abstract：:On November 11, 2001, following the bioterrorism-related anthrax attacks, the U.S. Postal Service collected samples at the Southern Connecticut Processing and Distribution Center; all samples were negative for Bacillus anthracis. After a patient in Connecticut died from inhalational anthrax on November 19, the center ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Teshale EH,Painter J,Burr GA,Mead P,Wright SV,Cseh LF,Zabrocki R,Collins R,Kelley KA,Hadler JL,Swerdlow DL,Connecticut Anthrax Response Team.

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an investigation conducted December 17-20, 2001, we collected environmental samples from a U.S. postal facility in Washington, D.C., known to be extensively contaminated with Bacillus anthracis spores. Because methods for collecting and analyzing B. anthracis spores have not yet been validated, our objective wa...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Sanderson WT,Hein MJ,Taylor L,Curwin BD,Kinnes GM,Seitz TA,Popovic T,Holmes HT,Kellum ME,McAllister SK,Whaley DN,Tupin EA,Walker T,Freed JA,Small DS,Klusaritz B,Bridges JH

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preventing campylobacteriosis depends on a thorough understanding of its epidemiology. We used case-case analysis to compare cases of Campylobacter coli infection with cases of C. jejuni infection, to generate hypotheses for infection from standardized, population-based sentinel surveillance information in England and...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gillespie IA,O'Brien SJ,Frost JA,Adak GK,Horby P,Swan AV,Painter MJ,Neal KR,Campylobacter Sentinel Surveillance Scheme Collaborators.

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum specimens from fruit bats were obtained at restaurants in Cambodia. We detected antibodies cross-reactive to Nipah virus by enzyme immunoassay in 11 (11.5%) of 96 Lyle's flying foxes (Pteropus lylei). Our study suggests that viruses closely related to Nipah or Hendra viruses are more widespread in Southeast Asia...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Olson JG,Rupprecht C,Rollin PE,An US,Niezgoda M,Clemins T,Walston J,Ksiazek TG

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an epizootiologic survey of 122 rodents captured in Vladivostok, Russia, antibodies positive for hantavirus were found in Apodemus peninsulae (4/70), A. agrarius (1/39), and Clethrionomys rufocanus (1/8). The hantavirus sequences identified in two seropositive A. peninsulae and two patients with hemorrhagic fever w...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lokugamage K,Kariwa H,Hayasaka D,Cui BZ,Iwasaki T,Lokugamage N,Ivanov LI,Volkov VI,Demenev VA,Slonova R,Kompanets G,Kushnaryova T,Kurata T,Maeda K,Araki K,Mizutani T,Yoshimatsu K,Arikawa J,Takashima I

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential threat of biological warfare with a specific agent is proportional to the susceptibility of the population to that agent. Preventing disease after exposure to a biological agent is partially a function of the immunity of the exposed individual. The only available countermeasure that can provide immediate...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Casadevall A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated Andes virus (formal name: Andes virus [ANDV], a species in the genus Hantavirus), from serum of an asymptomatic 10-year-old Chilean boy who died 6 days later of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). The serum was obtained 12 days after his grandmother died from HPS and 2 days before he became febrile. No ha...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Galeno H,Mora J,Villagra E,Fernandez J,Hernandez J,Mertz GJ,Ramirez E

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria with intrinsic resistance to antibiotics are found in nature. Such organisms may acquire additional resistance genes from bacteria introduced into soil or water, and the resident bacteria may be the reservoir or source of widespread resistant organisms found in many environments. We isolated antibiotic-resist...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Ash RJ,Mauck B,Morgan M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In July 2000, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at a tourist resort in the Gulf of Taranto in southern Italy. Illness in 344 people, 69 of whom were staff members, met the case definition. Norwalk-like virus (NLV) was found in 22 of 28 stool specimens tested. The source of illness was likely contaminated drinkin...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Boccia D,Tozzi AE,Cotter B,Rizzo C,Russo T,Buttinelli G,Caprioli A,Marziano ML,Ruggeri FM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurred in and around Clitheroe, Lancashire, in northwest England, during March 2000. Fifty-eight cases of diarrhea with Cryptosporidium identified in stool specimens were reported. Cryptosporidium oocysts were identified in samples from the water treatment works as well as domestic t...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Howe AD,Forster S,Morton S,Marshall R,Osborn KS,Wright P,Hunter PR

