Surveillance of communicable diseases among the Kosovar refugees in Albania, April-June 1999.

abstract：:We report an outbreak of viral gastroenteritis linked to municipal drinking water in a town in northern Italy in June 2009. Over one month we identified 299 probable cases of whom 30 were confirmed for at least one of the following viruses: norovirus, rotavirus, enterovirus or astrovirus. Water samples and filters fro...

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

authors： Scarcella C,Carasi S,Cadoria F,Macchi L,Pavan A,Salamana M,Alborali GL,Losio MM,Boni P,Lavazza A,Seyler T

更新日期：2009-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A hepatitis A outbreak has occurred in Chile since November 2016. Men are predominantly affected, with a large proportion of men who have sex with men (MSM). We describe 12 consecutive unrelated confirmed cases who presented at our healthcare institution in Santiago Metropolitan Area. Nine were men, all reporting havi...

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

authors： Rivas V,Barrera A,Pino K,Núñez R,Caceres CJ,Lopez-Lastra M,Soza A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) was established to harmonise clinical antimicrobial breakpoints and to define breakpoints for new agents in Europe. Data from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) external quality assessment (EQA) exercises from 20...

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

authors： Brown D,Canton R,Dubreuil L,Gatermann S,Giske C,MacGowan A,Martinez-Martinez L,Mouton J,Skov R,Steinbakk M,Walton C,Heuer O,Struelens MJ,Diaz Hogberg L,Kahlmeter G

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a test-negative design, we assessed interim vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the 2017/18 epidemic of co-circulating influenza A(H3N2) and B(Yamagata) viruses. Adjusted VE for influenza A(H3N2), driven by a predominant subgroup of clade 3C.2a viruses with T131K + R142K + R261Q substitutions, was low at 17% (95% con...

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

authors： Skowronski DM,Chambers C,De Serres G,Dickinson JA,Winter AL,Hickman R,Chan T,Jassem AN,Drews SJ,Charest H,Gubbay JB,Bastien N,Li Y,Krajden M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in the number of cases of Salmonella enterica serotype Goldcoast infection was observed in England during September 2013. A total of 38 cases were reported, with symptom onset dates between 21 June and 6 October 2013. Epidemiological, environmental, microbiological and food chain evidence all support the c...

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

authors： Inns T,Beasley G,Lane C,Hopps V,Peters T,Pathak K,Perez-Moreno R,Adak G,Shankar A,Outbreak Control Team.

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of anaphylaxis following meningococcal chemoprophylaxis of a healthcare worker, despite no history of direct contact with a patient who had meningococcal disease. The public health implications of this case are discussed. ...

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

authors： Giovanetti F

更新日期：2009-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Korean government established an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance system, compatible with the Global AMR Surveillance System (GLASS): Kor-GLASS. We describe results from the first year of operation of the Kor-GLASS from May 2016 to April 2017, comprising all non-duplicated clinical isolates of major pat...

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

authors： Lee H,Yoon EJ,Kim D,Jeong SH,Won EJ,Shin JH,Kim SH,Shin JH,Shin KS,Kim YA,Uh Y,Yang JW,Kim IH,Park C,Lee KJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of reported tetanus in Italy decreased from 0.5/100,000 in the 1970s to 0.2/100,000 in the 1990 s. During this period of time, the case-fatality ratio decreased from 68% to 39%. Italy has the highest reported number of tetanus cases in European countries. Elderly women are the most affected: the proporti...

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

authors： Pedalino B,Cotter B,Ciofi degli Atti M,Mandolini D,Parroccini S,Salmaso S

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:In the pre-vaccination era, rubella was regarded as only a mild exanthematous acute viral infection of children. The devastating effects of the disease were first identified in the early 1940s by an Australian ophthalmologist, and further confirmed during the 1962-65 rubella pandemic in Europe and the United States. T...

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

authors： Lévy-Bruhl D,Six C,Parent I

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles cases are increasing in Ireland, with 320 cases notified since August 2009. Nearly two-thirds of these cases (n=206) were unvaccinated. In the early stages of the outbreak a substantial number of cases were linked to the Traveller community with some cases also reported among the Roma community, other citizens...

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

authors： Gee S,Cotter S,O'Flanagan D,National Incident Management Team.

更新日期：2010-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) is a rapid and reproducible typing method that is an important tool for investigation, as well as detection, of national and multinational outbreaks of a range of food-borne pathogens. Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis is the most common Salmonella serovar...

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

authors： Peters T,Bertrand S,Björkman JT,Brandal LT,Brown DJ,Erdõsi T,Heck M,Ibrahem S,Johansson K,Kornschober C,Kotila SM,Le Hello S,Lienemann T,Mattheus W,Nielsen EM,Ragimbeau C,Rumore J,Sabol A,Torpdahl M,Trees E,Tuohy

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire survey on the attitude of healthcare workers towards pandemic influenza vaccination showed low acceptance (17%) of the pandemic vaccine. Factors associated with vaccine uptake were acceptance of seasonal influenza vaccination, medical profession and age. The main reason for refusal of vaccination was f...

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

authors： Rachiotis G,Mouchtouri VA,Kremastinou J,Gourgoulianis K,Hadjichristodoulou C

更新日期：2010-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundIn 2005 in England, universal Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination of school-age children was replaced by targeted BCG vaccination of high-risk neonates.AimEstimate the impact of the 2005 change in BCG policy on tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates in England.MethodsWe conducted an observational study by ...

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

authors： Abbott S,Christensen H,Welton NJ,Brooks-Pollock E

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the steady rise in human cases which started in 2007, Q fever has become a major public health problem in the Netherlands with 2,357 human cases notified in the year 2009. Ongoing research confirms that abortion waves on dairy goat farms are the primary source of infection for humans, primarily affecting people ...

