Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome at Tertiary Care Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2014.

abstract：:Legionella longbeachae, found in soil and compost-derived products, is a globally underdiagnosed cause of Legionnaires' disease. We conducted a case-control study of L. longbeachae Legionnaires' disease in Canterbury, New Zealand. Case-patients were persons hospitalized with L. longbeachae pneumonia, and controls were...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kenagy E,Priest PC,Cameron CM,Smith D,Scott P,Cho V,Mitchell P,Murdoch DR

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium bovis infection in wild red foxes was found in southern France, where livestock and other wildlife species are infected. Foxes frequently interact with cattle but have been underestimated as a reservoir of M. bovis. Our results suggest a possible role of the red fox in the epidemiology of bovine tubercul...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Michelet L,De Cruz K,Hénault S,Tambosco J,Richomme C,Réveillaud É,Gares H,Moyen JL,Boschiroli ML

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:War wound infection and osteomyelitis caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter species have been prevalent during the 2003-2005 military operations in Iraq. Twenty-three soldiers wounded in Iraq and subsequently admitted to our facility from March 2003 to May 2004 had wound cultures positive for Acinetobacter...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Davis KA,Moran KA,McAllister CK,Gray PJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The massive reemergence of diphtheria in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union marked the first large-scale diphtheria epidemic in industrialized countries in 3 decades. Factors contributing to the epidemic included a large population of susceptible adults; decreased childhood immunization, which com...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vitek CR,Wharton M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a surveillance study of patients in a long-term care facility and the affiliated acute care hospital in the United States, we identified a Clostridioides difficile strain related to the epidemic PCR ribotype (RT) 027 strain associated with hospital outbreaks of severe disease. Fifteen patients were infected wit...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Skinner AM,Petrella L,Siddiqui F,Sambol SP,Gulvik CA,Gerding DN,Donskey CJ,Johnson S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humanitarian emergencies often result in population displacement and increase the risk for transmission of communicable diseases. To address the increased risk for outbreaks during humanitarian emergencies, the World Health Organization developed the Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) for early detection...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cordes KM,Cookson ST,Boyd AT,Hardy C,Malik MR,Mala P,El Tahir K,Everard M,Jasiem M,Husain F

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echovirus 13 (EV13), considered rare, was reported worldwide in 2000, mostly related to aseptic meningitis outbreaks. In Spain, 135 EV13 isolates were identified. The genetic relationships between 64 representative strains from Spain and other reported isolates from the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Sweden...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Avellón A,Casas I,Trallero G,Pérez C,Tenorio A,Palacios G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a new polyomavirus in skin lesions from a patient with trichodysplasia spinulosa (TS). Apart from TS being an extremely rare disease, little is known of its epidemiology. On the basis of knowledge regarding other polyomaviruses, we anticipated that infections with trichodysplasia spinulosa-associated pol...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： van der Meijden E,Kazem S,Burgers MM,Janssens R,Bouwes Bavinck JN,de Melker H,Feltkamp MC

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2010, in Veneto Region, Italy, surveillance of summer fevers was conducted to promptly identify autochthonous cases of West Nile fever and increase detection of imported dengue and chikungunya in travelers. Surveillance highlighted the need to modify case definitions, train physicians, and when a case is identified...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gobbi F,Barzon L,Capelli G,Angheben A,Pacenti M,Napoletano G,Piovesan C,Montarsi F,Martini S,Rigoli R,Cattelan AM,Rinaldi R,Conforto M,Russo F,Palù G,Bisoffi Z,Veneto Summer Fever Study Group.

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, usually a sexually transmitted disease, is a risk factor for cervical cancer. Given the substantial disease and death associated with HPV and cervical cancer, development of a prophylactic HPV vaccine is a public health priority. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of vaccinating ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sanders GD,Taira AV

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new Bartonella species for which we propose the name Candidatus Bartonella mayotimonensis. It was isolated from native aortic valve tissue of a person with infective endocarditis. The new species was identified by using PCR amplification and sequencing of 5 genes (16S rRNA gene, ftsZ, rpoB, gltA, and int...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lin EY,Tsigrelis C,Baddour LM,Lepidi H,Rolain JM,Patel R,Raoult D

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) is a European hantavirus that causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS); case-fatality rates in Balkan countries are as high as 12%. To determine causative agents, we examined 126 cases of DOBV-associated HFRS in central and southern European Russia. In central Russia (Lipetsk, ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Klempa B,Tkachenko EA,Dzagurova TK,Yunicheva YV,Morozov VG,Okulova NM,Slyusareva GP,Smirnov A,Kruger DH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine possible modes of virus transmission, we investigated a cluster of coronavirus disease cases associated with a shopping mall in Wenzhou, China. Data indicated that indirect transmission of the causative virus occurred, perhaps resulting from virus contamination of common objects, virus aerosolization in a...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cai J,Sun W,Huang J,Gamber M,Wu J,He G

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread deaths recently devastated the smallest known population of Ethiopian wolves. Of 7 carcasses found, all 3 tested were positive for rabies. Two wolves were subsequently vaccinated for rabies; 1 of these later died from canine distemper. Only 2 of a known population of 13 wolves survived. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Marino J,Sillero-Zubiri C,Deressa A,Bedin E,Bitewa A,Lema F,Rskay G,Banyard A,Fooks AR

