Ecoepidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak, Israel.

abstract：:Fungal endophthalmitis is a rare but serious infection. In March 2012, several cases of probable and laboratory-confirmed fungal endophthalmitis occurring after invasive ocular procedures were reported nationwide. We identified 47 cases in 9 states: 21 patients had been exposed to the intraocular dye Brilliant Blue G ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mikosz CA,Smith RM,Kim M,Tyson C,Lee EH,Adams E,Straif-Bourgeois S,Sowadsky R,Arroyo S,Grant-Greene Y,Duran J,Vasquez Y,Robinson BF,Harris JR,Lockhart SR,Török TJ,Mascola L,Park BJ,Fungal Endophthalmitis Outbreak Resp

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the effect of closing live poultry markets in China on influenza A(H7N9) virus detection and viability. Intensive sampling was carried out before, during, and after a 2-week citywide market closure; the markets were cleaned and disinfected at the beginning of the closure period. Swab samples were collected...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Yuan J,Lau EH,Li K,Leung YH,Yang Z,Xie C,Liu Y,Liu Y,Ma X,Liu J,Li X,Chen K,Luo L,Di B,Cowling BJ,Tang X,Leung GM,Wang M,Peiris M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of a dengue case in a laboratory worker in North Carolina, USA, revealed that the case-patient prepared high-titer dengue virus stocks soon before illness onset. Improper doffing of gloves with an open finger wound likely resulted in cutaneous exposure. This case reinforces recommendations for enhanced p...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sharp TM,Fisher TG,Long K,Coulson G,Medina FA,Herzig C,Koza MB,Muñoz-Jordán J,Paz-Bailey G,Moore Z,Williams C

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections may result from a previously unrecognized source of transmission, heater-cooler devices (HCDs) used during cardiac surgery. In July 2015, the Pennsylvania Department of Health notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about a cluster of NTM infe...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lyman MM,Grigg C,Kinsey CB,Keckler MS,Moulton-Meissner H,Cooper E,Soe MM,Noble-Wang J,Longenberger A,Walker SR,Miller JR,Perz JF,Perkins KM

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:We conducted a nationwide study of the prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in the Faroe Islands. Of 1,075 randomly selected participants, 6 (0.6%) tested seropositive for antibodies to the virus. Adjustment for test sensitivity and specificity yielded a 0.7% prevalence. Our findings...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Petersen MS,Strøm M,Christiansen DH,Fjallsbak JP,Eliasen EH,Johansen M,Veyhe AS,Kristiansen MF,Gaini S,Møller LF,Steig B,Weihe P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technologic advances in surgery include a trend toward less invasive procedures, driven by potential benefits to patients and by health-care economics. These less invasive procedures provide infection control personnel opportunities for direct involvement in outcomes measurement. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gordon SM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study European bat lyssavirus (EBLV) in bat reservoirs in the Netherlands, native bats have been tested for rabies since 1984. For all collected bats, data including species, age, sex, and date and location found were recorded. A total of 1,219 serotine bats, Eptesicus serotinus, were tested, and 251 (21%) were pos...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Van der Poel WH,Van der Heide R,Verstraten ER,Takumi K,Lina PH,Kramps JA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In August 2003, a communitywide outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurred in Kansas. We conducted a case-control study to assess risk factors associated with Cryptosporidium infection by using the telephone survey infrastructure of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Using existing state-based infrastructure ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fox LM,Ocfemia MC,Hunt DC,Blackburn BG,Neises D,Kent WK,Beach MJ,Pezzino G

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 2003 rainy season, the clinical and serologic incidence of Rift Valley fever was assessed in small ruminant herds living around temporary ponds located in the semi-arid region of the Ferlo, Senegal. No outbreak was detected by the surveillance system. Serologic incidence was estimated at 2.9% (95% confidenc...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chevalier V,Lancelot R,Thiongane Y,Sall B,Diaité A,Mondet B

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated Andes virus (formal name: Andes virus [ANDV], a species in the genus Hantavirus), from serum of an asymptomatic 10-year-old Chilean boy who died 6 days later of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). The serum was obtained 12 days after his grandmother died from HPS and 2 days before he became febrile. No ha...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Galeno H,Mora J,Villagra E,Fernandez J,Hernandez J,Mertz GJ,Ramirez E

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of Rickettsia akari in 2 human patients increased the diversity of rickettsioses affecting the public health in the southeast of Mexico. Rickettsialpox should be considered in the differential diagnosis with other febrile illnesses for the correct diagnosis and accurate treatment of this potential threat...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Zavala-Castro JE,Zavala-Velázquez JE,Peniche-Lara GF,Sulú Uicab JE

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African tick-bite fever (ATBF) is a rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia africae. We describe histologic features and immunodetection of R. africae in cutaneous inoculation eschars from 8 patients with ATBF, which was diagnosed by culture or association of positive PCR detection and positive serologic results. We used q...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lepidi H,Fournier PE,Raoult D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a polio-like disease that results in paralysis in previously healthy persons. Although the definitive cause of AFM remains unconfirmed, enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is suspected based on 2014 data demonstrating an increase in AFM cases concomitant with an EV-D68 outbreak. We examined the pr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Uprety P,Curtis D,Elkan M,Fink J,Rajagopalan R,Zhao C,Bittinger K,Mitchell S,Ulloa ER,Hopkins S,Graf EH

