High-level vancomycin-resistant enterococci causing hospital infections.

abstract：:The introduction and the widespread use of the varicella vaccine in Taiwan has led to a 75-80% decrease in the incidence of varicella in children. However the vaccine's long-term impact on the incidence of herpes zoster (HZ) has attracted attention. By controlling gender, underlying diseases, and age effects, a Poisso...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chao DY,Chien YZ,Yeh YP,Hsu PS,Lian IB

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen people living in or near the city of Gloucester fell ill with Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup (SG) 1 between 27 August and 27 October 1986. Another patient had fallen ill on 30 May. Nine of the 15 were diagnosed retrospectively during a case finding exercise. There were three ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hunt DA,Cartwright KA,Smith MC,Middleton J,Bartlett CL,Lee JV,Dennis PJ,Harper D

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 7 patients with nosocomial Legionnaires' disease to determine the relationship between isolates of Legionella pneumophila recovered from potable water and those recovered from patients. Potable water was cultured from all rooms in which patients had stayed prior to the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease. Th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Marrie TJ,Johnson W,Tyler S,Bezanson G,Haldane D,Burbridge S,Joly J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella spp. continue to be a leading cause of foodborne morbidity worldwide. To assess the risk of foodborne disease, current national regulatory schemes focus on prevalence estimates of Salmonella and other pathogens. The role of pathogen quantification as a risk management measure and its impact on public health...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sampedro F,Wells SJ,Bender JB,Hedberg CW

更新日期：2018-12-06 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：:Computer models can be useful in planning interventions against novel strains of influenza. However such models sometimes make unsubstantiated assumptions about the relative infectivity of asymptomatic and symptomatic cases, or conversely assume there is no impact at all. Using household-level data from known-index st...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Wardell R,Prem K,Cowling BJ,Cook AR

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South Africa's paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme is managed using a monitoring and evaluation tool known as TIER.Net. This electronic system has several advantages over paper-based systems, allowing profiling of the paediatric ART programme over time. We analysed anonymized TIER.Net data for HIV-infect...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lilian RR,Mutasa B,Railton J,Mongwe W,McINTYRE JA,Struthers HE,Peters RP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei was determined in soil collected from a rural district in Papua New Guinea (PNG) where melioidosis had recently been described, predominately affecting children. In 274 samples, 2.6% tested culture-positive for B. pseudomallei. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis using SpeI d...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Warner JM,Pelowa DB,Gal D,Rai G,Mayo M,Currie BJ,Govan B,Skerratt LF,Hirst RG

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses (NoVs) are major causal agents of acute gastroenteritis in humans. NoV GII.4 is the predominant genotype globally. However, uncommon and minor types of NoVs are consistently detected and some have been shown to dominate over GII.4. Therefore, the prevalence of dominant and uncommon NoVs makes the identific...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lee JW,Lee SG,Cho HG,Park YJ,Yun JW,Park CJ,Paik SY

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine work-related blood and body fluid exposure (BBFE) among health-care workers (HCWs), to explore potential risk factors and to provide policy suggestions, a 6-year retrospective study of all reported BBFE among HCWs (1998-2003) was conducted in a 430-bed teaching hospital in Australia. Results showed that BBF...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bi P,Tully PJ,Pearce S,Hiller JE

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyse sociodemographic, viroimmunological and clinical parameters in different HIV-transmission categories at baseline and during treatment, 3039 patients were followed up for 12 months after the initiation of a nelfinavir-based regimen. Multiple baseline parameters were significantly different in the diverse cat...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Collazos J,Asensi V,Carton JA,Grupo Español para el Estudio Multifactorial de la Adherencia (GEEMA).

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many contradictory articles on the infectivity of non-culturable Campylobacter jejuni can be found. We studied the effect of non-culturable C. jejuni in an in vitro assay. To prevent the potential effect of a few culturable bacteria in the non-culturable suspension, INT-407 cells, which mimic the outer cell layer in t...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Verhoeff-Bakkenes L,Hazeleger WC,Zwietering MH,De Jonge R

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Despite the frequency of Campylobacter as the principal cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in the UK, outbreaks attributed to this pathogen are rare. One hundred and fourteen general foodborne outbreaks of campylobacteriosis were reported to the Health Protection Agency from 1992 to 2009 with most occurring in food se...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Little CL,Gormley FJ,Rawal N,Richardson JF

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carrion is a major source of botulinal toxin for animals. A type D strain of Clostridium botulinum differed from type A and B strains in producing (1) much higher concentrations of toxin in putrefying mouse carcasses at several different temperatures over a period of 35 days, (2) toxicity that sometimes persisted in m...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ortiz NE,Smith GR

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is currently a global concern. In this study, our goal was to explore the changing expression levels of acute-phase reaction proteins (APRPs) in the serum of COVID-19 patients and to elucidate the immunological characteristics of COVID-19. In the study design,...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Li L,Chen C

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to locate the knots of cumulative coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case number during the first-level response to public health emergency in the provinces of China except Hubei. The provinces were grouped into three regions, namely eastern, central and western provinces, and the trends between adjac...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Liang C,Shen L

