Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus resistant to tigecycline and daptomycin isolated in a hospital in Brazil.

abstract：:Very few Pacific islands escaped the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. Subsequent influenza epidemics in the established colonial outposts of American Samoa and New Caledonia infected many but killed very few persons whereas the extraordinarily isolated Niue, Rotuma, Jaliut and Yule islands experienced high mortality infl...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Shanks GD,Brundage JF

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) with the type IV staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) is rarely reported as being acquired in hospital. We report a hospital outbreak, in Grampian, Scotland, of eight cases of skin and soft-tissue infections due to such a strain. Al...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gould IM,Girvan EK,Browning RA,MacKenzie FM,Edwards GF

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals developing an HIV seroconversion illness may experience rapid disease progression. Information on seroconversion illness is rarely collected in most cohort studies, thus the aim of this study was to assess the value of the HIV test interval (the time between last negative and first positive HIV tests) as a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors：

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is endemic in Turkey, and since 2004 many cases have been reported from different regions of Turkey. There are limited data about the seroprevalence of the disease in household members of patients or persons sharing the same environment. We evaluated seroprevalence of CCHF in th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Koksal I,Yilmaz G,Aksoy F,Erensoy S,Aydin H

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1996 Japan had a big outbreak of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7, especially in Osaka prefecture where about 6000 patients (mainly schoolchildren) suffered from diarrhoea, haemorrhagic colitis and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) due to EHEC infection via school lunch. Our survey of doctors who ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Yoh M,Honda T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of multiple type human papillomavirus (HPV) infections, and whether any types are involved in multiple HPV-type infections (mHPV) more or less frequently than expected. From January 2012 to February 2018, 2848 cervico-vaginal swabs were analysed in the UOC Microbiol...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Del Prete R,Ronga L,Magrone R,Addati G,Abbasciano A,Di Carlo D,Miragliotta G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cross-sectional study conducted between March 1993 and February 1995, 7103 indiscriminately collected foxes were examined for Trichinella larvae. A total of 3295 serum samples were serologically investigated with an ELISA based on excretory-secretory antigen. The proportion of serologically positive animals range...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Wacker K,Rodriguez E,Garate T,Geue L,Tackmann K,Selhorst T,Staubach C,Conraths FJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As feral swine continue to expand their geographical range and distribution across the United States, their involvement in crop damage, livestock predation, and pathogen transmission is likely to increase. Despite the relatively recent discovery of feral swine involvement in the aetiology of a variety of pathogens, th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pedersen K,Pabilonia KL,Anderson TD,Bevins SN,Hicks CR,Kloft JM,Deliberto TJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Réunion Island (Indian Ocean) has been suffering from its first known Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) epidemic since February 2005. To achieve a better understanding of the disease, a questionnaire was drawn up for hospital staff members and their household. CHIKV infected about one-third of the studied population, the prop...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Staikowsky F,Le Roux K,Schuffenecker I,Laurent P,Grivard P,Develay A,Michault A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piglets between 1 and 40 days of age were inoculated with varying numbers and with different isolates of Streptococcus suis type 2 by the intranasal, intravenous and subarachnoid routes. Less than 100 organisms of an isolate cultured from apparently normal pigs caused subclinical infection in 1-day-old piglets after i...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Robertson ID,Blackmore DK

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In99, a possible ancestor of In100, is a class 1 integron associated with carbenicillinase (blaPSE) and aminoglycoside resistance genes [aac(6')-Ib and aadA2]. In99 was present in 8 of 81 clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from unrelated patients collected in different years. The strains fell into two clonal ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Caetano T,Ferreira S,Mondego AP,Correia A,Mendo S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deterministic models were employed to investigate the biology of Trypanosoma evansi infection in the Indonesian buffalo. Models were fitted to two age-structured data sets of infection. The Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) model was the best supported description of this infection, although the results of the an...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Coen PG,Luckins AG,Davison HC,Woolhouse ME

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) clearance following acute infection range from 14 to 46%. This wide range is likely to be due to the characteristics of the populations studied and analysis methods. This paper examines how differing definitions of clearance parameters affect estimates of viral clearance in a cohor...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Amin J,Law MG,Micallef J,Jauncey M,Van Beek I,Kaldor JM,Dore GJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many years of state-sponsored efforts to eradicate the disease from cattle through testing and slaughter, bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is still regarded as the most important and complex of animal health challenges facing the British livestock agricultural industry. This paper provides a historical analysis of th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Robinson PA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the evaluation of a bancroftian filariasis control programme undertaken in Pondicherry from 1981-5. Integrated vector management was applied in one half of the town, and routine operations under the national programme (larviciding and chemotherapy) continued in the comparison area. The programme ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Subramanian S,Pani SP,Das PK,Rajagopalan PK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to clarify the association between hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) epidemics and meteorological conditions. We used HFMD surveillance data of all 47 prefectures in Japan from January 2000 to December 2015. Spectral analysis was performed using the maximum entropy method (MEM) for tem...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sumi A,Toyoda S,Kanou K,Fujimoto T,Mise K,Kohei Y,Koyama A,Kobayashi N

