Diphtheria in the former Soviet Union: reemergence of a pandemic disease.

abstract：:We report serologic and molecular evidence of acute, febrile illness associated with Rickettsia conorii in 3 male Yorkshire terriers from Sicily (Italy). ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Solano-Gallego L,Kidd L,Trotta M,Di Marco M,Caldin M,Furlanello T,Breitschwerdt E

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global expansion of antimicrobial drug-resistant Escherichia coli sequence type (ST) 131 is unrivaled among human bacteria. Understanding trends among ST131 clades will help with designing prevention strategies. We screened E. coli from blood samples (n = 1,784) obtained in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, during 2006, 2012,...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Peirano G,Lynch T,Matsumara Y,Nobrega D,Finn TJ,DeVinney R,Pitout JDD

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To retrospectively investigate enterovirus D68 circulation in Senegal during the 2014 US outbreak, we retrieved specimens from 708 persons, mostly children, who had acute respiratory symptoms during September-December 2014. Enterovirus D68 was detected in 14 children (2.1%); most cases occurred in October. Phylogeneti...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fall A,Jallow MM,Kebe O,Kiori DE,Sy S,Goudiaby D,Boye CSB,Niang MN,Dia N

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To quantify age-specific excess-mortality rates and transmissibility patterns for the 1918-20 influenza pandemic in Boyacá, Colombia, we reviewed archival mortality records. We identified a severe pandemic wave during October 1918-January1919 associated with 40 excess deaths per 10,000 population. The age profile for ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chowell G,Viboud C,Simonsen L,Miller MA,Acuna-Soto R,Díaz JM,Martínez-Martín AF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Haiti is considered chloroquine susceptible, although resistance transporter alleles associated with chloroquine resistance were recently detected. Among 49 patients with falciparum malaria, we found neither parasites carrying haplotypes associated with chloroquine resistance nor insta...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Neuberger A,Zhong K,Kain KC,Schwartz E

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During November 2004-January 2005, 5 cases of eosinophilic meningitis (EM) attributable to Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection were reported in Hawaii. To determine if this temporal clustering reflected an increased incidence, we ascertained EM and A. cantonensis cases by systematic review of statewide laboratory an...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hochberg NS,Park SY,Blackburn BG,Sejvar JJ,Gaynor K,Chung H,Leniek K,Herwaldt BL,Effler PV

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected 3 lyssaviruses in insectivorous bats sampled in South Africa during 2003-2018. We used phylogenetic analysis to identify Duvenhage lyssavirus and a potentially new lyssavirus, provisionally named Matlo bat lyssavirus, that is related to West Caucasian bat virus. These new detections highlight that much abo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Coertse J,Grobler CS,Sabeta CT,Seamark ECJ,Kearney T,Paweska JT,Markotter W

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)- and plasmid-encoded ampC (pAmpC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae might spread from farm animals to humans through food. However, most studies have been limited in number of isolates tested and areas studied. We examined genetic relatedness of 716 isolates from 4,854 samples collected...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Börjesson S,Ny S,Egervärn M,Bergström J,Rosengren Å,Englund S,Löfmark S,Byfors S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive and skin community-associated (CA)-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from children were matched with invasive CA-methicillin-sensitive S. aureus strains during 2000-2004. Isolates were analyzed for presence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin. A USA400 lineage clone (n = 6) and the predominant U...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jaggi P,Paule SM,Peterson LR,Tan TQ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some parts of western Africa, Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) have reached capacity. Unless capacity is rapidly scaled up, the chance to avoid a generalized Ebola epidemic will soon diminish. The World Health Organization and partners are considering additional Ebola patient care options, including community care ce...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kucharski AJ,Camacho A,Checchi F,Waldman R,Grais RF,Cabrol JC,Briand S,Baguelin M,Flasche S,Funk S,Edmunds WJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified 131 strains of Vibrio fluvialis among 400 nonagglutinating Vibrio spp. isolated from patients with diarrhea in Kolkata, India. For 43 patients, V. fluvialis was the sole pathogen identified. Most strains harbored genes encoding hemolysin and metalloprotease; this finding may contribute to understanding o...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chowdhury G,Pazhani GP,Dutta D,Guin S,Dutta S,Ghosh S,Izumiya H,Asakura M,Yamasaki S,Takeda Y,Arakawa E,Watanabe H,Mukhopadhyay AK,Bhattacharya MK,Rajendran K,Nair GB,Ramamurthy T

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the recent global spread of CTX-M beta-lactamases in Escherichia coli isolates from community-acquired urinary tract infections (CA-UTIs), their dissemination has been little studied in developing countries. In a 2-year prospective study, we documented the prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ruppé E,Hem S,Lath S,Gautier V,Ariey F,Sarthou JL,Monchy D,Arlet G

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carriage of the New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase variant 1 (NDM-1) enables drug resistance to move between communities and hospitals. In Bangladesh, we found the blaNDM-1 gene in 62% of environmental waters and in fermentative and nonfermentative gram-negative bacteria. Escherichia coli sequence type (ST) 101 was most co...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Toleman MA,Bugert JJ,Nizam SA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1994 and 1996, three elephants from an exotic animal farm in Illinois died of pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In October 1996, a fourth living elephant was culture-positive for M. tuberculosis. Twenty-two handlers at the farm were screened for tuberculosis (TB); eleven had positive reactio...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Michalak K,Austin C,Diesel S,Bacon MJ,Zimmerman P,Maslow JN

