Molecular Verification of New World Mansonella perstans Parasitemias.

abstract：:In the province of Gipuzkoa, Spain (≈700,000 inhabitants), 7-12 episodes of human listeriosis were recorded annually during 2009-2012. However, during January 2013-February 2014, 27 episodes were detected, including 11 pregnancy-associated cases. Fifteen cases in 2 epidemiologically unrelated outbreaks were caused by ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Pérez-Trallero E,Zigorraga C,Artieda J,Alkorta M,Marimón JM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine typhus was diagnosed by PCR in 50 (7%) of 756 adults with febrile illness seeking treatment at Patan Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Of patients with murine typhus, 64% were women, 86% were residents of Kathmandu, and 90% were unwell during the winter. No characteristics clearly distinguished typhus patients from...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Zimmerman MD,Murdoch DR,Rozmajzl PJ,Basnyat B,Woods CW,Richards AL,Belbase RH,Hammer DA,Anderson TP,Reller LB

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugate vaccines have reduced the incidence of invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae, type b (Hib), in industrialized countries and may be highly effective against Streptococcus pneumoniae. However, the serotype specificity of these vaccines has led to concern that their use may increase carriage of and ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lipsitch M

更新日期：1999-05-01 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

abstract：:An outbreak of nosocomial infections with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus occurred in South Korea in May 2015. Spike glycoprotein genes of virus strains from South Korea were closely related to those of strains from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, virus strains from South Korea showed strain-specific varia...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kim DW,Kim YJ,Park SH,Yun MR,Yang JS,Kang HJ,Han YW,Lee HS,Kim HM,Kim H,Kim AR,Heo DR,Kim SJ,Jeon JH,Park D,Kim JA,Cheong HM,Nam JG,Kim K,Kim SS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred specimens were collected from pediatric patients hospitalized in Singapore; 21 of these specimens tested positive for human metapneumovirus (HMPV), with the A2 genotype predominating. A 5% infection rate was estimated, suggesting that HMPV is a significant cause of morbidity among the pediatric population...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Loo LH,Tan BH,Ng LM,Tee NW,Lin RT,Sugrue RJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homelessness is an increasing public health problem. Because of poor living conditions and limited access to healthcare systems, homeless persons are exposed to many communicable infections. We summarize the intervention measures reported to be efficient for the control and the prevention of common transmissible infec...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Badiaga S,Raoult D,Brouqui P

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After 70 years with no confirmed autochthonous cases of dengue fever in Japan, 19 cases were reported during August-September 2014. Dengue virus serotype 1 was detected in 18 patients. Phylogenetic analysis of the envelope protein genome sequence from 3 patients revealed 100% identity with the strain from the first pa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kutsuna S,Kato Y,Moi ML,Kotaki A,Ota M,Shinohara K,Kobayashi T,Yamamoto K,Fujiya Y,Mawatari M,Sato T,Kunimatsu J,Takeshita N,Hayakawa K,Kanagawa S,Takasaki T,Ohmagari N

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During surveillance for pneumonia of unknown etiology and sentinel hospital-based surveillance in Beijing, China, we detected avian influenza A(H7N9) virus infection in 4 persons who had pneumonia, influenza-like illness, or asymptomatic infections. Samples from poultry workers, associated poultry environments, and wi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Yang P,Pang X,Deng Y,Ma C,Zhang D,Sun Y,Shi W,Lu G,Zhao J,Liu Y,Peng X,Tian Y,Qian H,Chen L,Wang Q

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite use of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, incidence of pleural effusion and empyema (pediatric complicated pneumococcal pneumonia [PCPP]) is reportedly increasing globally. We cultured and performed PCR on 152 pleural fluid samples recovered from pediatric patients in Portugal during 2010-2015 to identif...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Silva-Costa C,Brito MJ,Pinho MD,Friães A,Aguiar SI,Ramirez M,Melo-Cristino J,Portuguese Group for the Study of Streptococcal Infections.,Portuguese Study Group of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society.

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of recent interest in bats as reservoirs of emerging diseases, we investigated the presence of viruses in Mystacina tuberculata bats in New Zealand. A novel alphacoronavirus sequence was detected in guano from roosts of M. tuberculata bats in pristine indigenous forest on a remote offshore island (Codfish Isla...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hall RJ,Wang J,Peacey M,Moore NE,McInnes K,Tompkins DM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis sequence type 11 is an emerging cause of urethritis. We demonstrate by using whole-genome sequencing orogenital transmission of a N. meningitidis sequence type 11 isolate causing urethritis in a monogamous couple of men who have sex with men. These results suggest dissemination of this clonal co...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jannic A,Mammeri H,Larcher L,Descamps V,Tosini W,Phung B,Yazdanpanah Y,Bouscarat F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe thrombocytopenia during or after the course of Zika virus infection has been rarely reported. We report 7 cases of severe thrombocytopenia and hemorrhagic signs and symptoms in Guadeloupe after infection with this virus. Clinical course and laboratory findings strongly suggest a causal link between Zika virus i...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Boyer Chammard T,Schepers K,Breurec S,Messiaen T,Destrem AL,Mahevas M,Soulillou A,Janaud L,Curlier E,Herrmann-Storck C,Hoen B

