Patient Report and Review of Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infection after Cardiac Device Implantation.

abstract：:Determination of the etiology of bacterial meningitis and estimating cost of disease are important in guiding vaccination policies. To determine the incidence and etiology of meningitis in Turkey, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were obtained prospectively from children (1 month-17 years of age) with a clinical diag...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ceyhan M,Yildirim I,Balmer P,Borrow R,Dikici B,Turgut M,Kurt N,Aydogan A,Ecevit C,Anlar Y,Gulumser O,Tanir G,Salman N,Gurler N,Hatipoglu N,Hacimustafaoglu M,Celebi S,Coskun Y,Alhan E,Celik U,Camcioglu Y,Secmeer

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent trapping and drag sampling in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, yielded all stages of Ixodes scapularis, the deer tick vector of Lyme disease and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE). Polymerase chain reaction analyses of the ticks showed Borrelia burgdorferi and the Ehrlichia sp. that causes HGE. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Daniels TJ,Falco RC,Schwartz I,Varde S,Robbins RG

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite high vaccination coverage in most European countries, large community outbreaks of measles do occur, normally clustered around schools and resulting from suboptimal vaccination coverage. To determine whether or when it is worth implementing outbreak-response vaccination campaigns in schools, we used stochastic...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bonačić Marinović AA,Swaan C,Wichmann O,van Steenbergen J,Kretzschmar M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Powerful diagnostic technology, plus the realization that organisms of otherwise unimpressive virulence can produce slowly progressive chronic disease with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and disease outcomes, has resulted in the discovery of new infectious agents and new concepts of infectious diseases. Th...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cassell GH

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) isolates that are genetically homogenous and from the Beijing family has been reported in Russia. To map TB transmission caused by these strains, new genotyping systems are needed. Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRUs) offer the possibility of rapid PCR-based typing...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nikolayevskyy V,Gopaul K,Balabanova Y,Brown T,Fedorin I,Drobniewski F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human metapneumovirus pneumonia, most commonly found in children, was diagnosed in an adult with encephalitis. This case suggests that testing for human metapneumovirus RNA in nasopharyngeal aspirate and cerebrospinal fluid samples should be considered in adults with encephalitis who have a preceding respiratory infec...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fok A,Mateevici C,Lin B,Chandra RV,Chong VH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compensate for the lack of laboratories in remote areas, the national reference laboratory for meningitis in Niger used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to enhance the surveillance of meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Haemophilus influenzae. PCR effectively documented the wid...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sidikou F,Djibo S,Taha MK,Alonso JM,Djibo A,Kairo KK,Chanteau S,Boisier P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sentinel group of primary-care physicians in Wales actively reported cases of acute bloody diarrhea from February 1997 through December 1998. The estimated annual rate was 18 cases per 100,000 population. Most (80%) cases were due to Campylobacter or Salmonella; however, 18% were undiagnosed. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chalmers RM,Salmon RL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1985-2005, a total of 91 laboratory-confirmed outbreaks of foodborne botulism occurred in Canada; these outbreaks involved 205 cases and 11 deaths. Of the outbreaks, 75 (86.2%) were caused by Clostridium botulinum type E, followed by types A (7, 8.1%) and B (5, 5.7%). Approximately 85% of the outbreaks occurred...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Leclair D,Fung J,Isaac-Renton JL,Proulx JF,May-Hadford J,Ellis A,Ashton E,Bekal S,Farber JM,Blanchfield B,Austin JW

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to antimicrobial drugs is increasing. To investigate the relationship between antimicrobial use and susceptibility of S. pneumoniae isolates at 24 U.S. medical centers, we obtained data on outpatient antimicrobial-drug use for the regions surrounding 23 of these centers. We found...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Diekema DJ,Brueggemann AB,Doern GV

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the societal costs and benefits of a subtype-specific surveillance system for identifying outbreak-associated Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections. Using data from Colorado, we estimated that if it averted five cases annually, the system would recover all its costs. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Elbasha EH,Fitzsimmons TD,Meltzer MI

