Long-term epidemiological dynamics of dengue in Barbados - one of the English-speaking Caribbean countries.

abstract：:Pre-existing health conditions may exacerbate the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We aimed to estimate the case-fatality rate (CFR) and rate ratios (RR) for patients with hypertension (HBP) and diabetes mellitus (DM) in the New York state. We obtained the age-specific number of COVID-19 confirmed case...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ge Y,Sun S,Shen Y

更新日期：2021-01-08 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：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is highly prevalent in Spanish hospitals and community long-term-care facilities (LTCFs). This longitudinal study was performed in community LTCFs to determine whether MRSA colonization is associated with MRSA infections and overall mortality. Nasal and decubitus ulce...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Manzur A,De Gopegui ER,Dominguez M,Mariscal D,Gavalda L,Perez JL,Segura F,Pujol M,Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases.

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the occupational significance of tick-borne zoonoses we sought serological evidence of Lyme borreliosis, human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) in a representative sample of farmworkers. Although around 20% reported ticks on their domestic and companion animals, few (...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Thomas DR,Sillis M,Coleman TJ,Kench SM,Ogden NH,Salmon RL,Morgan-Capner P,Softley P,Meadows D

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157 are zoonotic bacteria for which cattle are an important reservoir. Prevalence estimates for E. coli O157 in British cattle for human consumption are over 10 years old. A new baseline is needed to inform current human health risk. The British E. coli O157 in Cattle Study (BECS) ran between Septemb...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Henry MK,Tongue SC,Evans J,Webster C,McKENDRICK IJ,Morgan M,Willett A,Reeves A,Humphry RW,Gally DL,Gunn GJ,Chase-Topping ME

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2002, the burden of norovirus (NoV) infection in Ireland has increased. Outbreaks in institutional settings are the most common causing widespread disruption to health service delivery. This is the first national study of NoV in the Republic of Ireland and its aim was to identify the major NoV strains circulatin...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Waters A,Coughlan S,Dunford L,Hall WW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria cuniculi was isolated, between March 1987 and March 1989, from 38 cases of respiratory disease in small and large ruminants. In all but five cases N. cuniculi was cultured together with other potential respiratory pathogens. A survey was conducted to assess the prevalence of N. cuniculi in the pharyngeal reg...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Elad D,Shlomovitz S,Bernstein M,Bassan J

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1996 to 2004, the incidence of Salmonella Javiana infections increased in FoodNet, the U.S. national active foodborne disease surveillance programme. Contact with amphibians and consumption of tomatoes have been associated with outbreaks of S. Javiana infection. To generate and test hypotheses about risk factors ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Clarkson LS,Tobin-D'Angelo M,Shuler C,Hanna S,Benson J,Voetsch AC

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A discrimination index was applied to assess the value of biotyping and resistotyping, used alone or together, for the subspecific discrimination of Escherichia coli. The index was high when 599 strains from a wide variety of sources were examined by full biotyping with 10 tests. Although the discrimination achieved w...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Crichton PB,Old DC

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plague, which is most often caused by the bite of Yersinia pestis-infected fleas, is a rapidly progressing, serious disease that can be fatal without prompt antibiotic treatment. In late December 2007, an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis occurred in Nimroz Province of southern Afghanistan. Of the 83 probable cases of...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Leslie T,Whitehouse CA,Yingst S,Baldwin C,Kakar F,Mofleh J,Hami AS,Mustafa L,Omar F,Ayazi E,Rossi C,Noormal B,Ziar N,Kakar R

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to systematically review the published literature describing the epidemiological aspects of the first wave of pandemic A(H1N1) 2009 influenza in the Southern Hemisphere. Fifteen studies were included in this review, originating from South America, Australia or New Zealand, and Africa. Across the different st...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Falagas ME,Koletsi PK,Baskouta E,Rafailidis PI,Dimopoulos G,Karageorgopoulos DE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an outbreak of hepatitis A that occurred in Gloucester, UK between September 1989 and January 1991, 162 clinical cases were identified through notifications and laboratory reports, a monthly attack rate of 1.05 per 10,000 residents. The highest attack rate was seen in 5-14-year-olds. There were significant corr...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Majeed FA,Stuart JM,Cartwright KA,Room R,Gilkes JR,Smith MC,Watson BE

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature on reported cases of a number of foodborne illnesses in England and Wales were investigated. We also explored whether the impact of temperature had changed over time. Food poisoning, campylobacteriosis, salmonellosis, Salmonella Typhimurium infections and Salmonella Enteritidis infections we...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lake IR,Gillespie IA,Bentham G,Nichols GL,Lane C,Adak GK,Threlfall EJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National health statistics report a 2·5-fold increase in laboratory-confirmed Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) cases over the last decade in Switzerland where no CT screening programme exists. We obtained essential denominator information to describe the epidemiology of CT in the canton of Basel-Stadt, an urban canton in no...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Schmutz C,Burki D,Frei R,Mäusezahl-Feuz M,Mäusezahl D

