Updating the epidemiological transition model.

abstract：:Despite many years of state-sponsored efforts to eradicate the disease from cattle through testing and slaughter, bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is still regarded as the most important and complex of animal health challenges facing the British livestock agricultural industry. This paper provides a historical analysis of th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Robinson PA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on the factors that cause or amplify foodborne illness outbreaks (contributing factors), such as ill workers or cross-contamination of food by workers, is critical to outbreak prevention. However, only about half of foodborne illness outbreaks reported to the United States' Centers for Disease Control and ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Brown LG,Hoover ER,Selman CA,Coleman EW,Schurz Rogers H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite rapid urbanization and increasing affluence in Karachi, cases of cholera are frequent. We analysed computerized isolation data from the AKUH Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Karachi, from 1990-6 to examine microbiological, temporal and demographic trends in Vibrio cholerae infections. During this period 888 s...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sheikh A,Khan A,Malik T,Fisher-Hoch SP

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period 2000-2003, wild grey foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) in northern Colombia became infected with rabies. In order to derive phylogenetic relationships between rabies viruses isolated in foxes, dogs and humans in this region, 902 nt cDNA fragments containing the G-L intergenic region and encoding the c...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Páez A,Saad C,Núñez C,Bóshell J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMMARY Globally, twice as many men as women are being diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) annually. Little is known about gender differentials in TB in Africa. A retrospective cohort analysis of routine data was conducted on adult TB patients treated between 2011 and 2012 in two large healthcare facilities in Nigeria. G...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Oshi SN,Alobu I,Ukwaja KN,Oshi DC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMMARY Two clusters of confirmed cryptosporidiosis infections were detected in Navarra, Spain, in the summer of 2012, in the context of an increased incidence in the region. Molecular subtyping of Cryptosporidium hominis determined that one cluster, occurring in an urban area, was due to the predominant circulating s...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fuentes I,Martín C,Beristain X,Mazón A,Saugar JM,Blanco A,García Cenoz M,Valle-Cristia M,Ezpeleta C,Castilla J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to determine the prevalence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection of beef calves at weaning, prior to arrival at the feedlot or mixing with cattle from other sources. Fifteen range cow-calf herds, which weaned calves in October and November, were sampled in Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Laegreid WW,Elder RO,Keen JE

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic analyses of bartonella have suggested divergence between bartonellae that infect mammals native to the Old and New Worlds. We characterized bartonella isolated from Eastern grey squirrels (Sciurius carolinensis) in the United States and from grey and red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in the United Kingdom ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bown KJ,Ellis BA,Birtles RJ,Durden LA,Lello J,Begon M,Bennett M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South Africa's paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme is managed using a monitoring and evaluation tool known as TIER.Net. This electronic system has several advantages over paper-based systems, allowing profiling of the paediatric ART programme over time. We analysed anonymized TIER.Net data for HIV-infect...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lilian RR,Mutasa B,Railton J,Mongwe W,McINTYRE JA,Struthers HE,Peters RP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eradication of poliomyelitis most likely will occur. In fact, it is almost gone from the Western Hemisphere. Health workers in Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands routinely vaccinate almost all children with the inactivated poliovaccines (IPV). Despite good vaccination coverage, polio can still occur. For example...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Melnick JL

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between pathogens and hosts at the population level should be considered when studying the effectiveness of control measures for infectious diseases. The advantage of doing transmission experiments compared to field studies is that they offer a controlled environment in which the effect of a single factor...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Velthuis AG,Bouma A,Katsma WE,Nodelijk G,De Jong MC

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of band differences in DNA macrorestriction profiles required to distinguish unrelated strains from an index strain varies in an outbreak with the species and restriction enzyme used. In order to define this difference for epidemiological studies of Serratia marcescens, we produced DNA fingerprints from 57 ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Aucken HM,Boquete T,Kaufmann ME,Pitt TL

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to investigate the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in enteric flora in 64 children in rural Bangladesh over a 12-month period. The antibiotic resistance pattern of the isolates varied throughout the year and multiple resistance was highest during the post monsoon period. Seventy-th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mamun KZ,Shears P,Hart CA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the UK the increasing use of pre-admission parenteral antibiotic therapy in meningococcal disease has lessened the value of routine cultures as a tool to confirm diagnosis, and laboratory confirmation of invasive meningococcal infection is achieved increasingly by non-culture, nucleic acid amplification methods. Th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sadler F,Borrow R,Dawson MM,Kaczmarski EB,Cartwright K,Fox AJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three sources of data (general practice episode data from the Weekly Returns Service of the Royal College of General Practitioners, national hospital admission data for England and national mortality data by date of death) were examined separately in each winter (1994/1995 to 1999/2000) to investigate the impact of in...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fleming DM,Cross KW,Pannell RS

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many infectious diseases in humans may manifest with no or mild symptoms. While numerous studies have estimated the proportion of infectious individuals in whom symptoms are absent during the entire course of infection, the contribution of asymptomatic cases to the overall cumulative incidence is difficult to untangle...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Champredon D,Moghadas SM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of Norwalk-like calicivirus (NLV) gastroenteritis occurred in a rehabilitation centre in southern Finland between December 1999 and February 2000. An epidemiological investigation was conducted to determine the source and extent of the outbreak. More than 300 guests and staff members became ill during the ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kuusi M,Nuorti JP,Maunula L,Minh Tran NN,Ratia M,Karlsson J,von Bonsdorff CH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the incidence of cases of nosocomial pathogens and risk factors in an intensive treatment unit ward to determine if the number of cases is dependent on location of patients and the colonization/infection history of the ward. A clustering approach method was developed to investigate the patterns of spre...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Rushton SP,Shirley MD,Sheridan EA,Lanyon CV,O'Donnell AG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite being the commonest bacterial cause of infectious intestinal disease (IID) in England and Wales, outbreaks of campylobacter infection are rarely reported. However, data from the Campylobacter Sentinel Surveillance Scheme suggested that outbreaks might be more common than was previously suspected, since a high ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gillespie IA,O'Brien SJ,Adak GK,Tam CC,Frost JA,Bolton FJ,Tompkins DS,Campylobacter Sentinel Surveillance Scheme Collaborators.

