Detection of Tickborne Relapsing Fever Spirochete, Austin, Texas, USA.

abstract：:On April 23, 2009, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) was notified of a school outbreak of respiratory illness; 2 days later the infection was identified as pandemic (H1N1) 2009. This was the first major outbreak of the illness in the United States. To guide decisions on the public healt...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Balter S,Gupta LS,Lim S,Fu J,Perlman SE,New York City 2009 H1N1 Flu Investigation Team.

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding which emerging infectious diseases are of international public health concern is vital. The International Health Regulations include a decision instrument to help countries determine which public health events are of international concern and require reporting to the World Health Organization (WHO) on th...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Edelstein M,Heymann DL,Giesecke J,Weinberg J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of rats in human hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections remains controversial. A genetically distinct HEV was recently isolated from rats in Germany, and its genome was sequenced. We have isolated a genetically similar HEV from urban rats in Los Angeles, California, USA, and characterized its ability to infect la...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Purcell RH,Engle RE,Rood MP,Kabrane-Lazizi Y,Nguyen HT,Govindarajan S,St Claire M,Emerson SU

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vellore, a region in southern India, has a high incidence of severe human infections with Beta-hemolytic group C and G streptococci (GCGS). To determine the causative species in these infections, we conducted 16S rRNA gene sequencing: Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (81%) and S. anginosus (19%) were the ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Reissmann S,Friedrichs C,Rajkumari R,Itzek A,Fulde M,Rodloff AC,Brahmadathan KN,Chhatwal GS,Nitsche-Schmitz DP

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria with intrinsic resistance to antibiotics are found in nature. Such organisms may acquire additional resistance genes from bacteria introduced into soil or water, and the resident bacteria may be the reservoir or source of widespread resistant organisms found in many environments. We isolated antibiotic-resist...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ash RJ,Mauck B,Morgan M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism attacks warrant urgent public health and medical responses. Response plans for these events may include use of medications and vaccines for which the effects on pregnant women and fetuses are unknown. Healthcare providers must be able to discuss the benefits and r...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cono J,Cragan JD,Jamieson DJ,Rasmussen SA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure of sulfa or sulfone prophylaxis is associated with mutations in Pneumocystis carinii gene coding for dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS). The DHPS genotype was analyzed in AIDS patients who had two separate episodes of P. carinii pneumonia. The results suggest that DHPS mutations can be selected de novo within pat...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nahimana A,Rabodonirina M,Helweg-Larsen J,Meneau I,Francioli P,Bille J,Hauser PM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community transmission of influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was followed by high rates of hospital admissions in the Wellington region of New Zealand, particularly among Maori and Pacific Islanders. These findings may help health authorities anticipate the effects of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in other communities. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Verrall A,Norton K,Rooker S,Dee S,Olsen L,Tan CE,Paull S,Allen R,Blackmore TK

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From July to September 2002, an outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) caused a high number of deaths in captive owls at the Owl Foundation, Vineland, Ontario, Canada. Peak death rates occurred in mid-August, and the epidemiologic curve resembled that of corvids in the surrounding Niagara region. The outbreak occurred in t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gancz AY,Barker IK,Lindsay R,Dibernardo A,McKeever K,Hunter B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic melioidosis is a serious, potentially fatal form of Burkholderia pseudomallei infection. Recently, we reported that a subset of clinical isolates of B. pseudomallei from Australia have heightened virulence and potential for dissemination to the central nervous system. In this study, we demonstrate that this...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Morris JL,Fane A,Sarovich DS,Price EP,Rush CM,Govan BL,Parker E,Mayo M,Currie BJ,Ketheesan N

