Beta-haemolytic streptococci from the female genital tract: clinical correlates and outcome of treatment.

abstract：:In December 2008, three hospitalized cases of suspected psittacosis infection were notified by respiratory disease clinicians from a local hospital to the Regional Epidemiology Unit of Pays de la Loire, France. They all had attended a bird fair. A retrospective cohort study was conducted among exhibitors and organizer...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Belchior E,Barataud D,Ollivier R,Capek I,Laroucau K,de Barbeyrac B,Hubert B

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two enterotoxins, shigella enterotoxin 1 (SHET1) and shigella enterotoxin 2 (SHET2) have been recently characterized and are believed to play a role in the clinical manifestation of shigellosis. One hundred and twenty-one isolates of Shigella spp. of 13 different serotypes and variants and 10 isolates of enteroinvasiv...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Yavzori M,Cohen D,Orr N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal transmission of Campylobacter jejuni was investigated in campylobacter-free broiler chicks. One hundred and twenty chicks housed individually, were provided with water containing 10(2)-10(9) c.f.u./ml C. jejuni. Colonization was rapid [47 of 73 (64%) positive cloacal cultures within 3 days and 65 of 73 (89%...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Shanker S,Lee A,Sorrell TC

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:To determine the extent age, sex and co-infection affect morbidity in people infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), we performed a population-based study linking HCV notifications in New South Wales, Australia with their hospital (July 2000 to June 2006), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV notification, and death records...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gidding HF,Amin J,Dore GJ,Law MG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) poses a threat to public health due to its complicated, expensive and often unsuccessful treatment. A cluster of three XDR TB cases was detected among foreign medical students of a Romanian university. The contact investigations included tuberculin skin testing or int...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Popovici O,Monk P,Chemtob D,Chiotan D,Freidlin PJ,Groenheit R,Haanperä M,Homorodean D,Mansjö M,Robinson E,Rorman E,Smith G,Soini H,Van Der Werf MJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to determine the prevalence of HIV infection and risk factors for HIV infection in various population subgroups in Ethiopia. Serum panels from blood donors (n = 2610), from various population subgroups in Ethiopia were tested for anti-HIV-1/2 by ELISA. All ELISA repeatedly reactive samples were subjected f...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sentjens RE,Sisay Y,Vrielink H,Kebede D,Adèr HJ,Leckie G,Reesink HW

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:During a period of 3 years, 1998-2000, 1047 faecal swabs from Black-headed gulls were sampled at one location in Southern Sweden. Salmonella spp. was found in 28 individuals (2.7%) and the dominating serotype found was S. Typhimurium (83%). Twenty-five per cent of the Salmonella-infected gulls were later recaptured an...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Palmgren H,Aspán A,Broman T,Bengtsson K,Blomquist L,Bergström S,Sellin M,Wollin R,Olsen B

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of protection conferred by vaccinated dams on infant mice against colonization by Campylobacter jejuni depended on the bacterial strain, preparation, and route of administration of the vaccine. In some instances of homologous protection, serum bactericidal titres correlated well with protection. However, bo...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Abimiku AG,Dolby JM,Borriello SP

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：:Spatial-temporal patterns of measles incidence reflect the spatial distribution of human hosts. The heterogeneous spatial distribution of communities has been shown to introduce spatially dependent temporal lags in the timing of measles incidence. Incidence patterns reflect internal dynamics within a community and cou...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Vora A,Burke DS,Cummings DA

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public Health England conducts enhanced national surveillance of tetanus, a potentially life-threatening vaccine-preventable disease. A standardized questionnaire was used to ascertain clinical and demographic details of individuals reported with clinically suspected tetanus. The 96 cases identified between 2001 and 2...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Collins S,Amirthalingam G,Beeching NJ,Chand MA,Godbole G,Ramsay ME,Fry NK,White JM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphocyte profile of 521 HIV-infected subjects hospitalized at Jackson Memorial (2001-2002) was compared across main respiratory diseases. Study data included medical history and all laboratory evaluations performed during hospitalization. Community-acquired pneumonias (CAP, 52%), Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Miguez-Burbano MJ,Ashkin D,Rodriguez A,Duncan R,Flores M,Acosta B,Quintero N,Pitchenik A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) can be spread by a variety of mechanisms, including wind. Simulation models, developed to predict the risk of airborne spread, have played an important part in decision making in some outbreaks. The amount of airborne virus excreted as well as the minimal infectious dose (MID) of FM...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Alexandersen S,Donaldson AI

