Case Studies and Literature Review of Pneumococcal Septic Arthritis in Adults.

abstract：:Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to antimicrobial drugs is increasing. To investigate the relationship between antimicrobial use and susceptibility of S. pneumoniae isolates at 24 U.S. medical centers, we obtained data on outpatient antimicrobial-drug use for the regions surrounding 23 of these centers. We found...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Diekema DJ,Brueggemann AB,Doern GV

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent Hendra virus outbreak at a veterinary clinic in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, involved 5 equine and 2 human infections. In contrast to previous outbreaks, infected horses had predominantly encephalitic, rather than respiratory, signs. After an incubation period of 9-16 days, influenza-like illnesses develo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Playford EG,McCall B,Smith G,Slinko V,Allen G,Smith I,Moore F,Taylor C,Kung YH,Field H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1999 outbreak of Nipah virus encephalitis in humans and pigs in Peninsular Malaysia ended with the evacuation of humans and culling of pigs in the epidemic area. Serologic screening showed that, in the absence of infected pigs, dogs were not a secondary reservoir for Nipah virus. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mills JN,Alim AN,Bunning ML,Lee OB,Wagoner KD,Amman BR,Stockton PC,Ksiazek TG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 4 cases of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 13-associated pneumonia. These cases originate from a broad geographic range that includes Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand. L. pneumophila serogroup 13 pneumonia has a clinically diverse spectrum that ranges from relatively mild, community-acquired pneumonia...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Faris B,Faris C,Schousboe M,Heath CH

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiologic, virologic, and modeling reports support the possibility of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission from persons who are presymptomatic (SARS-CoV-2 detected before symptom onset) or asymptomatic (SARS-CoV-2 detected but symptoms never develop). SARS-CoV-2 transmis...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Furukawa NW,Brooks JT,Sobel J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) is a European hantavirus that causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS); case-fatality rates in Balkan countries are as high as 12%. To determine causative agents, we examined 126 cases of DOBV-associated HFRS in central and southern European Russia. In central Russia (Lipetsk, ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Klempa B,Tkachenko EA,Dzagurova TK,Yunicheva YV,Morozov VG,Okulova NM,Slyusareva GP,Smirnov A,Kruger DH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus RNA has been detected in semen samples collected <370 days after symptom onset. We report unusual persistence of Zika virus RNA in semen, confirmed by sequencing at 515 days after symptom onset and detectable for >900 days, in a patient with immunosuppression. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Petridou C,Bonsall D,Ahmed A,Roberts M,Bell C,de Cesare M,Bowden R,Graham V,Bailey D,Simpson A,Aarons E

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A task force of experts on influenza, public health, and animal health met at the conference One Health Approach to Influenza: Assessment of Critical Issues and Options in Washington, DC, on December 1-2, 2009. These experts discussed the role of the One Health approach in preparing for and responding to an influenza ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Powdrill TF,Nipp TL,Rinderknecht JL

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:We conducted a case-control study to investigate factors associated with epidemic cholera. Water treatment and handwashing may have been protective, highlighting the need for personal hygiene for cholera prevention in contaminated urban environments. We also found a diverse diet, a possible proxy for improved nutritio...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Dunkle SE,Mba-Jonas A,Loharikar A,Fouché B,Peck M,Ayers T,Archer WR,De Rochars VM,Bender T,Moffett DB,Tappero JW,Dahourou G,Roels T,Quick R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infection is a well-known complication of breast implant surgery. We identified Mycobacterium senegalense, the principal pathogen of bovine farcy of cattle, in a woman after implant-based breast reconstruction. This finding indicates that unusual pathogens should be considered as an etiology of infected brea...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Carretero O,Reyes C,San-Juan R,Chaves F,López-Roa P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal VGII subtypes (outbreak strains) of Cryptococcus gattii have caused an outbreak in the US Pacific Northwest since 2004. Outbreak-associated infections occur equally in male and female patients (median age 56 years) and usually cause pulmonary disease in persons with underlying medical conditions. Since 2009, a ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Harris JR,Lockhart SR,Sondermeyer G,Vugia DJ,Crist MB,D'Angelo MT,Sellers B,Franco-Paredes C,Makvandi M,Smelser C,Greene J,Stanek D,Signs K,Nett RJ,Chiller T,Park BJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variegated squirrel bornavirus 1 (VSBV-1) is a zoonotic virus that causes fatal encephalitis in humans who are infected after contact with exotic squirrels. We analyzed the brain lesions and the immune responses in all 4 known human cases that showed panencephalitis. Inflammatory infiltrates in areas positive for VSBV...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Tappe D,Schmidt-Chanasit J,Rauch J,Allartz P,Herden C