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Whole apples have not been previously implicated in outbreaks of foodborne bacterial illness. We investigated a nationwide listeriosis outbreak associated with caramel apples. We defined an outbreak-associated case as an infection with one or both of two outbreak strains of Listeria monocytogenes highly related by who...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Angelo KM,Conrad AR,Saupe A,Dragoo H,West N,Sorenson A,Barnes A,Doyle M,Beal J,Jackson KA,Stroika S,Tarr C,Kucerova Z,Lance S,Gould LH,Wise M,Jackson BR

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:This paper compares strains of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) serotype SAT (South African Territories) 2 viruses isolated from Zimbabwe and other African countries using monoclonal antibodies (MAb). A sandwich-ELISA was used to examine the relative binding of anti-SAT 2 MAb to the various viruses. The MAb-binding profil...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Davidson FL,Crowther JR,Nqindi J,Knowles NJ,Thevasagayam SJ,Van Vuuren CJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the results from a novel surveillance system for detecting excess all-cause mortality by age group in England and Wales developed during the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) 2009 period from April 2009 to March 2010. A Poisson regression model was fitted to age-specific mortality data from 1999 to 2008 and used t...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hardelid P,Andrews N,Pebody R

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature on reported cases of a number of foodborne illnesses in England and Wales were investigated. We also explored whether the impact of temperature had changed over time. Food poisoning, campylobacteriosis, salmonellosis, Salmonella Typhimurium infections and Salmonella Enteritidis infections we...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lake IR,Gillespie IA,Bentham G,Nichols GL,Lane C,Adak GK,Threlfall EJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is a cattle respiratory disease that represents one of the major threats to cattle health and production in sub-Saharan Africa. The transmission contact rate of CBPP plays a key role in the spreading dynamics of the disease. We have developed an approach based on the combinatio...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Balenghien T,Chalvet-Monfray K,Bicout DJ,Sabatier P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1985 to 1988, a total of 2496 swine sera from 60 farms in the Tohoku District of the Honshu Island of Japan were examined for antibodies to swine haemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (HEV), human coronavirus (HCV) and bovine coronavirus (BCV) by haemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test. Antibodies to HEV 67N s...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hirano N,Suzuki Y,Haga S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of non-culturable forms of Campylobacter spp., especially with regard to the epidemiology of this organism in poultry flocks, was explored. Two different experiments were conducted to produce non-culturable Campylobacter spp. and test their ability to colonize the animal gut. In the first experiment a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： van de Giessen AW,Heuvelman CJ,Abee T,Hazeleger WC

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the most prevalent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) strains worldwide is the Beijing genotype, which has caused large outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB). Characteristics facilitating the dissemination of Beijing family strains remain unknown, but they are presumed to have been acquired through evolution of the linea...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Liu Y,Wang S,Lu H,Chen W,Wang W

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both case-ascertained household studies, in which households are recruited after an 'index case' is identified, and household cohort studies, where a household is enrolled before the start of the epidemic, may be used to test and estimate the protective effect of interventions used to prevent influenza transmission. A...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Klick B,Nishiura H,Leung GM,Cowling BJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We systematically investigated risk factors for typhoid fever in Kamalapur, a poor urban area of Bangladesh, to inform targeted public health measures for its control. We interviewed patients with typhoid fever and two age-matched controls per case about exposures during the 14 days before the onset of illness. The mu...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ram PK,Naheed A,Brooks WA,Hossain MA,Mintz ED,Breiman RF,Luby SP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) Dhaka we studied the trends in cholera for the period January 1992 to May 1995. Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal emerged as a second aetiologic agent of cholera in Dhaka in January 1993. In 1993, the majority of cholera cases was due to V. c...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Faruque AS,Fuchs GJ,Albert MJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During June-August 2013, 25 US states reported 631 cyclosporiasis cases including Nebraska and Iowa where a regional investigation implicated common-source imported salad mix served in two chain restaurants. At least two common-origin growing fields were likely sources of contaminated romaine lettuce. Using producer- ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Buss BF,Joshi MV,Dement JL,Cantu V,Safranek TJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00