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

authors： van der Hoek W,Dijkstra F,Schimmer B,Schneeberger PM,Vellema P,Wijkmans C,ter Schegget R,Hackert V,van Duynhoven Y

更新日期：2010-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A European multi-country outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis phage type (PT) 14b occurred from March to November 2014 associated with the consumption of eggs. The outbreak involved more than 400 human cases from France, Luxembourg, Austria and the United Kingdom. In 2016-2017, it has been re-evaluated combining recent ...

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

authors： Hörmansdorfer S,Messelhäußer U,Rampp A,Schönberger K,Dallman T,Allerberger F,Kornschober C,Sing A,Wallner P,Zapf A

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between March 2010 and November 2013 eight laboratory-confirmed cases of serogroup B, invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) were identified in an extended Irish Traveller family across three Health Service Executive (HSE) areas of Ireland. Cases were aged between 5 and 46 months, and were either a cousin or sibling of ...

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

authors： O'Connor L,Ward M,Bennett D,Mulhall R,O'Lorcain P,Cunney R,McDermott R,Neville E,Heslin J,FitzGerald R,Meyler K,Conlon M,Clarke A,Corcoran B,Fitzpatrick G,O'Connor B,Flanagan P,O'Flanagan D,Cotter S

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Unnecessary and inappropriate use of antibiotics in human healthcare is a major driver for the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance; many countries are implementing measures to limit the overuse and misuse of antibiotics e.g. through the establishment of antimicrobial use reduction targets. We performed ...

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

authors： D'Atri F,Arthur J,Blix HS,Hicks LA,Plachouras D,Monnet DL,The European Survey On Transatlantic Task Force On Antimicrobial Resistance Tatfar Action Group.

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depuis la deuxieme moitie des annees 1980, la legionellose associee au voyage est devenue preoccupante pour les pays europeens en raison de la morbidite dans la population europeenne; de plus, l'apparition de cas chez les touristes constitue une menace p ...

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

authors： Galmes Truyols A,Martinez Navarro JF

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Western area of Europe, AIDS incidence decreased by 12% in 2000 compared to 1999 (22 cases per million population). In the Eastern area, the incidence of notified cases remained low, but newly diagnosed cases are still rising. In the Centre, the rates of AIDS cases and HIV infections remain low. EuroHIV (Europe...

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

authors： Hamers FF,Alix J,Semaille C,Pilkington H,Downs A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundIn a study from 2013 that prioritised communicable diseases for surveillance in Sweden, we identified Lyme borreliosis as one of the diseases with highest priority. In 2014, when the present study was designed, there were also plans to make neuroborreliosis notifiable within the European Union.AimWe compared...

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

authors： Dahl V,Wisell KT,Giske CG,Tegnell A,Wallensten A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a setting for potential tuberculosis (TB) transmission and contact tracing, aircraft pose specific challenges. Evidence-based guidelines are needed to support the related-risk assessment and contact-tracing efforts. In this study evidence of TB transmission on aircraft was identified to update the Risk Assessment G...

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

authors： Kotila SM,Payne Hallström L,Jansen N,Helbling P,Abubakar I

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently identified human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) viruses in China raise important questions regarding possible source and risk to humans. Sequence comparison with an influenza A(H7N7) outbreak in the Netherlands in 2003 and an A(H7N1) epidemic in Italy in 1999–2000 suggests that widespread circula...

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

authors： Jonges M,Meijer A,Fouchier RA,Koch G,Li J,Pan JC,Chen H,Shu YL,Koopmans MP

更新日期：2013-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In Italy, the 2018 West Nile virus transmission season started early with a high number of cases reported. One-Health surveillance, within the Italian West Nile national preparedness and response plan, detected viral circulation 9 days before symptom-onset of the first confirmed human case; triggering timely implement...

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

authors： Riccardo F,Monaco F,Bella A,Savini G,Russo F,Cagarelli R,Dottori M,Rizzo C,Venturi G,Di Luca M,Pupella S,Lombardini L,Pezzotti P,Parodi P,Maraglino F,Costa AN,Liumbruno GM,Rezza G,The Working Group

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has emerged as a frequent pathogen in blood cultures in Pirkanmaa Hospital District (HD), Finland. To study risk factors for MRSA bacteraemia and the adequacy of empirical antimicrobial treatment, we retrospectively reviewed the hospital records of 102 patients, 51 wit...

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

authors： Rahikka P,Syrjänen J,Vuento R,Laine J,Huttunen R

更新日期：2011-09-01 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 1975 the BCG vaccination policy in Sweden changed from routine vaccination of all newborn infants to selective vaccination of groups at higher risk. This report aims to evaluate the present BCG policy, with focus on the tuberculosis situation in Sweden during the period from 1989 to 2005. The population structure i...

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

authors： Romanus V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A descriptive analysis of routine surveillance data on tuberculosis (TB) from 1995 to 1999 was performed in Austria. The federal states of Vienna and Upper Austria showed the highest yearly incidences for all five years. In general, however, a decrease of the yearly incidence was observed for all federal states except...

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

authors： Strauss R,Fülöp G,Pfeifer C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) and in particular multidrug-resistant Gram-negative organisms (MRGN) are an increasing problem in hospital care. However, data on the current prevalence of MDRO in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are rare. To assess carriage rates of MDRO in LTCF residents in the German Rhine-Mai...

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

authors： Hogardt M,Proba P,Mischler D,Cuny C,Kempf VA,Heudorf U

更新日期：2015-07-02 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