abstract：:Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus has remained in a seasonal circulation since being recognized in 2009. Although it followed a mild course in most patients, in others it caused a series of severe clinical illnesses. Epidemiologic studies have implicated that host factors have a major influence on the disease severity of i...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Li M,Chen Y,Chen T,Hu S,Chen L,Shen L,Li F,Yang J,Sun Y,Wang D,He L,Qin S,Shu Y

更新日期：2021-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections in humans have increased in prevalence in recent decades. Mycobacterium kansasii is one of the most prevalent human pathogenic NTM species worldwide. Herein, we report the first isolation of M. kansasii from an indoor domestic cat in Japan. Comparative genome sequence anal...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Fukano H,Terazono T,Hirabayashi A,Yoshida M,Suzuki M,Wada S,Ishii N,Hoshino Y

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Serology is a crucial part of the public health response to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Here, we describe the development, validation and clinical evaluation of a protein micro-array as a quantitative multiplex immunoassay that can identify S and N-directed SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies with high specificity and sens...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： van Tol S,Mögling R,Li W,Godeke GJ,Swart A,Bergmans B,Brandenburg A,Kremer K,Murk JL,van Beek J,Wintermans B,Reimerink J,Bosch BJ,Reusken C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three leading infectious disease experts in China were invited to share their bedside observations in the management of COVID-19 patients. Professor Taisheng Li was sent to Wuhan to provide frontline medical care. He depicts the clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Furthermore, he observes the significant abnormal...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Li T,Lu H,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Beijing genotype comprises a highly disseminated strain type that is frequently associated with multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) and increased transmissibility but, countries such as Portugal and Guinea-Bissau fall outside the regions phylogeographically associated with this specific genotype. Neverthel...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Perdigão J,Silva C,Maltez F,Machado D,Miranda A,Couto I,Rabna P,Florez de Sessions P,Phelan J,Pain A,McNerney R,Hibberd ML,Mokrousov I,Clark TG,Viveiros M,Portugal I

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in a pandemic and is continuing to spread rapidly around the globe. No effective vaccine is currently available to prevent COVID-19, and intense efforts are being invested worldwide into vaccine development. In this context, all technolo...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Grenga L,Gallais F,Pible O,Gaillard JC,Gouveia D,Batina H,Bazaline N,Ruat S,Culotta K,Miotello G,Debroas S,Roncato MA,Steinmetz G,Foissard C,Desplan A,Alpha-Bazin B,Almunia C,Gas F,Bellanger L,Armengaud J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently emerged novel coronavirus, "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)", caused a highly contagious disease called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The virus was first reported from Wuhan city in China in December, 2019, which in less than three months spread throughout the globe and...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Lone SA,Ahmad A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing K. pneumoniae (KPC-KP) have disseminated worldwide and emerged as major threats to public health. Of epidemiological significance, the international pandemic of KPC-KP is primarily associated with CG258 isolates and blaKPC-IncF plasmids. CRISPR-Cas system is an adapt...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Zhou Y,Tang Y,Fu P,Tian D,Yu L,Huang Y,Li G,Li M,Wang Y,Yang Z,Xu X,Yin Z,Zhou D,Poirel L,Jiang X

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global challenge and implicates a wide range of burden on medical professionals. Here, we evaluated the perception of the COVID-19 pandemic among medical professionals in Germany. Methods: A total of n = 2827 medical professionals participated in an online ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Paffenholz P,Peine A,Hellmich M,Paffenholz SV,Martin L,Luedde M,Haverkamp M,Roderburg C,Marx G,Heidenreich A,Trautwein C,Luedde T,Loosen SH

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that livestock (LA)-MRSA ST398 evolved from a human-adapted methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) clone. However, detailed information regarding ST9 is still unclear. Here, we characterized a community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) ST9-SCCmec XII isolat...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Jin Y,Yu X,Chen Y,Chen W,Shen P,Luo Q,Zhang S,Kong X,Zheng B,Xiao Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviruses harbour high genetic variability for efficient evasion from host immunity. An attenuated equine infectious anaemia (EIA) vaccine was developed decades ago in China and presented remarkably robust protection against EIA. The vaccine was recently proven to have high genomic diversity, particular in env. How...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Lin Y,Wang XF,Wang Y,Du C,Ren H,Liu C,Zhu D,Chen J,Na L,Liu D,Yang Z,Wang X

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with droplets and contact as the main means of transmission. Since the first case appeared in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the outbreak has gradually spread nationwide. Up to now, acco...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Lin L,Lu L,Cao W,Li T

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three unprecedented outbreaks of emerging human coronavirus (HCoV) infections at the beginning of the twenty-first century have highlighted the necessity for readily available, accurate and fast diagnostic testing methods. The laboratory diagnostic methods for human coronavirus infections have evolved substantiall...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Loeffelholz MJ,Tang YW

