Invasive meningococcal capsular group Y disease, England and Wales, 2007-2009.

abstract：:In Africa, incidence and prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis have been assumed to be low. However, investigation after a 2005 outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, found that the incidence rate for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal was among ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wallengren K,Scano F,Nunn P,Margot B,Buthelezi SS,Williams B,Pym A,Samuel EY,Mirzayev F,Nkhoma W,Mvusi L,Pillay Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic melioidosis is a serious, potentially fatal form of Burkholderia pseudomallei infection. Recently, we reported that a subset of clinical isolates of B. pseudomallei from Australia have heightened virulence and potential for dissemination to the central nervous system. In this study, we demonstrate that this...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Morris JL,Fane A,Sarovich DS,Price EP,Rush CM,Govan BL,Parker E,Mayo M,Currie BJ,Ketheesan N

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some parts of western Africa, Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) have reached capacity. Unless capacity is rapidly scaled up, the chance to avoid a generalized Ebola epidemic will soon diminish. The World Health Organization and partners are considering additional Ebola patient care options, including community care ce...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kucharski AJ,Camacho A,Checchi F,Waldman R,Grais RF,Cabrol JC,Briand S,Baguelin M,Flasche S,Funk S,Edmunds WJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eczema herpeticum can clinically resemble smallpox. On the basis of the algorithm for rapid evaluation of patients with an acute generalized vesiculopustular rash illness, our patient met criteria for high risk for smallpox. The Tzanck preparation was critical for rapid diagnosis of herpetic infection and exclusion of...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Boyd DA,Sperling LC,Norton SA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human infections with vaccinia virus (VACV), mostly from laboratory accidents or contact with infected animals, have occurred since smallpox was eradicated in 1980. No recent cases have been reported in China. We report on an outbreak of VACV from occupational exposure to rabbit skins inoculated with VACV. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lu B,Cui LB,Gu MH,Shi C,Sun CW,Zhao KC,Bi J,Tan ZM,Guo XL,Huo X,Bao CJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After returning from Europe to the United States, on March 1, 2020, a symptomatic teacher received positive test results for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Of the 21 students exposed to the teacher in the classroom, serologic results suggested past infection for 2. Classroom contact may result in vir...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Brown NE,Bryant-Genevier J,Bandy U,Browning CA,Berns AL,Dott M,Gosciminski M,Lester SN,Link-Gelles R,Quilliam DN,Sejvar J,Thornburg NJ,Wolff BJ,Watson J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of nosocomial infections with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus occurred in South Korea in May 2015. Spike glycoprotein genes of virus strains from South Korea were closely related to those of strains from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, virus strains from South Korea showed strain-specific varia...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kim DW,Kim YJ,Park SH,Yun MR,Yang JS,Kang HJ,Han YW,Lee HS,Kim HM,Kim H,Kim AR,Heo DR,Kim SJ,Jeon JH,Park D,Kim JA,Cheong HM,Nam JG,Kim K,Kim SS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytic ehrlichiosis is a febrile illness caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis, an intracellular bacterium transmitted by ticks. In Mexico, a case of E. chaffeensis infection in an immunocompetent 31-year-old woman without recognized tick bite was fatal. This diagnosis should be considered for patients with fever, ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sosa-Gutierrez CG,Solorzano-Santos F,Walker DH,Torres J,Serrano CA,Gordillo-Perez G

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Anatum strain reported in Taiwan was isolated in the United States from patients and from seafood imported from Asia. Isolates harbored 11 resistance determinants, including quinolone and inducible cephalosporin resistance genes. Most patients had traveled to Asia. Th...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Karp BE,Leeper MM,Chen JC,Tagg KA,Francois Watkins LK,Friedman CR

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hantaviruses are carried by numerous rodent species throughout the world. In 1993, a previously unknown group of hantaviruses emerged in the United States as the cause of an acute respiratory disease now termed hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Before than, hantaviruses were known as the etiologic agents of hemorrh...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Schmaljohn C,Hjelle B

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：: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：:We estimated cost-effectiveness of annually vaccinating children not at high risk with inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) to range from US $12,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) saved for children ages 6-23 months to $119,000 per QALY saved for children ages 12-17 years. For children at high risk (preexisting ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Prosser LA,Bridges CB,Uyeki TM,Hinrichsen VL,Meltzer MI,Molinari NA,Schwartz B,Thompson WW,Fukuda K,Lieu TA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination with the 13-valent conjugated pneumococcal disease (PCV13) has reduced invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), but there have been reports of vaccine failures. We performed a prospective study in children aged 2-59 months who received diagnoses of IPD during January 2012-June 2016 in 3 pediatric hospitals in ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hernández S,Moraga-Llop F,Díaz A,de Sevilla MF,Ciruela P,Muñoz-Almagro C,Codina G,Campins M,García-García JJ,Esteva C,Izquierdo C,González-Peris S,Martínez-Osorio J,Uriona S,Salleras L,Domínguez Á

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Asia and associated human infections have led to a heightened level of awareness and preparation for a possible influenza pandemic. Vaccination is the best option by which spread of a pandemic virus could be prevented and severity of disease reduced. Production ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Luke CJ,Subbarao K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To detect orthopoxvirus in the Brazilian Amazon, we conducted a serosurvey of 344 wild animals. Neutralizing antibodies against orthopoxvirus were detected by plaque-reduction neutralizing tests in 84 serum samples. Amplicons from 6 monkey samples were sequenced. These amplicons identified vaccinia virus genetically s...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Abrahão JS,Silva-Fernandes AT,Lima LS,Campos RK,Guedes MI,Cota MM,Assis FL,Borges IA,Souza-Júnior MF,Lobato ZI,Bonjardim CA,Ferreira PC,Trindade GS,Kroon EG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By applying cumulative sums (CUSUM), a quality control method commonly used in manufacturing, we constructed a process for detecting unusual clusters among reported laboratory isolates of disease-causing organisms. We developed a computer algorithm based on minimal adjustments to the CUSUM method, which cumulates sums...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hutwagner LC,Maloney EK,Bean NH,Slutsker L,Martin SM

