Imported toxigenic cutaneous diphtheria in a young male returning from Mozambique to Norway, March 2014.

abstract：:We report an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) associated paediatric haemolytic uraemic syndrome linked to the consumption of raw cow's milk soft cheeses. From 25 March to 27 May 2019, 16 outbreak cases infected with STEC O26 (median age: 22 months) were identified. Interviews and trace-back in...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Jones G,Lefèvre S,Donguy MP,Nisavanh A,Terpant G,Fougère E,Vaissière E,Guinard A,Mailles A,de Valk H,Fila M,Tanné C,Le Borgne C,Weill FX,Bonacorsi S,Jourdan-Da Silva N,Mariani-Kurkdjian P

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed an ecological study using sentinel consultation data from a medical deputising service to assess the impact of increasing coverage with childhood varicella vaccine on the incidence risk of varicella and zoster in the population served by the deputising service in Victoria, Australia from 1998 to 2012. Fol...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Kelly HA,Grant KA,Gidding H,Carville KS

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a fatal case of community-acquired Legionnaires' disease in an infant aged under six months. Epidemiological and microbiological investigations suggested that a free-standing cold water humidifier using domestic tap water contaminated with Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 served as a vehicle for infection....

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Moran-Gilad J,Lazarovitch T,Mentasti M,Harrison T,Weinberger M,Mordish Y,Mor Z,Stocki T,Anis E,Sadik C,Amitai Z,Grotto I

更新日期：2012-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe Zika virus (ZIKV) vertical transmission in an imported case in Spain, in a 17-week pregnant woman. ZIKV IgG, IgM and RNA were detected in serum in week 17. At 19 weeks, ultrasound scan revealed fetal malformations and ZIKV was detected in the amniotic fluid. Pregnancy was terminated at week 21; autopsy of ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Perez S,Tato R,Cabrera JJ,Lopez A,Robles O,Paz E,Coira A,Sanchez-Seco MP,Vazquez A,Carballo R,Quintas C,Pousa A

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A monophasic Salmonella enterica serovar 4,[5],12:i:- phage type DT193 emerged as the dominant serovar in Luxembourg in 2006, when it caused two major outbreaks involving 133 laboratory-confirmed human cases, 24 hospitalisations, and one death. The outbreak strain had an uncommon pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patte...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Mossong J,Marques P,Ragimbeau C,Huberty-Krau P,Losch S,Meyer G,Moris G,Strottner C,Rabsch W,Schneider F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hantaviruses cause haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantaviruspulmonary syndrome (HPS), and occur throughout the world. The viruses aretransmitted to humans in aerosols of rodent secretions. About 200 000 people,mainly in Eurasia, develop ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Henttonen H,Vaheri A,Vapalahti O

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) was implemented in 2016 in response to the large outbreak reported in the Americas in 2015 associated with an increased number of infants born with microcephaly. Between June 2015 and January 2017, 21 EU/EEA countries rep...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Spiteri G,Sudre B,Septfons A,Beauté J,The European Zika Surveillance Network.

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2014, Norway became aware of potential low vaccination coverage for the second dose of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR2) in six of 19 counties. This was detected by comparing the national coverage (NC) for 16-year-olds extracted from the national immunisation registry SYSVAK with the annual status update for eli...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Hagerup-Jenssen M,Kongsrud S,Riise ØR

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from early clinical trials have shown that a single dose of pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine may generate sufficient antibody response, but the relevance of this fact to public health decision making has yet to be clarified. The present study compares the risk of clinical attack (i.e. clinical attack rate) betw...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Nishiura H,Iwata K

更新日期：2009-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:From January to April 2015, Réunion experienced a major outbreak of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) caused by coxsackievirus A24, which heavily impacted the healthcare system. According to the general practitioners' (GP) sentinel network, the number of medical consultations due to conjunctivitis during this pe...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Marguerite N,Brottet E,Pagès F,Jaffar-Bandjee MC,Schuffenecker I,Josset L,Vilain P,Filleul L

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Advantages of testing for Zika virus (ZIKV) in urine have been reported, such as the persistence of ZIKV in this type of specimen for up to 20 days after ZIKV disease onset. We investigate 61 patients in the first 5 days post-symptom onset and find more patients testing positive for ZIKV in plasma samples (n=46), than...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Pessôa R,Patriota JV,de Souza Mde L,Abd El Wahed A,Sanabani SS