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of influenza A (H3N2) occurred aboard a U.S. Navy ship in February 1996, despite 95% of the crew's having been appropriately vaccinated. Virus isolated from ill crew members was antigenically distinct from the vaccination strain. With an attack rate of 42%, this outbreak demonstrates the potential for rapi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Earhart KC,Beadle C,Miller LK,Pruss MW,Gray GC,Ledbetter EK,Wallace MR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV; family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus) is an arbovirus that causes severe disease in humans in North America and in equids throughout the Americas. The enzootic transmission cycle of EEEV in North America involves passerine birds and the ornithophilic mosquito vector, Culiseta m...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Arrigo NC,Adams AP,Watts DM,Newman PC,Weaver SC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed progress towards tuberculosis (TB) elimination in the Netherlands by using DNA fingerprinting. Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains were defined as new if the IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism pattern had not been observed in any other patient during the previous 2 years. Other cases we...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Borgdorff MW,van der Werf MJ,de Haas PE,Kremer K,van Soolingen D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the main karyologic changes that have occurred during the dispersion of Triatoma infestans, the main vector of Chagas disease. We identified two allopatric groups, named Andean and non-Andean. The Andean specimens present C-heterochromatic blocks in most of their 22 chromosomes, whereas non-Andean specimen...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Panzera F,Dujardin JP,Nicolini P,Caraccio MN,Rose V,Tellez T,Bermúdez H,Bargues MD,Mas-Coma S,O'Connor JE,Pérez R

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (the cause of Lyme borreliosis) seropositivity in Germany, we tested serum samples from health survey (2008-2011) participants. Seroprevalence was 5.8% among women and 13.0% among men; infection risk was highest among persons >60 years of age. Public health interventions, incl...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wilking H,Fingerle V,Klier C,Thamm M,Stark K

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Bartonella spp. infect humans and many animal species. Mainly because PCR studies have demonstrated Bartonella DNA in ticks, some healthcare providers believe that these microorganisms are transmitted by ticks. B. henselae, in particular, is regarded as being present in and transmissible by the Ixodes scapularis tick....

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Telford SR 3rd,Wormser GP

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:To determine the specificity of Morogoro virus for its reservoir host, we studied its host range and genetic diversity in Tanzania. We found that 2 rodent species other than Mastomys natalensis mice carry arenaviruses. Analysis of 340 nt of the viral RNA polymerase gene showed sympatric occurrence of 3 distinct arenav...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： de Bellocq JG,Borremans B,Katakweba A,Makundi R,Baird SJ,Becker-Ziaja B,Günther S,Leirs H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This 2-year cross-sectional evaluation of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections involved all Israeli medical centers that treat cystic fibrosis patients. The study comprised 186 patients whose sputum was analyzed for NTM. The prevalence of NTM isolates was 22.6%, and 6.5% and 10.8% of the patients fulfilled th...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Levy I,Grisaru-Soen G,Lerner-Geva L,Kerem E,Blau H,Bentur L,Aviram M,Rivlin J,Picard E,Lavy A,Yahav Y,Rahav G

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested 55 deceased vespertilionid bats of 12 species from southern Germany for virus infections. A new adenovirus was isolated from tissue samples of 2 Pipistrellus pipistrellus bats, which represents the only chiropteran virus isolate found in Europe besides lyssavirus (rabies virus). Evidence was found for adenov...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sonntag M,Mühldorfer K,Speck S,Wibbelt G,Kurth A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a polio-like disease that results in paralysis in previously healthy persons. Although the definitive cause of AFM remains unconfirmed, enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is suspected based on 2014 data demonstrating an increase in AFM cases concomitant with an EV-D68 outbreak. We examined the pr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Uprety P,Curtis D,Elkan M,Fink J,Rajagopalan R,Zhao C,Bittinger K,Mitchell S,Ulloa ER,Hopkins S,Graf EH

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a large outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli illness associated with an agricultural show in Australia, we used whole-genome sequencing to detect an IS1203v insertion in the Shiga toxin 2c subunit A gene of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli. Our study showed that clinical illness was mild, and hemolyt...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vasant BR,Stafford RJ,Jennison AV,Bennett SM,Bell RJ,Doyle CJ,Young JR,Vlack SA,Titmus P,El Saadi D,Jarvinen KAJ,Coward P,Barrett J,Staples M,Graham RMA,Smith HV,Lambert SB

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further assess the geographic occurrence, possible vectors, and prevalence of Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, we analyzed spleen tissues from 276 voles trapped close to human settlements in France; 5 were infected with the organism. Sequencing showed the isolates carried the same genotype as the bacteria that c...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vayssier-Taussat M,Le Rhun D,Buffet JP,Maaoui N,Galan M,Guivier E,Charbonnel N,Cosson JF

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water-borne pathogen Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (Lp1) is the most commonly reported etiologic agent of legionellosis. To examine the genetic diversity, the long-term epidemiology, and the molecular evolution of Lp1 clinical isolates, we conducted sequence-based typing on a collection of clinical isolates r...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Tijet N,Tang P,Romilowych M,Duncan C,Ng V,Fisman DN,Jamieson F,Low DE,Guyard C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance for lyssaviruses was conducted among bat populations in 8 provinces in Thailand. In 2002 and 2003, a total of 932 bats of 11 species were captured and released after serum collection. Lyssavirus infection was determined by conducting virus neutralization assays on bat serum samples. Of collected samples, ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lumlertdacha B,Boongird K,Wanghongsa S,Wacharapluesadee S,Chanhome L,Khawplod P,Hemachudha T,Kuzmin I,Rupprecht CE

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seoul hantavirus-associated hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome cases are rare outside Asia and have not yet been found in Germany. We report clinical and molecular evidence for a Seoul virus infection in a patient in Germany. The infection was most likely acquired during a stay in Sulawesi, Indonesia. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hofmann J,Weiss S,Kuhns M,Zinke A,Heinsberger H,Kruger DH

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00