2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) outbreak in a complex of schools in Paris, France, June 2009.

abstract：:An outbreak of influenza A(H1N1)v was confirmed in May and June 2009 in a boarding school in South East England involving 102 symptomatic cases with influenza-like illness. Influenza A(H1N1)v infection was laboratory-confirmed by PCR in 62 pupils and one member of staff. ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Smith A,Coles S,Johnson S,Saldana L,Ihekweazu C,O'Moore E

更新日期：2009-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2009, an improved influenza surveillance system was implemented and weekly reporting to the World Health Organization on influenza-like illness (ILI) began. The goals of the surveillance system are to monitor and analyse the intensity of influenza activity, to provide timely information about circulating ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Rakocevic B,Grgurevic A,Trajkovic G,Mugosa B,Sipetic Grujicic S,Medenica S,Bojovic O,Lozano Alonso JE,Vega T

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive group A streptococcal infection has a 15% case fatality rate and a risk of secondary transmission. This retrospective study used two national data sources from England; enhanced surveillance (2009) and a case management system (2011-2013) to identify clusters of severe group A streptococcal disease. Twenty-fo...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Mearkle R,Saavedra-Campos M,Lamagni T,Usdin M,Coelho J,Chalker V,Sriskandan S,Cordery R,Rawlings C,Balasegaram S

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire survey on the attitude of healthcare workers towards pandemic influenza vaccination showed low acceptance (17%) of the pandemic vaccine. Factors associated with vaccine uptake were acceptance of seasonal influenza vaccination, medical profession and age. The main reason for refusal of vaccination was f...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Rachiotis G,Mouchtouri VA,Kremastinou J,Gourgoulianis K,Hadjichristodoulou C

更新日期：2010-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The worrying increase of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Amsterdam was investigated in two studies carried out by the department of AIDS research of the municipal health service. The results indicate that the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapies (HAART) may have had an influence on the increa...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Stolte G,Dukers NH,de Wit JB,Fennema H,Coutinho RA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to describe trends in infectious syphilis in the UK, and specifically the epidemiology of the London syphilis outbreak, the largest in the UK to date. Analysis of routine surveillance data from genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics was performed as well as data collection through enhanced sur...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Righarts AA,Simms I,Wallace L,Solomou M,Fenton KA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IntroductionIt is unclear whether high-dose influenza vaccine (HD) is more effective at reducing mortality among seniors.AimThis study aimed to evaluate the relative vaccine effectiveness (rVE) of HD. MethodsWe linked electronic medical record databases in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and Medicare administ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Young-Xu Y,Thornton Snider J,Mahmud SM,Russo EM,Van Aalst R,Thommes EW,Lee JK,Chit A

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iberian hares (Lepus granatensis) were recently deemed responsible for an outbreak of human leishmaniasis affecting metropolitan Madrid, Spain. However, the reservoir potential of hares in Europe is poorly known. We report a retrospective survey on Leishmania infantum, the causal agent of zoonotic endemic leishmaniasi...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Ruiz-Fons F,Ferroglio E,Gortázar C

更新日期：2013-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:IntroductionAedes albopictus (Skuse) is an important vector of arboviral diseases, including dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus disease. Monitoring insecticide resistance and mechanisms by which the mosquito develops resistance is crucial to minimise disease transmission.AimTo determine insecticide resistance status a...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Kasai S,Caputo B,Tsunoda T,Cuong TC,Maekawa Y,Lam-Phua SG,Pichler V,Itokawa K,Murota K,Komagata O,Yoshida C,Chung HH,Bellini R,Tsuda Y,Teng HJ,Filho JLL,Alves LC,Ng LC,Minakawa N,Yen NT,Phong TV,Sawabe K,Tomit

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between March 2010 and November 2013 eight laboratory-confirmed cases of serogroup B, invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) were identified in an extended Irish Traveller family across three Health Service Executive (HSE) areas of Ireland. Cases were aged between 5 and 46 months, and were either a cousin or sibling of ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： O'Connor L,Ward M,Bennett D,Mulhall R,O'Lorcain P,Cunney R,McDermott R,Neville E,Heslin J,FitzGerald R,Meyler K,Conlon M,Clarke A,Corcoran B,Fitzpatrick G,O'Connor B,Flanagan P,O'Flanagan D,Cotter S

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in typing methodologies have been the driving force in the field of molecular epidemiology of pathogens. The development of molecular methodologies, and more recently of DNA sequencing methods to complement and improve phenotypic identification methods, was accompanied by the generation of large amounts of da...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Carriço JA,Sabat AJ,Friedrich AW,Ramirez M,ESCMID Study Group for Epidemiological Markers (ESGEM).

