Comparison of different vaccines and induced immune response against Campylobacter jejuni colonization in the infant mouse.

abstract：:The impact of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) on the incidence of pneumococcal meningitis (PM) in children is unknown. To determine this impact, a descriptive multicentre retrospective cohort study was conducted from 2008 to 2013 in northern France. All laboratory-confirmed PM in children aged <18...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chapoutot AG,Dessein R,Guilluy O,Lagrée M,Wallet F,Varon E,Martinot A,Dubos F

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis was undertaken to measure age-specific vaccine effectiveness (VE) of 2010/11 trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine (TIV) and monovalent 2009 pandemic influenza vaccine (PIV) administered in 2009/2010. The test-negative case-control study design was employed based on patients consulting primary care. Overall...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pebody RG,Andrews N,Fleming DM,McMenamin J,Cottrell S,Smyth B,Durnall H,Robertson C,Carman W,Ellis J,Sebastian-Pillai P,Zambon M,Kearns C,Moore C,Thomas DR,Watson JM

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Recent polio outbreaks in Syria and Ukraine, and isolation of poliovirus from asymptomatic carriers in Israel have raised concerns that polio might endanger Europe. We devised a model to calculate the time needed to detect the first case should the disease be imported into Europe, taking the effect of vaccine coverage...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bencskó G,Ferenci T

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the meningococcal insertion sequence IS1301 was analysed in 496 strains of different serogroups and clonal lineages of Neisseria meningitidis, and in 64 neisserial strains other than N. meningitidis. IS1301 was found in meningococci, but not in apathogenic Neisseria sp. and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. T...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hilse R,Stoevesandt J,Caugant DA,Claus H,Frosch M,Vogel U

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the occurrence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Pakistan, blood samples from 105 sequential patients with biopsy-proven CLD (n = 82) and HCC (n = 23) were tested for HBV and HCV markers. Of the 105, 87 (83...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tong CY,Khan R,Beeching NJ,Tariq WU,Hart CA,Ahmad N,Malik IA

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:Effective primary prevention of congenital toxoplasmosis requires up to date information on locally relevant risk factors for infection in pregnant women. In Naples, risk factors for toxoplasma infection were compared in recently infected women (as assessed by detection of specific IgM in serum) and susceptible, IgG n...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Buffolano W,Gilbert RE,Holland FJ,Fratta D,Palumbo F,Ades AE

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies have demonstrated that both bacterial vaginosis (BV) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are strong independent risk factors for subsequent STI. In observational studies of this biological enhancement (BE) hypothesis, it is important to adjust for the risk of STI exposure so that the independent e...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kenyon C,Buyze J,Klebanoff M,Brotman RM

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of patients with severe invasive group-G streptococcal (Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis) infections has been increasing in Japan. The emm genotypes and SmaI-digested pulsed-field gel electrophoresis DNA profiles were variable among the strains isolated, suggesting there has not been clonal exp...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ikebe T,Murayama S,Saitoh K,Yamai S,Suzuki R,Isobe J,Tanaka D,Katsukawa C,Tamaru A,Katayama A,Fujinaga Y,Hoashi K,Watanabe H,Working Group for Streptococci in Japan.

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Leptospira interrogans, hantaviruses (particularly Seoul virus), hepatitis E virus (HEV), and Toxoplasma gondii are rat-associated zoonoses that are responsible for human morbidity and mortality worldwide. This study aimed to describe the infection patterns of these four pathogens in wild rats (Rattus norvegicus) acro...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ayral F,Artois J,Zilber AL,Widén F,Pounder KC,Aubert D,Bicout DJ,Artois M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of 165 nucleotides at the 3' end of the 1D (VP1) gene of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus was determined for 44 type Asia 1 strains isolated from throughout Asia between 1954-92. Analysis of the relationships between the virus genomes showed epidemiological links not previously evident. The possible ori...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ansell DM,Samuel AR,Carpenter WC,Knowles NJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported an outbreak of vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) in a paediatric oncology unit in December 1995 which was associated with widespread environmental contamination of the unit with VRE. We undertook this study to evaluate the effectiveness of the infection control policy instituted subsequent ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nourse C,Byrne C,Murphy H,Kaufmann ME,Clarke A,Butler K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japan has been free from rabies since 1958. A strict import regimen has been adopted since 2004 consisting of identification of an animal with microchip, two-time rabies vaccination, neutralizing antibody titration test and a waiting period of 180 days. The present study aims to quantitatively assess the risk of rabie...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kwan NC,Sugiura K,Hosoi Y,Yamada A,Snary EL