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Autochthonous hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has been increasingly reported in Europe and the United States, mostly arising from genotype 3 and less frequently genotype 4. We report here on a patient with HEV genotype 3a infection complicated by Guillain-Barré syndrome in Portugal in December 2012. We draw attentio...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Santos L,Mesquita JR,Rocha Pereira N,Lima-Alves C,Serrão R,Figueiredo P,Reis J,Simões J,Nascimento M,Sarmento A

更新日期：2013-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the plasmid-mediated colistin resistance gene mcr-1 was found in Enterobacteriaceae from humans, pigs and retail meat in China. Several reports have documented global presence of the gene in Enterobacteriaceae from humans, food animals and food since. We screened several well-characterised strain collections...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Kluytmans-van den Bergh MF,Huizinga P,Bonten MJ,Bos M,De Bruyne K,Friedrich AW,Rossen JW,Savelkoul PH,Kluytmans JA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IntroductionIn 2007, a new federal legislation in Belgium prohibited non-biosafety level 3 laboratories to process culture tubes suspected of containing mycobacteria.AimTo present mycobacterial surveillance/diagnosis data from the Belgian National Reference Centre for mycobacteria (NRC) from 2007 to 2016.MethodsThis r...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Soetaert K,Subissi L,Ceyssens PJ,Vanfleteren B,Chantrenne M,Asikainen T,Duysburgh E,Mathys V

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease acquired in one country but diagnosed and reported in another, necessitates international cooperation if it is to be controlled, investigated and further cases prevented. The European surveillance scheme for travel associated legionnaires' disease (EWGLINET) was established in 1987 to operate in this type of c...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Joseph C

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundInterseasonal influenza outbreaks are not unusual in countries with temperate climates and well-defined influenza seasons. Usually, these are small and diminish before the main influenza season begins. However, the 2018/19 summer-autumn interseasonal influenza period in Australia saw unprecedented large and ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Barr IG,Deng YM,Grau ML,Han AX,Gilmour R,Irwin M,Markey P,Freeman K,Higgins G,Turra M,Komadina N,Peck H,Booy R,Maurer-Stroh S,Dhanasekaran V,Sullivan S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1994 to 2009, national field epidemiology training programmes (FETP) have been installed in Spain, Germany, Italy, France and Norway. During their two year duration, different components of the FETP are devised as follows: 63-79 weeks are spent on projects in hosting institutes, 2-26 weeks in outside projects, 9-...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Krause G,Aavitsland P,Alpers K,Barrasa A,Bremer V,Helynck B,Perra A

更新日期：2009-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman with controlled HIV infection developed in late August 2016 a pruritic rash with fever and conjunctival hyperaemia after a trip to the French Caribbean islands. On day 3 after symptom onset, Zika virus RNA was detected in plasma, urine and vaginal samples with respective viral loads of 3.8, 6.1 and 5.3 log cop...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Penot P,Brichler S,Guilleminot J,Lascoux-Combe C,Taulera O,Gordien E,Leparc-Goffart I,Molina JM

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In low-incidence countries in the European Union (EU), tuberculosis (TB) is concentrated in big cities, especially among certain urban high-risk groups including immigrants from TB high-incidence countries, homeless people, and those with a history of drug and alcohol misuse. Elimination of TB in European big cities r...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： van Hest NA,Aldridge RW,de Vries G,Sandgren A,Hauer B,Hayward A,Arrazola de Oñate W,Haas W,Codecasa LR,Caylà JA,Story A,Antoine D,Gori A,Quabeck L,Jonsson J,Wanlin M,Orcau Å,Rodes A,Dedicoat M,Antoun F,van Deuteko

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Imported dengue cases originating from the Madeiran outbreak are increasingly reported. In 2012 five Finnish travellers returning from Madeira were diagnosed with dengue fever. Viral sequence data was obtained from two patients. The partial C-preM sequences (399 and 396 bp respectively) were found similar to that of a...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Huhtamo E,Korhonen E,Vapalahti O

更新日期：2013-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the objectives of any surveillance activity is to monitor trends in infections. The international surveillance network for human enteric infections, Enter-net, has been collecting and reporting data on laboratory-confirmed human salmonella infections since 1993. The number of cases identified rose in the mid-19...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Fisher IS,Enter-net participants.

