abstract：:Murine typhus was diagnosed by PCR in 50 (7%) of 756 adults with febrile illness seeking treatment at Patan Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Of patients with murine typhus, 64% were women, 86% were residents of Kathmandu, and 90% were unwell during the winter. No characteristics clearly distinguished typhus patients from...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Zimmerman MD,Murdoch DR,Rozmajzl PJ,Basnyat B,Woods CW,Richards AL,Belbase RH,Hammer DA,Anderson TP,Reller LB

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homelessness is an increasing public health problem. Because of poor living conditions and limited access to healthcare systems, homeless persons are exposed to many communicable infections. We summarize the intervention measures reported to be efficient for the control and the prevention of common transmissible infec...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Badiaga S,Raoult D,Brouqui P

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 161 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania tropica occurred in the Jerusalem district during 2004-2005; 127 (79%) cases were in a town just outside Jerusalem. Environmental models suggest that in the context of global warming, this outbreak has the potential to extend into Jerusalem. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Singer SR,Abramson N,Shoob H,Zaken O,Zentner G,Stein-Zamir C

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From February through April 2007, avian influenza (H5N1) was confirmed in poultry in 4 of 34 Afghan provinces. A survey conducted in 2 affected and 3 unaffected provinces found that greater knowledge about reducing exposure was associated with higher socioeconomic status, residence in affected provinces, and not ownin...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Leslie T,Billaud J,Mofleh J,Mustafa L,Yingst S

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:To determine the evolution and trends of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid resistance among Escherichia coli isolates in Spain, we tested 9,090 blood isolates from 42 Spanish hospitals and compared resistance with trends in outpatient consumption. These isolates were collected by Spanish hospitals that participated in the E...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Oteo J,Campos J,Lázaro E,Cuevas O,García-Cobos S,Pérez-Vázquez M,de Abajo FJ,Spanish Members of EARSS.

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 310 fleas collected from dogs and cats in Germany, Rickettsia felis was detected in all specimens (34) of Archaeopsylla erinacei (hedgehog flea) and in 9% (24/226) of Ctenocephalides felis felis (cat flea). R. helvetica was detected in 1 Ceratophyllus gallinae (hen flea). ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gilles J,Just FT,Silaghi C,Pradel I,Passos LM,Lengauer H,Hellmann K,Pfister K

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:School closure is a proposed strategy for reducing influenza transmission during a pandemic. Few studies have assessed how families respond to closures, or whether other interactions during closure could reduce this strategy's effect. Questionnaires were administered to 220 households (438 adults and 355 children) wit...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Johnson AJ,Moore ZS,Edelson PJ,Kinnane L,Davies M,Shay DK,Balish A,McCarron M,Blanton L,Finelli L,Averhoff F,Bresee J,Engel J,Fiore A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of the etiology of bacterial meningitis and estimating cost of disease are important in guiding vaccination policies. To determine the incidence and etiology of meningitis in Turkey, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were obtained prospectively from children (1 month-17 years of age) with a clinical diag...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ceyhan M,Yildirim I,Balmer P,Borrow R,Dikici B,Turgut M,Kurt N,Aydogan A,Ecevit C,Anlar Y,Gulumser O,Tanir G,Salman N,Gurler N,Hatipoglu N,Hacimustafaoglu M,Celebi S,Coskun Y,Alhan E,Celik U,Camcioglu Y,Secmeer

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four calves were experimentally inoculated with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus A/cat/Germany/R606/2006 (H5N1) isolated from a cat in 2006. All calves remained healthy, but several animals shed low amounts of virus, detected by inoculation of nasal swab fluid into embryonated chicken eggs and onto MDCK cells. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kalthoff D,Hoffmann B,Harder T,Durban M,Beer M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2004, canine influenza virus subtype H3N8 emerged in greyhounds in the United States. Subsequent serologic evidence indicated virus circulation in dog breeds other than greyhounds, but the virus had not been isolated from affected animals. In 2005, we conducted virologic investigation of 7 nongreyhound dogs that di...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Payungporn S,Crawford PC,Kouo TS,Chen LM,Pompey J,Castleman WL,Dubovi EJ,Katz JM,Donis RO