更新日期：2017-04-01 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

abstract：:Clusters of Salmonella Enteritidis cases were identified by the Minnesota Department of Health using both pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) single nucleotide polymorphism analysis from 1 January 2015 through 31 December 2017. The median turnaround time for obtaining WGS results ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Rounds JM,Taylor AJ,Eikmeier D,Nichols MM,Lappi V,Wirth SE,Boxrud DJ,Smith KE,Medus C

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1994 and October 1997, we interviewed 2576 black in-patients with newly diagnosed cancer in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. Blood was tested for HIV-1 and HHV-8 antibodies and the study was restricted to 2191 HIV-1 antibody-negative patients. We examined the relationship between infection with H...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Wojcicki JM,Newton R,Urban M,Stein L,Hale M,Patel M,Ruff P,Sur R,Bourboulia D,Sitas F

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 15-month period in Scotland a small but important number of human Campylobacter cases (3·2%) arose from 91 putative household outbreaks. Of the 26 outbreaks with known strain composition, 89% were composed of the same MLST which supports the potential use of MLST in public health epidemiology. The number of c...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Rotariu O,Smith-Palmer A,Cowden J,Bessell PR,Innocent GT,Reid SW,Matthews L,Dallas J,Ogden ID,Forbes KJ,Strachan NJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Antimicrobial use in pig farming is influenced by a range of risk factors, including herd characteristics, biosecurity level, farm performance, occurrence of clinical signs and vaccination scheme, as well as farmers' attitudes and habits towards antimicrobial use. So far, the effect of these risk factors has been expl...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Collineau L,Bougeard S,Backhans A,Dewulf J,Emanuelson U,Grosse Beilage E,Lehébel A,Lösken S,Postma M,Sjölund M,Stärk KDC,Visschers VHM,Belloc C

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme immunoassays (EIA) for IgG and IgM antibodies against influenza A and B virus are described. One hundred and seven subjects with a clinical diagnosis of acute respiratory infection (influenza, bronchitis or pneumonia) were selected for this study during two epidemics of influenza A which occurred in Finland in ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Koskinen P,Vuorinen T,Meurman O

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early, conforming antibiotic treatment in elderly patients hospitalised for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a key factor in the prognosis and mortality. The objective was to examine whether empirical antibiotic treatment was conforming according to the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery guidelin...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fernandez-Sierra MA,Rueda-Domingo MT,Rodriguez-Del-Aguila MM,Perez-Lozano MJ,Force L,Fernandez-Villa T,Astray J,Egurrola M,Castilla J,Sanz F,Toledo D,Dominguez A,Workgroup Project PI12\/02079.

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of foodborne illness outbreak investigations has evolved, shifting away from large-scale community case-control studies towards more focused case exposure assessments and sub-cluster investigations to identify contaminated food sources. Criteria to include or exclude cases are established to increase the ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Firestone MJ,Lee P,Hedberg CW

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In an incomplete study in 1965 microscopic haematuria in the second or third week after acute pharyngitis was found four times more often in patients with either microbiological or clinical evidence of dual infection with both group A streptococci and a virus than in patients with evidence only of infection with group...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Higgins PM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of acquisition and mean duration of nasal carriage of different serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae have been estimated by fitting a stochastic model to longitudinal carriage data in children from Papua New Guinea. Immunogenicity and two indices of relative invasiveness were determined for each serotype. Immun...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Smith T,Lehmann D,Montgomery J,Gratten M,Riley ID,Alpers MP

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is one of the most commonly identified infectious aetiologies of encephalitis in North America and Europe. The epidemiology of encephalitis beyond these regions, however, is poorly defined. During 2009-2012 we enrolled 313 patients in a multicentre prospective study of encephalitis in Peru, ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Montano SM,Mori N,Nelson CA,Ton TG,Celis V,Ticona E,Sihuincha M,Tilley DH,Kochel T,Zunt JR,Meningoencephalitis Working Group.

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Major surgery carried out in low- and middle-income countries is associated with a high risk of surgical site infections (SSI), but knowledge is limited regarding contributory factors to such infections. This study explores factors related to patients developing an SSI in a teaching hospital in Ghana. A prospective co...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bediako-Bowan AAA,Mølbak K,Kurtzhals JAL,Owusu E,Debrah S,Newman MJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group L, beta-haemolytic streptococci can cause infection in dogs, pigs, cattle and sheep but there have been very few reports in man. In studies of skin infection in meat handlers we cultured group L streptococci from clinically infected wounds, impetigo and paronychia of 15 patients involved in the slaughter and pro...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Barnham M,Neilson DJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00