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persons with multiple syphilis reinfections may play an important role in syphilis transmission. We analysed all syphilis tests carried out for people attending the HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, from 1992 to 2012 to evaluate the extent to which...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Kenyon C,Lynen L,Florence E,Caluwaerts S,Vandenbruaene M,Apers L,Soentjens P,Van Esbroeck M,Bottieau E

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2010 and 2011, the city of Lyon, located in the Rhône-Alpes region (France), has experienced one of the highest incidences of measles in Europe. We describe a measles outbreak in the Lyon area, where cases were diagnosed at Lyon University hospitals (LUH) between 2010 and mid-2011. Data were collected from the mand...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Huoi C,Casalegno JS,Bénet T,Neuraz A,Billaud G,Eibach D,Mekki Y,Rudigoz R,Massardier J,Huissoud C,Massoud M,Gaucherand P,Claris O,Gillet Y,Floret D,Lina B,Vanhems P

更新日期：2012-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibodies and the sequence-based typing (SBT) are two methodologies widely used to characterise Legionella pneumophila strains serogroup 1 (sg1). In this study, we analysed the clinical strains received in two Portuguese laboratories since 1987, including the strains isolated in Portugal during the fou...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Chasqueira MJ,Rodrigues L,Nascimento M,Marques T

更新日期：2009-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Several European countries reported outbreaks of severe disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in the late 1980s. This marked a departure from the previous decades, where very few such outbreaks were noted. These changes in disease occurrence formed part of a global phenomenon, the reasons for which have yet to be e...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Lamagni TL,Efstratiou A,Vuopio-Varkila J,Jasir A,Schalén C,Strep-EURO.

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2014, the United States (US) experienced a nationwide outbreak of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) infection with 1,152 cases reported mainly in hospitalised children with severe asthma or bronchiolitis. Following the US alert, 11 laboratories of the French enterovirus (EV) surveillance network participated in an EV-D68 su...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Schuffenecker I,Mirand A,Josset L,Henquell C,Hecquet D,Pilorgé L,Petitjean-Lecherbonnier J,Manoha C,Legoff J,Deback C,Pillet S,Lepiller Q,Mansuy JM,Marque-Juillet S,Antona D,Peigue-Lafeuille H,Lina B

更新日期：2016-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (Stichting Werkgroep AntibioticaBeleid, SWAB) was founded in 1996 as an initiative of the Society for Infectious Diseases, the Dutch Society for Medical Microbiology, and the Dutch Association of Hospital Pharmacists. Its primary goal is to contribute to the containment of ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Prins JM,Degener JE,de Neeling AJ,Gyssens IC,SWAB Board.

更新日期：2008-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A distinct cluster of highly pathogenic avian influenzaviruses of subtype A(H5N1) has been found to emergewithin clade 2.2.1.2 in poultry in Egypt since summer2014 and appears to have quickly become predominant.Viruses of this cluster may be associated withincreased incidence of human influenza A(H5N1) infectionsin Eg...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Arafa AS,Naguib MM,Luttermann C,Selim AA,Kilany WH,Hagag N,Samy A,Abdelhalim A,Hassan MK,Abdelwhab EM,Makonnen Y,Dauphin G,Lubroth J,Mettenleiter TC,Beer M,Grund C,Harder TC

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant increase (more than 10-fold) in the number of newly diagnosed HIV-1 infections among injecting drug users (IDUs) was observed in Greece during the first seven months of 2011. Molecular epidemiology results revealed that a large proportion (96%) of HIV-1 sequences from IDUs sampled in 2011 fall within phy...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Paraskevis D,Nikolopoulos G,Tsiara C,Paraskeva D,Antoniadou A,Lazanas M,Gargalianos P,Psychogiou M,Malliori M,Kremastinou J,Hatzakis A

更新日期：2011-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria incidence is reportedly declining steadily in many parts of the world, including in at least several African countries. The incidence of imported malaria is also declining in a number of European countries. However, incidence rates in travellers, both European tourists and the so called VFR (visiting friends a...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Bisoffi Z

更新日期：2008-12-18 00:00:00