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equine influenza virus (EIV) causes a highly contagious respiratory disease in equids, with confirmed outbreaks in Europe, America, North Africa, and Asia. Although China, Mongolia, and Japan have reported equine influenza outbreaks, Korea has not. Since 2011, we have conducted a routine surveillance programme to dete...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Na W,Kang B,Kim HI,Hong M,Park SJ,Jeoung HY,An DJ,Moon H,Kim JK,Song D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological data suggest a link between the consumption of bovine offal products and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection in Japan. This study thus examined the prevalence of STEC in various types of these foods. PCR screened 229 bovine offal products for the presence of Shiga toxin (stx)...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Asakura H,Saito E,Momose Y,Ekawa T,Sawada M,Yamamoto A,Hasegawa A,Iwahori J,Tsutsui T,Osaka K,Matsushita T,Kakinuma M,Motoyama K,Hayama Y,Kitamoto H,Igimi S,Kasuga F

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to examine trends in incidence, geographical distribution, and survival of classic and AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in the general US population using Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) tumour registries with 12 066 patients diagnosed with KS between 1975 and 2005. Although the a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Armstrong AW,Lam KH,Chase EP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faecal samples from 146 diarrhoeic lambs and goat kids, and from 511 healthy sheep and goats were screened for the presence of Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC). In healthy sheep and goats, VTEC were isolated in 24.4 and 16.2% of the animals, respectively. Moreover, VTEC were detected in 3.1 and 5.9% of...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Orden JA,Ruiz-Santa-Quiteria JA,Blanco M,Blanco JE,Mora A,Cid D,González EA,Blanco J,de la Fuente R

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to determine the frequency of zika (ZIKV), chikungunya (CHIKV) and dengue (DENV) virus coinfection and describe the mortality cases that occurred during the epidemiologic surveillance of the ZIKV epidemic in Colombia. We analysed all cases of suspected ZIKV infection that were reported to the Nationa...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mercado-Reyes M,Acosta-Reyes J,Navarro-Lechuga E,Corchuelo S,Rico A,Parra E,Tolosa N,Pardo L,González M,Martìn-Rodriguez-Hernández J,Karime-Osorio L,Ospina-Martinez M,Rodriguez-Perea H,Del Rio-Pertuz G,Viasus D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty progesterone-treated TO mice were infected intravaginally with Mycoplasma pulmonis. One month later, ten of the mice were given oestradiol which changed the reproductive cycle to the oestrous phase and within a week resulted in eradication of the organisms from six of them; vaginal persistence in the other mice...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Taylor-Robinson D,Furr PM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roughly half (54%) of the 910 young conscripts at a garrison in Finland were vaccinated with commercial influenza vaccines in autumn 1998. During the influenza outbreak in February 1999, 12 H3N2-subtype virus strains were isolated from vaccinated patients, and 11 such strains were isolated from unvaccinated patients. ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pyhälä R,Ikonen N,Haanpää M,Santanen R,Tervahauta R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filariasis is one of the major public health concerns in India. Approximately 600 million people spread across 250 districts of India are at risk of filariasis. To predict this disease, a pilot scale study was carried out in 30 villages of Karimnagar district of Telangana from 2004 to 2007 to collect epidemiological a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kondeti PK,Ravi K,Mutheneni SR,Kadiri MR,Kumaraswamy S,Vadlamani R,Upadhyayula SM

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The patterns of disease caused by five common viruses which infect the respiratory tract are described. The viruses were strains of rhinovirus types 2, 9, and 14, a strain of coronavirus type 229E and of respiratory syncytial virus. Volunteers were given nasal drops containing a low infectious dose of one of the virus...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tyrrell DA,Cohen S,Schlarb JE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West Nile virus (WNV) strains belonging to lineage 2 were detected and isolated from the tissues of a goshawk and two carrion crows in Sardinia in August 2012. According to NS3 sequence analysis, the Sardinian isolates shared a high level of similarity with those of Italian lineage 2 strains which circulated in 2011 a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Savini G,Puggioni G,DI Gennaro A,DI Francesco G,Rocchigiani AM,Polci A,Marini V,Pinoni C,Rolesu S,Marruchella G,Lorusso A,Monaco F

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the genetic background of virulence and resistance genes of MRSA ST398 in Austria. From 2004 up to 2008 a total of 41 human isolates of MRSA ST398 were investigated for virulence and resistance gene patterns using DNA microarray chip analysis. Highly similar virulence gene profiles were found in ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zarfel G,Krziwanek K,Johler S,Hoenigl M,Leitner E,Kittinger C,Masoud L,Feierl G,Grisold AJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00