abstract：:In Puerto Rico, risk for transmission of B-virus from free-ranging rhesus monkeys to humans has become a serious challenge. An incident with an injured rhesus monkey, seropositive for B-virus, resulted in inappropriate administration of antiviral postexposure prophylaxis. This incident underscores the importance of ed...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jensen K,Alvarado-Ramy F,González-Martínez J,Kraiselburd E,Rullán J

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated an indirect immunofluorescence assay based on virus-infected cells for detecting anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibody. All confirmed SARS cases demonstrated seroconversion or fourfold rise in IgG antibody titer; no control was positive. Se...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chan PK,Ng KC,Chan RC,Lam RK,Chow VC,Hui M,Wu A,Lee N,Yap FH,Cheng FW,Sung JJ,Tam JS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in humans, associated with a new coronavirus, was reported in Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America in early 2003. To address speculations that the virus originated in domesticated animals, or that domestic species were susceptible to the virus, we inoculated...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Weingartl HM,Copps J,Drebot MA,Marszal P,Smith G,Gren J,Andova M,Pasick J,Kitching P,Czub M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare workers accounted for a large proportion of persons with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) during the worldwide epidemic of early 2003. We conducted an investigation of healthcare workers exposed to laboratory-confirmed SARS patients in the United States to evaluate infection-control practices and po...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Park BJ,Peck AJ,Kuehnert MJ,Newbern C,Smelser C,Comer JA,Jernigan D,McDonald LC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) were investigated for SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) through RNA tests, serologic response, and viral culture. Of 537 specimens from patients in whom SARS was clinically diagnosed, 332 (60%) had SARS-CoV RNA in one or more clinical specimens, compared with 1 (0.3%) of 332...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chan KH,Poon LL,Cheng VC,Guan Y,Hung IF,Kong J,Yam LY,Seto WH,Yuen KY,Peiris JS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a laboratory-confirmed case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in a pregnant woman. Although the patient had respiratory failure, a healthy infant was subsequently delivered, and the mother is now well. There was no evidence of viral shedding at delivery. Antibodies to SARS virus were detected in co...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Robertson CA,Lowther SA,Birch T,Tan C,Sorhage F,Stockman L,McDonald C,Lingappa JR,Bresnitz E

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses occupy a unique position in biology. Although they possess some of the properties of living systems such as having a genome, they are actually nonliving infectious entities and should not be considered microorganisms. A clear distinction should be drawn between the terms virus, virion, and virus species. Speci...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： van Regenmortel MH,Mahy BW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary bloodstream infection (BSI) is a leading, preventable infectious complication in critically ill patients and has a negative impact on patients' outcome. Surveillance definitions for primary BSI distinguish those that are microbiologically documented from those that are not. The latter is known as clinical seps...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hugonnet S,Sax H,Eggimann P,Chevrolet JC,Pittet D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Travelers who have visited tropical areas may exhibit aggressive forms of obligatory myiases, in which the larvae (maggots) invasively feed on living tissue. The risk of a traveler's acquiring a screwworm infestation has been considered negligible, but with the increasing popularity of adventure sports and wildlife tr...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Seppänen M,Virolainen-Julkunen A,Kakko I,Vilkamaa P,Meri S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic analysis of a collection of 103 E1 gene sequences from rubella viruses isolated from 17 countries from 1961 to 2000 confirmed the existence of at least two genotypes. Rubella genotype I (RGI) isolates, predominant in Europe, Japan, and the Western Hemisphere, segregated into discrete subgenotypes; interna...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Zheng DP,Frey TK,Icenogle J,Katow S,Abernathy ES,Song KJ,Xu WB,Yarulin V,Desjatskova RG,Aboudy Y,Enders G,Croxson M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively studied 298 patients with cystic fibrosis (mean age 11.3 years; range 2 months to 32 years; sex ratio, 0.47) for nontuberculous mycobacteria in respiratory samples from January 1, 1996, to December 31, 1999. Mycobacterium abscessus was by far the most prevalent nontuberculous mycobacterium: 15 patient...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sermet-Gaudelus I,Le Bourgeois M,Pierre-Audigier C,Offredo C,Guillemot D,Halley S,Akoua-Koffi C,Vincent V,Sivadon-Tardy V,Ferroni A,Berche P,Scheinmann P,Lenoir G,Gaillard JL

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two immunosuppressed female patients with fever and Actinomyces odontolyticus bacteremia, a combination documented once previously in an immunocompetent male patient. The patients were treated with doxycycline and clindamycin; these drugs, with beta-lactams, are effective treatment for A. odontolyticus inf...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cone LA,Leung MM,Hirschberg J

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer of 2002, an epidemic of West Nile meningoencephalitis occurred in southern Louisiana. Following the outbreak, blood samples were collected from 1,692 captive rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), pigtail macaques (M. nemestrina), and baboons (Papio spp.) that were permanently housed outdoors at a nonhuman...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ratterree MS,da Rosa AP,Bohm RP Jr,Cogswell FB,Phillippi KM,Caillouet K,Schwanberger S,Shope RE,Tesh RB