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess areas at risk for poliovirus circulation in Ecuador, we first selected provinces at highest risk based on low immunization coverage with three doses of oral poliovirus vaccine, and a low number of reported cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). Subsequently, we reviewed discharge data for the period 1996--2...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Dayan GH,Rodríguez R,Vinjé J,Vásconez N,Cáceres V,Gregoricus N,Sobsey M,Landaverde M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The West Midlands was the first English region to report sustained community transmission during the 'containment' phase of the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic in England. To describe the epidemiological experience in the region, West Midlands and national datasets containing laboratory-confirmed A(H1N1)pdm09 virus ca...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Inglis NJ,Bagnall H,Janmohamed K,Suleman S,Awofisayo A,De Souza V,Smit E,Pebody R,Mohamed H,Ibbotson S,Smith GE,House T,Olowokure B

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines are the cornerstone of influenza control policy, but can suffer from several drawbacks. Seasonal influenza vaccines are prone to production problems and low efficacies, while pandemic vaccines are unlikely to be available in time to slow a rapidly spreading global outbreak. Antiviral therapy was found to be b...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kramer SC,Bansal S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging infections pose a constant threat to society and can require a substantial response, thus systems to assess the threat level and inform prioritization of resources are essential. A systematic approach to assessing the risk from emerging infections to public health in the UK has been developed. This qualitativ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Morgan D,Kirkbride H,Hewitt K,Said B,Walsh AL

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A national, population-based laboratory surveillance of bloodstream infections (BSI) in Finland was performed. Blood-culturing rates were determined from data from clinical microbiology laboratories and trends in rates were evaluated using Poisson regression. During 1995-2002, 51,510 cases of BSI were notified; the an...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Skogberg K,Lyytikäinen O,Ruutu P,Ollgren J,Nuorti JP

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:We analysed the data from the control group in a typhoid vaccine trial in Karachi to assess the differences in individual-, household- and cluster-level characteristics for developing typhoid fever. The annual incidence of typhoid in children aged 2-16 years in the control arm of the vaccine trial was 151/100 000 popu...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Khan MI,Ochiai RL,Soofi SB,Von-Seidlein L,Khan MJ,Sahito SM,Habib MA,Puri MK,Park JK,You YA,Ali M,Nizami SQ,Acosta CJ,Bradley-Sack R,Clemens JD,Bhutta ZA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Rajahmundry town in India, 234 community cases of jaundice were interviewed for risk factors of viral hepatitis B and tested for markers of hepatitis A-E. About 41% and 1.7% of them were positive for anti-HBc and anti-HCV respectively. Of 83 cases who were tested within 3 months of onset of jaundice, 5 (6%), 11 (13...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Singh J,Bhatia R,Patnaik SK,Khare S,Bora D,Jain DC,Sokhey J

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella spp. is the causative agent of a foodborne disease called salmonellosis, which is the second most commonly reported gastrointestinal infection in the European Union (EU). Although over the years the annual number of cases of foodborne salmonellosis within the EU has decreased markedly, in 2014, a total of 8...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Osimani A,Aquilanti L,Clementi F

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is currently a global concern. In this study, our goal was to explore the changing expression levels of acute-phase reaction proteins (APRPs) in the serum of COVID-19 patients and to elucidate the immunological characteristics of COVID-19. In the study design,...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Li L,Chen C

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Common sources of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 infection have been identified by investigating outbreaks and by case-control studies of sporadic infections. We conducted an analysis to attribute STEC O157 infections ascertained in 1996 and 1999 by the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Networ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Cole D,Griffin PM,Fullerton KE,Ayers T,Smith K,Ingram LA,Kissler B,Hoekstra RM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence of human yersiniosis in New Zealand has increased between 2013 and 2017. For surveillance and outbreak investigations it is essential that an appropriate level of discrimination between pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica isolates is provided, in order to support epidemiological linking of connected cases. Su...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Strydom H,Wang J,Paine S,Dyet K,Cullen K,Wright J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Literature surrounding the burden of and factors associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in persons with tuberculosis (TB) disease remains limited and focused on populations outside the USA. Cross-matched New York City (NYC) TB and viral hepatitis surveillance data were used to es...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bushnell G,Stennis NL,Drobnik AM,Proops DC,Ahuja SD,Bornschlegel K,Fuld J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genotype of HCV was determined in 161 chronic HCV-infected patients. The patients were classified into three groups on the basis of the origin of the HCV infection: 50 patients had a history of intravenous drug use (IVDU) but no HIV infection; 41 patients had received blood transfusions, and 70 patients had no kno...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Cilla G,García-Bengoechea M,Perez-Trallero E,Montalvo I,Vicente D,Arenas JI

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed a cross-sectional telephone survey of U.S. adults to assess the impact of selected characteristics on healthcare-seeking behaviours and treatment practices of people with influenza-like illness (ILI) from September 2009 to March 2010. Of 216,431 respondents, 8.1% reported ILI. After adjusting for selected ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Biggerstaff M,Jhung MA,Reed C,Garg S,Balluz L,Fry AM,Finelli L

更新日期：2014-01-01 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