更新日期：2013-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In October 2011 in Finland, two persons fell ill with symptoms compatible with botulism after having eaten conserved olives stuffed with almonds. One of these two died. Clostridium botulinum type B and its neurotoxin were detected in the implicated olives by PCR and mouse bioassay, respectively. The olives were traced...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Jalava K,Selby K,Pihlajasaari A,Kolho E,Dahlsten E,Forss N,Bäcklund T,Korkeala H,Honkanen-Buzalski T,Hulkko T,Derman Y,Järvinen A,Kotilainen H,Kultanen L,Ruutu P,Lyytikaïnen O,Lindström M

更新日期：2011-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Several European countries reported outbreaks of severe disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in the late 1980s. This marked a departure from the previous decades, where very few such outbreaks were noted. These changes in disease occurrence formed part of a global phenomenon, the reasons for which have yet to be e...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Lamagni TL,Efstratiou A,Vuopio-Varkila J,Jasir A,Schalén C,Strep-EURO.

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 31 August, a veterinarian and a farmworker were hospitalised for skin lesions. Both had been exposed to a dead cow on 19 August on a farm near Rome, where eight further cattle died of confirmed anthrax later the same month. At admission, the first case showed a black depressed eschar and another smaller lesion on o...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Nicastri E,Vairo F,Mencarini P,Battisti A,Agrati C,Cimini E,Carrara S,D'Arezzo S,Adone R,Vulcano A,Iannetta M,Capone A,Petrosillo N,Fasanella A,Ippolito G,Italian Anthrax Team Members

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the outbreak investigation associated with an unusual increase in Salmonella Goldcoast cases in Hungary observed in autumn 2009, which included descriptive and analytical epidemiological studies and microbiological and veterinary investigations. Sixty cases were identified between 1 January 2009 and 1 Marc...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Horváth JK,Mengel M,Krisztalovics K,Nogrady N,Pászti J,Lenglet A,Takkinen J

更新日期：2013-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundTravel to countries with high or intermediate hepatitis A virus (HAV) endemicity is a risk factor for infection in residents of countries with low HAV endemicity. Aim: The objective of this study was to estimate the risk for hepatitis A among European travellers using surveillance and travel denominator data...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Beauté J,Westrell T,Schmid D,Müller L,Epstein J,Kontio M,Couturier E,Faber M,Mellou K,Borg ML,Friesema I,Vold L,Severi E

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of human brucellosis was diagnosed in France in January 2012. The investigation demonstrated that the case had been contaminated by raw milk cheese from a neighbouring dairy farm. As France has been officially free of bovine brucellosis since 2005, veterinary investigations are being conducted to determine the ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Mailles A,Rautureau S,Le Horgne JM,Poignet-Leroux B,d'Arnoux C,Dennetière G,Faure M,Lavigne JP,Bru JP,Garin-Bastuji B

更新日期：2012-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Depuis la deuxieme moitie des annees 1980, la legionellose associee au voyage est devenue preoccupante pour les pays europeens en raison de la morbidite dans la population europeenne; de plus, l'apparition de cas chez les touristes constitue une menace p ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Galmes Truyols A,Martinez Navarro JF

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are an estimated 17 million human diarrhoea cases annually in the United Kingdom. In 2008 and 2009, enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) were identified in 1.9% of stools. However, it remains unclear whether there is a causal link between presence of EAEC and disease. This study used bacterial load, the presence of ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Chattaway MA,Harris R,Jenkins C,Tam C,Coia JE,Gray J,Iturriza-Gomara M,Wain J

更新日期：2013-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the introduction of various multi-drug resistant bacterial strains, including an NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, through a traveller returning from Egypt, where they had been admitted to a private hospital. All family members of the patient were colonised with one or more extended-spectrum beta-lact...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Bathoorn E,Friedrich AW,Zhou K,Arends JP,Borst DM,Grundmann H,Rossen JW

更新日期：2013-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (Stichting Werkgroep AntibioticaBeleid, SWAB) was founded in 1996 as an initiative of the Society for Infectious Diseases, the Dutch Society for Medical Microbiology, and the Dutch Association of Hospital Pharmacists. Its primary goal is to contribute to the containment of ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Prins JM,Degener JE,de Neeling AJ,Gyssens IC,SWAB Board.