更新日期：2019-09-01 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

abstract：:To identify a candidate etiologic agent for turkey viral hepatitis, we analyzed samples from diseased turkey poults from 8 commercial flocks in California, USA, that were collected during 2008-2010. High-throughput pyrosequencing of RNA from livers of poults with turkey viral hepatitis (TVH) revealed picornavirus sequ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Honkavuori KS,Shivaprasad HL,Briese T,Street C,Hirschberg DL,Hutchison SK,Lipkin WI

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:We analyzed attack rates for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in three categories of hospital workers (nurses, nonmedical support staff, and other technical or medical staff) in all public hospitals in Hong Kong that had admitted SARS patients. Of 16 such hospitals, 14 had cases. The overall attack rate was 1....

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lau JT,Yang X,Leung PC,Chan L,Wong E,Fong C,Tsui HY

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure of sulfa or sulfone prophylaxis is associated with mutations in Pneumocystis carinii gene coding for dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS). The DHPS genotype was analyzed in AIDS patients who had two separate episodes of P. carinii pneumonia. The results suggest that DHPS mutations can be selected de novo within pat...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nahimana A,Rabodonirina M,Helweg-Larsen J,Meneau I,Francioli P,Bille J,Hauser PM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal surveillance of 2 live bird markets in Cambodia revealed year-round, high co-circulation of H5, H7, and H9 influenza viruses. We detected influenza A viruses in 51.3% of ducks and 39.6% of chickens, and co-infections, mainly by H5 and H9 viruses, in 0.8% of ducks and 4.5% of chickens. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Horwood PF,Horm SV,Suttie A,Thet S,Y P,Rith S,Sorn S,Holl D,Tum S,Ly S,Karlsson EA,Tarantola A,Dussart P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic analysis of influenza viruses collected during December 2009-February 2010 from chickens in live poultry retail shops in Lahore, Pakistan, showed influenza A(H9N2) lineage polymerase and nonstructural genes generate through inter- and intrasubtypic reassortments. Many amino acid signatures observed were c...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chaudhry M,Angot A,Rashid HB,Cattoli G,Hussain M,Trovò G,Drago A,Valastro V,Thrusfield M,Welburn S,Eisler MC,Capua I

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus RNA has been detected in semen samples collected <370 days after symptom onset. We report unusual persistence of Zika virus RNA in semen, confirmed by sequencing at 515 days after symptom onset and detectable for >900 days, in a patient with immunosuppression. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Petridou C,Bonsall D,Ahmed A,Roberts M,Bell C,de Cesare M,Bowden R,Graham V,Bailey D,Simpson A,Aarons E

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), a recently identified and seemingly sporadic human prion disease, is distinct from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but shares features of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS). However, contrary to exclusively inherited GSS, no prion protein (PrP) gene variations...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Notari S,Xiao X,Espinosa JC,Cohen Y,Qing L,Aguilar-Calvo P,Kofskey D,Cali I,Cracco L,Kong Q,Torres JM,Zou W,Gambetti P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen influenza A(H7N9) viruses were isolated from poultry or the environment in live poultry markets in Guangdong Province, China during 2014-2015. Phylogenetic analysis showed that all viruses were descended from viruses of the second wave of influenza A(H7N9) virus infections during 2013. These viruses can be di...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Xie S,Jia W,Lin Y,Xing K,Ren X,Qi W,Liao M

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:After a cluster of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) cases among unusually young patients was reported recently from the United Kingdom, we examined trends and the current incidence of CJD in the United States. We found that the age-adjusted CJD death rate in the United States is similar to published estimates of the cr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Holman RC,Khan AS,Belay ED,Schonberger LB

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humanitarian emergencies often result in population displacement and increase the risk for transmission of communicable diseases. To address the increased risk for outbreaks during humanitarian emergencies, the World Health Organization developed the Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) for early detection...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cordes KM,Cookson ST,Boyd AT,Hardy C,Malik MR,Mala P,El Tahir K,Everard M,Jasiem M,Husain F

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late summer of 1998, veterinary authorities in Tuscany, Italy, received reports of cases of neurologic disease among horses residing in a large wetland area located in the provinces of Florence and Pistoia. West Nile virus was isolated from two of the six horses that died or were euthanized. A retrospective...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Autorino GL,Battisti A,Deubel V,Ferrari G,Forletta R,Giovannini A,Lelli R,Murri S,Scicluna MT

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence now confirms that noncommunicable chronic diseases can stem from infectious agents. Furthermore, at least 13 of 39 recently described infectious agents induce chronic syndromes. Identifying the relationships can affect health across populations, creating opportunities to reduce the impact of chronic disease b...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： O'Connor SM,Taylor CE,Hughes JM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared travel histories of case-patients with Cryptococcus gattii infection during 1999-2006 to travel destinations of the general public on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Findings validated and refined estimates of risk on the basis of place of residence and showed no spatial progression of risk are...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chambers C,MacDougall L,Li M,Galanis E

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00