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection can be asymptomatic is unclear. We examined the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV among 674 healthcare workers from a hospital in which a SARS outbreak had occurred. A total of 353 (52%) experienced mild self-limiting illnesses, and 321 (48...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chan PK,Ip M,Ng KC,Rickjason CW,Wu A,Lee N,Rainer TH,Joynt GM,Sung JJ,Tam JS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compensate for the lack of laboratories in remote areas, the national reference laboratory for meningitis in Niger used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to enhance the surveillance of meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Haemophilus influenzae. PCR effectively documented the wid...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sidikou F,Djibo S,Taha MK,Alonso JM,Djibo A,Kairo KK,Chanteau S,Boisier P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a combination approach of conventional virus isolation and molecular techniques to detect human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Of the 48 study patients, 25 (52.1%) were infected with HMPV; 6 of these 25 patients were also infected with coronavirus, and another...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Chan PK,Tam JS,Lam CW,Chan E,Wu A,Li CK,Buckley TA,Ng KC,Joynt GM,Cheng FW,To KF,Lee N,Hui DS,Cheung JL,Chu I,Liu E,Chung SS,Sung JJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manifestations of human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME), a tick-borne infection caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis, range from asymptomatic disease to fulminant infection and may be particularly severe in persons infected with HIV. We conducted a serologic study to determine the epidemiology of HME in HIV-positive patients ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Talbot TR,Comer JA,Bloch KC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium muris, predominantly a rodent species of Cryptosporidium, is not normally considered a human pathogen. Recently, isolated human infections have been reported from Indonesia, Thailand, France, and Kenya. We report the first case of C. muris in a human in the Western Hemisphere. This species may be an em...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Palmer CJ,Xiao L,Terashima A,Guerra H,Gotuzzo E,Saldías G,Bonilla JA,Zhou L,Lindquist A,Upton SJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echovirus 13 (EV13), considered rare, was reported worldwide in 2000, mostly related to aseptic meningitis outbreaks. In Spain, 135 EV13 isolates were identified. The genetic relationships between 64 representative strains from Spain and other reported isolates from the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Sweden...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Avellón A,Casas I,Trallero G,Pérez C,Tenorio A,Palacios G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chytridiomycosis is an emerging disease responsible for a series of global declines and extinctions of amphibians. We report the causative agent, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, in North American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) farmed for the international restaurant trade. Our findings suggest that international trade m...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Mazzoni R

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae in O-group 139 was first isolated in 1992 and by 1993 had been found throughout the Indian subcontinent. This epidemic expansion probably resulted from a single source after a lateral gene transfer (LGT) event that changed the serotype of an epidemic V. cholerae O1 El Tor strain to O139. However, some ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Garg P,Aydanian A,Smith D,J Glenn M Jr,Nair GB,Stine OC

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure of sulfa or sulfone prophylaxis is associated with mutations in Pneumocystis carinii gene coding for dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS). The DHPS genotype was analyzed in AIDS patients who had two separate episodes of P. carinii pneumonia. The results suggest that DHPS mutations can be selected de novo within pat...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nahimana A,Rabodonirina M,Helweg-Larsen J,Meneau I,Francioli P,Bille J,Hauser PM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a newly discovered pathogen thought to be associated with respiratory disease. We report the results of a study of 587 children hospitalized with respiratory infection over a 13-month period. HMPV was detected in the nasopharyngeal aspirates from 32 (5.5%) children by reverse transcript...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Peiris JS,Tang WH,Chan KH,Khong PL,Guan Y,Lau YL,Chiu SS

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adventure travel is becoming more popular, increasing the likelihood of contact with unusual pathogens. We investigated an outbreak of leptospirosis in "Eco-Challenge" multisport race athletes to determine illness etiology and implement public health measures. Of 304 athletes, we contacted 189 (62%) from the United St...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sejvar J,Bancroft E,Winthrop K,Bettinger J,Bajani M,Bragg S,Shutt K,Kaiser R,Marano N,Popovic T,Tappero J,Ashford D,Mascola L,Vugia D,Perkins B,Rosenstein N,Eco-Challenge Investigation Team.

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight fatal cases of tick-borne encephalitis with an unusual hemorrhagic syndrome were identified in 1999 in the Novosibirsk Region, Russia. To study these strains, we sequenced cDNA fragments of protein E gene from six archival formalin-fixed brain samples. Phylogenetic analysis showed tick-borne encephalitis variant...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ternovoi VA,Kurzhukov GP,Sokolov YV,Ivanov GY,Ivanisenko VA,Loktev AV,Ryder RW,Netesov SV,Loktev VB

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the global illness and deaths caused by rotavirus disease, we reviewed studies published from 1986 to 2000 on deaths caused by diarrhea and on rotavirus infections in children. We assessed rotavirus-associated illness in three clinical settings (mild cases requiring home care alone, moderate cases requirin...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Parashar UD,Hummelman EG,Bresee JS,Miller MA,Glass RI

