The incidence of pertussis in the Netherlands has remained high since an outbreak occurred in 1996.

abstract：:The quick spread of an Ebola outbreak in West Africa has led a number of countries and airline companies to issue travel bans to the affected areas. Considering data up to 31 Aug 2014, we assess the impact of the resulting traffic reductions with detailed numerical simulations of the international spread of the epidem...

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

authors： Poletto C,Gomes MF,Pastore y Piontti A,Rossi L,Bioglio L,Chao DL,Longini IM,Halloran ME,Colizza V,Vespignani A

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In February 2013, wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) was reintroduced into southern Israel and resulted in continuous silent circulation in the highly immune population. As a part of the public health emergency response, a novel real time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) assay was deve...

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

authors： Hindiyeh MY,Moran-Gilad J,Manor Y,Ram D,Shulman LM,Sofer D,Mendelson E

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:"Swedres 2005", the fifth report on Swedish antibiotic utilisation and resistance in human medicine, was presented in May 2006. Compared with the rest of Europe, antibiotic consumption and resistance levels in Sweden are relatively low. However, global travel and trade facilitate the spread of bacteria between countri...

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

authors： Cars O,Olsson-Liljequist B,Lundh K

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in France was diagnosed in March 2003. We conducted a serological survey to assess whether or not asymptomatic persons who had been in contact with this patient during his infectious stage had been infected. They were interviewed and asked to provide a blood s...

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

authors： Le Vu S,Yazdanpanah Y,Bitar D,Emmanuelli J,Bonmarin I,Desenclos JC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight cases of psittacosis due to Chlamydia psittaci were identified in May 2013 among 15 individuals involved in chicken gutting activities on a mixed poultry farm in France. All cases were women between 42 and 67 years-old. Cases were diagnosed by serology and PCR of respiratory samples. Appropriate treatment was im...

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

authors： Laroucau K,Aaziz R,Meurice L,Servas V,Chossat I,Royer H,de Barbeyrac B,Vaillant V,Moyen JL,Meziani F,Sachse K,Rolland P

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Wet cooling systems are often associated with large outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease. Several European countries have legislation for registering such systems. The authors aimed to obtain an overview of the situation in Europe. A questionnaire survey was sent to 35 of the countries that collaborate in the European W...

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

authors： Ricketts KD,Joseph C,Lee J,Wewalka G,European Working Group for Legionella Infections.

更新日期：2008-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reflects on the qualitative risk analysis framework developed for a Foresight study on the Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases, which was coordinated in 2005 by the United Kingdom (UK) under what is now the Government Office for Science, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. Th...

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

authors： Suk J,Lyall C,Tait J

更新日期：2008-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundProgress towards HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination requires local prevalence estimates and linkage to care (LTC) of undiagnosed or disengaged cases.AimWe aimed to estimate seroprevalence, factors associated with positive blood-borne virus (BBV) serology and numbers needed t...

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

authors： Bundle N,Balasegaram S,Parry S,Ullah S,Harris RJ,Ahmad K,Foster GR,Tong CY,Orkin C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundHepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging zoonotic pathogen and an important cause of acute viral hepatitis in European countries. Corsica Island has been previously identified as a hyperendemic area for HEV.AimOur aim was to characterise the prevalence and titres of IgG antibodies to HEV among blood donors on ...

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

authors： Capai L,Hozé N,Chiaroni J,Gross S,Djoudi R,Charrel R,Izopet J,Bosseur F,Priet S,Cauchemez S,de Lamballerie X,Falchi A,Gallian P

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 2008/9 influenza season, the I-MOVE multicentre case-control study measures influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) against medically-attended influenza-like-illness (ILI) laboratory confirmed as influenza. In 2011/12, European studies reported a decline in VE against influenza A(H3N2) within the season. Using ...

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

authors： Kissling E,Nunes B,Robertson C,Valenciano M,Reuss A,Larrauri A,Cohen JM,Oroszi B,Rizzo C,Machado A,Pitigoi D,Domegan L,Paradowska-Stankiewicz I,Buchholz U,Gherasim A,Daviaud I,Horváth JK,Bella A,Lupulescu E,O Donnel

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In Andalusia, Spain, West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance takes place from April to November, during the active vector period. Within this area seroconversion to this virus was evidenced in wild birds in 2004, affecting horses and two humans for the first time in 2010. Since 2010, the virus has been isolated every year ...

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

authors： López-Ruiz N,Montaño-Remacha MDC,Durán-Pla E,Pérez-Ruiz M,Navarro-Marí JM,Salamanca-Rivera C,Miranda B,Oyonarte-Gómez S,Ruiz-Fernández J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an under-recognised cause of acute hepatitis in high-income countries. The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of testing, diagnosis, surveillance activities, and data on confirmed cases in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). A semi-structured survey was develope...

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

authors： Aspinall EJ,Couturier E,Faber M,Said B,Ijaz S,Tavoschi L,Takkinen J,Adlhoch C,The Country Experts.

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:On 31 August, a veterinarian and a farmworker were hospitalised for skin lesions. Both had been exposed to a dead cow on 19 August on a farm near Rome, where eight further cattle died of confirmed anthrax later the same month. At admission, the first case showed a black depressed eschar and another smaller lesion on o...

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

authors： Nicastri E,Vairo F,Mencarini P,Battisti A,Agrati C,Cimini E,Carrara S,D'Arezzo S,Adone R,Vulcano A,Iannetta M,Capone A,Petrosillo N,Fasanella A,Ippolito G,Italian Anthrax Team Members

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the elevated temperatures on mortality experienced in Europe during the summer of 2003 was observed in several countries. This study, carried out in Spain, describes mortality between 1 June and 31 August and evaluates the effect of the heat wave on mortality. Observed deaths were obtained from official ...

