Genotyping of hepatitis C virus isolates from Basque Country, Spain.

abstract：:Germany has been an officially bovine tuberculosis (bTB)-free (OTF) country since 1996. Gradually rising numbers of bTB herd incidents due to Mycobacterium bovis and M. caprae in North-Western and Southern Germany during the last few years prompted the competent authorities to conduct a nationwide bTB survey in 2013/2...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Eisenberg T,Nesseler A,Sauerwald C,Kling U,Riße K,Kaim U,Althoff G,Fiege N,Schlez K,Hamann HP,Fawzy A,Moser I,Riße R,Kraft G,Zschöck M,Menge C

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Sera from an outbreak of acute respiratory illness in a boys boarding school originally thought to have been due to psittacosis (1) have been re-examined and evidence is presented that suggests that the outbreak was caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae, strain TWAR (2). ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pether JV,Wang SP,Grayston JT

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bocaviruses (HBoVs) have been detected in human gastrointestinal infections worldwide. In 2005, HBoV was also discovered in infants and children with infections of the lower respiratory tract. Recently, several genotypes of this parvovirus, including HBoV genotype 2 (HBoV2), genotype 3 (HBoV3) and genotype 4 (HB...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kang LH,Won YJ,Lee AR,Lee SG,Cho HG,Park YJ,Han JI,Paik SY

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported an outbreak of vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) in a paediatric oncology unit in December 1995 which was associated with widespread environmental contamination of the unit with VRE. We undertook this study to evaluate the effectiveness of the infection control policy instituted subsequent ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nourse C,Byrne C,Murphy H,Kaufmann ME,Clarke A,Butler K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-month longitudinal household study of pre-school children and their families was undertaken with monthly visits collecting epidemiological data and nasopharyngeal swabs in Hertfordshire, England from 2001 to 2002. Pneumococcal culture was with standard methods. In total, 121 families (489 individuals) took part. ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hussain M,Melegaro A,Pebody RG,George R,Edmunds WJ,Talukdar R,Martin SA,Efstratiou A,Miller E

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A micro-epidemic of hantavirus infections occurred in Lower Bavaria, South-East Germany, starting in April 2004. While only three cases were registered from 2001 to 2003, a dramatically increased number of clinically apparent human hantavirus infections (n=38) was observed in 2004, plus seven additional cases by June ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Essbauer S,Schmidt J,Conraths FJ,Friedrich R,Koch J,Hautmann W,Pfeffer M,Wölfel R,Finke J,Dobler G,Ulrich R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orf of the hand is an uncommon zoonotic infection caused by a dermotropic DNA virus that belongs to the Parapoxvirus genus of the family Poxviridae. It is transmitted to humans through contact with infected sheep and goats and is reported as an occupational disease. We report nine cases of human orf seen in the hands ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Uzel M,Sasmaz S,Bakaris S,Cetinus E,Bilgic E,Karaoguz A,Ozkul A,Arican O

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canine parvovirosis is a very contagious, severe and often lethal infectious disease of dogs caused by canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2). Parvoviruses are very resistant to several disinfectants while are sensitive to halogens such as sodium hypochlorite which is often used for decontamination of veterinary clinics and...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Cavalli A,Marinaro M,Desario C,Corrente M,Camero M,Buonavoglia C

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This analysis assessed the utility of the limiting antigen avidity assay (LAg). Samples of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Greece with documented duration of HIV-1 infection were tested by LAg. A LAg-normalized optical density (ODn) ⩽1·5 corresponds to a recency window period of 130 days. The proportion true recent ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Nikolopoulos GK,Katsoulidou A,Kantzanou M,Rokka C,Tsiara C,Sypsa V,Paraskevis D,Psichogiou M,Friedman S,Hatzakis A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess areas at risk for poliovirus circulation in Ecuador, we first selected provinces at highest risk based on low immunization coverage with three doses of oral poliovirus vaccine, and a low number of reported cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). Subsequently, we reviewed discharge data for the period 1996--2...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Dayan GH,Rodríguez R,Vinjé J,Vásconez N,Cáceres V,Gregoricus N,Sobsey M,Landaverde M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-locus sequence typing was performed on 1003 Campylobacter jejuni isolates collected in a 2-year longitudinal study of 15 dairy farms and four sheep farms in Lancashire, UK. There was considerable farm-level variation in occurrence and prevalence of clonal complexes (CC). Clonal complexes ST61, ST21, ST403 and ST...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Grove-White DH,Leatherbarrow AJ,Cripps PJ,Diggle PJ,French NP

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of faecal microflora of nine healthy human volunteers was studied by digital image analysis of microscopic slides. Weekly specimens were collected during an 8-week period. Seven morphometrical parameters were derived: the means and medians of components 1, 2 and 3, and morphometrical entropy. Statistica...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Meijer BC,Kootstra GJ,Wilkinson MH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targets for maximum acceptable levels of Salmonella in pigs and pork are to be decided. A stochastic simulation model accounting for herd and abattoir information was used to evaluate food safety and economic consequences of different surveillance and control strategies, based among others on Danish surveillance data....

