Serotype IV and invasive group B Streptococcus disease in neonates, Minnesota, USA, 2000-2010.

abstract：:A 56-year-old man receiving rituximab who had months of neurologic symptoms was found to have Jamestown Canyon virus in cerebrospinal fluid by clinical metagenomic sequencing. The patient died, and postmortem examination revealed extensive neuropathologic abnormalities. Deep sequencing enabled detailed characterizatio...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Solomon IH,Ganesh VS,Yu G,Deng XD,Wilson MR,Miller S,Milligan TA,Mukerji SS,Mathewson A,Linxweiler J,Morse D,Ritter JM,Staples JE,Hughes H,Gould CV,Sabeti PC,Chiu CY,Piantadosi A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trapping and removing deer mice from ranch buildings resulted in an increased number of mice, including Sin Nombre virus antibody-positive mice, entering ranch buildings. Mouse removal without mouse proofing will not reduce and may even increase human exposure to Sin Nombre hantavirus. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Douglass RJ,Kuenzi AJ,Williams CY,Douglass SJ,Mills JN

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a nationwide study of the prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in the Faroe Islands. Of 1,075 randomly selected participants, 6 (0.6%) tested seropositive for antibodies to the virus. Adjustment for test sensitivity and specificity yielded a 0.7% prevalence. Our findings...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Petersen MS,Strøm M,Christiansen DH,Fjallsbak JP,Eliasen EH,Johansen M,Veyhe AS,Kristiansen MF,Gaini S,Møller LF,Steig B,Weihe P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 310 fleas collected from dogs and cats in Germany, Rickettsia felis was detected in all specimens (34) of Archaeopsylla erinacei (hedgehog flea) and in 9% (24/226) of Ctenocephalides felis felis (cat flea). R. helvetica was detected in 1 Ceratophyllus gallinae (hen flea). ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gilles J,Just FT,Silaghi C,Pradel I,Passos LM,Lengauer H,Hellmann K,Pfister K

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a combination approach of conventional virus isolation and molecular techniques to detect human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Of the 48 study patients, 25 (52.1%) were infected with HMPV; 6 of these 25 patients were also infected with coronavirus, and another...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chan PK,Tam JS,Lam CW,Chan E,Wu A,Li CK,Buckley TA,Ng KC,Joynt GM,Cheng FW,To KF,Lee N,Hui DS,Cheung JL,Chu I,Liu E,Chung SS,Sung JJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:“Mycobacterium canettii,” an opportunistic human pathogen living in an unknown environmental reservoir, is the progenitor species from which Mycobacterium tuberculosis emerged. Since its discovery in 1969, most of the ≈70 known M. canettii strains were isolated in the Republic of Djibouti, frequently from expatriate c...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Blouin Y,Cazajous G,Dehan C,Soler C,Vong R,Hassan MO,Hauck Y,Boulais C,Andriamanantena D,Martinaud C,Martin É,Pourcel C,Vergnaud G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White-nose syndrome has devastated bat populations in eastern North America. In Midwestern United States, prevalence increased quickly in the first year of invasion (2012-13) but with low population declines. In the second year (2013-14), environmental contamination led to earlier infection and high population decline...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Langwig KE,Hoyt JR,Parise KL,Kath J,Kirk D,Frick WF,Foster JT,Kilpatrick AM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine possible cosavirus association with clinical disease, we used real-time reverse transcription PCR to test children and HIV-positive adults in Brazil with and without gastroenteritis. Thirteen (3.6%) of 359 children with gastroenteritis tested positive, as did 69 (33.8%) of 204 controls. Low prevalence, fr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Stöcker A,Souza BF,Ribeiro TC,Netto EM,Araujo LO,Corrêa JI,Almeida PS,de Mattos AP,Ribeiro Hda C Jr,Pedral-Sampaio DB,Drosten C,Drexler JF