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primers were used to amplify a 561-bp region of the 16S rRNA gene of Ehrlichia phagocytophila from Ixodes scapularis ticks and small mammals collected in Rhode Island and Connecticut. DNA sequences for all 50 E. phagocytophila-positive samples collected from 1996 through 1998 in southwestern Connecticut were identical...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Massung RF,Mauel MJ,Owens JH,Allan N,Courtney JW,Stafford KC 3rd,Mather TN

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From December 1999 to April 2001, the greater Edmonton region had 61 cases of invasive meningococcal infection, two fatal. The outbreak was due to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C, electrophoretic type 15, serotype 2a. Analysis of the strains showed that 50 of 56 culture-confirmed cases were due to a single clone an...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Tyrrell GJ,Chui L,Johnson M,Chang N,Rennie RP,Talbot JA,Edmonton Meningococcal Study Group.

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of recurrent coccidioidal meningitis in which a fungal biofilm on the tip of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt tubing was likely responsible for a 4-year persistence of Coccidioides immitis, despite the patient's taking an adequate dosage of fluconazole. Fungal biofilms should be considered as a cause for...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Davis LE,Cook G,Costerton JW

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified Salmonella genomic island I (SGI1) in an isolate of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi B. This antibiotic-resistance gene cluster, which confers multidrug resistance, has been previously identified in S. enterica serotype Typhimurium phage types DT 104 and DT 120 and in S. enterica serotype Agon...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Meunier D,Boyd D,Mulvey MR,Baucheron S,Mammina C,Nastasi A,Chaslus-Dancla E,Cloeckaert A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior immunization of hamsters with three heterologous flaviviruses (Japanese encephalitis virus [JEV] SA14-2-8 vaccine, wild-type St. Louis encephalitis virus [SLEV], and Yellow fever virus [YFV] 17D vaccine) reduces the severity of subsequent West Nile virus (WNV) infection. Groups of adult hamsters were immunized w...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Tesh RB,Travassos da Rosa AP,Guzman H,Araujo TP,Xiao SY

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1995 to 1998, outbreaks of bubonic plague occurred annually in the coastal city of Mahajanga, Madagascar. A total of 1,702 clinically suspected cases of bubonic plague were reported, including 515 laboratory confirmed by Yersinia pestis isolation (297), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, or both. Incidence was hi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Boisier P,Rahalison L,Rasolomaharo M,Ratsitorahina M,Mahafaly M,Razafimahefa M,Duplantier JM,Ratsifasoamanana L,Chanteau S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance rates for shigella, campylobacter, nontyphoidal salmonella, and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli were compared for Vietnam and Thailand from 1996 to 1999. Resistance to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline was common. Quinolone resistance remains low in ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Isenbarger DW,Hoge CW,Srijan A,Pitarangsi C,Vithayasai N,Bodhidatta L,Hickey KW,Cam PD

