Outcomes of hospitalized patients with bacteraemic and non-bacteraemic community-acquired pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.

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 depopulation of Pacific islands during the 16th to 19th centuries is a striking example of historical mass mortality due to infectious disease. Pacific Island populations have not been subject to such cataclysmic infectious disease mortality since. Here we explore the processes which could have given rise to this ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Penman BS,Gupta S,Shanks GD

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the first sentinel site (Waterloo Region, Ontario) of the Canadian Integrated Enteric Disease Surveillance System (C-EnterNet) were used in a secondary-based case-control study of laboratory-confirmed Cryptosporidium infections to study the role of various exposure factors. The incidence of cryptosporidiosis...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pintar KD,Pollari F,Waltner-Toews D,Charron DF,McEwen SA,Fazil A,Nesbitt A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five human rabies virus isolates from a wide geographical area of Brazil were characterized using an anti-nucleoprotein monoclonal antibody panel and by partial nucleotide sequencing analysis of the nucleoprotein gene. Three major antigenic groups related to the antigenic variants maintained in domestic dogs, va...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Favoretto SR,de Mattos CC,de Mattos CA,Campos AC,Sacramento DR,Durigon EL

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 100 tropical aquaria from six pet shops were sampled for the presence of Salmonella, Campylobacter and Aeromonas species. Eight fish tanks contained unusual serotypes of salmonella. None had been used to house terrapins. One hundred and three isolates of Aeromonas species were obtained from 98 tanks. One ta...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sanyal D,Burge SH,Hutchings PG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1993 New York and Texas each reported a human rabies case traced to a rare variant of rabies virus found in an uncommon species of bat. This study examined the epidemiology of bat rabies in New York State. Demographic, species, and animal-contact information for bats submitted for rabies testing from 1988-92 was an...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Childs JE,Trimarchi CV,Krebs JW

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the impact of viral and bacterial co-infection in hospitalised children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (RMPP). Retrospective analysis of 396 children with RMPP in our hospital admitted between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2016 was performed. Nasal aspirate samples were collected for pathogen det...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zhang X,Chen Z,Gu W,Ji W,Wang Y,Hao C,He Y,Huang L,Wang M,Shao X,Yan Y

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospira interrogans, hantaviruses (particularly Seoul virus), hepatitis E virus (HEV), and Toxoplasma gondii are rat-associated zoonoses that are responsible for human morbidity and mortality worldwide. This study aimed to describe the infection patterns of these four pathogens in wild rats (Rattus norvegicus) acro...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ayral F,Artois J,Zilber AL,Widén F,Pounder KC,Aubert D,Bicout DJ,Artois M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enteritidis PT4 was recovered from fingers following the breaking of intact shell eggs artificially contaminated in the contents with the bacterium. Kitchen utensils used to mix egg dishes were salmonella-positive, sometimes after washing. Following the preparation of batter or the mixing of eggs, S. enteri...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Humphrey TJ,Martin KW,Whitehead A

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated two sequential outbreaks of severe diarrhoea in two neighbouring villages of Orissa, in 2005. We conducted descriptive and matched case-control studies. The attack rates were 5.6% (n=62) and 5.2% (n=51), respectively, in the first and second villages. One death was reported in the second village (case ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： DAS A,Manickam P,Hutin Y,Pattanaik B,Pal BB,Chhotray GP,Kar SK,Gupte MD

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The screening of 2000 women of childbearing age in Cork between 2004 and 2006 produced 37 erythromycin-resistant group B streptococcus (GBS) isolates. PCR analysis was performed to determine the basis for erythromycin resistance. The ermTR gene was most frequently expressed (n = 19), followed by the ermB gene (n = 8)....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kiely RA,Lucey B,Cotter L

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is limited information on the roles of different age groups in propagating pertussis outbreaks, and the temporal changes in those roles since the introduction of acellular pertussis vaccines. The relative roles of different age groups in propagating the 2010 and the 2014 pertussis epidemics in California were ev...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mahmud AS,Lipsitch M,Goldstein E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

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：:There is concern that widespread usage of ertapenem may promote cross-resistance to other carbapenems. To analyse the impact that adding ertapenem to our hospital formulary had on usage of other broad-spectrum agents and on susceptibilities of nosocomial Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas isolates, we performed interr...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Graber CJ,Hutchings C,Dong F,Lee W,Chung JK,Tran T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimethoprim resistance was examined in faecal bacteria obtained from chickens, sheep, cattle and pigs. The incidence of trimethoprim resistance in porcine strains was 17% (157/922) and, whereas 15.8% (146/922) of these bacteria were highly resistant, only 4% (37/922) of the isolates possessed trimethoprim resistance ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Amyes SG