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carriage of the New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase variant 1 (NDM-1) enables drug resistance to move between communities and hospitals. In Bangladesh, we found the blaNDM-1 gene in 62% of environmental waters and in fermentative and nonfermentative gram-negative bacteria. Escherichia coli sequence type (ST) 101 was most co...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Toleman MA,Bugert JJ,Nizam SA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) remains a serious international public health threat. With the goal of accelerating the development of countermeasures against MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV), funding agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and researchers across the world assembled in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Nov...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Excler JL,Delvecchio CJ,Wiley RE,Williams M,Yoon IK,Modjarrad K,Boujelal M,Moorthy VS,Hersi AS,Kim JH,MERS-CoV Vaccine Working Group.

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A is increasingly a cause of enteric fever. Sequence analysis of an Indian isolate showed a unique strain with high-level resistance to ciprofloxacin associated with double mutations in the DNA gyrase subunit gyrA (Ser83-->Phe and Asp87-->Gly) and a mutation in topoisomerase IV su...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nair S,Unnikrishnan M,Turner K,Parija SC,Churcher C,Wain J,Harish N

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 161 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania tropica occurred in the Jerusalem district during 2004-2005; 127 (79%) cases were in a town just outside Jerusalem. Environmental models suggest that in the context of global warming, this outbreak has the potential to extend into Jerusalem. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Singer SR,Abramson N,Shoob H,Zaken O,Zentner G,Stein-Zamir C

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate effectiveness of seasonal trivalent and monovalent influenza vaccines against pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus, we conducted a test-negative case-control study in Victoria, Australia, in 2010. Patients seen for influenza-like illness by general practitioners in a sentinel surveillance network during ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fielding JE,Grant KA,Garcia K,Kelly HA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first case of spongiform encephalopathy in a zebu (Bos indicus) was identified in a zoo in Switzerland. Although histopathologic and immunohistochemical analyses of the central nervous system indicated a diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), molecular typing showed some features different from those...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Seuberlich T,Botteron C,Wenker C,Café-Marçal VA,Oevermann A,Haase B,Leeb T,Heim D,Zurbriggen A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ross River virus, a mosquitoborne alphavirus, causes epidemic polyarthritis in Australia and the Pacific region. We analyzed serum cytokine, chemokine, and growth factor levels in travelers returning to Germany from Australia. Serum samples showed elevated concentrations in the acute phase of the illness and, more pro...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Tappe D,Pérez-Girón JV,Gómez-Medina S,Günther S,Muñoz-Fontela C,Schmidt-Chanasit J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal endophthalmitis is a rare but serious infection. In March 2012, several cases of probable and laboratory-confirmed fungal endophthalmitis occurring after invasive ocular procedures were reported nationwide. We identified 47 cases in 9 states: 21 patients had been exposed to the intraocular dye Brilliant Blue G ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mikosz CA,Smith RM,Kim M,Tyson C,Lee EH,Adams E,Straif-Bourgeois S,Sowadsky R,Arroyo S,Grant-Greene Y,Duran J,Vasquez Y,Robinson BF,Harris JR,Lockhart SR,Török TJ,Mascola L,Park BJ,Fungal Endophthalmitis Outbreak Resp

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Bartonella quintana is a bacterium that causes trench fever in humans. Past reports have shown Bartonella spp. infections in homeless populations in San Francisco, California, USA. The California Department of Public Health in collaboration with San Francisco Project Homeless Connect initiated a program in 2007 to col...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bonilla DL,Kabeya H,Henn J,Kramer VL,Kosoy MY

