Contamination of hands and work surfaces with Salmonella enteritidis PT4 during the preparation of egg dishes.

abstract：:We report an evaluation of the accuracy of ELISA for the detection of Leptospira-specific antibodies in humans. Eighty-eight studies published in 35 articles met all inclusion criteria and were submitted to meta-analysis. Pooled sensitivity and specificity were 0·779 (95% CI 0·770-0·789) and 0·913 (95% CI 0·908-0·917)...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Signorini ML,Lottersberger J,Tarabla HD,Vanasco NB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In long-term care facilities (LTCFs), the elderly are apt to be infected because those with latent tuberculosis infections (LTBIs) are at an increased risk for reactivation and post-primary TB disease. We report an outbreak of TB in staff and residents in a LTCF. An outbreak investigation was conducted after two TB ca...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lai CC,Hsieh YC,Yeh YP,Jou RW,Wang JT,Pan SL,Chen HH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed two large national surveys conducted in 2001 and 2008 to examine incidence and outcomes of gastroenteritis in older Australians. A case was someone reporting ≥3 loose stools or ≥1 episode of vomiting in 24 h, excluding non-infectious causes. We compared cases arising in the elderly (≥65 years) and in other...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kirk MD,Hall GV,Becker N

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a worldwide increase in bed bug infestations over the last 10-15 years. A major stigma is placed upon the institutions found to be infested. We report our experience with an outbreak of the tropical bed bug, Cimex hemipterus, in a neonatal unit. The outbreak not only affected the admitted newborns and m...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bandyopadhyay T,Kumar A,Saili A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orf virus has a worldwide distribution among sheep and goats. The hypersensitivity reaction erythema multiforme (EM) is a known complication of orf infection in humans; however, its occurrence is poorly understood and has not been extensively reviewed. We present two unrelated cases of orf-associated EM, and a review ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Joseph RH,Haddad FA,Matthews AL,Maroufi A,Monroe B,Reynolds M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the genetic background of virulence and resistance genes of MRSA ST398 in Austria. From 2004 up to 2008 a total of 41 human isolates of MRSA ST398 were investigated for virulence and resistance gene patterns using DNA microarray chip analysis. Highly similar virulence gene profiles were found in ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Zarfel G,Krziwanek K,Johler S,Hoenigl M,Leitner E,Kittinger C,Masoud L,Feierl G,Grisold AJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular epidemiology of a representative collection of sporadic foreign and domestically acquired Salmonella Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) isolates from Norwegian patients in 1996-9 was studied by numerical analysis of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiles. Three subclusters (E5, F1 and G1) comprised 4...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Heir E,Lindstedt BA,Nygård I,Vardund T,Hasseltvedt V,Kapperud G

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Mexican Americans living in South Texas. We tested plasma for the presence of HCV antibody from the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort (CCHC), a randomized, population-based cohort in an economically disadvantaged Mexican...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Watt GP,Vatcheva KP,Beretta L,Pan JJ,Fallon MB,McCormick JB,Fisher-Hoch SP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicella is a common and highly contagious childhood disease which impacts the public worldwide. Hong Kong children can only be vaccinated against the disease in private practice. The varicella vaccination rate of local children in preschool is uncertain. Therefore a cross-sectional kindergarten-based parent-administ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chan JY,Leung KM,Tam WW,Lee A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective observational study 4,485 patients from 46 clinical centres in 17 European countries were followed between April 1994 and November 1996. Information on AIDS-defining events (ADEs) were collected together with basic demographic data, treatment history and laboratory results. The centres were divided in...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Blaxhult A,Fox Z,Colebunders R,Francioli P,Ben-Ishai Z,Fätkenheuer G,Parkin JM,Vanhems P,Phillips AN,Kirk O,EuroSIDA Study Group.

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines for the severity classification and treatment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) were published by Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)/Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) in 2010; however, compliance and efficacy of these guidelines has not been widely investigated. This pr...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Crowell KT,Julian KG,Katzman M,Berg AS,Tinsley A,Williams ED,Koltun WA,Messaris E

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The screening of 2000 women of childbearing age in Cork between 2004 and 2006 produced 37 erythromycin-resistant group B streptococcus (GBS) isolates. PCR analysis was performed to determine the basis for erythromycin resistance. The ermTR gene was most frequently expressed (n = 19), followed by the ermB gene (n = 8)....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kiely RA,Lucey B,Cotter L

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of environmental decontamination (ED) as a measure in the control of infectious diseases is controversial. This work quantifies the effectiveness of ED by analysing the transmission of pathogens from the environment to susceptible hosts in a Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible model. Analysis of the mod...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bani-Yaghoub M,Gautam R,Döpfer D,Kaspar CW,Ivanek R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian influenza virus (AIV) is an important zoonotic pathogen, resulting in global human morbidity and mortality and substantial economic losses to the poultry industry. Poultry and wild birds have transmitted AIV to humans, most frequently subtypes H5 and H7, but also different strains and subtypes of H6, H9, and H10...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fuller TL,Ducatez MF,Njabo KY,Couacy-Hymann E,Chasar A,Aplogan GL,Lao S,Awoume F,Téhou A,Langeois Q,Krauss S,Smith TB

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cirrhotic patients are prone to having infections, which may aggravate hepatic encephalopathy (HE). However, the effect of infections on mortality in HE cirrhotic patients is not well described. The National Health Insurance Database, derived from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Programme, was used to identify 41...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hung TH,Lay CJ,Chang CM,Tsai JJ,Tsai CC,Tsai CC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe recent epidemiological changes in salmonellosis. Linking 1968-2000 National Salmonella Surveillance System to census data, we calculated population-based age- and sex-stratified rates of non-urinary salmonellosis for the top 30 non-typhoidal serotypes. Using 1996-1997, 1998-1999, and 2000-2001 population-b...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Reller ME,Tauxe RV,Kalish LA,Mølbak K