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the usefulness of noninvasive cutaneous swab specimens for detecting rickettsiae, we tested skin eschars from 6 guinea pigs and from 9 humans. Specimens from eschars in guinea pigs were positive for rickettsiae as long as lesions were present. Optimal storage temperature for specimens was 4 degrees C for ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bechah Y,Socolovschi C,Raoult D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On October 4, 2001, we confirmed the first bioterrorism-related anthrax case identified in the United States in a resident of Palm Beach County, Florida. Epidemiologic investigation indicated that exposure occurred at the workplace through intentionally contaminated mail. One additional case of inhalational anthrax wa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Traeger MS,Wiersma ST,Rosenstein NE,Malecki JM,Shepard CW,Raghunathan PL,Pillai SP,Popovic T,Quinn CP,Meyer RF,Zaki SR,Kumar S,Bruce SM,Sejvar JJ,Dull PM,Tierney BC,Jones JD,Perkins BA,Florida Investigation Team.

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On April 23, 2009, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) was notified of a school outbreak of respiratory illness; 2 days later the infection was identified as pandemic (H1N1) 2009. This was the first major outbreak of the illness in the United States. To guide decisions on the public healt...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Balter S,Gupta LS,Lim S,Fu J,Perlman SE,New York City 2009 H1N1 Flu Investigation Team.

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a systematic literature review to obtain risk population-based fungal disease incidence or prevalence data from China. Data were categorized by risk factors and extrapolated by using most recent demographic figures. A total of 71,316,101 cases (5.0% of the population) were attributed to 12 risk factors an...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Zhou LH,Jiang YK,Li RY,Huang LP,Yip CW,Denning DW,Zhu LP

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a nested polymerase chain reaction for the identification of Borrelia species from serum of patients with unidentified fevers. This technique, based on single nucleotide polymorphisms of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, was used to test blood samples from 7,750 patients, 33 of whom were diagnosed with spirochet...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Brahim H,Perrier-Gros-Claude JD,Postic D,Baranton G,Jambou R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus continues to rapidly spread worldwide. In 2009, pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection in a domestic cat from Iowa was diagnosed by a novel PCR assay that distinguishes between Eurasian and North American pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus matrix genes. Human-to-cat transmission is presumed. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sponseller BA,Strait E,Jergens A,Trujillo J,Harmon K,Koster L,Jenkins-Moore M,Killian M,Swenson S,Bender H,Waller K,Miles K,Pearce T,Yoon KJ,Nara P

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine risk for mycosis among persons with silicosis, we examined US mortality data for 1979-2004. Persons with silicosis were more likely to die with pulmonary mycosis than were those without pneumoconiosis or those with more common pneumoconioses. Health professionals should consider enhanced risk for mycosis fo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Iossifova Y,Bailey R,Wood J,Kreiss K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the detection and decline over time of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antibodies in infants born to women with coronavirus disease. Among 11 infants tested at birth, all had detectable IgG and 5 had detectable IgM. IgG titers with positive IgM declined more slowly than those without. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gao J,Li W,Hu X,Wei Y,Wu J,Luo X,Chen S,Chen L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:St. Louis encephalitis virus infection was detected in summer 2015 in southern California after an 11-year absence, concomitant with an Arizona outbreak. Sequence comparisons showed close identity of California and Arizona isolates with 2005 Argentine isolates, suggesting introduction from South America and underscori...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： White GS,Symmes K,Sun P,Fang Y,Garcia S,Steiner C,Smith K,Reisen WK,Coffey LL

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although residents of Lyme disease-endemic regions describe frequent exposure to ticks, Lyme disease develops in relatively few. To determine whether people who experience cutaneous hypersensitivity against tick bite have fewer episodes of Lyme disease than those who do not, we examined several factors that might rest...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Burke G,Wikel SK,Spielman A,Telford SR,McKay K,Krause PJ,Tick-borne Infection Study Group.