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four persons with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection had traveled on the same flight from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, to Hong Kong, China. Their virus genetic sequences are identical, unique, and belong to a clade not previously identified in Hong Kong, which strongly suggests that the virus can...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Choi EM,Chu DKW,Cheng PKC,Tsang DNC,Peiris M,Bausch DG,Poon LLM,Watson-Jones D

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first genetic characterization of wildtype measles viruses from Uganda. Thirty-six virus isolates from outbreaks in 6 districts were analyzed from 2000 to 2002. Analyses of sequences of the nucleoprotein (N) and hemagglutinin (H) genes showed that the Ugandan isolates were all closely related, and phylog...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Muwonge A,Nanyunja M,Rota PA,Bwogi J,Lowe L,Liffick SL,Bellini WJ,Sylvester S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a nested polymerase chain reaction for the identification of Borrelia species from serum of patients with unidentified fevers. This technique, based on single nucleotide polymorphisms of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, was used to test blood samples from 7,750 patients, 33 of whom were diagnosed with spirochet...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Brahim H,Perrier-Gros-Claude JD,Postic D,Baranton G,Jambou R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with immunodeficiency-associated vaccine-derived poliovirus (iVDPV) are potential poliovirus reservoirs in the posteradication era that might reintroduce polioviruses into the community. We update the iVDPV registry in Iran by reporting 9 new patients. In addition to national acute flaccid paralysis surveilla...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Shaghaghi M,Shahmahmoodi S,Nili A,Abolhassani H,Madani SP,Nejati A,Yousefi M,Kandelousi YM,Irannejad M,Shaghaghi S,Zahraei SM,Mahmoudi S,Gouya MM,Yazdani R,Azizi G,Parvaneh N,Aghamohammadi A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From July through September 2005, shortly after a typhoon, 40 cases of Burkholderia pseudomallei infection (melioidosis) were identified in southern Taiwan. Two genotypes that had been present in 2000 were identified by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Such a case cluster confirms that melioidosis is endemic to Taiwa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ko WC,Cheung BM,Tang HJ,Shih HI,Lau YJ,Wang LR,Chuang YC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute encephalitis is a severe neurologic syndrome. Determining etiology from among ≈100 possible agents is difficult. To identify infectious etiologies of encephalitis in Thailand, we conducted surveillance in 7 hospitals during July 2003-August 2005 and selected patients with acute onset of brain dysfunction with fe...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Olsen SJ,Campbell AP,Supawat K,Liamsuwan S,Chotpitayasunondh T,Laptikulthum S,Viriyavejakul A,Tantirittisak T,Tunlayadechanont S,Visudtibhan A,Vasiknanonte P,Janjindamai S,Boonluksiri P,Rajborirug K,Watanaveeradej V,Khetsur

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first known case of a device-related bloodstream infection involving Staphylococcus lugdunensis small-colony variants. Recurrent pacemaker-related bloodstream infection within a period of 10 months illustrates the poor clinical and microbiologic response even to prolonged antimicrobial drug therapy in a ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Seifert H,Oltmanns D,Becker K,Wisplinghoff H,von Eiff C

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Haiti is considered chloroquine susceptible, although resistance transporter alleles associated with chloroquine resistance were recently detected. Among 49 patients with falciparum malaria, we found neither parasites carrying haplotypes associated with chloroquine resistance nor insta...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Neuberger A,Zhong K,Kain KC,Schwartz E