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted the first seroepidemiological study to evaluate the exposure of zoo animals to Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in German zoos and wildlife parks. A total of 1487 individuals representing 148 ungulate and carnivore species belonging to 19 families were examined using a non-species dependent ELISA. Specific antib...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Stoebel K,Schoenberg A,Streich WJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical records, for 2000 and 2001, of symptomatic amoebic patients who were treated at our hospitals in Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka were studied retrospectively for the purpose of gathering epidemiological data on symptomatic Entamoeba histolytica infection. A total of 58 patients were treated. Fifty-five of them were ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ohnishi K,Kato Y,Imamura A,Fukayama M,Tsunoda T,Sakaue Y,Sakamoto M,Sagara H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roughly half (54%) of the 910 young conscripts at a garrison in Finland were vaccinated with commercial influenza vaccines in autumn 1998. During the influenza outbreak in February 1999, 12 H3N2-subtype virus strains were isolated from vaccinated patients, and 11 such strains were isolated from unvaccinated patients. ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pyhälä R,Ikonen N,Haanpää M,Santanen R,Tervahauta R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted during the 2008-2009 respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season in France to compare hospitalization rates for bronchiolitis (RSV-confirmed and all types) between very preterm infants (<33 weeks' gestational age, WGA) without bronchopulmonary dysplasia and full-term infants (39-41 WGA) matched f...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gouyon JB,Rozé JC,Guillermet-Fromentin C,Glorieux I,Adamon L,DI Maio M,Miloradovich T,Anghelescu D,Pinquier D,Escande B,Elleau C

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical modelling is an important tool for understanding the dynamics of the spread of infectious diseases, which could be the result of a natural outbreak or of the intentional release of pathogenic biological agents. Decision makers and policymakers responsible for strategies to contain disease, prevent epidemi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Baldassi F,D'Amico F,Carestia M,Cenciarelli O,Mancinelli S,Gilardi F,Malizia A,DI Giovanni D,Soave PM,Bellecci C,Gaudio P,Palombi L

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the late 1990s, hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has become a common health problem that mostly affects children and infants in Southeast and East Asia. Global climate change is considered to be one of the major risk factors for HFMD. This study aimed to assess the correlation between meteorological factors a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Duan C,Zhang X,Jin H,Cheng X,Wang D,Bao C,Zhou M,Ahmad T,Min J

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) regulation in adults is influenced by early psychosocial adversity, but the role of infectious disease history is poorly understood. We studied the association between cumulative pathogen burden and cortisol profile over the day in a sample of 317 healthy men and women aged ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Steptoe A,Gylfe A,Shamaei-Tousi A,Bergstrom S,Henderson B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although outbreaks of acute respiratory infection (ARI) at shelters are hypothesized to be associated with shelter crowding, no studies have examined this relationship. We conducted a retrospective study by reviewing medical records of evacuees presenting to one of the 37 clinics at the shelters in Ishinomaki city, Ja...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kawano T,Tsugawa Y,Nishiyama K,Morita H,Yamamura O,Hasegawa K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni serogroup reference strains and collections of sporadic and outbreak-associated isolates were examined for restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), using C. jejuni random chromosomal and 16S rRNA gene probes. A collection of 48 Penner (HS) and 14 Lior (HL) serogroup reference strains, pl...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Jackson CJ,Fox AJ,Wareing DR,Hutchinson DN,Jones DM

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:We assessed prevalence of and risk factors for candidaemia following Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) using longitudinal population-based surveillance. Of 13 615 adults with CDI, 113 (0·8%) developed candidaemia in the 120 days following CDI. In a matched case-control analysis, severe CDI and CDI treatment with v...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Vallabhaneni S,Almendares O,Farley MM,Reno J,Smith ZT,Stein B,Magill SS,Smith RM,Cleveland AA,Lessa FC

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plague, which is most often caused by the bite of Yersinia pestis-infected fleas, is a rapidly progressing, serious disease that can be fatal without prompt antibiotic treatment. In late December 2007, an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis occurred in Nimroz Province of southern Afghanistan. Of the 83 probable cases of...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Leslie T,Whitehouse CA,Yingst S,Baldwin C,Kakar F,Mofleh J,Hami AS,Mustafa L,Omar F,Ayazi E,Rossi C,Noormal B,Ziar N,Kakar R

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the joint association of patient and strain characteristics with the outcome of meningococcal disease (MD), data were collected on 563 consecutive cases of MD reported between 1989 and 1990 in The Netherlands. The meningococcal isolates were characterized with regard to their surface characteristics. Se...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Scholten RJ,Bijlmer HA,Valkenburg HA,Dankert J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subtypes of Campylobacter isolates from human infections in two Danish counties were compared to isolates from retail food samples and faecal samples from chickens, pigs and cattle. During a 1-year period, 1285 Campylobacter isolates from these sources were typed by two methods: 'Penner' heat-stable serotyping and...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nielsen EM,Fussing V,Engberg J,Nielsen NL,Neimann J

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic Vibrio species are naturally-occurring bacteria in freshwater and saline aquatic environments. Counts of free-living bacteria in water are generally less than required to induce disease. Increases in number of organisms towards an infective dose can occur as water temperatures rise seasonally followed by gr...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： West PA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00