abstract：:Faced with an epidemic of an infectious disease, persons may take precautionary actions to try to reduce their risk. Such actions include avoiding situations that persons perceive to be risky, which can have negative health and economic effects. Therefore, we conducted a population-based survey of persons' precautiona...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sadique MZ,Edmunds WJ,Smith RD,Meerding WJ,de Zwart O,Brug J,Beutels P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2005, a marked increase in hantavirus infections was observed in Germany. Large cities and areas where hantaviruses were not known to be endemic were affected. A case-control study identified the following independent risk factors for infection: occupational exposure for construction workers, living <100 meter from...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Abu Sin M,Stark K,van Treeck U,Dieckmann H,Uphoff H,Hautmann W,Bornhofen B,Jensen E,Pfaff G,Koch J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred specimens were collected from pediatric patients hospitalized in Singapore; 21 of these specimens tested positive for human metapneumovirus (HMPV), with the A2 genotype predominating. A 5% infection rate was estimated, suggesting that HMPV is a significant cause of morbidity among the pediatric population...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Loo LH,Tan BH,Ng LM,Tee NW,Lin RT,Sugrue RJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tuberculosis (TB) notification rate is high and increasing in 2 communities in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2002, we conducted a prevalence survey among adults > or = 15 years of age to determine the TB prevalence rate; 15% of households in these communities were randomly sampled. All persons living in sampled hous...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： den Boon S,van Lill SW,Borgdorff MW,Enarson DA,Verver S,Bateman ED,Irusen E,Lombard CJ,White NW,de Villiers C,Beyers N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected rotavirus G5P[6] with a long RNA pattern in a Vietnamese child with diarrhea. Viral outer capsid protein VP7 and VP4 genes suggest that it likely originated from porcine rotavirus either by genetic reassortment or as whole virions. To our knowledge, this is the first report of human rotavirus G5 in Asia. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ahmed K,Anh DD,Nakagomi O

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report results of a case-control study of the association between receipt of antimicrobial agents and diagnosis of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the United Kingdom. Eligible adults, selected from the General Practice Research Database, had no previous diagnosis of MRSA, no...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Schneider-Lindner V,Delaney JA,Dial S,Dascal A,Suissa S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated potential sources of infection for 6 confirmed influenza A (H5N1) patients who resided in urban areas of People's Republic of China. None had known exposure to sick poultry or poultry that died from illness, but all had visited wet poultry markets before illness. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Yu H,Feng Z,Zhang X,Xiang N,Huai Y,Zhou L,Li Z,Xu C,Luo H,He J,Guan X,Yuan Z,Li Y,Xu L,Hong R,Liu X,Zhou X,Yin W,Zhang S,Shu Y,Wang M,Wang Y,Lee CK,Uyeki TM,Yang W,Avian Influenza H5N1 study Group.

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E is transmitted mainly by water or food, but in industrialized countries, all routes of transmission have not been identified. We describe possible zoonotic transmission of hepatitis E virus that involved direct contact between a pet pig and its owner. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Renou C,Cadranel JF,Bourlière M,Halfon P,Ouzan D,Rifflet H,Carenco P,Harafa A,Bertrand JJ,Boutrouille A,Muller P,Igual JP,Decoppet A,Eloit M,Pavio N

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus) inoculated intramuscularly with 101.5 to 105.7 PFU of West Nile virus (WNV), serum titers developed sufficient to infect Aedes triseriatus (Say), Ae. vexans (Meigen), and Culex pipiens (L.). Mean titers (95% confidence interval) of 8 chipmunks were 103.9(3.3-4.5), 106.7(6.4-7.0),...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Platt KB,Tucker BJ,Halbur PG,Tiawsirisup S,Blitvich BJ,Fabiosa FG,Bartholomay LC,Rowley WA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From July through September 2005, shortly after a typhoon, 40 cases of Burkholderia pseudomallei infection (melioidosis) were identified in southern Taiwan. Two genotypes that had been present in 2000 were identified by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Such a case cluster confirms that melioidosis is endemic to Taiwa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ko WC,Cheung BM,Tang HJ,Shih HI,Lau YJ,Wang LR,Chuang YC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by Baylisascaris procyonis is an uncommon but devastating cause of eosinophilic meningitis. We report the first case-patient, to our knowledge, who recovered from B. procyonis eosinophilic meningitis without any recognizable neurologic deficits. The spectrum of illness for this organism may be wider than pre...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Pai PJ,Blackburn BG,Kazacos KR,Warrier RP,Bégué RE

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In April 2005, 4 transplant recipients became ill after receiving organs infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV); 3 subsequently died. All organs came from a donor who had been exposed to a hamster infected with LCMV. The hamster was traced back through a Rhode Island pet store to a distribution center...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Amman BR,Pavlin BI,Albariño CG,Comer JA,Erickson BR,Oliver JB,Sealy TK,Vincent MJ,Nichol ST,Paddock CD,Tumpey AJ,Wagoner KD,Glauer RD,Smith KA,Winpisinger KA,Parsely MS,Wyrick P,Hannafin CH,Bandy U,Zaki S,Rollin P