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular surveillance of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) was implemented in Europe as case reporting in 2005. For all new MDR TB cases detected from January 2003 through June 2007, countries reported case-based epidemiologic data and DNA fingerprint patterns of MDR TB strains when available. International c...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Devaux I,Kremer K,Heersma H,Van Soolingen D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial infections resulting from cardiac implantable electronic devices are rare, but as more devices are implanted, these organisms are increasingly emerging as causes of early-onset infections. We report a patient with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator pocket and associated bloodstream infection cause...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Phadke VK,Hirsh DS,Goswami ND

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 2019, we investigated monkeypox in a traveler from Nigeria to Singapore. The public health response included rapid identification of contacts, use of quarantine, and postexposure smallpox vaccination. No secondary cases were identified. Countries should develop surveillance systems to detect emerging infectious...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Yong SEF,Ng OT,Ho ZJM,Mak TM,Marimuthu K,Vasoo S,Yeo TW,Ng YK,Cui L,Ferdous Z,Chia PY,Aw BJW,Manauis CM,Low CKK,Chan G,Peh X,Lim PL,Chow LPA,Chan M,Lee VJM,Lin RTP,Heng MKD,Leo YS

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virus isolated from a Natterer's bat (Myotis nattererii) in Germany was differentiated from other lyssaviruses on the basis of the reaction pattern of a panel of monoclonal antibodies. Phylogenetic analysis supported the assumption that the isolated virus, Bokeloh bat lyssavirus, may represent a new member of the ge...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Freuling CM,Beer M,Conraths FJ,Finke S,Hoffmann B,Keller B,Kliemt J,Mettenleiter TC,Mühlbach E,Teifke JP,Wohlsein P,Müller T

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many serologic tests are now available for measuring severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antibodies to evaluate potential protective immunity and for seroprevalence studies. We describe an approach to standardizing positivity thresholds and quantitative values for different assays that uses z-scores to ena...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Das MK,Chaudhary A,Bryan A,Wener MH,Fink SL,Morishima C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faced with an epidemic of an infectious disease, persons may take precautionary actions to try to reduce their risk. Such actions include avoiding situations that persons perceive to be risky, which can have negative health and economic effects. Therefore, we conducted a population-based survey of persons' precautiona...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sadique MZ,Edmunds WJ,Smith RD,Meerding WJ,de Zwart O,Brug J,Beutels P

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:PCR amplification indicated the minimum infection rate of Rickettsia spp. was 0.66% in Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks collected from Shandong Province, China. Phylogenetic analysis based on the rrs, gltA, ompA, and ompB genes indicated that the ticks carried R. japonica, Candidatus Rickettsia longicornii, and a novel...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Qin XR,Han HJ,Han FJ,Zhao FM,Zhang ZT,Xue ZF,Ma DQ,Qi R,Zhao M,Wang LJ,Zhao L,Yu H,Liu JW,Yu XJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baloxavir showed broad-spectrum in vitro replication inhibition of 4 types of influenza viruses (90% effective concentration range 1.2-98.3 nmol/L); susceptibility pattern was influenza A ˃ B ˃ C ˃ D. This drug also inhibited influenza A viruses of avian and swine origin, including viruses that have pandemic potential...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mishin VP,Patel MC,Chesnokov A,De La Cruz J,Nguyen HT,Lollis L,Hodges E,Jang Y,Barnes J,Uyeki T,Davis CT,Wentworth DE,Gubareva LV

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although surgical site infections (SSIs) are known to cause substantial illness and costs during the index hospitalization, little information exists about the impact of infections diagnosed after discharge, which constitute the majority of SSIs. In this study, using patient questionnaire and administrative databases,...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Perencevich EN,Sands KE,Cosgrove SE,Guadagnoli E,Meara E,Platt R

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated chikungunya outbreaks in South India and observed a high attack rate, particularly among adults and women. Transmission was facilitated by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in peridomestic water containers, as indicated by a high Breteau index. We recommended vector control measures and health education to prom...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kaur P,Ponniah M,Murhekar MV,Ramachandran V,Ramachandran R,Raju HK,Perumal V,Mishra AC,Gupte MD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seventh International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID) was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 11-14, 2010. The conference goal was to bring together public health professionals to encourage exchange of scientific and public health information on global emerging infectious disease issues. The con...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Marano N,Smith TL,Hajjeh RA,McDonald M,Bridges CB,Martin SA,Chorba T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trophic network involving molds, invertebrates, and vertebrates, ancestrally adapted to the palm tree (Attalaea phalerata) microhabitat, maintains enzootic Trypanosoma cruzi infections in the Amazonian county Paço do Lumiar, state of Maranhão, Brazil. We assessed seropositivity for T. cruzi infections in the human p...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Teixeira AR,Monteiro PS,Rebelo JM,Argañaraz ER,Vieira D,Lauria-Pires L,Nascimento R,Vexenat CA,Silva AR,Ault SK,Costa JM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human penicilliosis marneffei is an emerging infectious disease caused by the fungus Penicillium marneffei. High prevalence of infection among bamboo rats of the genera Rhizomys and Cannomys suggest that these rodents are a key facet of the P. marneffei life cycle. We trapped bamboo rats during June 2004-July 2005 acr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cao C,Liang L,Wang W,Luo H,Huang S,Liu D,Xu J,Henk DA,Fisher MC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After increasing from 1995 to 1999, invasive erythromycin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae rates per 100,000 decreased 53.6% in children from Baltimore, Maryland (US), from 1999 to 2001, which was partially attributed to strains related to the mefE-carrying England14-9 clone. The decline in infection rates was ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： McEllistrem MC,Adams JM,Shutt K,Sanza LT,Facklam RR,Whitney CG,Jorgensen JH,Harrison LH

更新日期：2005-06-01 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