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in persons in 2 rural communities in southeastern Bolivia and the presence of HEV in human and swine fecal samples. HEV seroprevalence was 6.3%, and HEV genotype 3 strains with high sequence homology were detected. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Dell'Amico MC,Cavallo A,Gonzales JL,Bonelli SI,Valda Y,Pieri A,Segund H,Ibañez R,Mantella A,Bartalesi F,Tolari F,Bartoloni A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1988, the World Health Assembly launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which aimed to use large-scale vaccination with the oral vaccine to eradicate polio worldwide by the year 2000. Although important progress has been made, polio remains endemic in several countries. Also, the current control measures ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： De Palma AM,Pürstinger G,Wimmer E,Patick AK,Andries K,Rombaut B,De Clercq E,Neyts J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a case of hepatitis E acquired after persons ate wild boar meat. Genotype 3 hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA was detected in both patient serum and wild boar meat. These findings provided direct evidence of zoonotic foodborne transmission of HEV from a wild boar to a human. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Li TC,Chijiwa K,Sera N,Ishibashi T,Etoh Y,Shinohara Y,Kurata Y,Ishida M,Sakamoto S,Takeda N,Miyamura T

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1996 to 2000, 23 Maryland and Washington, D.C., tuberculosis cases were identified in one six-band DNA cluster. Cases were clustered on the basis of their Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. Medical record reviews and interviews were conducted to identify epidemiologic linkages. Eighteen (78%) of the 23 case-pat...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lathan M,Mukasa LN,Hooper N,Golub J,Baruch N,Mulcahy D,Benjamin W,Cronin WA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis is the leading cause of preventable blindness and bacterial sexually transmitted diseases worldwide. Plaque assays have been used to clonally segregate laboratory-adapted C. trachomatis strains from mixed infections, but no assays have been reported to segregate clones from recent clinical sample...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Somboonna N,Mead S,Liu J,Dean D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus is causally linked with congenital microcephaly and may be associated with pregnancy loss. However, the mechanisms of Zika virus intrauterine transmission and replication and its tropism and persistence in tissues are poorly understood. We tested tissues from 52 case-patients: 8 infants with microcephaly wh...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bhatnagar J,Rabeneck DB,Martines RB,Reagan-Steiner S,Ermias Y,Estetter LB,Suzuki T,Ritter J,Keating MK,Hale G,Gary J,Muehlenbachs A,Lambert A,Lanciotti R,Oduyebo T,Meaney-Delman D,Bolaños F,Saad EA,Shieh WJ,Zaki SR

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ross River virus (RRV), spread by Aedes and Culex mosquitoes, is the most commonly transmitted arbovirus in Australia. A serosurvey of blood donors in French Polynesia during 2011-2013 suggested that RRV circulated without being detected. We report RRV circulation in French Polynesia based on further screening of bloo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Aubry M,Teissier A,Huart M,Merceron S,Vanhomwegen J,Roche C,Vial AL,Teururai S,Sicard S,Paulous S,Desprès P,Manuguerra JC,Mallet HP,Musso D,Deparis X,Cao-Lormeau VM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2016, disseminated tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium caprae was diagnosed in a captive Borneo elephant in Japan. The bacterium was initially identified from clinical isolates. An isolate collected during a relapse showed isoniazid monoresistance and a codon 315 katG mutation. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Yoshida S,Suga S,Ishikawa S,Mukai Y,Tsuyuguchi K,Inoue Y,Yamamoto T,Wada T

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 2001-2014, predominant influenza A(H1N1) and A(H3N2) strains in South America predominated in all or most subsequent influenza seasons in Central and North America. Predominant A(H1N1) and A(H3N2) strains in North America predominated in most subsequent seasons in Central and South America. Sharing data between...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Azziz-Baumgartner E,Garten RJ,Palekar R,Cerpa M,Mirza S,Ropero AM,Palomeque FS,Moen A,Bresee J,Shaw M,Widdowson MA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homelessness is an increasing public health problem. Because of poor living conditions and limited access to healthcare systems, homeless persons are exposed to many communicable infections. We summarize the intervention measures reported to be efficient for the control and the prevention of common transmissible infec...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Badiaga S,Raoult D,Brouqui P

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloth masks have been used in healthcare and community settings to protect the wearer from respiratory infections. The use of cloth masks during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is under debate. The filtration effectiveness of cloth masks is generally lower than that of medical masks and respirators; howeve...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chughtai AA,Seale H,Macintyre CR

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occasionally, abnormal forms of parasitic helminth eggs are detected during routine diagnostics. This finding can prove problematic in diagnosis because morphologic analysis based on tightly defined measurements is the primary method used to identify the infecting species and molecular confirmation of species is not a...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sapp SGH,Yabsley MJ,Bradbury RS

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00