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-distance transport of pathogens plays a critical role in the emergence of novel diseases. Shipping is a major contributor to such transport, and the role of ships in spreading disease has been recognized for centuries. However, statistical confirmation of pathogen spread by shipping is usually impractical. We pre...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Murray AG,Smith RJ,Stagg RM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the distribution and antimicrobial drug resistance in bacterial pathogens causing nosocomial infections, surveillance data on nosocomial infections documented from 1981 to 1999 at National Taiwan University Hospital were analyzed. During this period, 35,580 bacterial pathogens causing nosocomial infection...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hsueh PR,Chen ML,Sun CC,Chen WH,Pan HJ,Yang LS,Chang SC,Ho SW,Lee CY,Hsieh WC,Luh KT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nondiphtheriae corynebacteria are uncommon but increasingly recognized as agents of endocarditis in patients with underlying structural heart disease or prosthetic-valves. We describe three cases of nosocomial endocarditis caused by nondiphtheriae corynebacteria, including the first reported case of Corynebacteriu...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Knox KL,Holmes AH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was notified of severe illnesses and one death, temporally associated with yellow fever (YF) vaccination, in two elderly U.S. residents. Because the cases were unusual and adverse events following YF vaccination had not been studied, we estimated age-related repo...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Martin M,Weld LH,Tsai TF,Mootrey GT,Chen RT,Niu M,Cetron MS,GeoSentinel Yellow Fever Working Group.

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of polymerase chain reaction-single-stranded conformational polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) to study rpoB gene mutations in rifampin-resistant (RIFr) Mycobacterium tuberculosis has yielded contradictory results. To determine the sensitivity of this method, we analyzed 35 RIFr strains and 11 rifampin-susceptible (RIFs)...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Bobadilla-del-Valle M,Ponce-de-Leon A,Arenas-Huertero C,Vargas-Alarcon G,Kato-Maeda M,Small PM,Couary P,Ruiz-Palacios GM,Sifuentes-Osornio J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serotype Baildon, a rare serotype, was recovered from 86 persons in eight states; 87% of illnesses began during a 3-week period ending January 9, 1999. Raw restaurant-prepared tomatoes were implicated in multiple case-control studies. Contamination likely occurred on the farm or during packing; mor...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Cummings K,Barrett E,Mohle-Boetani JC,Brooks JT,Farrar J,Hunt T,Fiore A,Komatsu K,Werner SB,Slutsker L

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several unique features characterize infectious disease epidemiology in New Zealand. Historically, well-organized, government-run control programs have eliminated several zoonoses. More recently, however, communicable disease control has been mixed. Rates of rheumatic fever, tuberculosis, and enteric infectious are hi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Crump JA,Murdoch DR,Baker MG

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a hematology unit in the Netherlands, the incidence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Enterobacter cloacae and Escherichia coli increased from from 1996 to 1999. Clonal spread of single genotypes of both ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli and Enterobacter cloacae from patient to patient was documented by pulsed-field gel ele...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： van Belkum A,Goessens W,van der Schee C,Lemmens-den Toom N,Vos MC,Cornelissen J,Lugtenburg E,de Marie S,Verbrugh H,Löwenberg B,Endtz H

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few data exist about perceptions regarding the etiology of foodborne illness. Among public health staff throughout Tennessee, the three pathogens most commonly believed to cause foodborne illness in the United States actually account for only 12% of disease. Fewer than 3% of respondents correctly identified the leadin...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Jones TF,Gerber DE

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen isolations of West Nile (WN) virus were obtained from four mosquito species (Culex pipiens [5], Cx. restuans [4], Cx. salinarius [2], and Culiseta melanura [3]) in statewide surveillance conducted from June through October 2000. Most isolates were obtained from mosquitoes collected in densely populated reside...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Andreadis TG,Anderson JF,Vossbrinck CR

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated West Nile (WN) virus seroprevalence in healthy horses, dogs, and cats in New York City after an outbreak of human WN virus encephalitis in 1999. Two (3%) of 73 horses, 10 (5%) of 189 dogs, and none of 12 cats tested positive for WN virus-neutralizing antibodies. Domestic mammals should be evaluated as sen...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Komar N,Panella NA,Boyce E

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of West Nile (WN) virus occurred in the New York metropolitan area in 1999 and 2000. Nineteen patients diagnosed with WN infection were hospitalized in New York and New Jersey in 2000 and were included in this review. Eleven patients had encephalitis or meningoencephalitis, and eight had meningitis alone. Ag...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Weiss D,Carr D,Kellachan J,Tan C,Phillips M,Bresnitz E,Layton M,West Nile Virus Outbreak Response Working Group.

