Historical overview of key issues in food safety.

abstract：:During the 2009 influenza (H1N1) pandemic, some countries used quarantine for containment or mitigation. Of 152 quarantined university students we studied, risk for illness was higher for students quarantined in a room with a person with a confirmed case; we found no difference between students quarantined in double o...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chu CY,Li CY,Zhang H,Wang Y,Huo DH,Wen L,Yin ZT,Li F,Song HB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the considerable number of women in the United States who identify as lesbian, few data exist that address lesbians' health needs. The Institute of Medicine emphasized that data on sexually transmitted infections, Pap smear screening, and cervical dysplasia among lesbians were needed to guide clinical practice...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Marrazzo JM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV), a flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis serogroup, can cause severe clinical manifestations in humans. We report a fatal case of MVEV infection in a young woman who returned from Australia to Canada. The differential diagnosis for travel-associated encephalitis shou...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Niven DJ,Afra K,Iftinca M,Tellier R,Fonseca K,Kramer A,Safronetz D,Holloway K,Drebot M,Johnson AS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1529 in vol. 22, PMID: 27538119.]. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

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更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Puerto Rico, risk for transmission of B-virus from free-ranging rhesus monkeys to humans has become a serious challenge. An incident with an injured rhesus monkey, seropositive for B-virus, resulted in inappropriate administration of antiviral postexposure prophylaxis. This incident underscores the importance of ed...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jensen K,Alvarado-Ramy F,González-Martínez J,Kraiselburd E,Rullán J

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of West Nile (WN) virus occurred in the New York metropolitan area in 1999 and 2000. Nineteen patients diagnosed with WN infection were hospitalized in New York and New Jersey in 2000 and were included in this review. Eleven patients had encephalitis or meningoencephalitis, and eight had meningitis alone. Ag...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Weiss D,Carr D,Kellachan J,Tan C,Phillips M,Bresnitz E,Layton M,West Nile Virus Outbreak Response Working Group.

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously healthy man from eastern Kansas, USA, sought medical care in late spring because of a history of tick bite, fever, and fatigue. The patient had thrombocytopenia and leukopenia and was given doxycycline for a presumed tickborne illness. His condition did not improve. Multiorgan failure developed, and he di...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kosoy OI,Lambert AJ,Hawkinson DJ,Pastula DM,Goldsmith CS,Hunt DC,Staples JE

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe human cases and clustered animal cases of mecA(LGA251)-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in France. Our report confirms that this new variant has a large distribution in Europe. It may represent a public health threat because phenotypic and genotypic tests seem unable to detect this new ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Laurent F,Chardon H,Haenni M,Bes M,Reverdy ME,Madec JY,Lagier E,Vandenesch F,Tristan A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further assess the geographic occurrence, possible vectors, and prevalence of Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, we analyzed spleen tissues from 276 voles trapped close to human settlements in France; 5 were infected with the organism. Sequencing showed the isolates carried the same genotype as the bacteria that c...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vayssier-Taussat M,Le Rhun D,Buffet JP,Maaoui N,Galan M,Guivier E,Charbonnel N,Cosson JF

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:From 1995 to 1998, outbreaks of bubonic plague occurred annually in the coastal city of Mahajanga, Madagascar. A total of 1,702 clinically suspected cases of bubonic plague were reported, including 515 laboratory confirmed by Yersinia pestis isolation (297), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, or both. Incidence was hi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Boisier P,Rahalison L,Rasolomaharo M,Ratsitorahina M,Mahafaly M,Razafimahefa M,Duplantier JM,Ratsifasoamanana L,Chanteau S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tuberculosis (TB) notification rate is high and increasing in 2 communities in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2002, we conducted a prevalence survey among adults > or = 15 years of age to determine the TB prevalence rate; 15% of households in these communities were randomly sampled. All persons living in sampled hous...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： den Boon S,van Lill SW,Borgdorff MW,Enarson DA,Verver S,Bateman ED,Irusen E,Lombard CJ,White NW,de Villiers C,Beyers N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of febrile illness occurred in Gabon in 2007, with 20,000 suspected cases. Chikungunya or dengue-2 virus infections were identified in 321 patients; 8 patients had documented co-infections. Aedes albopictus was identified as the principal vector for the transmission of both viruses. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Leroy EM,Nkoghe D,Ollomo B,Nze-Nkogue C,Becquart P,Grard G,Pourrut X,Charrel R,Moureau G,Ndjoyi-Mbiguino A,De-Lamballerie X

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African swine fever virus p72 genotype IX, associated with outbreaks in eastern Africa, is cocirculating in the Republic of the Congo with West African genotype I. Data suggest that viruses from eastern Africa are moving into western Africa, increasing the threat of outbreaks caused by novel viruses in this region. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gallardo C,Anchuelo R,Pelayo V,Poudevigne F,Leon T,Nzoussi J,Bishop R,Pérez C,Soler A,Nieto R,Martín H,Arias M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three pandemics have been attributed to plague in the last 1,500 years. Yersinia pestis caused the third, and its DNA was found in human remains from the second. The Antiqua biovar of Y. pestis may have caused the first pandemic; the other two biovars, Medievalis and Orientalis, may have caused the second and third pa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Drancourt M,Roux V,Dang LV,Tran-Hung L,Castex D,Chenal-Francisque V,Ogata H,Fournier PE,Crubézy E,Raoult D

