Role of enteric pathogens in the aetiology of neonatal diarrhoea in lambs and goat kids in Spain.

abstract：:In this retrospective study, we describe and analyse Salmonella data from four livestock species in Great Britain between 1983 and 2014, focusing on Salmonella Typhimurium. A total of 96 044 Salmonella isolates were obtained during the study period. S. Typhimurium was the predominant serovar isolated from cattle and p...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mueller-Doblies D,Speed KCR,Kidd S,Davies RH

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicella vaccine was licensed in Canada in 1998, and a publicly funded vaccination programme introduced in the province of Alberta in 2001. In theory the vaccination programme might increase the burden of disease from shingles, making it important to develop baseline data against which future comparisons can be made....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Russell ML,Schopflocher DP,Svenson L,Virani SN

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP2C19 polymorphisms and smoking influence the efficacy of H. pylori eradication therapy, but interaction between the two have hitherto not been examined. A total of 142 H. pylori-positive patients who received triple drug therapy with lansoprazole, amoxicillin and clarithromycin were categorized into three groups wi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Suzuki T,Matsuo K,Sawaki A,Wakai K,Hirose K,Ito H,Saito T,Nakamura T,Yamao K,Hamajima N,Tajima K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple introductions of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains occurred to a new hospital in Hong Kong. Two years of clinical microbiological surveillance of the resulting outbreaks was combined with laboratory investigation by phage and antibiogram typing, and plasmid profiling. The outbreaks on...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Farrington M,Ling J,Ling T,French GL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite rapid urbanization and increasing affluence in Karachi, cases of cholera are frequent. We analysed computerized isolation data from the AKUH Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Karachi, from 1990-6 to examine microbiological, temporal and demographic trends in Vibrio cholerae infections. During this period 888 s...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sheikh A,Khan A,Malik T,Fisher-Hoch SP

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One thousand adults aged between 18 and 35 years were investigated for nasal colonization with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). Each volunteer completed a questionnaire to assess the presence or absence of risk factors for hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) carriage. All MRSA iso...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Mollaghan AM,Lucey B,Coffey A,Cotter L

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMMARY We previously revealed that Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) seroprevalence was 4.5% in pigs on Ishigaki Island from 2005 to 2007. However, a partial E gene sequence (151 bp) of the JEV genome (JEV/sw/Ishigaki/1/2005) was detected in one pig. Phylogenetic analysis showed that JEV/sw/Ishigaki/1/2005 belonged t...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nidaira M,Kyan H,Taira K,Okano S,Oshiro T,Kato T,Kudo N,Azama Y,Mahoe Y,Kudaka J,Tamanaha K,Takasaki T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae outbreaks cause increased use of macrolides and tetracyclines. We aimed to investigate whether drug use data, in addition to laboratory data, could improve understanding of the spread of M. pneumoniae epidemics. Number of users of Mycoplasma antibiotics (erythromycin, doxycycline, clarithromycin)...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Blix HS,Vestrheim DF,Hjellvik V,Skaare D,Christensen A,Steinbakk M

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Dengue is the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne disease, with more than 200 million people each year becoming infected. We used a mechanistic virus transmission model to determine whether climate warming would change dengue transmission in Australia. Using two climate models each with two carbon emission scenarios...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Williams CR,Mincham G,Faddy H,Viennet E,Ritchie SA,Harley D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D has been shown to be an important immune system regulator. Vitamin D insufficiency during winter may cause increased susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infections (URIs). To determine whether vitamin D supplementation during the winter season prevents or decreases URI symptoms, 162 adults were randomi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Li-Ng M,Aloia JF,Pollack S,Cunha BA,Mikhail M,Yeh J,Berbari N

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurred in the Isle of Thanet during December 1990 and January 1991. A total of 47 cases ranging in age from 2 months to 85 years were identified in residents from the Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate areas, with dates of onset of illness from 3 December to 14 January. A case-control...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Joseph C,Hamilton G,O'Connor M,Nicholas S,Marshall R,Stanwell-Smith R,Sims R,Ndawula E,Casemore D,Gallagher P

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of 34 recent United Kingdom isolates of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C were examined by restriction enzyme digestion and by conventional and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Strains were assigned to groups on the basis of the Dice similarity coefficient; strains with values of > 92% were consid...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Yakubu DE,Abadi FJ,Pennington TH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess and describe the current spectrum of emerging zoonoses between 2000 and 2006 in European countries. A computerized search of the Medline database from January 1966 to August 2006 for all zoonotic agents in European countries was performed using specific criteria for emergence. F...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Vorou RM,Papavassiliou VG,Tsiodras S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug use is a major mode of HIV transmission in Thailand. This study determined HIV incidence rates among drug users in a regional drug treatment centre in northern Thailand. A retrospective cohort of repeatedly-hospitalized drug users between 1993 and 1997 was formed and HIV incidence rates were calculated. The overa...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Jittiwutikarn J,Sawanpanyalert P,Rangsiveroj N,Satitvipawee P