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the Temporal Exposure Response Surfaces modeling technique to examine the association between gastroenteritis-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations in the elderly and drinking water turbidity before and during the 1993 Milwaukee waterborne Cryptosporidium outbreak. Before the outbreak, the rate of...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Naumova EN,Egorov AI,Morris RD,Griffiths JK

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, occurs throughout Southeast Asia. We descript ten cases that occurred in the Torres Strait islands of northern Australia during 2000 and 2001. Preceding heavy rain may have contributed to the outbreak. The successful use of azithromycin in two pediatric patients is also ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Faa AG,McBride WJ,Garstone G,Thompson RE,Holt P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance for alveolar echinococcosis in central Europe was initiated in 1998. On a voluntary basis, 559 patients were reported to the registry. Most cases originated from rural communities in regions from eastern France to western Austria; single cases were reported far away from the disease-"endemic" zone through...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Kern P,Bardonnet K,Renner E,Auer H,Pawlowski Z,Ammann RW,Vuitton DA,Kern P,European Echinococcosis Registry.

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trapping and removing deer mice from ranch buildings resulted in an increased number of mice, including Sin Nombre virus antibody-positive mice, entering ranch buildings. Mouse removal without mouse proofing will not reduce and may even increase human exposure to Sin Nombre hantavirus. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Douglass RJ,Kuenzi AJ,Williams CY,Douglass SJ,Mills JN

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although surgical site infections (SSIs) are known to cause substantial illness and costs during the index hospitalization, little information exists about the impact of infections diagnosed after discharge, which constitute the majority of SSIs. In this study, using patient questionnaire and administrative databases,...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Perencevich EN,Sands KE,Cosgrove SE,Guadagnoli E,Meara E,Platt R

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella Typhimurium DT12, isolated from a 35-day-old infant with diarrhea, was highly resistant to ampicillin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, gentamycin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, nalidixic acid, and fluoroquinolones. The patient responded to antibiotic therapy with fosfomycin. Multidrug-resistan...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Nakaya H,Yasuhara A,Yoshimura K,Oshihoi Y,Izumiya H,Watanabe H

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, usually a sexually transmitted disease, is a risk factor for cervical cancer. Given the substantial disease and death associated with HPV and cervical cancer, development of a prophylactic HPV vaccine is a public health priority. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of vaccinating ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sanders GD,Taira AV

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean annual incidence of hemolytic uremic syndrome in persons

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Tozzi AE,Caprioli A,Minelli F,Gianviti A,De Petris L,Edefonti A,Montini G,Ferretti A,De Palo T,Gaido M,Rizzoni G,Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Study Group.

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late summer of 1998, veterinary authorities in Tuscany, Italy, received reports of cases of neurologic disease among horses residing in a large wetland area located in the provinces of Florence and Pistoia. West Nile virus was isolated from two of the six horses that died or were euthanized. A retrospective...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Autorino GL,Battisti A,Deubel V,Ferrari G,Forletta R,Giovannini A,Lelli R,Murri S,Scicluna MT

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined if infection indicators were sufficiently consistent across health plans to allow comparison of hospitals' risks of infection after coronary artery bypass surgery. Three managed care organizations accounted for 90% of managed care in eastern Massachusetts, from October 1996 through March 1999. We searche...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Platt R,Kleinman K,Thompson K,Dokholyan RS,Livingston JM,Bergman A,Mason JH,Horan TC,Gaynes RP,Solomon SL,Sands KE

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated Cowpox virus (CPXV) from the ulcerative eyelid lesions of a 14-year-old girl, who had cared for a clinically ill wild rat that later died. CPXV isolated from the rat (Rattus norvegicus) showed complete homology with the girl's virus. Our case is the first proven rat-to-human transmission of cowpox. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wolfs TF,Wagenaar JA,Niesters HG,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1996 to 2000, 23 Maryland and Washington, D.C., tuberculosis cases were identified in one six-band DNA cluster. Cases were clustered on the basis of their Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. Medical record reviews and interviews were conducted to identify epidemiologic linkages. Eighteen (78%) of the 23 case-pat...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lathan M,Mukasa LN,Hooper N,Golub J,Baruch N,Mulcahy D,Benjamin W,Cronin WA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a program of population-based molecular typing of all Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained in Alabama since 1994. Of 2452 isolates, 1013 (41%) had fewer than 6 bands of IS6110; 348 (14%) had a single two-band pattern (JH2). With conventional epidemiologic methods, we identified three groups of rel...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lok KH,Benjamin WH Jr,Kimerling ME,Pruitt V,Mulcahy D,Robinson N,Keenan NB,Dunlap NE

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On October 4, 2001, we confirmed the first bioterrorism-related anthrax case identified in the United States in a resident of Palm Beach County, Florida. Epidemiologic investigation indicated that exposure occurred at the workplace through intentionally contaminated mail. One additional case of inhalational anthrax wa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Traeger MS,Wiersma ST,Rosenstein NE,Malecki JM,Shepard CW,Raghunathan PL,Pillai SP,Popovic T,Quinn CP,Meyer RF,Zaki SR,Kumar S,Bruce SM,Sejvar JJ,Dull PM,Tierney BC,Jones JD,Perkins BA,Florida Investigation Team.

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00