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease caused by predominantly vectorborne Leishmania spp. In the United States, canine visceral leishmaniasis is common among hounds, and L. infantum vertical transmission among hounds has been confirmed. We found that L. infantum from hounds remains infective in sandflies, underscoring t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Schaut RG,Robles-Murguia M,Juelsgaard R,Esch KJ,Bartholomay LC,Ramalho-Ortigao M,Petersen CA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human parvovirus 4 infections are primarily associated with parenteral exposure in western countries. By ELISA, we demonstrate frequent seropositivity for antibody to parvovirus 4 viral protein 2 among adult populations throughout sub-Saharan Africa (Burkina Faso, 37%; Cameroon, 25%; Democratic Republic of the Congo, ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sharp CP,Vermeulen M,Nébié Y,Djoko CF,LeBreton M,Tamoufe U,Rimoin AW,Kayembe PK,Carr JK,Servant-Delmas A,Laperche S,Harrison GL,Pybus OG,Delwart E,Wolfe ND,Saville A,Lefrère JJ,Simmonds P

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) viruses of clade 2.3.4.4 spread into West Africa in late 2016 during the autumn bird migration. Genetic characterization of the complete genome of these viruses detected in wild and domestic birds in Cameroon in January 2017 demonstrated the occurrence of multiple virus introd...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wade A,Jumbo SD,Zecchin B,Fusaro A,Taiga T,Bianco A,Rodrigue PN,Salomoni A,Kameni JMF,Zamperin G,Nenkam R,Foupouapouognigni Y,Abdoulkadiri S,Aboubakar Y,Wiersma L,Cattoli G,Monne I

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance was enhanced and a retrospective interview study performed in 1998-99 to determine incidence, causes, and costs of foodborne illnesses in Uppsala, Sweden. Sixty-eight percent of the detected foodborne illness incidents were single cases, and 32% were outbreaks. Most (85%) of the incidents came to the atte...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lindqvist R,Andersson Y,Lindbäck J,Wegscheider M,Eriksson Y,Tideström L,Lagerqvist-Widh A,Hedlund KO,Löfdahl S,Svensson L,Norinder A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify risk factors associated with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 among students in Beijing, China, we conducted a case-control study. Participants (304 case-patients and 608 controls, age range 6-19 years) were interviewed by using a standardized questionnaire. We found that in addition to vaccination, nonpharmaceutica...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Zheng Y,Duan W,Yang P,Zhang Y,Wang X,Zhang L,Liyanage SS,Wang Q

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 2009 influenza (H1N1) pandemic, some countries used quarantine for containment or mitigation. Of 152 quarantined university students we studied, risk for illness was higher for students quarantined in a room with a person with a confirmed case; we found no difference between students quarantined in double o...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chu CY,Li CY,Zhang H,Wang Y,Huo DH,Wen L,Yin ZT,Li F,Song HB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive and skin community-associated (CA)-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from children were matched with invasive CA-methicillin-sensitive S. aureus strains during 2000-2004. Isolates were analyzed for presence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin. A USA400 lineage clone (n = 6) and the predominant U...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jaggi P,Paule SM,Peterson LR,Tan TQ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphyllobothriosis is reemerging because of global importation and increased popularity of eating raw fish. We detected Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense plerocercoids in the musculature of wild pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) from Alaska, USA. Therefore, salmon from the American and Asian Pacific coasts and elsewher...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kuchta R,Oros M,Ferguson J,Scholz T

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloth masks have been used in healthcare and community settings to protect the wearer from respiratory infections. The use of cloth masks during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is under debate. The filtration effectiveness of cloth masks is generally lower than that of medical masks and respirators; howeve...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chughtai AA,Seale H,Macintyre CR

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Dengue was first reported in Puerto Rico in 1899 and sporadically thereafter. Following outbreaks in 1963 and 1969, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has worked closely with the Puerto Rico Department of Health to monitor and reduce the public health burden of dengue. During that time, evolving epidemiolo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sharp TM,Ryff KR,Santiago GA,Margolis HS,Waterman SH

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated and characterized Nipah virus (NiV) from Pteropus vampyrus bats, the putative reservoir for the 1998 outbreak in Malaysia, and provide evidence of viral recrudescence. This isolate is monophyletic with previous NiVs in combined analysis, and the nucleocapsid gene phylogeny species. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Rahman SA,Hassan SS,Olival KJ,Mohamed M,Chang LY,Hassan L,Saad NM,Shohaimi SA,Mamat ZC,Naim MS,Epstein JH,Suri AS,Field HE,Daszak P,Henipavirus Ecology Research Group.