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Baptista FM,Halasa T,Alban L,Nielsen LR

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:We propose an age-structured mathematical model for respiratory syncytial virus in which children aged <1 year are especially considered. Real data on hospitalized children in the Spanish region of Valencia were used in order to determine some seasonal parameters of the model. Weekly predictions of the number of child...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Acedo L,Díez-Domingo J,Moraño JA,Villanueva RJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the most cost-effective strategy for the prevention and control of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in intensive care units (ICUs) in areas with limited health resources. The study was conducted in 12 ICUs of four hospitals. The total cost for the prevention of MDROs and the...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Wang Y,Yuan Y,Lin L,Tan X,Tan Y

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 serogroups have the capacity of causing epidemic and pandemic cholera but are infrequently found in the environment. The other serogroups are abundant in aquatic environments but do not possess the virulence genes necessary for causing the disease. Of the 559 environmental strains...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sarkar B,Bhattacharya T,Ramamurthy T,Shimada T,Takeda Y,Balakrish Nair G

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first study to provide a comprehensive insight into the molecular epidemiology of endemic Clostridium difficile and particularly that associated with a recently recognized epidemic strain. We DNA fingerprinted all C. difficile isolates from the stools of patients with symptomatic antibiotic-associated diar...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Fawley WN,Wilcox MH

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The notification rate of Legionnaires' disease (LD) in France was 2.4/100 000 population in 2010, varying across regions with an increasing rate from west to east. Two sources [mandatory notifications (MN) and a survey of hospital laboratories] were used in a capture-recapture study to estimate the number of LD cases ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Campese C,Jarraud S,Sommen C,Maine C,Che D

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 7 patients with nosocomial Legionnaires' disease to determine the relationship between isolates of Legionella pneumophila recovered from potable water and those recovered from patients. Potable water was cultured from all rooms in which patients had stayed prior to the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease. Th...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Marrie TJ,Johnson W,Tyler S,Bezanson G,Haldane D,Burbridge S,Joly J

更新日期：1995-04-01 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

abstract：:A total of 3522 samples of serum, collected anonymously from women attending an antenatal clinic, was tested for hepatitis B surface antigen and antibody to hepatitis C. The prevalence of anti-HCV was low; only five confirmed positives were found (0.14%). The prevalence of hepatitis B overall was 0.56%, but was 1.04% ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Boxall E,Skidmore S,Evans C,Nightingale S

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:An outbreak of trichinosis occurred during January 1995 in a south Lebanese village with a population of 800-1000 persons. The estimated number of persons treated for a Trichinella-like illness was 200. Sixty-three persons sought medical attention at a local infirmary: 44 of them were diagnosed as having trichinosis o...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Haim M,Efrat M,Wilson M,Schantz PM,Cohen D,Shemer J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and reproducible typing system based on restriction fragment size of chromosomal DNA was developed to compare isolates of Streptococcus uberis obtained from the bovine mammary gland. The endonuclease giving the most useful restriction patterns was Hind III. Although seven other endonucleases (Bgl 1, Eco R1, N...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hill AW,Leigh JA

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Strains of Salmonella enteritidis belonging to phage type 4 (SE4) were grown in the peritoneal cavities of chickens, and without subculture on laboratory media examined for inducible in vivo phenotypic characteristics. These bacteria expressed three major outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of 33, 35 and 36 kilodaltons (kD...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chart H,Conway D,Rowe B

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging vector-borne arbovirus with a zoonotic life-cycle whose main reservoir hosts are birds. In humans and horses, WNV infections rarely result in clinical disease but on occasions - depending on factors such as climatic conditions, insect communities and background immunity levels in l...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Ferraguti M,LA Puente JM,Soriguer R,Llorente F,Jiménez-Clavero MÁ,Figuerola J

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a Christmas party in a restaurant, 48 (68%) of the 82 guests contracted calicivirus gastroenteritis. The epidemiological investigation showed that salad was strongly associated with the disease episode (RR = 2.43, P = 0.0005). Similar symptoms occurred among other customers who had had a meal at the same restaur...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Gaulin C,Frigon M,Poirier D,Fournier C

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00