Bacteriological and molecular detection of Mycobacterium bovis in cattle with inconclusive results to intradermal tuberculin tests.

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：:Dromedary camels have been shown to be the main reservoir for human Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) infections. This systematic review aims to compile and analyse all published data on MERS-coronavirus (CoV) in the global camel population to provide an overview of current knowledge on the distribution, spread ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sikkema RS,Farag EABA,Islam M,Atta M,Reusken CBEM,Al-Hajri MM,Koopmans MPG

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Usutu virus (USUV) is an emerging arbovirus that was first isolated in South Africa in 1959. This Flavivirus is maintained in the environment through a typical enzootic cycle involving mosquitoes and birds. USUV has spread to a large part of the European continent over the two decades mainly leading to substantial avi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Clé M,Beck C,Salinas S,Lecollinet S,Gutierrez S,Van de Perre P,Baldet T,Foulongne V,Simonin Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of Norwalk-like calicivirus (NLV) gastroenteritis occurred in a rehabilitation centre in southern Finland between December 1999 and February 2000. An epidemiological investigation was conducted to determine the source and extent of the outbreak. More than 300 guests and staff members became ill during the ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kuusi M,Nuorti JP,Maunula L,Minh Tran NN,Ratia M,Karlsson J,von Bonsdorff CH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to limited data, we conducted a meta-analysis to re-evaluate the relationship between obesity and coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19). Literature published between 1 January 2020 and 22 August 2020 was comprehensively analysed, and RevMan3.5 was used for data analysis. A total of 50 studies, including data on 18 260 378...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Yang J,Ma Z,Lei Y

更新日期：2020-12-22 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：:We conducted a case-control study examining risk factors for ciprofloxacin resistance in Campylobacter infections that were reported in 2004 and 2005 in two health regions in southern Alberta. The study questionnaire included questions about recent travel and antibiotic use, food consumption frequency, use of househol...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Johnson JY,McMullen LM,Hasselback P,Louie M,Jhangri G,Saunders LD

更新日期：2008-07-01 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 main feature of the epidemiological transition is a shift in the recorded causes of death from infectious diseases to other morbid conditions. This paper outlines modifications made to Omran's original model and stages of transition, and suggests that without a focus on aetiology and morbidity, these have been bas...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mercer AJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norovirus is the most frequent cause of acute infectious gastroenteritis and it is difficult to control in crowded environments like hospitals and nursing homes. Transmission depends on oral intake of virus deposited in the environment by infectious subjects. Data from volunteer studies indicate that virus concentrati...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Teunis PF,Sukhrie FH,Vennema H,Bogerman J,Beersma MF,Koopmans MP

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic relationships between various serotypes and serogroups of meningococcal strains were investigated by restriction fragment-length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis using a number of random DNA probes and a probe containing a truncated copy of the meningococcal insertion sequence IS1106. The data were used to est...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ni H,Knight AI,Cartwright KA,McFadden JJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In late 2002, health professionals from the ministries of health and academia of Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel formed the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS) to facilitate trans-border cooperation in response to infectious disease outbreaks. The first mission of MECIDS was...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Cohen D,Gargouri N,Ramlawi A,Abdeen Z,Belbesi A,Al Hijawi B,Haddadin A,Sheikh Ali S,Al Shuaibi N,Bassal R,Yishai R,Green MS,Leventhal A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States prompted us to explore the association between diabetes and tuberculosis (TB) on the South Texas-Mexico border, in a large population of mostly non-hospitalized TB patients. We examined 6 years of retrospective data from all TB patients (n=5049) in South Texas and n...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Restrepo BI,Fisher-Hoch SP,Crespo JG,Whitney E,Perez A,Smith B,McCormick JB,Nuevo Santander Tuberculosis Trackers.

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the incidence of cases of nosocomial pathogens and risk factors in an intensive treatment unit ward to determine if the number of cases is dependent on location of patients and the colonization/infection history of the ward. A clustering approach method was developed to investigate the patterns of spre...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Rushton SP,Shirley MD,Sheridan EA,Lanyon CV,O'Donnell AG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-month survey on the incidence of campylobacter infection in 1217 patients with diarrhoea was carried out in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Campylobacters were isolated from 55 (4.5%) patients, second in prevalence to salmonellas (6.2%). Shigellas were isolated from 4.2% of patients. Campylobacter isolation rates were high...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zaman R

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recruited 1591 patients who presented to our fever clinics from 23 January 2020 to 16 February 2020. The different imaging findings between COVID-19 pneumonia and influenza A viruses, influenza B virus pneumonia were also investigated. Most patients were infected by influenza A and B viruses in the flu-season. A la...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zhao W,Xie X,Liu J

