A history of bovine tuberculosis eradication policy in Northern Ireland.

abstract：:A population-based telephone survey of acute gastroenteritis (AG) was conducted in Hong Kong from August 2006 to July 2007. Study subjects were recruited through random digit-dialing with recruitments evenly distributed weekly over the 1-year period. In total, 3743 completed questionnaires were obtained. An AG episode...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ho SC,Chau PH,Fung PK,Sham A,Nelson EA,Sung J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the clinical characteristics of, and outcomes and risk factors for hospital mortality of 390 patients admitted with severe sepsis or septic shock in an intensive care unit (ICU). Prospectively collected data from patients collected between 1 July 2004 and 30 June 2006 were analysed. Overall hos...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Khwannimit B,Bhurayanontachai R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intradermal inoculation of four badgers with small numbers of Mycobacterium bovis resulted in localized lesions with ulceration which slowly healed by 5 months after inoculation. Lesions of generalized tuberculosis were seen in three badgers, one of which died at 17 months post-inoculation and in the remaining two...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pritchard DG,Stuart FA,Brewer JI,Mahmood KH

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruminants are considered the main reservoir for transmission of Coxiella burnetii (Cb) to humans. The implementation of effective control measures against Cb in ruminants requires knowledge about potential risk factors. The objectives of this study were (i) to describe the spatial distribution of Q fever-infected dair...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nusinovici S,Frössling J,Widgren S,Beaudeau F,Lindberg A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2000, 27 milkborne general outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease (IID) were reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC). These outbreaks represented a fraction (2%) of all outbreaks of foodborne origin (N = 1774) report...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gillespie IA,Adak GK,O'Brien SJ,Bolton FJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-point MCA method is very simple to perform and useful as a screening test in diagnosing leptospirosis in routine clinical laboratories. The kit, sensitized with six serovars occurring in Japan, was also useful in detecting serum antibodies of patients with leptospirosis in China. ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Arimitsu Y,Matuhasi T,Kobayashi S,Sato T,Cui JJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission of bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1) within and between herds was studied on the island of Ameland, The Netherlands. There were 50 herds with 3300 head of cattle on the island. Herds were divided into three groups: (1) only containing seronegative cattle, (2) containing seronegative cattle and vaccinated seropo...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hage JJ,Schukken YH,Schols H,Maris-Veldhuis MA,Rijsewijk FA,Klaassen CH

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:SUMMARY Environmental samples are a cost-saving and easy-to-use approach to diagnose paratuberculosis at the herd level. Detailed knowledge concerning its uncertainties in herds with a low prevalence of Mycobacterium avium spp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is required to design sampling strategies in control programmes. Thi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Donat K,Kube J,Dressel J,Einax E,Pfeffer M,Failing K

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we collected and analysed data of the severe burn patients at our institution over an 11-year period in order to shed light on the controversial role of bloodstream infection (BSI) as a predictive factor for mortality in this burn population. The factors examined were age, total body surface area, smoke ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Egozi D,Hussein K,Filson S,Mashiach T,Ullmann Y,Raz-Pasteur A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overuse of antibiotics and the rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance prompted the launch of an antimicrobial stewardship programme in 2011. This study aimed to investigate the trends and correlations between antibiotic consumption and resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary hospital of northwest China...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zhang D,Cui K,Wang T,Dong H,Feng W,Ma C,Dong Y

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between pathogens and hosts at the population level should be considered when studying the effectiveness of control measures for infectious diseases. The advantage of doing transmission experiments compared to field studies is that they offer a controlled environment in which the effect of a single factor...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Velthuis AG,Bouma A,Katsma WE,Nodelijk G,De Jong MC

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Puumala hantavirus (PUUV) causes haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in humans, an endemic disease in Finland. We aimed to study recent trends in PUUV infections in Finland, to evaluate whether there are regional differences in seasonality and long-term cycles and whether the patterns have changed over time. We ana...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sane J,Ollgren J,Makary P,Vapalahti O,Kuusi M,Lyytikäinen O

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new epidemiologic typing method based on electrophoresis of esterases had been developed for differentiating between clinical isolates of Branhamella catarrhalis. Twenty-two epidemiologically significant strains obtained from three Chest Units, a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and a Paediatric Unit were compared wit...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Picard B,Goullet P,Denamur E,Suermondt G

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dogs can be infected by a wide range of Bartonella spp., but limited studies have been conducted in tropical urban and rural dog populations. We aimed to determine Bartonella antibody prevalence in 455 domestic dogs from four tropical countries and detect Bartonella DNA in a subset of these dogs. Bartonella antibodies...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Brenner EC,Chomel BB,Singhasivanon OU,Namekata DY,Kasten RW,Kass PH,Cortés-Vecino JA,Gennari SM,Rajapakse RP,Huong LT,Dubey JP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple cases of atypical scrapie in the same holding and co-existence with classical scrapie have been reported in Great Britain. A two-stage simulation tool was developed by combining a sampling algorithm and a hierarchical Bayesian model to simulate the number of positive cases of atypical scrapie from: (i) random...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ortiz-Peláez A,Arnold ME,Vidal-Diez A

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:This study analyses the epidemiologic, clinical and molecular findings of all culture-confirmed cases of listeriosis notified from 2010 to 2015 in the Tel Aviv District, which is known to have high rates of listeriosis. All clinical isolates of Listeria monocytogenes were subtyped using two-enzyme pulsed-field gel ele...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Salama M,Amitai Z,Ezernitchi AV,Sheffer R,Jaffe J,Rahmani S,Leshem E,Valinsky L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demographic and epidemiological field data were used in a deterministic model to describe dog rabies transmission in Machakos District, Kenya and to predict the impact of potential vaccination strategies for its control. The basic reproduction number (R0) was estimated to be 2.44 (1.52-3.36, 95% confidence limits). Th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kitala PM,McDermott JJ,Coleman PG,Dye C

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Northern Territory of Australia has had historically very high incidence rates of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in children less than 5 years of age, with the burden of disease greatest among Aboriginal infants less than 12 months. This study documents the impact of conjugate Hib vaccines introduc...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Markey P,Krause V,Boslego JW,Coplan PM,Dargan JM,Kaplan KM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrences of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) and Vibrio cholerae infected patients in Hong Kong were reviewed for the 13-year period 1989-2001. Peak activity of CFP preceded peak activity of cholera in nine of the years except in 4 years (1990, 1991, 1992, 1996) where it was observed that the total number of cholera ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kwan LC,Cheung DK,Kam KM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wells-Riley equation for modelling airborne infection in indoor environments is incorporated into an SEIR epidemic model with a short incubation period to simulate the transmission dynamics of airborne infectious diseases in ventilated rooms. The model enables the effect of environmental factors such as the ventil...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Noakes CJ,Beggs CB,Sleigh PA,Kerr KG

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to bacteraemic pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), there is a paucity of data on the clinical characteristics and outcomes of non-bacteraemic pneumococcal CAP. This retrospective study compared the outcome of hospitalized patients with bacteraemic and non-bacteraemic pneumococcal CAP treated a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lin SH,Lai CC,Tan CK,Liao WH,Hsueh PR

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：:To evaluate associations between indicators of livestock farming intensity (manure surplus and livestock density) and acute gastroenteritis hospitalization (AGH) rate, we conducted an ecological study on 306 selected agricultural municipalities of Quebec. We estimated the AGH rate for the period 2000-2004 from the Que...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Febriani Y,Levallois P,Lebel G,Gingras S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00