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to 50% of persons with HIV and a diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in Thailand die during TB treatment. In a prospective observational study, a team of physicians ascribed the cause of death after reviewing verbal autopsies (interviews of family members about events preceding death), laboratory data, and medical recor...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cain KP,Anekthananon T,Burapat C,Akksilp S,Mankhatitham W,Srinak C,Nateniyom S,Sattayawuthipong W,Tasaneeyapan T,Varma JK

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) isolates that are genetically homogenous and from the Beijing family has been reported in Russia. To map TB transmission caused by these strains, new genotyping systems are needed. Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRUs) offer the possibility of rapid PCR-based typing...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nikolayevskyy V,Gopaul K,Balabanova Y,Brown T,Fedorin I,Drobniewski F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,068 asymptomatic close contacts of patients with severe acute respiratory (SARS) from the 2003 epidemic in Hong Kong were serologically tested, and 2 (0.19%) were positive for SARS coronavirus immunoglobulin G antibody. SARS rarely manifests as a subclinical infection, and at present, wild animal species ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Leung GM,Chung PH,Tsang T,Lim W,Chan SK,Chau P,Donnelly CA,Ghani AC,Fraser C,Riley S,Ferguson NM,Anderson RM,Law YL,Mok T,Ng T,Fu A,Leung PY,Peiris JS,Lam TH,Hedley AJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of serious infections associated with heroin use in persons who inject drugs (PWIDs) occur intermittently and require vigilance and rapid reporting of individual cases. Here, we give a firsthand account of the cases in London during an outbreak of heroin-associated anthrax during 2009-2010 in the United King...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Abbara A,Brooks T,Taylor GP,Nolan M,Donaldson H,Manikon M,Holmes A

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To detect orthopoxvirus in the Brazilian Amazon, we conducted a serosurvey of 344 wild animals. Neutralizing antibodies against orthopoxvirus were detected by plaque-reduction neutralizing tests in 84 serum samples. Amplicons from 6 monkey samples were sequenced. These amplicons identified vaccinia virus genetically s...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Abrahão JS,Silva-Fernandes AT,Lima LS,Campos RK,Guedes MI,Cota MM,Assis FL,Borges IA,Souza-Júnior MF,Lobato ZI,Bonjardim CA,Ferreira PC,Trindade GS,Kroon EG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade tuberculosis (TB) has reemerged as a major worldwide public health hazard with increasing incidence among adults and children. Although cases among children represent a small percentage of all TB cases, infected children are a reservoir from which many adult cases will arise. TB diagnosis in childre...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Khan EA,Starke JR

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance the timeliness of medical evaluation for cholera-like illness during the 2011 cholera outbreak in Hispaniola, printed Travel Health Alert Notices (T-HANs) were distributed to travelers from Haiti to the United States. Evaluation of the T-HANs’ influence on travelers’ health care–seeking behavior suggested T...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Selent MU,McWhorter A,De Rochars VM,Myers R,Hunter DW,Brown CM,Cohen NJ,Molinari NA,Warwar K,Robbins D,Heiman KE,Newton AE,Schmitz A,Oraze MJ,Marano N

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report Mycobacterium chimaera pulmonary disease in 4 patients given a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in a university hospital in Montpellier, France. All patients had M. chimaera-positive expectorated sputum specimens, clinical symptoms of pulmonary exacerbation, or a decrease in spirometry test results that improved...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Larcher R,Lounnas M,Dumont Y,Michon AL,Bonzon L,Chiron R,Carriere C,Klouche K,Godreuil S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00