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global surveillance for a novel rhinovirus genotype indicated its association with community outbreaks and pediatric respiratory disease in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. Molecular dating indicates that these viruses have been circulating for at least 250 years. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Briese T,Renwick N,Venter M,Jarman RG,Ghosh D,Köndgen S,Shrestha SK,Hoegh AM,Casas I,Adjogoua EV,Akoua-Koffi C,Myint KS,Williams DT,Chidlow G,van den Berg R,Calvo C,Koch O,Palacios G,Kapoor V,Villari J,Dominguez S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective testing of 3,232 serum samples from the general population and 518 serum samples from a high-risk group showed no evidence of human exposure to Neospora caninum in England. Results were obtained by using immunofluorescence antibody testing and ELISA to analyze frequency distribution. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： McCann CM,Vyse AJ,Salmon RL,Thomas D,Williams DJ,McGarry JW,Pebody R,Trees AJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored how different socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups in the United States might fare in an influenza pandemic on the basis of social factors that shape exposure, vulnerability to influenza virus, and timeliness and adequacy of treatment. We discuss policies that might differentially affect social groups' r...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Blumenshine P,Reingold A,Egerter S,Mockenhaupt R,Braveman P,Marks J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing home residents are at high risk for invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) disease, and clusters of cases in nursing homes are common.To characterize the epidemiologic features of invasive GAS disease in nursing homes, we conducted active, statewide, population- and laboratory-based surveillance in Minnesota fro...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Rainbow J,Jewell B,Danila RN,Boxrud D,Beall B,Van Beneden C,Lynfield R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi in Singapore, a malaria-free country. Diagnosis was confirmed by PCR with validated species-specific primers. In industrialized countries, free-ranging primates are a potential source of P. knowlesi human infection. P. knowlesi infection is a differential diag...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ng OT,Ooi EE,Lee CC,Lee PJ,Ng LC,Pei SW,Tu TM,Loh JP,Leo YS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases contains 2 articles that report increases in England in the incidence of hospitalizations for specific diseases, one on pneumonias and the other on community-acquired staphylococcal diseases. Both articles report increases in disease among those >65 years of age. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Meltzer MI

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1988, the World Health Assembly launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which aimed to use large-scale vaccination with the oral vaccine to eradicate polio worldwide by the year 2000. Although important progress has been made, polio remains endemic in several countries. Also, the current control measures ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： De Palma AM,Pürstinger G,Wimmer E,Patick AK,Andries K,Rombaut B,De Clercq E,Neyts J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) is a European hantavirus that causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS); case-fatality rates in Balkan countries are as high as 12%. To determine causative agents, we examined 126 cases of DOBV-associated HFRS in central and southern European Russia. In central Russia (Lipetsk, ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Klempa B,Tkachenko EA,Dzagurova TK,Yunicheva YV,Morozov VG,Okulova NM,Slyusareva GP,Smirnov A,Kruger DH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern Sudan is one of the areas in eastern Africa most affected by visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar), but lack of security and funds has hampered control. Since 2005, the return of stability has opened up new opportunities to expand existing interventions and introduce new ones. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kolaczinski JH,Hope A,Ruiz JA,Rumunu J,Richer M,Seaman J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This 2-year cross-sectional evaluation of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections involved all Israeli medical centers that treat cystic fibrosis patients. The study comprised 186 patients whose sputum was analyzed for NTM. The prevalence of NTM isolates was 22.6%, and 6.5% and 10.8% of the patients fulfilled th...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Levy I,Grisaru-Soen G,Lerner-Geva L,Kerem E,Blau H,Bentur L,Aviram M,Rivlin J,Picard E,Lavy A,Yahav Y,Rahav G

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis is the leading cause of preventable blindness and bacterial sexually transmitted diseases worldwide. Plaque assays have been used to clonally segregate laboratory-adapted C. trachomatis strains from mixed infections, but no assays have been reported to segregate clones from recent clinical sample...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Somboonna N,Mead S,Liu J,Dean D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report mutations in influenza A virus (H5N1) strains associated with 2 outbreaks in Turkey. Four novel amino acid changes (Q447L, N556K, and R46K in RNA polymerase and S133A in hemagglutinin) were detected in virus isolates from 2 siblings who died. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Altiok E,Taylan F,Yenen OS,Demirkeser G,Bozaci M,Onel D,Akcadag B,Iyisan AS,Ciblak M,Bozkaya E,Yuksel S,Badur S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed 43 CTX-M-15-producing Escherichia coli isolates and 6 plasmids encoding the blaCTX-M-15 gene from Canada, India, Kuwait, France, Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain. Most isolates belonged to phylogroups B2 (50%) and D (25%). An EC-B2 strain of clonal complex sequence type (ST) 131 was detected in all countri...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Coque TM,Novais A,Carattoli A,Poirel L,Pitout J,Peixe L,Baquero F,Cantón R,Nordmann P

