Molecular evolution and epidemiology of four serotypes of dengue virus in Thailand from 1973 to 2007.

abstract：:Human bocaviruses (HBoVs) have been detected in human gastrointestinal infections worldwide. In 2005, HBoV was also discovered in infants and children with infections of the lower respiratory tract. Recently, several genotypes of this parvovirus, including HBoV genotype 2 (HBoV2), genotype 3 (HBoV3) and genotype 4 (HB...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kang LH,Won YJ,Lee AR,Lee SG,Cho HG,Park YJ,Han JI,Paik SY

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japan has been free from rabies since 1958. A strict import regimen has been adopted since 2004 consisting of identification of an animal with microchip, two-time rabies vaccination, neutralizing antibody titration test and a waiting period of 180 days. The present study aims to quantitatively assess the risk of rabie...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kwan NC,Sugiura K,Hosoi Y,Yamada A,Snary EL

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Neonatal tetanus (NT) elimination, < 1 case per 1,000 live births (LB), was assessed at district level in Zimbabwe using a combined lot quality assurance-cluster sampling survey (LQA-CS). Three of the highest risk districts were selected. NT was considered eliminated if fewer than a specified number of NT deaths (prox...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Cotter B,Bremer V,Stroh G,Msambichaka K,Mabuzane E,Munyoro M,Shirehwa F,Biellik R,Birmingham M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological prevalence survey was carried out in Luxembourg during 2000-2001 to determine the antibody status of the Luxembourg population against vaccine-preventable infections including varicella-zoster virus (VZV). ELISA tests performed on 2679 sera indicated that 96 (3.6%) of the study population were seronegati...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mossong J,Putz L,Schneider F

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of foodborne illness outbreak investigations has evolved, shifting away from large-scale community case-control studies towards more focused case exposure assessments and sub-cluster investigations to identify contaminated food sources. Criteria to include or exclude cases are established to increase the ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Firestone MJ,Lee P,Hedberg CW

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This analysis assessed the utility of the limiting antigen avidity assay (LAg). Samples of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Greece with documented duration of HIV-1 infection were tested by LAg. A LAg-normalized optical density (ODn) ⩽1·5 corresponds to a recency window period of 130 days. The proportion true recent ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nikolopoulos GK,Katsoulidou A,Kantzanou M,Rokka C,Tsiara C,Sypsa V,Paraskevis D,Psichogiou M,Friedman S,Hatzakis A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, the highest incidence rates of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in the world were found in North American and Australian Indigenous children. Although immunization against H. influenzae type b (Hib) led to a marked decrease in invasive Hib disease in countries where it was implemented, this diseas...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tsang RS,Bruce MG,Lem M,Barreto L,Ulanova M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated which vaccination schedule gives best protection to the vaccinating population, in case there is a measles epidemic in an area with low vaccine coverage. We considered combinations of an early measles vaccination (none, at 6 months or at 9 months), a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination around the f...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： van den Hof S,Wallinga J,Widdowson MA,Conyn-van Spaendonck MA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2016, we reviewed preventive control measures for secondary transmission of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in humans in European Union (EU)/European Free Trade Association (EEA) countries to inform the revision of the respective Norwegian guidelines which at that time did not accommodate for the vary...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Veneti L,Lange H,Brandal L,Danis K,Vold L

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In long-term care facilities (LTCFs), the elderly are apt to be infected because those with latent tuberculosis infections (LTBIs) are at an increased risk for reactivation and post-primary TB disease. We report an outbreak of TB in staff and residents in a LTCF. An outbreak investigation was conducted after two TB ca...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lai CC,Hsieh YC,Yeh YP,Jou RW,Wang JT,Pan SL,Chen HH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of influenza vaccination in preventing serious illness and death was determined in an elderly population during the influenza epidemic of was determined in an elderly population during the influenza epidemic of was determined in an elderly population during the influenza epidemic of 1989-90. A retros...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fleming DM,Watson JM,Nicholas S,Smith GE,Swan AV

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines are the cornerstone of influenza control policy, but can suffer from several drawbacks. Seasonal influenza vaccines are prone to production problems and low efficacies, while pandemic vaccines are unlikely to be available in time to slow a rapidly spreading global outbreak. Antiviral therapy was found to be b...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kramer SC,Bansal S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to assess whether genotypic characterization by means of DNA-fingerprinting pattern (DFP) and multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MEE) profile as compared to phenotypic characterization would improve the differentiation of Neisseria meningitidis strains associated with outbreaks from stra...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Weis N,Lind I