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to limited data, we conducted a meta-analysis to re-evaluate the relationship between obesity and coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19). Literature published between 1 January 2020 and 22 August 2020 was comprehensively analysed, and RevMan3.5 was used for data analysis. A total of 50 studies, including data on 18 260 378...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Yang J,Ma Z,Lei Y

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The dramatic decline of the native red squirrel in the UK has been attributed to both direct and disease-mediated competition with the grey squirrel where the competitor acts as a reservoir host of squirrelpox virus (SQPV). SQPV is threatening red squirrel conservation efforts, yet little is known about its epidemiolo...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bruemmer CM,Rushton SP,Gurnell J,Lurz PW,Nettleton P,Sainsbury AW,Duff JP,Gilray J,McInnes CJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to estimate the natural history and transmission parameters based on experimental viral shedding and symptom dynamics in order to understand the key epidemiological factors that characterize influenza (sub)type epidemics. A simple statistical algorithm was developed by combining a well-defined mathema...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Liao CM,Yang SC,Chio CP,Chen SC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods of control recruitment for case-control studies can be slow (a particular issue for outbreak investigations), resource-intensive and subject to a range of biases. Commercial market panels are a potential source of rapidly recruited controls. Our study evaluated food exposure data from these panel contr...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Inns T,Curtis D,Crook P,Vivancos R,Gardiner D,McCarthy N,Mook P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory-based surveillance of salmonella isolates serotyped at four state health departments (Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin) led to the identification of multistate outbreaks of salmonella infections during 1990 (176 cases of S. javiana) and 1993 (100 cases of S. montevideo). Community-based case-cont...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hedberg CW,Angulo FJ,White KE,Langkop CW,Schell WL,Stobierski MG,Schuchat A,Besser JM,Dietrich S,Helsel L,Griffin PM,McFarland JW,Osterholm MT

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum specimens were collected from 25 wild boars in Hiroshima prefecture located in the western region of Japan from November 2004 to February 2005. The sera were tested for antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) by IgM capture and IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), and plaque reduction neutrali...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hamano M,Lim CK,Takagi H,Sawabe K,Kuwayama M,Kishi N,Kurane I,Takasaki T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is the most widespread zoonosis in humans worldwide. In the United States, widespread detection of antibodies to leptospirosis have been identified in feral swine (Sus scrofa) with the highest detection of serovars, Bratislava, Icterohaemorrhagiae, and Pomona. Over the past few years, feral swine populat...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pedersen K,Anderson TD,Bevins SN,Pabilonia KL,Whitley PN,Virchow DR,Gidlewski T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esterase electrophoretic typing and restriction fragment length polymorphism of ribosomal DNA regions (ribotyping) were used to differentiate 102 Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates obtained from chronic lung infection in 23 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and two reference strains (including the type strain A...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Denamur E,Picard B,Goullet P,Bingen E,Lambert N,Elion J

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrences of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) and Vibrio cholerae infected patients in Hong Kong were reviewed for the 13-year period 1989-2001. Peak activity of CFP preceded peak activity of cholera in nine of the years except in 4 years (1990, 1991, 1992, 1996) where it was observed that the total number of cholera ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kwan LC,Cheung DK,Kam KM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 10% of acute rotavirus gastroenteritis (ARGE) requires hospitalization because of complications. The aggravating factors have been widely analysed, but in an isolated way. We aimed to explore the interrelationship between the clinical and epidemiological factors that characterize rotavirus hospitalizations in Spa...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Redondo-González O,Tenías-Burillo JM

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:In this study we collected and analysed data of the severe burn patients at our institution over an 11-year period in order to shed light on the controversial role of bloodstream infection (BSI) as a predictive factor for mortality in this burn population. The factors examined were age, total body surface area, smoke ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Egozi D,Hussein K,Filson S,Mashiach T,Ullmann Y,Raz-Pasteur A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a seroepidemiological study to evaluate the potential impact of mass varicella vaccination on the transmission of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in Italy, where vaccination is not mandatory. We tested 3179 serum samples, collected from September 1996 to October 1997, for specific anti-VZV antibodies using a...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gabutti G,Penna C,Rossi M,Salmaso S,Rota MC,Bella A,Crovari P,Serological Study Group.

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degerming effect of a 3 min handwash with 2% triclosan, or 4% chlorhexidine, in detergent and enhanced efficacy of either antiseptic in isopropyl alcohol, was evaluated in volunteers. Handwashing with either antiseptic preparation reduced the normal flora by a factor of 10; alcohol rubbing by approximately a facto...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bartzokas CA,Corkill JE,Makin T,Parry E

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is limited information on percent expenditure of household income due to childhood diarrhoea especially in rural Bangladesh. A total of 4205 children aged <5 years with acute diarrhoea were studied. Percent expenditure was calculated as total expenditure for the diarrhoeal episode divided by monthly family incom...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Das J,Das SK,Ahmed S,Ferdous F,Farzana FD,Sarker MH,Ahmed AM,Chisti MJ,Malek MA,Rahman A,Faruque AS,Mamun AA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00