Acute gastroenteritis in Hong Kong: a population-based telephone survey.

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：:The status of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among non-European Union (non-EU) immigrants in North-East Italy was evaluated. Among the 1683 individuals tested the prevalence of HBsAg was 8.9% (150 subjects) and of HBV antibodies (anti-HBc with/without anti-HBs) was 38.9% (654 subjects). ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chiaramonte M,Pupo A,Menegon T,Baldo V,Malatesta R,Trivello R

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family cluster of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection involving five patients in a family cluster in Dazhou, China, including the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory and radiological findings. Three-generation transmission was observed. Through epidemiological investiga...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sun Y,Tian L,Du X,Wang H,Li Y,Wu R

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrences of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) and Vibrio cholerae infected patients in Hong Kong were reviewed for the 13-year period 1989-2001. Peak activity of CFP preceded peak activity of cholera in nine of the years except in 4 years (1990, 1991, 1992, 1996) where it was observed that the total number of cholera ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kwan LC,Cheung DK,Kam KM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In August 2015 a gastroenteritis outbreak occurred following a wedding. An outbreak investigation was undertaken and a cohort study was conducted using an online survey. Of 140 guests, 134 received the survey and 113 responded (84·3% response rate). Seventy respondents met the case definition of vomiting and/or diarrh...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Smith KC,Inns T,Decraene V,Fox A,Allen DJ,Shah A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From March to October 1993, 15 cases of haemolytic-uraemic syndrome (HUS) in children were detected in a large area of northern Italy, where only 8 cases had occurred in the previous 5 years. Analysis of stool and serum specimens obtained from 14 cases showed evidence of Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) inf...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tozzi AE,Niccolini A,Caprioli A,Luzzi I,Montini G,Zacchello G,Gianviti A,Principato F,Rizzoni G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 23 August and 15 December 1990 an epidemic of cholera affected Mozambican refugees in Malawi causing 1931 cases (attack rate = 2.4%); 86% of patients had arrived in Malawi < 3 months before illness onset. There were 68 deaths (case-fatality rate = 3.5%); most deaths (63%) occurred within 24 h of hospital admis...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Swerdlow DL,Malenga G,Begkoyian G,Nyangulu D,Toole M,Waldman RJ,Puhr DN,Tauxe RV

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental data suggest a role for the microflora in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Anti-ds-DNA antibodies may be pathogenic in SLE by forming immune complexes with DNA. Foreign bacteria in the intestines could constitute the stimulus for anti-ds-DNA antibody production in SLE. Colonization Resistance (CR) is t...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Apperloo-Renkema HZ,Bootsma H,Mulder BI,Kallenberg CG,van der Waaij D

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) with the type IV staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) is rarely reported as being acquired in hospital. We report a hospital outbreak, in Grampian, Scotland, of eight cases of skin and soft-tissue infections due to such a strain. Al...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gould IM,Girvan EK,Browning RA,MacKenzie FM,Edwards GF

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the occurrence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Pakistan, blood samples from 105 sequential patients with biopsy-proven CLD (n = 82) and HCC (n = 23) were tested for HBV and HCV markers. Of the 105, 87 (83...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tong CY,Khan R,Beeching NJ,Tariq WU,Hart CA,Ahmad N,Malik IA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent resurgence in serious infections due to Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) has been observed in the United Kingdom. More information on Hib transmission in the population is required in order to better understand the mechanism of this increase. The Public Health Laboratory Service (subsumed into the Health P...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： McVernon J,Howard AJ,Slack MP,Ramsay ME

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2013, an unusual increase of paratyphoid fever cases in travellers returning from Cambodia was reported in Japan. From December 2012 to September 2013, 18 cases of Salmonella Paratyphi A infection were identified. Microbiological analyses revealed that most isolates had the same clonal identity, although the epidem...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Saitoh T,Morita M,Shimada T,Izumiya H,Kanayama A,Oishi K,Ohnishi M,Sunagawa T

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to determine the prevalence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection of beef calves at weaning, prior to arrival at the feedlot or mixing with cattle from other sources. Fifteen range cow-calf herds, which weaned calves in October and November, were sampled in Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Laegreid WW,Elder RO,Keen JE

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple introductions of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains occurred to a new hospital in Hong Kong. Two years of clinical microbiological surveillance of the resulting outbreaks was combined with laboratory investigation by phage and antibiogram typing, and plasmid profiling. The outbreaks on...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Farrington M,Ling J,Ling T,French GL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two global (re-)emerging zoonoses, leptospirosis and hantavirus infections, are clinically indistinguishable. Thirty-one patients, hospitalized in Sri Lanka for acute severe leptospirosis, were after exclusion of other potentially involved pathogens, prospectively screened with IgM ELISA for both pathogens. Of these, ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sunil-Chandra NP,Clement J,Maes P,DE Silva HJ,VAN Esbroeck M,VAN Ranst M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent infection with one or more highly oncogenic human papillomaviruses (HPVs) or high-risk-HPV (HR-HPV) is necessary but not a sufficient aetiological agent for the development of cervical neoplasia. A number of viral, host, environmental and behavioural factors are suggested to be associated with the progressi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tasic D,Lazarevic I,Knezevic A,Tasic L,Pikula A,Perisic Z,Jovanovic T,Cupic M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into pertussis disease dynamics, we studied age-specific long-term periodicity and seasonality of pertussis in The Netherlands. Hierarchical time-series models were used to analyse the monthly reported pertussis incidence in January 1996-June 2006 by age group. The incidence of pertussis showed a sligh...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： De Greeff SC,Dekkers AL,Teunis P,Rahamat-Langendoen JC,Mooi FR,De Melker HE

