Molecular Description of a Novel Orientia Species Causing Scrub Typhus in Chile.

abstract：:In 2004, canine influenza virus subtype H3N8 emerged in greyhounds in the United States. Subsequent serologic evidence indicated virus circulation in dog breeds other than greyhounds, but the virus had not been isolated from affected animals. In 2005, we conducted virologic investigation of 7 nongreyhound dogs that di...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Payungporn S,Crawford PC,Kouo TS,Chen LM,Pompey J,Castleman WL,Dubovi EJ,Katz JM,Donis RO

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2015, Clostridium difficile testing rates among 30 US community, multispecialty, and cancer hospitals were 14.0, 16.3, and 33.9/1,000 patient-days, respectively. Pooled hospital onset rates were 0.56, 0.84, and 1.57/1,000 patient-days, respectively. Higher testing rates may artificially inflate reported rates of C....

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kamboj M,Brite J,Aslam A,Kennington J,Babady NE,Calfee D,Furuya Y,Chen D,Augenbraun M,Ostrowsky B,Patel G,Mircescu M,Kak V,Tuma R,Karre TA,Fry DA,Duhaney YP,Moyer A,Mitchell D,Cantu S,Hsieh C,Warren N,Martin S

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:“Mycobacterium canettii,” an opportunistic human pathogen living in an unknown environmental reservoir, is the progenitor species from which Mycobacterium tuberculosis emerged. Since its discovery in 1969, most of the ≈70 known M. canettii strains were isolated in the Republic of Djibouti, frequently from expatriate c...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Blouin Y,Cazajous G,Dehan C,Soler C,Vong R,Hassan MO,Hauck Y,Boulais C,Andriamanantena D,Martinaud C,Martin É,Pourcel C,Vergnaud G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used latent class analysis to examine Zika virus-related information-accessing behavior of US residents during the 2016 international outbreak. We characterized 3 classes of information-accessing behavior patterns: universalists, media seekers, and passive recipients. Understanding these patterns is crucial to plan...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Piltch-Loeb R,Abramson D

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks have occurred during the past 5 decades, but none has affected European countries like the 2014 epidemic in West Africa. We used an online questionnaire to investigate risk perceptions in Germany during this epidemic peak. Our questionnaire covered risk perceptions, knowledge about ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Rübsamen N,Castell S,Horn J,Karch A,Ott JJ,Raupach-Rosin H,Zoch B,Krause G,Mikolajczyk RT

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in humans, associated with a new coronavirus, was reported in Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America in early 2003. To address speculations that the virus originated in domesticated animals, or that domestic species were susceptible to the virus, we inoculated...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Weingartl HM,Copps J,Drebot MA,Marszal P,Smith G,Gren J,Andova M,Pasick J,Kitching P,Czub M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Babesia microti, an intraerythrocytic parasite, is tickborne in nature. In contrast to transmission by blood transfusion, which has been well documented, transmission associated with solid organ transplantation has not been reported. We describe parasitologically confirmed cases of babesiosis diagnosed ≈8 weeks posttr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Brennan MB,Herwaldt BL,Kazmierczak JJ,Weiss JW,Klein CL,Leith CP,He R,Oberley MJ,Tonnetti L,Wilkins PP,Gauthier GM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 1995 through July 1998, we investigated the occurrence of Cyclospora cayetanensis infection associated with gastrointestinal illness or diarrhea in foreign residents and natives of West Java, Indonesia. We found that C. cayetanensis was the main protozoal cause of gastrointestinal illness and diarrhea in ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fryauff DJ,Krippner R,Prodjodipuro P,Ewald C,Kawengian S,Pegelow K,Yun T,von Heydwolff-Wehnert C,Oyofo B,Gross R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a nationwide study of the prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in the Faroe Islands. Of 1,075 randomly selected participants, 6 (0.6%) tested seropositive for antibodies to the virus. Adjustment for test sensitivity and specificity yielded a 0.7% prevalence. Our findings...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Petersen MS,Strøm M,Christiansen DH,Fjallsbak JP,Eliasen EH,Johansen M,Veyhe AS,Kristiansen MF,Gaini S,Møller LF,Steig B,Weihe P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of a mass poultry vaccination campaign on passive surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype (H5N1) outbreaks among poultry in Egypt. Passive reporting dropped during the campaign, although probability of infection remained unchanged. Future poultry vaccination campaigns sh...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vergne T,Grosbois V,Jobre Y,Saad A,El Nabi AA,Galal S,Kalifa M,El Kader SA,Dauphin G,Roger F,Lubroth J,Peyre M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system (CNS) infection is a serious neurologic condition, although the etiology remains unknown in >50% of patients. We used metagenomic next-generation sequencing to detect viruses in 204 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from patients with acute CNS infection who were enrolled from Vietnam hospitals ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Anh NT,Nhu LNT,Hong NTT,Phuc TM,Tam PTT,Huong DT,Anh TT,Deng X,Nghia HDT,Nguyen TT,Van Hung N,Thuan ND,Phuong PTH,Chau NVV,Baker S,Delwart E,Thwaites G,Van Tan L,VIZIONS Consortium1.

