambert SB,Nissen MD,Nolan TM,Chang AB,Sloots TP,Mackay IM

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 affected Chile during the winter of 2009. The hospitalization rate was 0.56% overall and 3.47% for persons >60 years of age at risk for severe disease and death independent of concurrent conditions. Age >60 years was the major risk factor for death from pandemic (H1N1) 2009. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Dabanch J,Perret C,Najera M,Gonzalez C,Guerrero A,Olea A,Fasce R,Morales C,Advisory Committee of the Chilean Ministry of Health.

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During July-December 2011, a variant virus, influenza A(H3N2)v, caused 12 human cases of influenza. The virus contained genes originating from swine, avian, and human viruses, including the M gene from influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus. Influenza A(H3N2)v viruses were antigenically distinct from seasonal influenza viruses ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lindstrom S,Garten R,Balish A,Shu B,Emery S,Berman L,Barnes N,Sleeman K,Gubareva L,Villanueva J,Klimov A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of a novel strain of influenza virus A (H1N1) in April 2009 focused attention on influenza surveillance capabilities worldwide. In consultations before the 2009 outbreak of influenza subtype H1N1, the World Health Organization had concluded that the world was unprepared to respond to an influenza pandemi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ortiz JR,Sotomayor V,Uez OC,Oliva O,Bettels D,McCarron M,Bresee JS,Mounts AW

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puumala virus causes nephropathia epidemica, a rodent-borne zoonosis that is endemic to Europe. We sequenced the complete Puumala virus genome that was directly recovered from a person who died and compared it with those of viruses from local bank voles. The virus strain involved was neither a unique nor rare genetic ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Plyusnina A,Razzauti M,Sironen T,Niemimaa J,Vapalahti O,Vaheri A,Henttonen H,Plyusnin A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified human bocavirus (HBoV) DNA by PCR in cerebrospinal fluid from adults and children with encephalitis in Sri Lanka. HBoV types 1, 2, and 3 were identified among these cases. Phylogenetic analysis of HBoV1 strain sequences found no subclustering with strains previously identified among encephalitis cases in...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mori D,Ranawaka U,Yamada K,Rajindrajith S,Miya K,Perera HK,Matsumoto T,Dassanayake M,Mitui MT,Mori H,Nishizono A,Söderlund-Venermo M,Ahmed K

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an investigation of an outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi B variant L(+) tartrate(+), we identified unpasteurized tempeh as a novel food vehicle and Rhizopus spp. starter culture as the source of the contamination. Safe handling of uncooked, unpasteurized tempeh should b...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Griese SE,Fleischauer AT,MacFarquhar JK,Moore Z,Harrelson C,Valiani A,Morrison SE,Sweat D,Maillard JM,Griffin D,Springer D,Mikoleit M,Newton AE,Jackson B,Nguyen TA,Bosch S,Davies M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheritic polyneuropathy is a vaccine-preventable illness caused by exotoxin-producing strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. We present a retrospective convenience case series of 15 children (6 girls)<15 years of age (mean age 5.2 years, case-fatality rate 53%, and 1 additional case-patient who was ventilator dep...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mateen FJ,Bahl S,Khera A,Sutter RW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00