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decision analytical model was developed to investigate the cost-effectiveness of stockpiling antiviral (AV) drugs for a potential influenza pandemic in the United Kingdom and the possible role of near-patient testing in conserving AV drug stocks. Under base-case assumptions (including a fixed stockpile that was smal...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Siddiqui MR,Edmunds WJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of a large outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a German university hospital, we estimated costs ( approximately 1 million Euros) that could have been avoided by early detection of the imminent outbreak. For this purpose, we demonstrate an easy-to-use statistical method. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sagel U,Schulte B,Heeg P,Borgmann S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to describe the basic epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections for Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of North America. We summarized published and unpublished rates of chlamydial infection and gonorrhea reported from 2003 through 2006 for Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. In 2006, Alaska reported hig...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gesink Law D,Rink E,Mulvad G,Koch A

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Previous evidence has suggested an association between consumption of unfiltered water from Loch Lomond, Scotland, and cryptosporidiosis. Before November 1999, this water had been only microstrained and disinfected with chlorine; however, since that time, physical treatment of the water (coagulation, rapid gravity fil...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Pollock KG,Young D,Smith HV,Ramsay CN

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2005, 329 cases of hepatitis E virus infection were confirmed in England and Wales; 33 were confirmed indigenous infections, and a further 67 were estimated to be indigenous infections. Hepatitis E should be considered in the investigation of patients with hepatitis even if they have no history of travel. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lewis HC,Boisson S,Ijaz S,Hewitt K,Ngui SL,Boxall E,Teo CG,Morgan D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migratory birds have been implicated in the long-range spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A virus (H5N1) from Asia to Europe and Africa. Although sampling of healthy wild birds representing a large number of species has not identified possible carriers of influenza virus (H5N1) into Europe, surveillanc...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Pasick J,Berhane Y,Embury-Hyatt C,Copps J,Kehler H,Handel K,Babiuk S,Hooper-McGrevy K,Li Y,Mai Le Q,Lien Phuong S

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible mink encepholapathy (TME) is a foodborne transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of ranch-raised mink; infection with a ruminant TSE has been proposed as the cause, but the precise origin of TME is unknown. To compare the phenotypes of each TSE, bovine-passaged TME isolate and 3 distinct natural bo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Baron T,Bencsik A,Biacabe AG,Morignat E,Bessen RA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African swine fever is a highly contagious disease of pigs in Africa. Although its persistence in Senegal may be caused by asymptomatic carriers involved in the domestic transmission cycle, we demonstrated that the soft tick Ornithodoros sonrai can be naturally infected with the causative agent. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Vial L,Wieland B,Jori F,Etter E,Dixon L,Roger F

更新日期：2007-12-01 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 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：:We conducted a retrospective study of Salmonella Newport infections among Wisconsin residents during 2003-2005. Multidrug resistance prevalence was substantially greater in Wisconsin than elsewhere in the United States. Persons with multidrug-resistant infections were more likely than persons with susceptible infectio...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Karon AE,Archer JR,Sotir MJ,Monson TA,Kazmierczak JJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported autochthonous dengue fever transmission in the United States has been limited to 5 south Texas border counties since 1980. We conducted a cross-sectional serosurvey in Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (n = 600), in 2004 to assess dengue seroprevalence. Recent dengue infection was detected...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Brunkard JM,Robles López JL,Ramirez J,Cifuentes E,Rothenberg SJ,Hunsperger EA,Moore CG,Brussolo RM,Villarreal NA,Haddad BM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A (H5N1) viruses are strong candidates for causing the next influenza pandemic if they acquire the ability for efficient human-to-human transmission. A major public health goal is to make efficacious vaccines against these viruses by using novel approaches, including cell-culture system, reverse genetics, an...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Haque A,Hober D,Kasper LH

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine resistance of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) virus to chlorination, we exposed allantoic fluid containing 2 virus strains to chlorinated buffer at pH 7 and 8, at 5 degrees C. Free chlorine concentrations typically used in drinking water treatment are sufficient to inactivate the virus by >3 orde...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Rice EW,Adcock NJ,Sivaganesan M,Brown JD,Stallknecht DE,Swayne DE

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a 1-hour field enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for detecting antibody to Sin Nombre virus in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). The assay specificity and sensitivity were comparable to those of a standard EIA. This test will permit identification of rodents with antibody to this and perhaps other hantaviruses. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Schountz T,Calisher CH,Richens TR,Rich AA,Doty JB,Hughes MT,Beaty BJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00