Fatal Rodentborne Leptospirosis in Prison Inmates, South Africa, 2015.

abstract：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a highly contagious viral tick-borne disease with case-fatality rates as high as 50%. We describe a collaborative evaluation of the characteristics, performance, and on-site applicability of serologic and molecular assays for diagnosis of CCHF. We evaluated ELISA, immunofluore...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vanhomwegen J,Alves MJ,Zupanc TA,Bino S,Chinikar S,Karlberg H,Korukluoğlu G,Korva M,Mardani M,Mirazimi A,Mousavi M,Papa A,Saksida A,Sharifi-Mood B,Sidira P,Tsergouli K,Wölfel R,Zeller H,Dubois P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the sudden death of captive marmosets in São Paulo, Brazil, we conducted a histologic and microbiologic study. We found hyperacute septicemia caused by hypermucoviscous sequence type 86 K2 Klebsiella pneumoniae. We implemented prophylactic antimicrobial therapy, selected dedicated staff for marmoset interactions...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Guerra JM,Fernandes NCCA,Morales Dos Santos AL,Barrel JSP,Petri BSS,Milanelo L,Tiba-Casas MR,Liserre AM,Gonçalves CR,Sacchi CT,Catão-Dias JL,Camargo CH

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial infections resulting from cardiac implantable electronic devices are rare, but as more devices are implanted, these organisms are increasingly emerging as causes of early-onset infections. We report a patient with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator pocket and associated bloodstream infection cause...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Phadke VK,Hirsh DS,Goswami ND

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, usually a sexually transmitted disease, is a risk factor for cervical cancer. Given the substantial disease and death associated with HPV and cervical cancer, development of a prophylactic HPV vaccine is a public health priority. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of vaccinating ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sanders GD,Taira AV

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vancouver Island, Canada, reports the world's highest incidence of Cryptococcus gattii infection among humans and animals. To identify key biophysical factors modulating environmental concentrations, we evaluated monthly concentrations of C. gatti in air, soil, and trees over a 3-year period. The 2 study datasets were...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Uejio CK,Mak S,Manangan A,Luber G,Bartlett KH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Bartonella contains >40 species, and an increasing number of these Bartonella species are being implicated in human disease. One such pathogen is Bartonella ancashensis, which was isolated in blood samples from 2 patients living in Caraz, Peru, during a clinical trial of treatment for bartonellosis. Three B....

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mullins KE,Hang J,Clifford RJ,Onmus-Leone F,Yang Y,Jiang J,Leguia M,Kasper MR,Maguina C,Lesho EP,Jarman RG,Richards A,Blazes D

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreak data have been used to estimate the proportion of illnesses attributable to different foods. Applying outbreak-based attribution estimates to nonoutbreak foodborne illnesses requires an assumption of similar exposure pathways for outbreak and sporadic illnesses. This assumption cannot be tested, but other com...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ebel ED,Williams MS,Cole D,Travis CC,Klontz KC,Golden NJ,Hoekstra RM

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:In August 2015, a soldier returned from field exercises in Texas, USA, with nonspecific febrile illness. Culture and sequencing of spirochetes from peripheral blood diagnosed Borrelia turicatae infection. The patient recovered after receiving doxycycline. No illness occurred in asymptomatic soldiers potentially expose...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Christensen AM,Pietralczyk E,Lopez JE,Brooks C,Schriefer ME,Wozniak E,Stermole B

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether frontline health care workers (HCWs) are at greater risk for contracting pandemic (H1N1) 2009 than nonclinical staff, we conducted a study of 231 HCWs and 215 controls. Overall, 79 (17.7%) of 446 had a positive antibody titer by hemagglutination inhibition, with 46 (19.9%) of 231 HCWs and 33 (15.3...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Marshall C,Kelso A,McBryde E,Barr IG,Eisen DP,Sasadeusz J,Buising K,Cheng AC,Johnson P,Richards M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the last reported cases of rabies in a human in 1959 and a nonhuman animal in 1961, Taiwan was considered free from rabies. However, during 2012-2013, an outbreak occurred among ferret badgers in Taiwan. To examine the origin of this virus strain, we sequenced 3 complete genomes and acquired multiple rabies viru...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chiou HY,Hsieh CH,Jeng CR,Chan FT,Wang HY,Pang VF

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Travelers' diarrhea is a major public health problem. From patients in whom diarrhea developed after travel to India, 5 enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strains carrying β-lactamase CTX-M-15 were identified; 3 belonged to clonal complex sequence type 38. This β-lactamase contributes to the multidrug resistance of en...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Guiral E,Mendez-Arancibia E,Soto SM,Salvador P,Fabrega A,Gascon J,Vila J