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, a declining prevalence of HCV infection has been described in injecting drug users (IDUs) in different countries. This study is the first to assess temporal trends in drug-injecting patterns, HCV infection rates and viral genotype distribution in 770 Brazilian IDUs, recruited by two cross-sectional...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Oliveira ML,Yoshida CF,Telles PR,Hacker MA,Oliveira SA,Miguel JC,do O KM,Bastos FI

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the clinical characteristics of, and outcomes and risk factors for hospital mortality of 390 patients admitted with severe sepsis or septic shock in an intensive care unit (ICU). Prospectively collected data from patients collected between 1 July 2004 and 30 June 2006 were analysed. Overall hos...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Khwannimit B,Bhurayanontachai R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMMARY Wild canids are potential hosts for numerous species of Bartonella, yet little research has been done to quantify their infection rates in South America. We sought to investigate Bartonella seroprevalence in captive wild canids from 19 zoos in São Paulo and Mato Grosso states, Brazil. Blood samples were collec...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fleischman DA,Chomel BB,Kasten RW,André MR,Gonçalves LR,Machado RZ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two global (re-)emerging zoonoses, leptospirosis and hantavirus infections, are clinically indistinguishable. Thirty-one patients, hospitalized in Sri Lanka for acute severe leptospirosis, were after exclusion of other potentially involved pathogens, prospectively screened with IgM ELISA for both pathogens. Of these, ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sunil-Chandra NP,Clement J,Maes P,DE Silva HJ,VAN Esbroeck M,VAN Ranst M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human salmonellosis linked to contact with live poultry is an increasing public health concern. In 2012, eight unrelated outbreaks of human salmonellosis linked to live poultry contact resulted in 517 illnesses. In July 2012, PulseNet, a national molecular surveillance network, reported a multistate cluster of a rare ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nakao JH,Pringle J,Jones RW,Nix BE,Borders J,Heseltine G,Gomez TM,McCLUSKEY B,Roney CS,Brinson D,Erdman M,McDANIEL A,Behravesh CB

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was undertaken in an acute district general hospital to identify risk factors for hospital-acquired bacteraemia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Cases of hospital-acquired MRSA bacteraemia were defined as consecutive patients from whom MRSA was isolated from a blood sa...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Carnicer-Pont D,Bailey KA,Mason BW,Walker AM,Evans MR,Salmon RL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 1992, a small, circumscribed community outbreak of infection due to verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 phage type 49 occurred in a semi-rural area of south-east Scotland. On the basis of stool cultures, six cases were identified, one of whom was asymptomatic. One child developed the haemolytic uraemic sy...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Brewster DH,Brown MI,Robertson D,Houghton GL,Bimson J,Sharp JC

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period 1981-8 a clinical trial of a Q fever vaccine (Q-vax; Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne) has been conducted in abattoir workers and other at-risk groups in South Australia. Volunteers in four abattoirs and visitors to the abattoirs were given one subcutaneous dose of 30 micrograms of a formal...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Marmion BP,Ormsbee RA,Kyrkou M,Wright J,Worswick DA,Izzo AA,Esterman A,Feery B,Shapiro RA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Pst I-generated digests of genomic DNA from each of the type strains of 49 of the Vi phage types of Salmonella typhi were probed with a PCR-amplified IS200 gene probe, all strains were found to possess at least 11 IS200 elements carried on fragments in the range 24.2-1.2 kb. Fourteen fingerprints were identified ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Threlfall EJ,Torre E,Ward LR,Dávalos-Pérez A,Rowe B,Gibert I

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the frequency of Campylobacter as the principal cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in the UK, outbreaks attributed to this pathogen are rare. One hundred and fourteen general foodborne outbreaks of campylobacteriosis were reported to the Health Protection Agency from 1992 to 2009 with most occurring in food se...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Little CL,Gormley FJ,Rawal N,Richardson JF

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated which vaccination schedule gives best protection to the vaccinating population, in case there is a measles epidemic in an area with low vaccine coverage. We considered combinations of an early measles vaccination (none, at 6 months or at 9 months), a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination around the f...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： van den Hof S,Wallinga J,Widdowson MA,Conyn-van Spaendonck MA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible association between Toxoplasma gondii infection and paediatric haematological malignancies in a group of patients and control subjects was evaluated in the present study. We performed an age-, gender- and residence frequency-matched case-control study of 101 blood cancer patients under 18 years of age, al...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kalantari N,Rezanejad J,Tamadoni A,Ghaffari S,Alipour J,Bayani M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usutu virus (USUV) is an emerging arbovirus that was first isolated in South Africa in 1959. This Flavivirus is maintained in the environment through a typical enzootic cycle involving mosquitoes and birds. USUV has spread to a large part of the European continent over the two decades mainly leading to substantial avi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Clé M,Beck C,Salinas S,Lecollinet S,Gutierrez S,Van de Perre P,Baldet T,Foulongne V,Simonin Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two common forms of invasive disease due to Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) are epiglottitis and meningitis. It is not known why some children develop epiglottitis and others meningitis. To examine the hypothesis that epiglottitis occurs in children who may have been previously exposed to Hib, and who would theref...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Johnson PD,Hanlon M,Isaacs D,Gilbert GL

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00