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population-based case-control study of community acquired Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD), we matched 1,233 cases to 12,330 controls. CDAD risk increased 3-fold with use of any antimicrobial agent and 6-fold with use of fluoroquinolones. Prior use of antimicrobial agents did not affect risk for CD...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Delaney JA,Dial S,Barkun A,Suissa S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) resistance remains a serious threat in the treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infections. We analyzed an international collection of 55 S. maltophilia TMP/SMX-sensitive (S) (n=30) and -resistant (R) (n=25) strains for integrons; sul1, sul2 and dhfr genes; and insertion el...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Toleman MA,Bennett PM,Bennett DM,Jones RN,Walsh TR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bluetongue has emerged recently in Belgium. A bluetongue virus strain was isolated and characterized as serotype 8. Two new real-time reverse transcription-quantitative PCRs (RT-qPCRs) that amplified 2 different segments of bluetongue virus detected this exotic strain. These 2 RT-qPCRs detected infection earlier than ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Toussaint JF,Sailleau C,Mast J,Houdart P,Czaplicki G,Demeestere L,VandenBussche F,van Dessel W,Goris N,Bréard E,Bounaadja L,Etienne T,Zientara S,De Clercq K

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains that are resistant to an increasing number of second-line drugs used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) are becoming a threat to public health worldwide. We surveyed the Network of Supranational Reference Laboratories for M. tuberculosis isolates that were resistant t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Shah NS,Wright A,Bai GH,Barrera L,Boulahbal F,Martín-Casabona N,Drobniewski F,Gilpin C,Havelková M,Lepe R,Lumb R,Metchock B,Portaels F,Rodrigues MF,Rüsch-Gerdes S,Van Deun A,Vincent V,Laserson K,Wells C,Cegielski JP

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc), found in many environments, are associated with clinical infections. Examining diverse species and strains from different environments with multilocus sequence typing, we identified > 20% of 381 clinical isolates as indistinguishable from those in the environment. Thi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Baldwin A,Mahenthiralingam E,Drevinek P,Vandamme P,Govan JR,Waine DJ,LiPuma JJ,Chiarini L,Dalmastri C,Henry DA,Speert DP,Honeybourne D,Maiden MC,Dowson CG

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of treatment failure caused by a strain of USA300 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with intermediate susceptibility to vancomycin and reduced susceptibility to daptomycin. The strain was isolated from the bone of a 56-year-old man with lumbar osteomyelitis afte...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Graber CJ,Wong MK,Carleton HA,Perdreau-Remington F,Haller BL,Chambers HF

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:Host association of Campylobacter jejuni was analyzed by using multilocus sequence typing data for 713 isolates from chickens and bovids (cattle and sheep). Commonly used summary measures of genotypes (sequence type and clonal complex) showed poor accuracy, but a method using the full allelic profile showed 80% accura...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： McCarthy ND,Colles FM,Dingle KE,Bagnall MC,Manning G,Maiden MC,Falush D

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive and skin community-associated (CA)-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from children were matched with invasive CA-methicillin-sensitive S. aureus strains during 2000-2004. Isolates were analyzed for presence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin. A USA400 lineage clone (n = 6) and the predominant U...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jaggi P,Paule SM,Peterson LR,Tan TQ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The United Kingdom and United States have recently experienced large outbreaks of mumps, which raises concerns about vaccine effectiveness. The effectiveness of the mumps component of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine was estimated using the screening method. In England from January 2004 through March 2005, 31...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cohen C,White JM,Savage EJ,Glynn JR,Choi Y,Andrews N,Brown D,Ramsay ME

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) may be transmissible by blood. To prevent secondary transmission through blood components, several countries have started to exclude as donors persons who have received a blood transfusion. We investigated the effectiveness of this measure by using a dynamic age-structured mode...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Dietz K,Raddatz G,Wallis J,Müller N,Zerr I,Duerr HP,Lefèvre H,Seifried E,Löwer J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Death rates exceeded emergency thresholds at 4 sites during epidemics of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Burundi (2000-2001) and in Ethiopia (2003-2004). Deaths likely from malaria ranged from 1,000 to 8,900, depending on site, and accounted for 52% to 78% of total deaths. Earlier detection of malaria and better case...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Guthmann JP,Bonnet M,Ahoua L,Dantoine F,Balkan S,van Herp M,Tamrat A,Legros D,Brown V,Checchi F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to investigate the possible existence of sporadic bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) require systematic testing programs to identify cases in countries considered to have little or no risk of orally acquired disease or to detect a stable occurrence of atypical cases in countries in which orally acquired...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Brown P,McShane LM,Zanusso G,Detwile L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated an outbreak of encephalitis in Tangail District, Bangladesh. We defined case-patients as persons from the outbreak area in whom fever developed with new onset of seizures or altered mental status from December 15, 2004, through January 31, 2005. Twelve persons met the definition; 11 (92%) died. Serum s...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Luby SP,Rahman M,Hossain MJ,Blum LS,Husain MM,Gurley E,Khan R,Ahmed BN,Rahman S,Nahar N,Kenah E,Comer JA,Ksiazek TG