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism attacks warrant urgent public health and medical responses. Response plans for these events may include use of medications and vaccines for which the effects on pregnant women and fetuses are unknown. Healthcare providers must be able to discuss the benefits and r...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cono J,Cragan JD,Jamieson DJ,Rasmussen SA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus is a mosquitoborne flavivirus that is the focus of an ongoing pandemic and public health emergency. Previously limited to sporadic cases in Africa and Asia, the emergence of Zika virus in Brazil in 2015 heralded rapid spread throughout the Americas. Although most Zika virus infections are characterized by s...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Plourde AR,Bloch EM

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic is theoretically achievable and would require addressing this global health catastrophe on individual and global levels by providing optimal prevention strategies and treatment regimens for individual persons living with or at risk for HIV, as well as ending the pandemic as an ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Eisinger RW,Fauci AS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) may be transmissible by blood. To prevent secondary transmission through blood components, several countries have started to exclude as donors persons who have received a blood transfusion. We investigated the effectiveness of this measure by using a dynamic age-structured mode...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Dietz K,Raddatz G,Wallis J,Müller N,Zerr I,Duerr HP,Lefèvre H,Seifried E,Löwer J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious and fatal neurodegenerative disease and a serious animal health issue for deer and elk in North America. The identification of the first cases of CWD among free-ranging reindeer and moose in Europe brings back into focus the unresolved issue of whether CWD can be zoonotic ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Barria MA,Libori A,Mitchell G,Head MW

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2005, 329 cases of hepatitis E virus infection were confirmed in England and Wales; 33 were confirmed indigenous infections, and a further 67 were estimated to be indigenous infections. Hepatitis E should be considered in the investigation of patients with hepatitis even if they have no history of travel. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lewis HC,Boisson S,Ijaz S,Hewitt K,Ngui SL,Boxall E,Teo CG,Morgan D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus) inoculated intramuscularly with 101.5 to 105.7 PFU of West Nile virus (WNV), serum titers developed sufficient to infect Aedes triseriatus (Say), Ae. vexans (Meigen), and Culex pipiens (L.). Mean titers (95% confidence interval) of 8 chipmunks were 103.9(3.3-4.5), 106.7(6.4-7.0),...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Platt KB,Tucker BJ,Halbur PG,Tiawsirisup S,Blitvich BJ,Fabiosa FG,Bartholomay LC,Rowley WA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A >600% increase in monkeypox cases occurred in the Bokungu Health Zone of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the second half of 2013; this increase prompted an outbreak investigation. A total of 104 possible cases were reported from this health zone; among 60 suspected cases that were tested, 50 (48.1%) case...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nolen LD,Osadebe L,Katomba J,Likofata J,Mukadi D,Monroe B,Doty J,Hughes CM,Kabamba J,Malekani J,Bomponda PL,Lokota JI,Balilo MP,Likafi T,Lushima RS,Ilunga BK,Nkawa F,Pukuta E,Karhemere S,Tamfum JJ,Nguete B,Wemak

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonella quintana is a bacterium that causes trench fever in humans. Past reports have shown Bartonella spp. infections in homeless populations in San Francisco, California, USA. The California Department of Public Health in collaboration with San Francisco Project Homeless Connect initiated a program in 2007 to col...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bonilla DL,Kabeya H,Henn J,Kramer VL,Kosoy MY

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine which species of Culicoides biting midges carry Schmallenberg virus (SBV), we assayed midges collected in the Netherlands during autumn 2011. SBV RNA was found in C. scoticus, C. obsoletus sensu stricto, and C. chiopterus. The high proportion of infected midges might explain the rapid spread of SBV throug...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Elbers AR,Meiswinkel R,van Weezep E,Sloet van Oldruitenborgh-Oosterbaan MM,Kooi EA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On April 23, 2009, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) was notified of a school outbreak of respiratory illness; 2 days later the infection was identified as pandemic (H1N1) 2009. This was the first major outbreak of the illness in the United States. To guide decisions on the public healt...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Balter S,Gupta LS,Lim S,Fu J,Perlman SE,New York City 2009 H1N1 Flu Investigation Team.

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first case of spongiform encephalopathy in a zebu (Bos indicus) was identified in a zoo in Switzerland. Although histopathologic and immunohistochemical analyses of the central nervous system indicated a diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), molecular typing showed some features different from those...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Seuberlich T,Botteron C,Wenker C,Café-Marçal VA,Oevermann A,Haase B,Leeb T,Heim D,Zurbriggen A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WU polyomavirus (WUPyV) and KI polyomavirus (KIPyV) are novel human polyomaviruses. They were originally identified in human respiratory secretions, but the extent of human infection caused by these viruses has not been described to date. To determine the seroepidemiology of WUPyV and KIpyIV, we used an ELISA to scree...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nguyen NL,Le BM,Wang D

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated Treponema pallidum infection in 8 nonhuman primate species (289 animals) in Tanzania during 2015-2017. We used a serologic treponemal test to detect antibodies against the bacterium. Infection was further confirmed from tissue samples of skin-ulcerated animals by 3 independent PCRs (polA, tp47, and TP_...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chuma IS,Batamuzi EK,Collins DA,Fyumagwa RD,Hallmaier-Wacker LK,Kazwala RR,Keyyu JD,Lejora IA,Lipende IF,Lüert S,Paciência FMD,Piel A,Stewart FA,Zinner D,Roos C,Knauf S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We screened 1,200 living heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplant recipients for hepatitis E virus infection by reverse transcription PCR. In 12 (1%) patients, hepatitis E virus infection was identified; in 11 patients, chronic infection developed. This immunocompromised population is at risk for hepatitis E virus in...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Pas SD,de Man RA,Mulders C,Balk AH,van Hal PT,Weimar W,Koopmans MP,Osterhaus AD,van der Eijk AA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00