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 1982 to May 2000, 17 infections caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei were diagnosed in 15 patients in Taiwan; almost all the infections were diagnosed from 1994 to May 2000. Of the 15 patients, 9 (60%) had underlying diseases, and 10 (67%) had bacteremic pneumonia. Thirteen (76%) episodes of infection were...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Hsueh PR,Teng LJ,Lee LN,Yu CJ,Yang PC,Ho SW,Luh KT

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of influenza A (H3N2) occurred aboard a U.S. Navy ship in February 1996, despite 95% of the crew's having been appropriately vaccinated. Virus isolated from ill crew members was antigenically distinct from the vaccination strain. With an attack rate of 42%, this outbreak demonstrates the potential for rapi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Earhart KC,Beadle C,Miller LK,Pruss MW,Gray GC,Ledbetter EK,Wallace MR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial bloodstream infections are a leading cause of death in the United States. If we assume a nosocomial infection rate of 5%, of which 10% are bloodstream infections, and an attributable mortality rate of 15%, bloodstream infections would represent the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. Because...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Wenzel RP,Edmond MB

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technologic advances in surgery include a trend toward less invasive procedures, driven by potential benefits to patients and by health-care economics. These less invasive procedures provide infection control personnel opportunities for direct involvement in outcomes measurement. ...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Gordon SM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines for Preventing Opportunistic Infections Among Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients contains a section on hospital infection control including evidence-based recommendations regarding ventilation, construction, equipment, plants, play areas and toys, health-care workers, visitors, patient skin and o...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Dykewicz CA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Northwestern Memorial Hospital instituted in-house molecular typing to rapidly assess microbial clonality and integrated this typing into an infection control program. We compared data on nosocomial infections collected during 24 months before and 60 months after implementing the new program. During the intervention p...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Peterson LR,Noskin GA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Managed-care organizations have a unique opportunity, still largely unrealized, to collaborate with health-care providers and epidemiologists to prevent health care-associated infections. Several attributes make these organizations logical collaborators for infection control programs: they have responsibility for defi...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Platt R,Caldwell B

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides have a role in public health as part of sustainable integrated mosquito management. Other components of such management include surveillance, source reduction or prevention, biological control, repellents, traps, and pesticide-resistance management. We assess the future use of mosquito control pesticides in...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Rose RI

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trophic network involving molds, invertebrates, and vertebrates, ancestrally adapted to the palm tree (Attalaea phalerata) microhabitat, maintains enzootic Trypanosoma cruzi infections in the Amazonian county Paço do Lumiar, state of Maranhão, Brazil. We assessed seropositivity for T. cruzi infections in the human p...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Teixeira AR,Monteiro PS,Rebelo JM,Argañaraz ER,Vieira D,Lauria-Pires L,Nascimento R,Vexenat CA,Silva AR,Ault SK,Costa JM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance was enhanced and a retrospective interview study performed in 1998-99 to determine incidence, causes, and costs of foodborne illnesses in Uppsala, Sweden. Sixty-eight percent of the detected foodborne illness incidents were single cases, and 32% were outbreaks. Most (85%) of the incidents came to the atte...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Lindqvist R,Andersson Y,Lindbäck J,Wegscheider M,Eriksson Y,Tideström L,Lagerqvist-Widh A,Hedlund KO,Löfdahl S,Svensson L,Norinder A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first two recognized cases of rapidly fatal hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Pennsylvania occurred within an 8-month period in 1997. Illness in the two patients was confirmed by immunohistochemical techniques on autopsy material. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis of tissue from one patient a...

journal_title：Emerging infectious diseases

authors： Rhodes LV 3rd,Huang C,Sanchez AJ,Nichol ST,Zaki SR,Ksiazek TG,Humphreys JG,Freeman JJ,Knecht KR

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00