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Northwestern Memorial Hospital instituted in-house molecular typing to rapidly assess microbial clonality and integrated this typing into an infection control program. We compared data on nosocomial infections collected during 24 months before and 60 months after implementing the new program. During the intervention p...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Peterson LR,Noskin GA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 56-year-old man receiving rituximab who had months of neurologic symptoms was found to have Jamestown Canyon virus in cerebrospinal fluid by clinical metagenomic sequencing. The patient died, and postmortem examination revealed extensive neuropathologic abnormalities. Deep sequencing enabled detailed characterizatio...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Solomon IH,Ganesh VS,Yu G,Deng XD,Wilson MR,Miller S,Milligan TA,Mukerji SS,Mathewson A,Linxweiler J,Morse D,Ritter JM,Staples JE,Hughes H,Gould CV,Sabeti PC,Chiu CY,Piantadosi A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seoul hantavirus-associated hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome cases are rare outside Asia and have not yet been found in Germany. We report clinical and molecular evidence for a Seoul virus infection in a patient in Germany. The infection was most likely acquired during a stay in Sulawesi, Indonesia. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hofmann J,Weiss S,Kuhns M,Zinke A,Heinsberger H,Kruger DH

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the clinical and epidemiologic features of an outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Herat Province, Afghanistan. The study comprised 63 patients hospitalized in 2017. The overall case-fatality rate was 22.2%; fatal outcome was significantly associated with a negative IgM test result, longer prothro...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Niazi AU,Jawad MJ,Amirnajad A,Durr PA,Williams DT

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloth masks have been used in healthcare and community settings to protect the wearer from respiratory infections. The use of cloth masks during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is under debate. The filtration effectiveness of cloth masks is generally lower than that of medical masks and respirators; howeve...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chughtai AA,Seale H,Macintyre CR

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropheryma whipplei endocarditis differs from classic Whipple disease, which primarily affects the gastrointestinal system. We diagnosed 28 cases of T. whipplei endocarditis in Marseille, France, and compared them with cases reported in the literature. Specimens were analyzed mostly by molecular and histologic techniq...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fenollar F,Célard M,Lagier JC,Lepidi H,Fournier PE,Raoult D

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:The analysis of the nucleoprotein gene of 77 Puumala hantavirus strains detected in human samples in France during 2012-2016 showed that all belonged to the Central European lineage. We observed 2 main clusters, geographically structured; one included strains with the Q64 signature and the other strains with the R64 s...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Reynes JM,Carli D,Thomas D,Castel G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1992 to 1999, we analyzed >2.5 million cases of influenzalike illness (ILI). Nationwide influenza epidemics generally lasted 3-4 months in winter. Kriging analysis, which illustrates geographic movement, showed that the starting areas of peak ILI activity were mostly found in western Japan. Two spreading patterns...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sakai T,Suzuki H,Sasaki A,Saito R,Tanabe N,Taniguchi K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 1990s, reports of Q fever in Nova Scotia, Canada, have declined. Passive surveillance for Q fever in Nova Scotia and its neighboring provinces in eastern Canada indicates that the clinical manifestation of Q fever in the Maritime provinces is pneumonia and that incidence of the disease may fluctuate. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Marrie TJ,Campbell N,McNeil SA,Webster D,Hatchette TF

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate feed as a source for fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in broiler chickens, we compared antimicrobial drug-resistant E. coli from broiler feed and broilers with ciprofloxacin-resistant human clinical isolates by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Feed was implicated as a source for ciprofl...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Thorsteinsdottir TR,Haraldsson G,Fridriksdottir V,Kristinsson KG,Gunnarsson E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed attack rates for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in three categories of hospital workers (nurses, nonmedical support staff, and other technical or medical staff) in all public hospitals in Hong Kong that had admitted SARS patients. Of 16 such hospitals, 14 had cases. The overall attack rate was 1....

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lau JT,Yang X,Leung PC,Chan L,Wong E,Fong C,Tsui HY

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 1,432 febrile travelers from Sweden who had returned from malaria-endemic areas during March 2005-March 2008. In 383 patients, paired serum samples were blindly analyzed for influenza and 7 other agents. For 21% of 115 patients with fever of unknown origin, serologic analysis showed that influenza was the m...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Askling HH,Lesko B,Vene S,Berndtson A,Björkman P,Bläckberg J,Bronner U,Follin P,Hellgren U,Palmerus M,Ekdahl K,Tegnell A,Struwe J

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A is increasingly a cause of enteric fever. Sequence analysis of an Indian isolate showed a unique strain with high-level resistance to ciprofloxacin associated with double mutations in the DNA gyrase subunit gyrA (Ser83-->Phe and Asp87-->Gly) and a mutation in topoisomerase IV su...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nair S,Unnikrishnan M,Turner K,Parija SC,Churcher C,Wain J,Harish N

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed university-based outbreaks of meningococcal disease caused by serogroup B and vaccination responses in the United States in the years following serogroup B meningococcal (MenB) vaccine availability. Ten university-based outbreaks occurred in 7 states during 2013-2018, causing a total of 39 cases and 2 deat...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Soeters HM,McNamara LA,Blain AE,Whaley M,MacNeil JR,Hariri S,Mbaeyi SA,Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease University Outbreak Group.

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2005, a marked increase in hantavirus infections was observed in Germany. Large cities and areas where hantaviruses were not known to be endemic were affected. A case-control study identified the following independent risk factors for infection: occupational exposure for construction workers, living <100 meter from...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Abu Sin M,Stark K,van Treeck U,Dieckmann H,Uphoff H,Hautmann W,Bornhofen B,Jensen E,Pfaff G,Koch J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00