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Injecting drug users (IDUs) account for most new HCV infections. The objectives of this study were: to estimate the force of infection for hepatitis C virus in IDUs within the interval-censoring framework and to determine the impact of risk factors such as frequency of injection, drug injected, sharing of syringes and...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Castro-Sánchez A,Shkedy Z,Hens N,Aerts M,Geskus R,Prins M,Wiessing L,Kretzschmar M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filariasis is one of the major public health concerns in India. Approximately 600 million people spread across 250 districts of India are at risk of filariasis. To predict this disease, a pilot scale study was carried out in 30 villages of Karimnagar district of Telangana from 2004 to 2007 to collect epidemiological a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kondeti PK,Ravi K,Mutheneni SR,Kadiri MR,Kumaraswamy S,Vadlamani R,Upadhyayula SM

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that the reservoir hosts of cowpox virus are wild rodents, although direct evidence for this is lacking for much of the virus's geographic range. Here, through a combination of serology and PCR, we demonstrate conclusively that the main hosts in Great Britain are bank voles, wood mice and shor...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chantrey J,Meyer H,Baxby D,Begon M,Bown KJ,Hazel SM,Jones T,Montgomery WI,Bennett M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni infection occurred in a South Wales Valleys housing estate. Illness in estate residents was associated with tap water consumption [population attributable risk (PAR) 50%, relative risk (RR) 2.53, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.9-3.37] and residence in the upper estate (PAR 49%, RR 2...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Richardson G,Thomas DR,Smith RM,Nehaul L,Ribeiro CD,Brown AG,Salmon RL

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 10% of acute rotavirus gastroenteritis (ARGE) requires hospitalization because of complications. The aggravating factors have been widely analysed, but in an isolated way. We aimed to explore the interrelationship between the clinical and epidemiological factors that characterize rotavirus hospitalizations in Spa...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Redondo-González O,Tenías-Burillo JM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Pst I-generated digests of genomic DNA from each of the type strains of 49 of the Vi phage types of Salmonella typhi were probed with a PCR-amplified IS200 gene probe, all strains were found to possess at least 11 IS200 elements carried on fragments in the range 24.2-1.2 kb. Fourteen fingerprints were identified ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Threlfall EJ,Torre E,Ward LR,Dávalos-Pérez A,Rowe B,Gibert I

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral hepatitis is recognized as one of the most frequently reported diseases, and especially in China, acute and chronic liver disease due to viral hepatitis has been a major public health problem. The present study aimed to analyse and predict surveillance data of infections of hepatitis A, B, C and E in Wuhan, Chin...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sumi A,Luo T,Zhou D,Yu B,Kong D,Kobayashi N

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annual periodicities of reported chickenpox cases have been observed in several countries. Of these, Japan has reported a two-peaked, bimodal annual cycle of reported chickenpox cases. This study investigated the possible underlying association of the bimodal cycle observed in the surveillance data of reported chicken...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Harigane K,Sumi A,Mise K,Kobayashi N

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2013 multistate outbreaks contributed to the largest annual number of reported US cases of cyclosporiasis since 1997. In this paper we focus on investigations in Texas. We defined an outbreak-associated case as laboratory-confirmed cyclosporiasis in a person with illness onset between 1 June and 31 August 2013, wi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Abanyie F,Harvey RR,Harris JR,Wiegand RE,Gaul L,Desvignes-Kendrick M,Irvin K,Williams I,Hall RL,Herwaldt B,Gray EB,Qvarnstrom Y,Wise ME,Cantu V,Cantey PT,Bosch S,DA Silva AJ,Fields A,Bishop H,Wellman A,Beal J,Wi

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A matched and serologically confirmed case-control study was carried out to investigate the source of an outbreak of acute hepatitis involving 290,000 cases in the suburbs of Shanghai, in January 1988. A total of 132 patients with acute hepatitis from six different hospitals were chosen as cases and the same number of...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tang YW,Wang JX,Xu ZY,Guo YF,Qian WH,Xu JX

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis was identified as the cause of a die-off which occurred among a colony of semi-free-living common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). During the outbreak 5 out of 62 animals died of tularaemia in a research facility located in the district of Goettingen, Germany. All animals had been born at the fac...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Splettstoesser WD,Mätz-Rensing K,Seibold E,Tomaso H,Al Dahouk S,Grunow R,Essbauer S,Buckendahl A,Finke EJ,Neubauer H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As influenza vaccination is now widely recommended, randomized clinical trials are no longer ethical in many populations. Therefore, observational studies on patients seeking medical care for acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs) are a popular option for estimating influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE). We developed a pro...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Haber M,An Q,Foppa IM,Shay DK,Ferdinands JM,Orenstein WA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the frequency of serogroup B non serotypable (B:NT) meningococci isolated in England and Wales were investigated by T-track fingerprint analysis, DNA nucleotide sequence determination, and serotyping by whole cell ELISA and dot blot assay. Seventy-three per cent of the isolates designated as B:NT by the Men...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Urwin R,Feavers IM,Jones DM,Maiden MC,Fox AJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00