Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection as a zoonotic disease: transmission between humans and elephants.

abstract：:We report 3 cases of spotted fever group rickettsial infection (presumed Queensland tick typhus) in residents of northern Queensland, Australia, who had unusually severe clinical manifestations. Complications included renal failure, purpura fulminans, and severe pneumonia. Clinical illness caused by Rickettsia austral...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： McBride WJ,Hanson JP,Miller R,Wenck D

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After our recent discovery of a Streptococcus pneumoniae 19A "superbug" (Legacy strain) that is resistant to all Food and Drug Administration-approved antimicrobial drugs for treatment of acute otitis media (AOM) in children, other S. pneumoniae isolates from children with AOM were characterized by multilocus sequence...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Xu Q,Pichichero ME,Casey JR,Zeng M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melioidosis is a life-threatening infectious disease caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei. An effective vaccine is needed, but data on protective immune responses in human melioidosis are lacking. We used ELISA and an antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis assay to identify the major featur...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chaichana P,Jenjaroen K,Chumseng S,Sumonwiriya M,Rongkard P,Kronsteiner B,Teparrukkul P,Limmathurotsakul D,Day NPJ,Chantratita N,Dunachie SJ

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic characterization of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (H5N1) isolated in July 2008 in Nigeria indicates that a distinct genotype, never before detected in Africa, reached the continent. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the viruses are genetically closely related to European and Middle Eastern influenz...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Fusaro A,Joannis T,Monne I,Salviato A,Yakubu B,Meseko C,Oladokun T,Fassina S,Capua I,Cattoli G

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Data are missing on the diversity of Plasmodium spp. infecting apes that live in their natural habitat, with limited possibility of human-mosquito-ape exchange. We surveyed Plasmodium spp. diversity in wild chimpanzees living in an undisturbed tropical rainforest habitat and found 5 species: P. malariae, P. vivax, P. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kaiser M,Löwa A,Ulrich M,Ellerbrok H,Goffe AS,Blasse A,Zommers Z,Couacy-Hymann E,Babweteera F,Zuberbühler K,Metzger S,Geidel S,Boesch C,Gillespie TR,Leendertz FH

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Among 2,882 Streptococcus pneumoniae sent to the Spanish Reference Laboratory during 2002, 75 (2.6%) were ciprofloxacin-resistant. Resistance was associated with older patients (3.9% in adults and 7.2% in patients > or =65 years of age), with isolation from noninvasive sites (4.3% vs. 1.0%), and with penicillin and ma...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： de la Campa AG,Balsalobre L,Ardanuy C,Fenoll A,Pérez-Trallero E,Liñares J,Spanish Pneumococcal Infection Study Network G03\/103.

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) were investigated for SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) through RNA tests, serologic response, and viral culture. Of 537 specimens from patients in whom SARS was clinically diagnosed, 332 (60%) had SARS-CoV RNA in one or more clinical specimens, compared with 1 (0.3%) of 332...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chan KH,Poon LL,Cheng VC,Guan Y,Hung IF,Kong J,Yam LY,Seto WH,Yuen KY,Peiris JS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2013, the first government-led oral cholera vaccination (OCV) campaign in Haiti was implemented in Petite Anse and Cerca Carvajal. To evaluate vaccination coverage, barriers to vaccination, and adverse events following vaccination, we conducted a cluster survey. We enrolled 1,121 persons from Petite Anse and 809 pe...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Tohme RA,François J,Wannemuehler K,Iyengar P,Dismer A,Adrien P,Hyde TB,Marston BJ,Date K,Mintz E,Katz MA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report new molecular evidence of locally acquired dengue virus infections in Ghana. We detected dengue viral RNA among children with suspected malaria by using a multipathogen real-time PCR. Subsequent sequence analysis revealed a close relationship with dengue virus serotype 2, which was implicated in a 2016 outbr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Amoako N,Duodu S,Dennis FE,Bonney JHK,Asante KP,Ameh J,Mosi L,Hayashi T,Agbosu EE,Pratt D,Operario DJ,Fields B,Liu J,Houpt ER,Armah GE,Stoler J,Awandare GA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 4 cases of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 13-associated pneumonia. These cases originate from a broad geographic range that includes Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand. L. pneumophila serogroup 13 pneumonia has a clinically diverse spectrum that ranges from relatively mild, community-acquired pneumonia...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Faris B,Faris C,Schousboe M,Heath CH

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Africa, incidence and prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis have been assumed to be low. However, investigation after a 2005 outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, found that the incidence rate for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal was among ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wallengren K,Scano F,Nunn P,Margot B,Buthelezi SS,Williams B,Pym A,Samuel EY,Mirzayev F,Nkhoma W,Mvusi L,Pillay Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella Typhimurium infections in humans, and in particular MDR definitive phage type 104 (DT104), has increased substantially in many countries in the last 2 decades, often associated with increased illness. To examine the magnitude of this problem, a survey was conducted...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Helms M,Ethelberg S,Mølbak K,DT104 Study Group.