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated Cowpox virus (CPXV) from the ulcerative eyelid lesions of a 14-year-old girl, who had cared for a clinically ill wild rat that later died. CPXV isolated from the rat (Rattus norvegicus) showed complete homology with the girl's virus. Our case is the first proven rat-to-human transmission of cowpox. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wolfs TF,Wagenaar JA,Niesters HG,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used physician sentinel surveillance to identify 25 (7.7%) mild to severe infections with enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in children and adults among 325 outpatients with acute respiratory infections in Germany during August-October 2014. Results suggested low-level circulation of enterovirus D68 in Germany. Viruses were...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Reiche J,Böttcher S,Diedrich S,Buchholz U,Buda S,Haas W,Schweiger B,Wolff T

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine risk for mycosis among persons with silicosis, we examined US mortality data for 1979-2004. Persons with silicosis were more likely to die with pulmonary mycosis than were those without pneumoconiosis or those with more common pneumoconioses. Health professionals should consider enhanced risk for mycosis fo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Iossifova Y,Bailey R,Wood J,Kreiss K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance rates for shigella, campylobacter, nontyphoidal salmonella, and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli were compared for Vietnam and Thailand from 1996 to 1999. Resistance to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline was common. Quinolone resistance remains low in ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Isenbarger DW,Hoge CW,Srijan A,Pitarangsi C,Vithayasai N,Bodhidatta L,Hickey KW,Cam PD

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During May-August 2016, mumps virus genotype K was detected in 12 Vietnam citizens who entered China at the Shuikou border crossing and 1 girl from China. We provide evidence that mumps genotype K is circulating in Vietnam and was imported to China from Vietnam. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Liu W,Deng L,Lin X,Wang X,Ma Y,Deng Q,Xue X,Zhong G,Jin L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lassa virus, the cause of Lassa fever in humans, is endemic to West Africa. Treatment of Lassa fever is primarily supportive, although ribavirin has shown limited efficacy if administered early during infection. We tested favipiravir in Lassa virus-viremic macaques and found that 300 mg/kg daily for 2 weeks successful...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Rosenke K,Feldmann H,Westover JB,Hanley PW,Martellaro C,Feldmann F,Saturday G,Lovaglio J,Scott DP,Furuta Y,Komeno T,Gowen BB,Safronetz D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1988, the World Health Assembly launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which aimed to use large-scale vaccination with the oral vaccine to eradicate polio worldwide by the year 2000. Although important progress has been made, polio remains endemic in several countries. Also, the current control measures ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： De Palma AM,Pürstinger G,Wimmer E,Patick AK,Andries K,Rombaut B,De Clercq E,Neyts J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eczema herpeticum can clinically resemble smallpox. On the basis of the algorithm for rapid evaluation of patients with an acute generalized vesiculopustular rash illness, our patient met criteria for high risk for smallpox. The Tzanck preparation was critical for rapid diagnosis of herpetic infection and exclusion of...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Boyd DA,Sperling LC,Norton SA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a hematology unit in the Netherlands, the incidence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Enterobacter cloacae and Escherichia coli increased from from 1996 to 1999. Clonal spread of single genotypes of both ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli and Enterobacter cloacae from patient to patient was documented by pulsed-field gel ele...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： van Belkum A,Goessens W,van der Schee C,Lemmens-den Toom N,Vos MC,Cornelissen J,Lugtenburg E,de Marie S,Verbrugh H,Löwenberg B,Endtz H

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to investigate the possible existence of sporadic bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) require systematic testing programs to identify cases in countries considered to have little or no risk of orally acquired disease or to detect a stable occurrence of atypical cases in countries in which orally acquired...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Brown P,McShane LM,Zanusso G,Detwile L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The United Kingdom and United States have recently experienced large outbreaks of mumps, which raises concerns about vaccine effectiveness. The effectiveness of the mumps component of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine was estimated using the screening method. In England from January 2004 through March 2005, 31...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cohen C,White JM,Savage EJ,Glynn JR,Choi Y,Andrews N,Brown D,Ramsay ME

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the global illness and deaths caused by rotavirus disease, we reviewed studies published from 1986 to 2000 on deaths caused by diarrhea and on rotavirus infections in children. We assessed rotavirus-associated illness in three clinical settings (mild cases requiring home care alone, moderate cases requirin...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Parashar UD,Hummelman EG,Bresee JS,Miller MA,Glass RI

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing availability of big data in healthcare and public health opens possibilities for infectious disease control in local settings. We prospectively evaluated a method for integrated local detection and prediction (nowcasting) of influenza epidemics over 5 years, using the total population in Östergötland Count...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Spreco A,Eriksson O,Dahlström Ö,Cowling BJ,Timpka T

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced national surveillance for invasive meningococcal disease in England and Wales identified an increase in laboratory-confirmed capsular group Y (MenY) disease from 34 cases in 2007 to 44 in 2008 and 65 in 2009. For cases diagnosed in 2009, patient median age at disease onset was 60 years; 39% of patients had un...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ladhani SN,Lucidarme J,Newbold LS,Gray SJ,Carr AD,Findlow J,Ramsay ME,Kaczmarski EB,Borrow R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of ocular vaccinia infection in an unvaccinated laboratory worker. The patient was infected by a unique strain used in an experiment performed partly outside a biosafety cabinet. Vaccination should continue to be recommended, but laboratories with unvaccinated workers should also implement more string...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lewis FM,Chernak E,Goldman E,Li Y,Karem K,Damon IK,Henkel R,Newbern EC,Ross P,Johnson CC

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Guidelines for Preventing Opportunistic Infections Among Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients contains a section on hospital infection control including evidence-based recommendations regarding ventilation, construction, equipment, plants, play areas and toys, health-care workers, visitors, patient skin and o...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Dykewicz CA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report characteristics of oseltamivir-resistant influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses and patients infected with these viruses in the United States. During 2013-14, fifty-nine (1.2%) of 4,968 analyzed US influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses had the H275Y oseltamivir resistance-conferring neuraminidase substitution. Our results ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Okomo-Adhiambo M,Fry AM,Su S,Nguyen HT,Elal AA,Negron E,Hand J,Garten RJ,Barnes J,Xiyan X,Villanueva JM,Gubareva LV,2013–14 US Influenza Antiviral Working Group.

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00