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large-scale measles outbreak (11 495 reported cases, 60% aged ≥15 years) occurred in Georgia during 2013-2015. A nationwide, multistage, stratified cluster serosurvey for hepatitis B and C among persons aged ≥18 years conducted in Georgia in late 2015 provided an opportunity to assess measles and rubella (MR) suscep...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Khetsuriani N,Chitadze N,Russell S,Ben Mamou M

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 1992, a small, circumscribed community outbreak of infection due to verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 phage type 49 occurred in a semi-rural area of south-east Scotland. On the basis of stool cultures, six cases were identified, one of whom was asymptomatic. One child developed the haemolytic uraemic sy...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Brewster DH,Brown MI,Robertson D,Houghton GL,Bimson J,Sharp JC

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) disease is a condition of clinical and public health significance. We conducted epidemiological analyses to determine if the presence of gastrointestinal (GI) complaints (diarrhea and/or vomiting) early in the course of invasive GAS disease is associated with either of two severe o...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Khateeb OM,Osborne D,Mulla ZD

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ireland reports the highest incidence of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) infection in Europe. This study investigated potential risk factors for confirmed sporadic and outbreak primary VTEC infections during 2008-2013. Overall, 989 VTEC infections including 521 serogroup O157 and 233 serogroup O26 were geo-refer...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Óhaiseadha C,Hynds PD,Fallon UB,O'Dwyer J

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Current methods of control recruitment for case-control studies can be slow (a particular issue for outbreak investigations), resource-intensive and subject to a range of biases. Commercial market panels are a potential source of rapidly recruited controls. Our study evaluated food exposure data from these panel contr...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Inns T,Curtis D,Crook P,Vivancos R,Gardiner D,McCarthy N,Mook P

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Using DNA probes specific for the genes encoding Vero cytotoxins 1 and 2 in hybridization experiments on faecal samples, Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) of serogroup O 157 were detected in 21 of 63 cases of haemorrhagic colitis, 9 of 31 cases of non-bloody diarrhoea and 14 of 68 cases of haemolytic ur...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kleanthous H,Fry NK,Smith HR,Gross RJ,Rowe B

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus (DM) is currently known to be one of the risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and the proportion of DM in PTB is rising along with the increased prevalence of DM in countries with high PTB burden. This study was designed to explore the impact of DM on clinical presentation and treatment outc...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hongguang C,Min L,Shiwen J,Fanghui G,Shaoping H,Tiejie G,Na L,Zhiguo Z

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:False-positive serological reactions (FPSR) due to infections with Yersinia enterocolitica serotype Oratio9 (YeOratio9) are a problem in tests for brucellosis. In the present study, FPSR in classical and novel tests for brucellosis following experimental infections of pigs with YeOratio9 were compared with responses o...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Jungersen G,Sørensen V,Giese SB,Stack JA,Riber U

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the first recorded outbreak of cholera in Namibia. From December 2006 to February 2007, more than 250 cases of cholera were reported from the Omusati and Kunene provinces of Namibia. However, only nine bacterial isolates were obtainable for analysis. Isolates were all identified as Vibrio cholerae O1 sero...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Smith AM,Keddy KH,De Wee L

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global public health threat. Misdiagnosis and delayed therapy of sputum smear-negative TB can affect the treatment outcomes and promote pathogen transmission. The application of Xpert MTB/RIF assay in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) has been recommended but needs clinical evidence. We c...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Liu Q,Ji Y,Martinez L,Lu W,Shi X,Wang J,Zeng Y

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Germany has been an officially bovine tuberculosis (bTB)-free (OTF) country since 1996. Gradually rising numbers of bTB herd incidents due to Mycobacterium bovis and M. caprae in North-Western and Southern Germany during the last few years prompted the competent authorities to conduct a nationwide bTB survey in 2013/2...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Eisenberg T,Nesseler A,Sauerwald C,Kling U,Riße K,Kaim U,Althoff G,Fiege N,Schlez K,Hamann HP,Fawzy A,Moser I,Riße R,Kraft G,Zschöck M,Menge C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of Fusobacterium necrophorum present in small numbers in heavily contaminated material such as faeces or soil is hampered by the lack of an efficient selective medium and by the high minimum infective dose of the organism. A sensitive method for the detection and isolation of faecal strains of F. necroph...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Smith GR,Barton SA,Wallace LM

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of COVID-19 in Nigeria with a view of generating evidence to enhance planning and response strategies. A national surveillance dataset between 27 February and 6 June 2020 was retrospectively analysed, with confirmatory testing for COVID-19 done by real-time ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Elimian KO,Ochu CL,Ilori E,Oladejo J,Igumbor E,Steinhardt L,Wagai J,Arinze C,Ukponu W,Obiekea C,Aderinola O,Crawford E,Olayinka A,Dan-Nwafor C,Okwor T,Disu Y,Yinka-Ogunleye A,Kanu NE,Olawepo OA,Aruna O,Michael CA

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00