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated an indirect immunofluorescence assay based on virus-infected cells for detecting anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibody. All confirmed SARS cases demonstrated seroconversion or fourfold rise in IgG antibody titer; no control was positive. Se...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chan PK,Ng KC,Chan RC,Lam RK,Chow VC,Hui M,Wu A,Lee N,Yap FH,Cheng FW,Sung JJ,Tam JS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus continues to rapidly spread worldwide. In 2009, pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection in a domestic cat from Iowa was diagnosed by a novel PCR assay that distinguishes between Eurasian and North American pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus matrix genes. Human-to-cat transmission is presumed. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sponseller BA,Strait E,Jergens A,Trujillo J,Harmon K,Koster L,Jenkins-Moore M,Killian M,Swenson S,Bender H,Waller K,Miles K,Pearce T,Yoon KJ,Nara P

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:A third serotype of human parechovirus (HPeV) has been recently isolated from stool specimens of a young Japanese child with transient paralysis. We report 3 additional cases of neonatal sepsis caused by HPeV-3 in the fall of 2001 in Canadian infants 7-27 days old. All children were hospitalized with high fever, eryth...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Boivin G,Abed Y,Boucher FD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current dengue epidemic in Latin America represents a major threat to health. However, surveillance of affected regions lacks timeliness and precision. We investigated real-time electronic sources for monitoring spread of dengue into new regions. This approach could provide timely estimates of changes in distribut...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hoen AG,Keller M,Verma AD,Buckeridge DL,Brownstein JS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic analysis of influenza viruses collected during December 2009-February 2010 from chickens in live poultry retail shops in Lahore, Pakistan, showed influenza A(H9N2) lineage polymerase and nonstructural genes generate through inter- and intrasubtypic reassortments. Many amino acid signatures observed were c...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chaudhry M,Angot A,Rashid HB,Cattoli G,Hussain M,Trovò G,Drago A,Valastro V,Thrusfield M,Welburn S,Eisler MC,Capua I

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pyrethroid knockdown resistance gene (kdr) has become widespread in Anopheles gambiae in West Africa. A trial to test the continuing efficacy of insecticide-treated nets (ITN) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) was undertaken in experimental huts at 2 sites in Benin, the first where kdr is present at high frequenc...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： N'Guessan R,Corbel V,Akogbéto M,Rowland M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of influenza A(H7N2) virus in cats in a shelter in New York, NY, USA, resulted in zoonotic transmission. Virus isolated from the infected human was closely related to virus isolated from a cat; both were related to low pathogenicity avian influenza A(H7N2) viruses detected in the United States during the e...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Marinova-Petkova A,Laplante J,Jang Y,Lynch B,Zanders N,Rodriguez M,Jones J,Thor S,Hodges E,De La Cruz JA,Belser J,Yang H,Carney P,Shu B,Berman L,Stark T,Barnes J,Havers F,Yang P,Trock SC,Fry A,Gubareva L,Brese

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of influenza A (H3N2) occurred aboard a U.S. Navy ship in February 1996, despite 95% of the crew's having been appropriately vaccinated. Virus isolated from ill crew members was antigenically distinct from the vaccination strain. With an attack rate of 42%, this outbreak demonstrates the potential for rapi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Earhart KC,Beadle C,Miller LK,Pruss MW,Gray GC,Ledbetter EK,Wallace MR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High frequencies of antimicrobial drug resistance were observed in O157 and non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli strains recovered from patients in Michigan during 2010-2014. Resistance was more common in non-O157 strains and independently associated with hospitalization, indicating that resistance could contribute ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mukherjee S,Mosci RE,Anderson CM,Snyder BA,Collins J,Rudrik JT,Manning SD

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pandemic influenza planning is well under way across the globe. Antiviral drugs and vaccines have dominated the therapeutic agenda. Far less work has been conducted on stockpiling and planning for deployment of antimicrobial drugs against secondary bacterial pneumonia, a cause of substantial illness and death in previ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gupta RK,George R,Nguyen-Van-Tam JS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a major cause of invasive disease in neonates in the United States. Surveillance of invasive GBS disease in Minnesota, USA, during 2000-2010 yielded 449 isolates from 449 infants; 257 had early-onset (EO) disease (by age 6 days) and 192 late-onset (LO) disease (180 at age 7-89 days, 12 a...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ferrieri P,Lynfield R,Creti R,Flores AE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize parapoxviruses causing severe disease in wild ruminants in Stelvio Park, Italy, we sequenced and compared the DNA of several isolates. Results demonstrated that the red deer isolates are closely related to the parapox of red deer in New Zealand virus. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Scagliarini A,Vaccari F,Turrini F,Bianchi A,Cordioli P,Lavazza A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of polymerase chain reaction-single-stranded conformational polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) to study rpoB gene mutations in rifampin-resistant (RIFr) Mycobacterium tuberculosis has yielded contradictory results. To determine the sensitivity of this method, we analyzed 35 RIFr strains and 11 rifampin-susceptible (RIFs)...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bobadilla-del-Valle M,Ponce-de-Leon A,Arenas-Huertero C,Vargas-Alarcon G,Kato-Maeda M,Small PM,Couary P,Ruiz-Palacios GM,Sifuentes-Osornio J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human yaws has historically been endemic to Kenya, but current epidemiologic data are lacking. We report seroprevalence for Treponema pallidum antibodies in olive baboons (Papio anubis) and vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) in Laikipia County, Kenya. Our results suggest endemicity of the yaws bacterium in monke...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Zimmerman DM,Hardgrove EH,von Fricken ME,Kamau J,Chai D,Mutura S,Kivali V,Hussein F,Ambala P,Surmat A,Maina JG,Knauf S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia miyamotoi is distantly related to B. burgdorferi and transmitted by the same hard-body tick species. We report 46 cases of B. miyamotoi infection in humans and compare the frequency and clinical manifestations of this infection with those caused by B. garinii and B. burgdorferi infection. All 46 patients live...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Platonov AE,Karan LS,Kolyasnikova NM,Makhneva NA,Toporkova MG,Maleev VV,Fish D,Krause PJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00