An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Gloucester.

abstract：:Large outbreaks of Q fever in The Netherlands have provided a unique opportunity for studying longitudinal serum antibody responses in patients. Results are presented of a cohort of 344 patients with acute symptoms of Q fever with three or more serum samples per patient. In all these serum samples IgM and IgG against ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Teunis PF,Schimmer B,Notermans DW,Leenders AC,Wever PC,Kretzschmar ME,Schneeberger PM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 serogroups have the capacity of causing epidemic and pandemic cholera but are infrequently found in the environment. The other serogroups are abundant in aquatic environments but do not possess the virulence genes necessary for causing the disease. Of the 559 environmental strains...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sarkar B,Bhattacharya T,Ramamurthy T,Shimada T,Takeda Y,Balakrish Nair G

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the extent age, sex and co-infection affect morbidity in people infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), we performed a population-based study linking HCV notifications in New South Wales, Australia with their hospital (July 2000 to June 2006), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV notification, and death records...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gidding HF,Amin J,Dore GJ,Law MG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F4+ Escherichia coli is an important agent of post-weaning diarrhoea in piglets. Piglets that express an adhesion site for F4+ E. coli in their small intestine (F4R+) shed higher numbers of F4+ E. coli than piglets lacking this site (F4R-). We hypothesized that F4R+ piglets are more infectious and more susceptible for...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Geenen PL,Van der Meulen J,Bouma A,De Jong MC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between pathogens and hosts at the population level should be considered when studying the effectiveness of control measures for infectious diseases. The advantage of doing transmission experiments compared to field studies is that they offer a controlled environment in which the effect of a single factor...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Velthuis AG,Bouma A,Katsma WE,Nodelijk G,De Jong MC

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from an age-stratified sample of 4188 individuals, submitted for diagnostic purposes to 15 public health laboratories in England and Wales in 1996, were tested for hepatitis A antibody. The serological profiles were consistent with declining incidence in the past. This hypothesis was tested by comparing the serol...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Morris MC,Gay NJ,Hesketh LM,Morgan-Capner P,Miller E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined multistate outbreaks attributed to raw tomatoes in the United States from 1990 to 2010. We summarized the demographic and epidemiological characteristics of 15 outbreaks resulting in 1959 illnesses, 384 hospitalizations, and three deaths. Most (80%) outbreaks were reported during 2000-2010; 73% occurred Ma...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bennett SD,Littrell KW,Hill TA,Mahovic M,Behravesh CB

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1985 to 1988, a total of 2496 swine sera from 60 farms in the Tohoku District of the Honshu Island of Japan were examined for antibodies to swine haemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (HEV), human coronavirus (HCV) and bovine coronavirus (BCV) by haemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test. Antibodies to HEV 67N s...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hirano N,Suzuki Y,Haga S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During one week in July 2012, two patients from the same ward at the municipal hospital in Vaasa, Finland, were diagnosed with septicaemia caused by Listeria monocytogenes. An outbreak investigation revealed eight concomitant cases of febrile gastroenteritis caused by L. monocytogenes on the same ward. Median age of t...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Jacks A,Pihlajasaari A,Vahe M,Myntti A,Kaukoranta SS,Elomaa N,Salmenlinna S,Rantala L,Lahti K,Huusko S,Kuusi M,Siitonen A,Rimhanen-Finne R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological target of lockdowns is to drive down the effective reproduction number (Rt) to less than 1. A key unknown is the duration that lockdowns need to be in place to achieve this and which lockdown measures are effective. Daily number of laboratory confirmed community coronavirus 2019 cases were extracte...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Yung CF,Saffari E,Liew C

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:When applicable, case-crossover studies may be quicker and cheaper to complete than case-control studies. Because time is a major issue in outbreak investigations, we evaluated the interest of this design during a continuous common source food-borne outbreak of salmonellosis for which the vehicle (hamburgers) was also...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Haegebaert S,Duche L,Desenclos JC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puumala hantavirus (PUUV) causes haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in humans, an endemic disease in Finland. We aimed to study recent trends in PUUV infections in Finland, to evaluate whether there are regional differences in seasonality and long-term cycles and whether the patterns have changed over time. We ana...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sane J,Ollgren J,Makary P,Vapalahti O,Kuusi M,Lyytikäinen O

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical data about contact frequencies of children is needed for estimating parameters in mathematical modelling studies that investigate the effect of targeting influenza intervention to children. A survey about the social contacts of school children was conducted in a primary school in Germany. The distribution of...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mikolajczyk RT,Akmatov MK,Rastin S,Kretzschmar M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 10-year period 1978-87 there were 48 outbreaks of food poisoning in Scottish hospitals affecting a total of 2287 persons of whom 12 died. This compared with 50 outbreaks during the previous 5 years (1973-77) when over 1500 persons and 7 deaths were recorded. Although the incidence of outbreaks has decreased...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Collier PW,Sharp JC,MacLeod AF,Forbes GI,Mackay F