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

authors： Simon F,Lopez-Abente G,Ballester E,Martinez F

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliable data on the health status of migrant seasonal workers in Europe is scarce. Access to public health care for this population depends on national regulations, and their legal status in host countries. In this manuscript we describe a case study of a salmonellosis outbreak that occurred in Norway, and highlight ...

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

authors： Guerin PJ,Vold L,Aavitsland P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the afternoon of Friday 22 November 1996, Lanarkshire Health Board s Public Health Department became aware of 15 cases of possible Escherichia coli O157 infection (five of which had been confirmed microbiologically) in residents of the town of Wishaw i ...

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

authors： Cowden JM

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：: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：:A new azole resistance mechanism in Aspergillus fumigatus consisting of a TR46/Y121F/T289A alteration in the cyp51A gene was recently described in the Netherlands. Strains containing these mutations are associated with invasive infection and therapy failure. This communication describes the first case of fatal invasiv...

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

authors： Vermeulen E,Maertens J,Schoemans H,Lagrou K

更新日期：2012-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Data collected over winter 2009 by five World Health Organisation National Influenza Centres in the southern hemisphere were used to examine the circulation of pandemic and seasonal influenza A strains during the first pandemic wave in the southern hemisphere.There is compelling evidence that the pandemic influenza A(...

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

authors： Blyth CC,Kelso A,McPhie KA,Ratnamohan VM,Catton M,Druce JD,Smith DW,Williams SH,Huang QS,Lopez L,Schoub BD,Venter M,Dwyer DE

更新日期：2010-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a large West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic in northeastern Italy in 2008, human and animal surveillance activities were implemented in Emilia Romagna. Human surveillance was performed by serology or genome detection on blood and cerebrospinal fluid for all suspected cases suffering from acute meningoencephalitis...

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

authors： Angelini P,Tamba M,Finarelli AC,Bellini R,Albieri A,Bonilauri P,Cavrini F,Dottori M,Gaibani P,Martini E,Mattivi A,Pierro AM,Rugna G,Sambri V,Squintani G,Macini P

更新日期：2010-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Large outbreaks of Q fever in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2009 were monitored using notification data of acute clinical Q fever. However, the notification system provides no information on infections that remain subclinical or for which no medical attention is sought. The present study was carried out immediately aft...

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

authors： van der Hoek W,Hogema BM,Dijkstra F,Rietveld A,Wijkmans CJ,Schneeberger PM,Zaaijer HL

更新日期：2012-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the epidemiology and management of a prolonged outbreak of measles across the 2.7 million conurbation of Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. Over a period of one year (from October 2012 to September 2013), over a thousand suspected measles cases (n = 1,073) were notified across Greater Manch...

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

authors： Pegorie M,Shankar K,Welfare WS,Wilson RW,Khiroya C,Munslow G,Fiefield D,Bothra V,McCann R

更新日期：2014-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) remains poorly controlled in many European countries, of which several have not yet implemented national CDI surveillance. In 2013, experts from the European CDI Surveillance Network project and from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control developed a protocol with ...

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

authors： van Dorp SM,Kinross P,Gastmeier P,Behnke M,Kola A,Delmée M,Pavelkovich A,Mentula S,Barbut F,Hajdu A,Ingebretsen A,Pituch H,Macovei IS,Jovanović M,Wiuff C,Schmid D,Olsen KE,Wilcox MH,Suetens C,Kuijper EJ,European C

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1994, the incidence of gonorrhoea in Østfold county, Norway, has remained within the range of 1-8 cases per year, with 40% of cases being imported from abroad. On 20 January 2008, a general practitioner in the county diagnosed two seemingly unrelated domestic cases of gonorrhoea in three days and started contact...

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

authors： Jakopanec I,Hassfjord JJ,Nilsen O,Larsen AL,Aavitsland P

更新日期：2008-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Netherlands, meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is detected on pork and veal farms, and hence farmers working with MRSA-positive animals are at an increased risk of being colonised. Recently retail meat products have been found positive for MRSA. Therefore, we tested the prevalence of MRSA among ...

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

authors： de Jonge R,Verdier JE,Havelaar AH

更新日期：2010-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2009, an improved influenza surveillance system was implemented and weekly reporting to the World Health Organization on influenza-like illness (ILI) began. The goals of the surveillance system are to monitor and analyse the intensity of influenza activity, to provide timely information about circulating ...

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

authors： Rakocevic B,Grgurevic A,Trajkovic G,Mugosa B,Sipetic Grujicic S,Medenica S,Bojovic O,Lozano Alonso JE,Vega T

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarises the epidemiology and control of pertussis in England and Wales since the introduction of routine immunisation and considers the implications for future control. Routine infant immunisation with a whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccine was introduced in 1957 and had a marked impact on the overall dise...

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

authors： Amirthalingam G,Gupta S,Campbell H

更新日期：2013-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A national hand hygiene promotion campaign based on the World Health Organization (WHO) multimodal, Clean Care is Safer Care campaign was launched in Italy in 2007. One hundred seventy-five hospitals from 14 of 20 Italian regions participated. Data were collected using methods and tools provided by the WHO campaign, t...

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

authors： Moro ML,Morsillo F,Nascetti S,Parenti M,Allegranzi B,Pompa MG,Pittet D

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli clone ST131 (ESBL-ST131) has spread in healthcare settings worldwide. The reasons for its successful spread are unknown, but might include more effective transmission and/or longer persistence. We evaluated the colonisation dynamics of ESBL-produci...

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

authors： Overdevest I,Haverkate M,Veenemans J,Hendriks Y,Verhulst C,Mulders A,Couprie W,Bootsma M,Johnson J,Kluytmans J

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00