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis is famous for dramatically reducing puerperal mortality while he was an Assistant in Vienna's largest hospital, the Allgemeines Krankenhaus; he did this, mainly, by requiring medical personnel to disinfect their hands by washing in a chlorine solution. But Semmelweis was soon removed from his po...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Jadraque PP,Carter KC

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:India is experiencing a substantial decrease in early childhood exposure to hepatitis A virus (HAV). Kerala has experienced several hepatitis A outbreaks in young adults/adults in the recent past. The current hepatitis outbreak occurred in Nellikuzhi, Kerala state, India in December 2016. Investigation was carried by ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gurav YK,Retheesh Babu G,Vinu KP,Lole KS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orf of the hand is an uncommon zoonotic infection caused by a dermotropic DNA virus that belongs to the Parapoxvirus genus of the family Poxviridae. It is transmitted to humans through contact with infected sheep and goats and is reported as an occupational disease. We report nine cases of human orf seen in the hands ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Uzel M,Sasmaz S,Bakaris S,Cetinus E,Bilgic E,Karaoguz A,Ozkul A,Arican O

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-seven strains of the five described Salmonella serotypes having antigens 6,7:c:1,5, that is S. enterica serotype Choleraesuis sensu stricto, Choleraesuis var. Kunzendorf, Choleraesuis var. Decatur, Paratyphi C, and Typhisuis, were examined for 16S rrn profile ribotype, presence of IS200 and phenotypic characters...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Uzzau S,Hovi M,Stocker BA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2014, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new human papillomavirus 9-valent vaccine (9vHPV), targeting nine HPV types: HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18, which are also targeted by the quadrivalent HPV vaccine (qHPV), plus five additional high cancer risk HPV types (HPV types 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58). The aim of t...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Signorelli C,Odone A,Ciorba V,Cella P,Audisio RA,Lombardi A,Mariani L,Mennini FS,Pecorelli S,Rezza G,Zuccotti GV,Peracino A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of gastro-enteritis occurred in a community of 2213 persons located near the city of Ioannina, in North-western Greece. Two hundreds and eighty-eight inhabitants of the village of Eleoussa, suffered from gastro-enteritis between 11 and 22 October. The peak of the epidemic occurred during the first 3 days (...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Alamanos Y,Maipa V,Levidiotou S,Gessouli E

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporida are known as opportunistic unicellular organisms and have recently been reclassified as fungi that have been frequently reported from patients with congenital and acquired immunity failure disorders, worldwide. However, use of immunosuppressive medications in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients sign...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hasani Z,Aghdaei HA,Balaii H,Azimirad M,Mirsamadi ES,Mirjalali H,Zali MR

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equine influenza virus (EIV) causes a highly contagious respiratory disease in equids, with confirmed outbreaks in Europe, America, North Africa, and Asia. Although China, Mongolia, and Japan have reported equine influenza outbreaks, Korea has not. Since 2011, we have conducted a routine surveillance programme to dete...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Na W,Kang B,Kim HI,Hong M,Park SJ,Jeoung HY,An DJ,Moon H,Kim JK,Song D

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Norovirus (NV) is an important cause of acute gastroenteritis in children, but is also frequently detected in asymptomatic children, which complicates the interpretation of NV detection results in both the clinical setting and population prevalence studies. A total of 807 faecal samples from children aged <5 years hos...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Trang NV,Choisy M,Nakagomi T,Chinh NT,Doan YH,Yamashiro T,Bryant JE,Nakagomi O,Anh DD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 2004 and at the start of 2005 a university hospital in Southwest Germany was affected by an extensive outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE). Although the outbreak was contained, linezolid-resistant enterococci emerged during and after the outbreak as the usage of linezolid became more comm...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Schulte B,Heininger A,Autenrieth IB,Wolz C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and seventy-five consecutive clinical isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci, including strains associated with disease, contaminants and skin colonizers, were speciated, tested for slime production and for their sensitivity to a range of antibiotics. Staphylococcus epidermidis was the most commonly ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Deighton MA,Franklin JC,Spicer WJ,Balkau B

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) mortality rates in the USA fell rapidly from 1910 to 1933. However, during this period, racial disparities in TB mortality in the nation's expanding cities grew. Because of long delays between infection and disease, TB mortality is a poor indicator of short-term changes in transmission. We estimated ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zelner JL,Muller C,Feigenbaum JJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00