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 15-month period in Scotland a small but important number of human Campylobacter cases (3·2%) arose from 91 putative household outbreaks. Of the 26 outbreaks with known strain composition, 89% were composed of the same MLST which supports the potential use of MLST in public health epidemiology. The number of c...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Rotariu O,Smith-Palmer A,Cowden J,Bessell PR,Innocent GT,Reid SW,Matthews L,Dallas J,Ogden ID,Forbes KJ,Strachan NJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumers in the United States continue to eat raw or undercooked foods of animal origin despite public health warnings following several well-publicized outbreaks. We investigated an outbreak of Salmonella serotype Typhimurium infection in 158 patients in Wisconsin during the 1994 Christmas holiday period. To determi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Roels TH,Frazak PA,Kazmierczak JJ,Mackenzie WR,Proctor ME,Kurzynski TA,Davis JP

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) can be spread by a variety of mechanisms, including wind. Simulation models, developed to predict the risk of airborne spread, have played an important part in decision making in some outbreaks. The amount of airborne virus excreted as well as the minimal infectious dose (MID) of FM...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Alexandersen S,Donaldson AI

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is one of the most commonly identified infectious aetiologies of encephalitis in North America and Europe. The epidemiology of encephalitis beyond these regions, however, is poorly defined. During 2009-2012 we enrolled 313 patients in a multicentre prospective study of encephalitis in Peru, ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Montano SM,Mori N,Nelson CA,Ton TG,Celis V,Ticona E,Sihuincha M,Tilley DH,Kochel T,Zunt JR,Meningoencephalitis Working Group.

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to describe the diurnal shedding dynamics of Escherichia coli O157 in cattle managed on pasture. The purpose was to identify the value of a single measurement for predicting the shedding status on subsequent days. Over a 14-day period, 24 beef cows with known E. coli O157 shedding status were sampled ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lammers GA,Jordan D,McCONNEL CS,Heller J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulation models can offer valuable insights into the effectiveness of different control strategies and act as important decision support tools when comparing and evaluating outbreak scenarios and control strategies. An international modelling study was performed to compare a range of vaccination strategies in the co...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Roche SE,Garner MG,Sanson RL,Cook C,Birch C,Backer JA,Dube C,Patyk KA,Stevenson MA,Yu ZD,Rawdon TG,Gauntlett F

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribotype, biotype and resistance phenotype were used to characterize 37 Acinetobacter baumannii-A. calcoaceticus complex isolates responsible for nosocomial infections in Buenos Aires. Nineteen isolates were recovered from endemic infections at 2 hospitals and 18 represent an intensive care unit outbreak that occurred...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ratto P,Sordelli DO,Abeleira E,Torrero M,Catalano M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue is the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne disease, with more than 200 million people each year becoming infected. We used a mechanistic virus transmission model to determine whether climate warming would change dengue transmission in Australia. Using two climate models each with two carbon emission scenarios...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Williams CR,Mincham G,Faddy H,Viennet E,Ritchie SA,Harley D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective, population-based surveillance to systematically ascertain exposures to food production animals or their environments among Minnesota residents with sporadic, domestically acquired, laboratory-confirmed enteric zoonotic pathogen infections was conducted from 2012 through 2016. Twenty-three percent (n = 170...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Klumb CA,Scheftel JM,Smith KE

更新日期：2020-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of Legionella spp. in the water of a Portuguese spa was ascertained during the spa season, between May and November. Simultaneously the prevalence of anti-legionella antibodies in people attending the spa was also investigated. The antibody titres of 172 randomly selected patients and 42 therapists were d...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Rocha G,Veríssimo A,Bowker R,Bornstein N,Da Costa MS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This descriptive study investigated an outbreak of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) and their contacts. Twenty-seven cases of acute HAV infection were identified in a 5-month period. Connections with the local injecting drug using (IDU) population were established for 25 of the cases...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： O'Donovan D,Cooke RP,Joce R,Eastbury A,Waite J,Stene-Johansen K

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In April 2015, Finnish public health authorities alerted European Union member states of a possible multi-country Salmonella enteritidis outbreak linked to an international youth ice-hockey tournament in Latvia. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Finnish and Latvian authorities initiated an...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pärn T,Dahl V,Lienemann T,Perevosčikovs J,De Jong B

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the burden of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in a high-risk population, the monthly incidence of laboratory-confirmed MRSA in service members/trainees stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA without hospitalization or surgery documented 30 days prior to infection w...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Morrison-Rodriguez SM,Pacha LA,Patrick JE,Jordan NN

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical site infections (SSI) are a significant cause of post-surgical morbidity and mortality. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of SSI and identify risk factors for infections following cesarean section (CS). A prospective study of SSI after CS was carried out from January 2014 to Decemb...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Alfouzan W,Al Fadhli M,Abdo N,Alali W,Dhar R

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological data on shigellosis in Teknaf, a coastal area of Bangladesh, were reviewed for a 10-year period (1975-84). Certain similarities and differences were observed in the epidemiology of the disease in Teknaf when compared with urban Dhaka and rural Matlab. Similarities included: round-the-year infection...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hossain MA,Albert MJ,Hasan KZ

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) publishes guidelines regularly for the management of skin and soft tissue infections; however, the extent to which practice patterns follow these guidelines and if this can affect treatment failure rates is unknown. We observed the treatment failure rates from a multice...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Haran JP,Wilsterman E,Zeoli T,Goulding M,McLendon E,Clark MA

更新日期：2018-12-05 00:00:00