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 2,882 Streptococcus pneumoniae sent to the Spanish Reference Laboratory during 2002, 75 (2.6%) were ciprofloxacin-resistant. Resistance was associated with older patients (3.9% in adults and 7.2% in patients > or =65 years of age), with isolation from noninvasive sites (4.3% vs. 1.0%), and with penicillin and ma...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： de la Campa AG,Balsalobre L,Ardanuy C,Fenoll A,Pérez-Trallero E,Liñares J,Spanish Pneumococcal Infection Study Network G03\/103.

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of infectious agents through the mail has concerned public health officials for 5 centuries. The dissemination of anthrax spores in the US mail in 2001 was a recent example. In 1901, two medical journals reported outbreaks of smallpox presumably introduced by letters contaminated with variola viruses. The s...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ambrose CT

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Travelers who have visited tropical areas may exhibit aggressive forms of obligatory myiases, in which the larvae (maggots) invasively feed on living tissue. The risk of a traveler's acquiring a screwworm infestation has been considered negligible, but with the increasing popularity of adventure sports and wildlife tr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Seppänen M,Virolainen-Julkunen A,Kakko I,Vilkamaa P,Meri S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 2019, we investigated monkeypox in a traveler from Nigeria to Singapore. The public health response included rapid identification of contacts, use of quarantine, and postexposure smallpox vaccination. No secondary cases were identified. Countries should develop surveillance systems to detect emerging infectious...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Yong SEF,Ng OT,Ho ZJM,Mak TM,Marimuthu K,Vasoo S,Yeo TW,Ng YK,Cui L,Ferdous Z,Chia PY,Aw BJW,Manauis CM,Low CKK,Chan G,Peh X,Lim PL,Chow LPA,Chan M,Lee VJM,Lin RTP,Heng MKD,Leo YS

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously unidentified strain of avian hepatitis E virus (aHEV) is now endemic among chickens in Taiwan. Analysis showed that the virus is 81.5%-86.5% similar to other aHEVs. In Taiwan, aHEV infection has been reported in chickens without aHEV exposure, suggesting transmission from asymptomatic cases or repeated in...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hsu IW,Tsai HJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tuberculosis (TB) notification rate is high and increasing in 2 communities in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2002, we conducted a prevalence survey among adults > or = 15 years of age to determine the TB prevalence rate; 15% of households in these communities were randomly sampled. All persons living in sampled hous...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： den Boon S,van Lill SW,Borgdorff MW,Enarson DA,Verver S,Bateman ED,Irusen E,Lombard CJ,White NW,de Villiers C,Beyers N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a study of the distribution and prevalence of tickborne infections in Denmark by using roe deer as sentinels. Blood samples from 237 roe deer were collected during the 2002-2003 hunting season. Overall, 36.6% of deer were Borrelia seropositive, while 95.6% were Anaplasma phagocytophilum positive; all anim...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Skarphédinsson S,Jensen PM,Kristiansen K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a human rabies outbreak in southeastern Peru, we collected bats to estimate the prevalence of rabies in various species. Among 165 bats from 6 genera and 10 species, 10.3% were antibody positive; antibody prevalence was similar in vampire and nonvampire bats. Thus, nonvampire bats may also be a source for human ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Salmón-Mulanovich G,Vásquez A,Albújar C,Guevara C,Laguna-Torres VA,Salazar M,Zamalloa H,Cáceres M,Gómez-Benavides J,Pacheco V,Contreras C,Kochel T,Niezgoda M,Jackson FR,Velasco-Villa A,Rupprecht C,Montgomery JM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By applying cumulative sums (CUSUM), a quality control method commonly used in manufacturing, we constructed a process for detecting unusual clusters among reported laboratory isolates of disease-causing organisms. We developed a computer algorithm based on minimal adjustments to the CUSUM method, which cumulates sums...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hutwagner LC,Maloney EK,Bean NH,Slutsker L,Martin SM

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00