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first case of spongiform encephalopathy in a zebu (Bos indicus) was identified in a zoo in Switzerland. Although histopathologic and immunohistochemical analyses of the central nervous system indicated a diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), molecular typing showed some features different from those...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Seuberlich T,Botteron C,Wenker C,Café-Marçal VA,Oevermann A,Haase B,Leeb T,Heim D,Zurbriggen A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report serologic and molecular evidence of acute, febrile illness associated with Rickettsia conorii in 3 male Yorkshire terriers from Sicily (Italy). ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Solano-Gallego L,Kidd L,Trotta M,Di Marco M,Caldin M,Furlanello T,Breitschwerdt E

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism attacks warrant urgent public health and medical responses. Response plans for these events may include use of medications and vaccines for which the effects on pregnant women and fetuses are unknown. Healthcare providers must be able to discuss the benefits and r...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cono J,Cragan JD,Jamieson DJ,Rasmussen SA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of transmission of Helicobacter pylori infection is poorly characterized. In northern California, 2,752 household members were tested for H. pylori infection in serum or stool at a baseline visit and 3 months later. Among 1,752 person considered uninfected at baseline, 30 new infections (7 definite, 7 probabl...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Perry S,de la Luz Sanchez M,Yang S,Haggerty TD,Hurst P,Perez-Perez G,Parsonnet J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative data on the onset and evolution of malaria epidemics are scarce. We review case studies from recent African Plasmodium falciparum epidemics (Kisii and Gucha Districts, Kenya, 1999; Kayanza Province, Burundi, 2000-2001; Aweil East, southern Sudan, 2003; Gutten and Damot Gale, Ethiopia, 2003-2004). We highl...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Checchi F,Cox J,Balkan S,Tamrat A,Priotto G,Alberti KP,Guthmann JP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated cost-effectiveness of annually vaccinating children not at high risk with inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) to range from US $12,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) saved for children ages 6-23 months to $119,000 per QALY saved for children ages 12-17 years. For children at high risk (preexisting ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Prosser LA,Bridges CB,Uyeki TM,Hinrichsen VL,Meltzer MI,Molinari NA,Schwartz B,Thompson WW,Fukuda K,Lieu TA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Himachal Pradesh state of India is situated in the outer Himalayan ranges. During the rainy season, several cases of acute febrile illness of unknown origin occurred. Orientia tsutsugamushi was identified as the causative agent by microimmunofluorescence and PCR. Two new genotypes of O. tsutsugamushi were identified i...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mahajan SK,Rolain JM,Kashyap R,Bakshi D,Sharma V,Prasher BS,Pal LS,Raoult D

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African tick-bite fever (ATBF) is a rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia africae. We describe histologic features and immunodetection of R. africae in cutaneous inoculation eschars from 8 patients with ATBF, which was diagnosed by culture or association of positive PCR detection and positive serologic results. We used q...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lepidi H,Fournier PE,Raoult D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) isolates that are genetically homogenous and from the Beijing family has been reported in Russia. To map TB transmission caused by these strains, new genotyping systems are needed. Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRUs) offer the possibility of rapid PCR-based typing...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nikolayevskyy V,Gopaul K,Balabanova Y,Brown T,Fedorin I,Drobniewski F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective investigation of skin and soft tissue infections caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains among inmates in a Wisconsin correctional facility suggested a shift in MRSA genotype. Case timeline indicated a displacement of USA400 clone by USA300 clone. The U...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Stemper ME,Brady JM,Qutaishat SS,Borlaug G,Reed J,Reed KD,Shukla SK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VEB-1 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii was responsible for an outbreak in hospitals in France. A national alert was triggered in September 2003 when 4 hospitals reported clusters of A. baumannii infection with similar susceptibility profiles. Case definitions and laboratory guidelines...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Naas T,Coignard B,Carbonne A,Blanckaert K,Bajolet O,Bernet C,Verdeil X,Astagneau P,Desenclos JC,Nordmann P,French Nosocomial Infection Early Warning Investigation and Surveillance Network.

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental status after acute West Nile virus infection has not been examined objectively. We compared Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status scores of 116 patients with West Nile fever or West Nile neuroinvasive disease. Mental status was poorer and cognitive complaints more frequent with West Nile neuroinvasive diseas...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Haaland KY,Sadek J,Pergam S,Echevarria LA,Davis LE,Goade D,Harnar J,Nofchissey RA,Sewel CM,Ettestad P

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence now confirms that noncommunicable chronic diseases can stem from infectious agents. Furthermore, at least 13 of 39 recently described infectious agents induce chronic syndromes. Identifying the relationships can affect health across populations, creating opportunities to reduce the impact of chronic disease b...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： O'Connor SM,Taylor CE,Hughes JM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A historical study evaluated maternal outcomes in pregnancy complicated by smallpox. The overall case fatality was estimated to be 34.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] 31.4-37.1), and the proportion of miscarriage or premature birth was estimated to be 39.9% (95% CI 36.5-43.2). Vaccination before pregnancy reduced the ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nishiura H

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00