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Carriage of the New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase variant 1 (NDM-1) enables drug resistance to move between communities and hospitals. In Bangladesh, we found the blaNDM-1 gene in 62% of environmental waters and in fermentative and nonfermentative gram-negative bacteria. Escherichia coli sequence type (ST) 101 was most co...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Toleman MA,Bugert JJ,Nizam SA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite high vaccination coverage in most European countries, large community outbreaks of measles do occur, normally clustered around schools and resulting from suboptimal vaccination coverage. To determine whether or when it is worth implementing outbreak-response vaccination campaigns in schools, we used stochastic...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bonačić Marinović AA,Swaan C,Wichmann O,van Steenbergen J,Kretzschmar M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined condom use throughout pregnancy during the Zika outbreak in Puerto Rico during 2016. Overall, <25% of women reported consistent condom use during pregnancy. However, healthcare provider counseling was associated with a 3-fold increase in consistent use, reinforcing the value of provider counseling in Zika ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Salvesen von Essen B,Kortsmit K,Warner L,D'Angelo DV,Shulman HB,Virella WH,Taraporewalla A,Harrison L,Ellington S,Shapiro-Mendoza C,Barfield W,Smith RA,Jamieson DJ,Cox S,Pazol K,Díaz PG,Herrera BR,Bernal MV,Puerto Ric

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mcr-1 (mobile colistin resistance 1) gene, which encodes phosphoethanolamine transferase, has been recently identified as a source of acquired resistance to polymyxins in Escherichia coli. Using the SuperPolymyxin selective medium, we prospectively screened 100 pigs at 2 farms in Portugal for polymyxin-resistant E...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kieffer N,Aires-de-Sousa M,Nordmann P,Poirel L

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the near-full-genome sequence (29,908 nt, >99%) of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from a nasal swab specimen from a dromedary camel in Egypt. We found that viruses genetically very similar to human MERS-CoV are infecting dromedaries beyond the Arabian Peninsula, where human MERS-...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chu DK,Poon LL,Gomaa MM,Shehata MM,Perera RA,Abu Zeid D,El Rifay AS,Siu LY,Guan Y,Webby RJ,Ali MA,Peiris M,Kayali G

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate effectiveness of seasonal trivalent and monovalent influenza vaccines against pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus, we conducted a test-negative case-control study in Victoria, Australia, in 2010. Patients seen for influenza-like illness by general practitioners in a sentinel surveillance network during ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fielding JE,Grant KA,Garcia K,Kelly HA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of influenza A(H7N2) virus in cats in a shelter in New York, NY, USA, resulted in zoonotic transmission. Virus isolated from the infected human was closely related to virus isolated from a cat; both were related to low pathogenicity avian influenza A(H7N2) viruses detected in the United States during the e...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Marinova-Petkova A,Laplante J,Jang Y,Lynch B,Zanders N,Rodriguez M,Jones J,Thor S,Hodges E,De La Cruz JA,Belser J,Yang H,Carney P,Shu B,Berman L,Stark T,Barnes J,Havers F,Yang P,Trock SC,Fry A,Gubareva L,Brese

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：: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：:Staphylococcus aureus strain sequence type (ST) 398 has emerged during the last decade, largely among persons who have contact with swine or other livestock. Although colonization with ST398 is common in livestock workers, infections are not frequently documented. We report recurrent ST398-IIa infection in an Iowa far...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wardyn SE,Stegger M,Price LB,Smith TC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better define areas of human Lyme disease risk, we compared US surveillance data with published data on the seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies among domestic dogs. Canine seroprevalence >5% was a sensitive but nonspecific marker of human risk, whereas seroprevalence <1% was associated with minimal ri...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mead P,Goel R,Kugeler K

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：:An estimated one quarter of persons worldwide are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2018, the World Health Organization issued revised guidance on BCG vaccine for high-risk groups. The World Health Organization should consider guiding countries on a case-by-case basis in developing appropriate BCG policies ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Pooransingh S,Sakhamuri S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionellosis caused by Legionella longbeachae is diagnosed mainly by PCR. We report a case of L. longbeachae infection in mainland China, which was diagnosed by metagenomic next-generation sequencing, in a man who developed an epileptic seizure after using moxifloxacin. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing may be a...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wang JY,Li X,Chen JY,Tong B

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a pilot study that attempted to infect human volunteers with Cyclospora cayetanensis. Seven healthy volunteers ingested an inoculum of Cyclospora oocysts (approximately 200-49,000 oocysts). The volunteers did not experience symptoms of gastroenteritis, and no oocysts were detected in any stool samples duri...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Alfano-Sobsey EM,Eberhard ML,Seed JR,Weber DJ,Won KY,Nace EK,Moe CL

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases contains 2 articles that report increases in England in the incidence of hospitalizations for specific diseases, one on pneumonias and the other on community-acquired staphylococcal diseases. Both articles report increases in disease among those >65 years of age. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Meltzer MI

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00