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical records, for 2000 and 2001, of symptomatic amoebic patients who were treated at our hospitals in Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka were studied retrospectively for the purpose of gathering epidemiological data on symptomatic Entamoeba histolytica infection. A total of 58 patients were treated. Fifty-five of them were ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ohnishi K,Kato Y,Imamura A,Fukayama M,Tsunoda T,Sakaue Y,Sakamoto M,Sagara H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esterase electrophoretic typing and restriction fragment length polymorphism of ribosomal DNA regions (ribotyping) were used to differentiate 102 Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates obtained from chronic lung infection in 23 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and two reference strains (including the type strain A...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Denamur E,Picard B,Goullet P,Bingen E,Lambert N,Elion J

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory-based surveillance of invasive pneumococcal infections in adults in Finland from 1983 to 1992 identified 862 episodes of pneumococcal bacteraemia and 97 episodes of meningitis. The overall incidence of invasive pneumococcal infections was 9.1 per 100,000 for all adults per year, but 27.1, 35.8, and 44.5 per...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sankilampi U,Herva E,Haikala R,Liimatainen O,Renkonen OV,Leinonen M

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:We compared gastroenteritis cases that consulted a general practitioner (GP) with those who did not in a community-based study and also with those in a GP-based study. We aimed to identify factors associated with consultation, and with inclusion of cases by GPs, and secondly to study the effects on the frequency of de...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： de Wit MA,Kortbeek LM,Koopmans MP,de Jager CJ,Wannet WJ,Bartelds AI,van Duynhoven YT

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Although Lyme borreliosis is increasingly diagnosed in the United Kingdom, few systematic studies have been performed there. UK data suggest that the commonest complications are neurological, but inadequate information exists about their nature and the incidence of late neuroborreliosis. Local data are necessary becau...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lovett JK,Evans PH,O'Connell S,Gutowski NJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is the first to describe characterization of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against a South African Territories 2 (SAT 2) foot-and-mouth disease virus (isolate Rho 1/48). Twelve MAbs which neutralized homologous virus were characterized in indirect and sandwich ELISA using purified Rho 1/48 virus particles, s...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Crowther JR,Rowe CA,Butcher R

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National health statistics report a 2·5-fold increase in laboratory-confirmed Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) cases over the last decade in Switzerland where no CT screening programme exists. We obtained essential denominator information to describe the epidemiology of CT in the canton of Basel-Stadt, an urban canton in no...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Schmutz C,Burki D,Frei R,Mäusezahl-Feuz M,Mäusezahl D

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This manuscript extends our previously published work (based on data from one clinic) on the association between three drinking water-treatment modalities (boiling, filtering, and bottling) and diarrhoeal disease in HIV-positive persons by incorporating data from two additional clinics collected in the following year....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Eisenberg JN,Wade TJ,Hubbard A,Abrams DI,Leiser RJ,Charles S,Vu M,Saha S,Wright CC,Levy DA,Jensen P,Colford JM Jr

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous modelling studies have estimated that between 1% and 10% of human salmonella infections are attributable to pig meat consumption. In response to this food safety threat the British pig industry have initiated a salmonella monitoring programme. It is anticipated that this programme will contribute to achieving...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hill AA,Snary EL,Arnold ME,Alban L,Cook AJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:From 1971 to 2012, in New York State, years with human Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) were more strongly associated with the presence of Aedes canadensis, Coquillettidia perturbans and Culiseta melanura mosquitoes infected with the EEE virus (Fisher's exact test, one-sided P = 0.005, 0.03, 0.03) than with Culiseta ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sherwood JA,Stehman SV,Howard JJ,Oliver J

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:We investigated the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage in a convenience sample of purposely selected populations of dogs, cats and horses in the Greater London area. Swabs from carriage sites were pooled, enriched and processed by standard bacteriological methods. The presence of...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Loeffler A,Pfeiffer DU,Lindsay JA,Soares Magalhães RJ,Lloyd DH

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presence of Vibrio cholerae serogroups O1 and O139 in the waters of the rural area of Matlab, Bangladesh, was investigated with quantitative measurements performed with a portable flow cytometer. The relevance of this work relates to the testing of a field-adapted measurement protocol that might prove useful for chole...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Righetto L,Zaman RU,Mahmud ZH,Bertuzzo E,Mari L,Casagrandi R,Gatto M,Islam S,Rinaldo A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00