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the outbreak in Wuhan, China, we assessed 29,299 workers screened for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 by reverse transcription PCR. We noted 18 (0.061%) cases of asymptomatic infection; 13 turned negative within 8.0 days, and 41 close contacts tested negative. Among 6 contacts who had serologic t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Han X,Wei X,Alwalid O,Cao Y,Li Y,Wang L,Shi H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Madagascar is more seriously affected by plague, a zoonosis caused by Yersinia pestis, than any other country. The Plague National Control Program was established in 1993 and includes human surveillance. During 1998-2016, a total of 13,234 suspected cases were recorded, mainly from the central highlands; 27% were conf...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Andrianaivoarimanana V,Piola P,Wagner DM,Rakotomanana F,Maheriniaina V,Andrianalimanana S,Chanteau S,Rahalison L,Ratsitorahina M,Rajerison M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated Treponema pallidum infection in 8 nonhuman primate species (289 animals) in Tanzania during 2015-2017. We used a serologic treponemal test to detect antibodies against the bacterium. Infection was further confirmed from tissue samples of skin-ulcerated animals by 3 independent PCRs (polA, tp47, and TP_...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chuma IS,Batamuzi EK,Collins DA,Fyumagwa RD,Hallmaier-Wacker LK,Kazwala RR,Keyyu JD,Lejora IA,Lipende IF,Lüert S,Paciência FMD,Piel A,Stewart FA,Zinner D,Roos C,Knauf S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human infection with avian influenza A(H9N2) virus was identified in Bangladesh in 2011. Surveillance for influenza viruses in apparently healthy poultry in live-bird markets in Bangladesh during 2008-2011 showed that subtype H9N2 viruses are isolated year-round, whereas highly pathogenic subtype H5N1 viruses are co-i...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Shanmuganatham K,Feeroz MM,Jones-Engel L,Smith GJ,Fourment M,Walker D,McClenaghan L,Alam SM,Hasan MK,Seiler P,Franks J,Danner A,Barman S,McKenzie P,Krauss S,Webby RJ,Webster RG

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the association of colonization by Staphylococcus aureus and general population mortality, we followed 10,598 adults for 8.5 years on average. Methicillin-susceptible S. aureus colonization was not associated with death. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus carriage predicted death in a crude analysis but not af...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mendy A,Vieira ER,Albatineh AN,Gasana J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe incidence and risk factors for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus infection in healthcare personnel during the June-September 2009 epidemic in Singapore. Personnel contributed 3 serologic samples during June-October 2009, with seroconversion defined as a ≥4-fold increase in hemagglutination inhibition titers to pa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chen MI,Lee VJ,Barr I,Lin C,Goh R,Lee C,Singh B,Tan J,Lim WY,Cook AR,Ang B,Chow A,Tan BH,Loh J,Shaw R,Chia KS,Lin RT,Leo YS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 68 (EV68) is a rare enterovirus associated with respiratory illness that, unlike other enteroviruses, has been identified only from respiratory specimens. We identified EV68 from respiratory specimens of children hospitalized with a diagnosis of severe pneumonia in Leyte, Republic of the Philippines. Twent...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Imamura T,Fuji N,Suzuki A,Tamaki R,Saito M,Aniceto R,Galang H,Sombrero L,Lupisan S,Oshitani H

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified Salmonella genomic island I (SGI1) in an isolate of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi B. This antibiotic-resistance gene cluster, which confers multidrug resistance, has been previously identified in S. enterica serotype Typhimurium phage types DT 104 and DT 120 and in S. enterica serotype Agon...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Meunier D,Boyd D,Mulvey MR,Baucheron S,Mammina C,Nastasi A,Chaslus-Dancla E,Cloeckaert A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of West Nile (WN) virus occurred in the New York metropolitan area in 1999 and 2000. Nineteen patients diagnosed with WN infection were hospitalized in New York and New Jersey in 2000 and were included in this review. Eleven patients had encephalitis or meningoencephalitis, and eight had meningitis alone. Ag...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Weiss D,Carr D,Kellachan J,Tan C,Phillips M,Bresnitz E,Layton M,West Nile Virus Outbreak Response Working Group.

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00