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological tests are very frequently used in epidemiological surveys of leishmaniasis and other parasitoses. Their sensitivity and specificity are generally defined with respect to parasitism and disease, rather than infection. The reason is that known positives are those individuals most likely to yield parasites, o...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Dye C,Vidor E,Dereure J

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2000, 27 milkborne general outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease (IID) were reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC). These outbreaks represented a fraction (2%) of all outbreaks of foodborne origin (N = 1774) report...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gillespie IA,Adak GK,O'Brien SJ,Bolton FJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 598 isolates of Shigella species (24 S. dysenteriae, 254 S. flexneri, 30 S. boydii, 290 S. sonnei) submitted to the Ontario Public Health Laboratories in 1990 were tested for their susceptibility to 14 antimicrobial agents by the agar dilution method. Overall 79.6% of isolates were resistant to one or more ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Harnett N

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 2210 salmonella isolates referred to the New Zealand Communicable Disease Centre for epidemiological surveillance during 1987, 147 (6.7%) were resistant to one or more of 10 antibiotics. Resistance to streptomycin was most common (4.5%), followed by sulphamethoxazole (3.4%), tetracycline (3.3%), ampicillin (1.5%), ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Heffernan HM

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of plasmid similarity is an important component in the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and in the detection of epidemic plasmids. The use of restriction endonucleases in the classification of transferable, multiply-resistant plasmids from faecal Enterobacteriaceae isolated at the Children's ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Shears P,Suliman G,Hart CA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of environmental decontamination (ED) as a measure in the control of infectious diseases is controversial. This work quantifies the effectiveness of ED by analysing the transmission of pathogens from the environment to susceptible hosts in a Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible model. Analysis of the mod...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bani-Yaghoub M,Gautam R,Döpfer D,Kaspar CW,Ivanek R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intradermal inoculation of four badgers with small numbers of Mycobacterium bovis resulted in localized lesions with ulceration which slowly healed by 5 months after inoculation. Lesions of generalized tuberculosis were seen in three badgers, one of which died at 17 months post-inoculation and in the remaining two...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pritchard DG,Stuart FA,Brewer JI,Mahmood KH

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is the most widespread zoonosis in humans worldwide. In the United States, widespread detection of antibodies to leptospirosis have been identified in feral swine (Sus scrofa) with the highest detection of serovars, Bratislava, Icterohaemorrhagiae, and Pomona. Over the past few years, feral swine populat...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pedersen K,Anderson TD,Bevins SN,Pabilonia KL,Whitley PN,Virchow DR,Gidlewski T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotyping, subtyping and genotyping are important tools for epidemiological studies of group B streptococci (GBS). We investigated the genotype distribution of 353 GBS isolates originating from vaginal or rectal carriage to identify capsular serotypes and subtypes based on the surface protein genes of the alpha-like ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Brzychczy-Włoch M,Gosiewski T,Bodaszewska-Lubas M,Adamski P,Heczko PB

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the frequency of serogroup B non serotypable (B:NT) meningococci isolated in England and Wales were investigated by T-track fingerprint analysis, DNA nucleotide sequence determination, and serotyping by whole cell ELISA and dot blot assay. Seventy-three per cent of the isolates designated as B:NT by the Men...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Urwin R,Feavers IM,Jones DM,Maiden MC,Fox AJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A better understanding of physician practices in requesting stool samples for patients with acute gastroenteritis (AG) is needed to more accurately interpret laboratory-based surveillance data. A survey was conducted in General Practitioners (GPs) between August 2013 and July 2014 to estimate the proportion of stool s...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Van Cauteren D,Turbelin C,Fonteneau L,Hanslik T,De Valk H,Blanchon T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Salmonella enteritidis belonging to phage type 4 (SE4) were grown in the peritoneal cavities of chickens, and without subculture on laboratory media examined for inducible in vivo phenotypic characteristics. These bacteria expressed three major outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of 33, 35 and 36 kilodaltons (kD...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chart H,Conway D,Rowe B

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in China rapidly spread throughout the world, becoming a threatening pandemic with unprecedented consequences. Mobile technologies have led to a revolution in health and their applicability in the context of COVID-19 is promising. In this commentary, we provide an overview of t...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Teixeira R,Doetsch J

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00