更新日期：2008-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:On 16 April 2011, a working group of World Health Organization (WHO) member states agreed on a pandemic influenza preparedness framework. It regulates the sharing of viruses within the WHO Laboratory Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN) and the access to vaccines, antiviral drugs, diagnostic kits, and other be...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Eurosurveillance editorial team.

更新日期：2011-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in Denmark was enhanced during the 2009–10 winter season with a system monitoring the burden of the pandemic on intensive care units (ICUs), in order to inform policymakers and detect shortages in ICUs in a timely manner. Between week 46 of 2009 and week 11 of 2010, all ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Gubbels S,Perner A,Valentiner-Branth P,Molbak K

更新日期：2010-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibodies and the sequence-based typing (SBT) are two methodologies widely used to characterise Legionella pneumophila strains serogroup 1 (sg1). In this study, we analysed the clinical strains received in two Portuguese laboratories since 1987, including the strains isolated in Portugal during the fou...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Chasqueira MJ,Rodrigues L,Nascimento M,Marques T

更新日期：2009-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of anaphylaxis following meningococcal chemoprophylaxis of a healthcare worker, despite no history of direct contact with a patient who had meningococcal disease. The public health implications of this case are discussed. ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Giovanetti F

更新日期：2009-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in the number of cases of Salmonella enterica serotype Goldcoast infection was observed in England during September 2013. A total of 38 cases were reported, with symptom onset dates between 21 June and 6 October 2013. Epidemiological, environmental, microbiological and food chain evidence all support the c...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Inns T,Beasley G,Lane C,Hopps V,Peters T,Pathak K,Perez-Moreno R,Adak G,Shankar A,Outbreak Control Team.

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the steady rise in human cases which started in 2007, Q fever has become a major public health problem in the Netherlands with 2,357 human cases notified in the year 2009. Ongoing research confirms that abortion waves on dairy goat farms are the primary source of infection for humans, primarily affecting people ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： van der Hoek W,Dijkstra F,Schimmer B,Schneeberger PM,Vellema P,Wijkmans C,ter Schegget R,Hackert V,van Duynhoven Y

更新日期：2010-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) drug resistance mutations among 1,815 patients in Denmark from 2004 to 2016 and characterises transmission clusters. POL sequences were analysed for subtype, drug resistance mutations and phylogenetic relationship. The prevalence of surveillance...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Petersen A,Cowan SA,Nielsen J,Fischer TK,Fonager J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 22 August, a common whitethroat in the Netherlands tested positive for West Nile virus lineage 2. The same bird had tested negative in spring. Subsequent testing of Culex mosquitoes collected in August and early September in the same location generated two of 44 positive mosquito pools, providing first evidence for...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Sikkema RS,Schrama M,van den Berg T,Morren J,Munger E,Krol L,van der Beek JG,Blom R,Chestakova I,van der Linden A,Boter M,van Mastrigt T,Molenkamp R,Koenraadt CJ,van den Brand JM,Oude Munnink BB,Koopmans MP,van der Jeug

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a test-negative design, we assessed interim vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the 2017/18 epidemic of co-circulating influenza A(H3N2) and B(Yamagata) viruses. Adjusted VE for influenza A(H3N2), driven by a predominant subgroup of clade 3C.2a viruses with T131K + R142K + R261Q substitutions, was low at 17% (95% con...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Skowronski DM,Chambers C,De Serres G,Dickinson JA,Winter AL,Hickman R,Chan T,Jassem AN,Drews SJ,Charest H,Gubbay JB,Bastien N,Li Y,Krajden M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00