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arboviruses have evolved a number of strategies to survive environmental challenges. This review examines the factors that may determine arbovirus emergence, provides examples of arboviruses that have emerged into new habitats, reviews the arbovirus situation in western Europe in detail, discusses potential arthropod ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gould EA,Higgs S,Buckley A,Gritsun TS

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria are human pathogens with increasing incidence and prevalence worldwide. Mycobacterium shimoidei is a rare cause of pulmonary disease, with only 15 cases previously reported. This series documents an additional 23 cases of M. shimoidei from Queensland, Australia, and highlights the pathogeni...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Baird TM,Carter R,Eather G,Thomson R

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of influenza A (H3N2) occurred aboard a U.S. Navy ship in February 1996, despite 95% of the crew's having been appropriately vaccinated. Virus isolated from ill crew members was antigenically distinct from the vaccination strain. With an attack rate of 42%, this outbreak demonstrates the potential for rapi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Earhart KC,Beadle C,Miller LK,Pruss MW,Gray GC,Ledbetter EK,Wallace MR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After increasing from 1995 to 1999, invasive erythromycin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae rates per 100,000 decreased 53.6% in children from Baltimore, Maryland (US), from 1999 to 2001, which was partially attributed to strains related to the mefE-carrying England14-9 clone. The decline in infection rates was ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： McEllistrem MC,Adams JM,Shutt K,Sanza LT,Facklam RR,Whitney CG,Jorgensen JH,Harrison LH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human penicilliosis marneffei is an emerging infectious disease caused by the fungus Penicillium marneffei. High prevalence of infection among bamboo rats of the genera Rhizomys and Cannomys suggest that these rodents are a key facet of the P. marneffei life cycle. We trapped bamboo rats during June 2004-July 2005 acr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cao C,Liang L,Wang W,Luo H,Huang S,Liu D,Xu J,Henk DA,Fisher MC

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Laparoscopic gastric banding is a common bariatric procedure worldwide. Rapidly growing mycobacteria are environmental organisms increasingly seen as pathogens,often in infected prosthetic material. We report 18 cases of infection associated with laparoscopic gastric banding caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum and M. ab...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wright HL,Thomson RM,Reid AB,Carter R,Bartley PB,Newton P,Coulter C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus gattii has emerged as a human and animal pathogen in the Pacific Northwest. First recognized on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, it now involves mainland British Columbia, and Washington and Oregon in the United States. In Canada, the incidence of disease has been one of the highest worldwide. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Datta K,Bartlett KH,Baer R,Byrnes E,Galanis E,Heitman J,Hoang L,Leslie MJ,MacDougall L,Magill SS,Morshed MG,Marr KA,Cryptococcus gattii Working Group of the Pacific Northwest.

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the association of colonization by Staphylococcus aureus and general population mortality, we followed 10,598 adults for 8.5 years on average. Methicillin-susceptible S. aureus colonization was not associated with death. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus carriage predicted death in a crude analysis but not af...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mendy A,Vieira ER,Albatineh AN,Gasana J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated Treponema pallidum infection in 8 nonhuman primate species (289 animals) in Tanzania during 2015-2017. We used a serologic treponemal test to detect antibodies against the bacterium. Infection was further confirmed from tissue samples of skin-ulcerated animals by 3 independent PCRs (polA, tp47, and TP_...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chuma IS,Batamuzi EK,Collins DA,Fyumagwa RD,Hallmaier-Wacker LK,Kazwala RR,Keyyu JD,Lejora IA,Lipende IF,Lüert S,Paciência FMD,Piel A,Stewart FA,Zinner D,Roos C,Knauf S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections in humans can cause asymptomatic to fatal lower respiratory lung disease. Despite posing a probable risk for virus transmission, asymptomatic to mild infections can go unnoticed; a lack of seroconversion among some PCR-confirmed cases has been reported...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Okba NMA,Raj VS,Widjaja I,GeurtsvanKessel CH,de Bruin E,Chandler FD,Park WB,Kim NJ,Farag EABA,Al-Hajri M,Bosch BJ,Oh MD,Koopmans MPG,Reusken CBEM,Haagmans BL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent autochthonous transmission of Plasmodium vivax malaria in previously malaria-free temperate regions has generated renewed interest in the epidemiology of this disease. Accurate estimates of the incubation period and time to relapse are required for effective malaria surveillance; however, this information is cu...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lover AA,Coker RJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated and characterized Nipah virus (NiV) from Pteropus vampyrus bats, the putative reservoir for the 1998 outbreak in Malaysia, and provide evidence of viral recrudescence. This isolate is monophyletic with previous NiVs in combined analysis, and the nucleocapsid gene phylogeny species. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Rahman SA,Hassan SS,Olival KJ,Mohamed M,Chang LY,Hassan L,Saad NM,Shohaimi SA,Mamat ZC,Naim MS,Epstein JH,Suri AS,Field HE,Daszak P,Henipavirus Ecology Research Group.

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00