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China, it has rapidly spread across many other countries. While the majority of patients were considered mild, critically ill patients involving respiratory failure and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome are not uncommon, which could result death. We...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Han H,Ma Q,Li C,Liu R,Zhao L,Wang W,Zhang P,Liu X,Gao G,Liu F,Jiang Y,Cheng X,Zhu C,Xia Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serology detection is recognized for its sensitivity in convalescent patients with COVID-19, in comparison with nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs). This article aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of serologic methods for COVID-19 based on assay design and post-symptom-onset intervals. Two authors independ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Wang H,Ai J,Loeffelholz MJ,Tang YW,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy is associated with congenital brain abnormalities, a finding that highlights the urgent need to understand mother-to-fetus transmission mechanisms. Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) are susceptible to ZIKV infection but the underlying mechanisms of viral...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Seong RK,Lee JK,Cho GJ,Kumar M,Shin OS

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging studies have indicated that some penaeidins restrict virus infection; however, the mechanism(s) involved are poorly understood. In the present study, we uncovered that penaeidins are a novel family of antiviral effectors against white spot syndrome virus (WSSV), which antagonize the envelope proteins to block...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Xiao B,Fu Q,Niu S,Zhu P,He J,Li C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has led to the current global coronavirus pandemic and more than one million infections since December 2019. The exact origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains elusive, but the presence of a distinct motif in the S1/S2 junction region suggests the possible acquisition of cleavage site(s) in the spike p...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Lau SY,Wang P,Mok BW,Zhang AJ,Chu H,Lee AC,Deng S,Chen P,Chan KH,Song W,Chen Z,To KK,Chan JF,Yuen KY,Chen H

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) can cause a wide range of symptoms from asymptomatic carriage, mild diarrhea to bloody diarrhea (BD) and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Intimin, encoded by the eae gene, also plays a critical role in STEC pathogenesis. Herein, we investigated the prevalence and gen...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Hua Y,Bai X,Zhang J,Jernberg C,Chromek M,Hansson S,Frykman A,Yang X,Xiong Y,Wan C,Matussek A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 (IFITM3) as an antiviral factor can inhibit replication of several viruses including influenza virus. A single-nucleotide polymorphism rs12252-C of IFITM3 results in a truncated IFITM3 protein lacking its first 21 amino acids, which is much higher in the Han Chinese populatio...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Lei N,Li Y,Sun Q,Lu J,Zhou J,Li Z,Liu L,Guo J,Qin K,Wang H,Zhao J,Li C,Sun L,Wang D,Zhao Z,Shu Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19, the worst pandemic in 100 years, has rapidly spread to the entire world in 2 months since its early report in January 2020. Based on the publicly available data sources, we developed a simple mathematic modeling approach to track the outbreaks of COVID-19 in the US and three selected states: New York, Michig...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Tang Y,Wang S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide emergence of Salmonella enterica serovar Newport (S. Newport) infection in humans, in parallel with a significant increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AR), is a serious public health concern. However, the prevalence of S. Newport resistance in China remains largely unknown. A retrospective stud...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Elbediwi M,Pan H,Biswas S,Li Y,Yue M

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is a major human fungal pathogen, capable of switching among a range of morphological types, such as the yeast form, including white and opaque cell types and the GUT (gastrointestinally induced transition) cell type, the filamentous form, including hyphal and pseudohyphal cell types, and chlamydospor...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Liang W,Guan G,Li C,Nobile CJ,Tao L,Huang G

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N6) virus has caused sporadic human infections with a high case fatality rate. Due to the continuous evolution of this virus subtype and its ability to transmit to humans, there is an urgent need to develop effective antiviral therapeutics. In this study, a murine monoclonal ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Zheng Z,Teo SHC,Arularasu SC,Liu Z,Mohd-Ismail NK,Mok CK,Ong CB,Chu JJ,Tan YJ

更新日期：2020-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with a novel H10N8 influenza virus in humans was first described in China in December 2013, which raised concerns related to public health. This novel virus was subsequently confirmed to have originated from a live poultry market. However, whether this virus can infect other mammals remains unclear. In the p...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Fu X,Huang Y,Fang B,Liu Y,Cai M,Zhong R,Huang J,Wenbao Q,Tian Y,Zhang G

更新日期：2020-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Tigecycline is regarded as a last-resort treatment for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), however, the emergence of tigecycline heteroresistance has posted the therapeutic challenge to combat this "nightmare bacteria". The primary purpose of this study was to demonstrate the existence of tigecycline hetero...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Liu H,Jia X,Zou H,Sun S,Li S,Wang Y,Xia Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common zoonotic diseases in the world. Felines excrete environmentally resistant Toxoplasma gondii oocysts. However, there is no direct evidence to prove tigers are the intermediate host of T. gondii. Here, we show that, IgG antibodies to T. gondii in 80% (8/10) of captive tigers. Two ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Yang Y,Dong H,Su R,Jiang N,Li T,Su C,Yuan Z,Zhang L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted this study to describe the dynamics of the acquisition of respiratory pathogens, their potential interactions and risk factors for possible lower respiratory tract infection symptoms (LRTI) among French pilgrims during the 2018 Hajj. Each participant underwent four successive systematic nasopharyngeal swa...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Hoang VT,Dao TL,Ly TDA,Belhouchat K,Chaht KL,Gaudart J,Mrenda BM,Drali T,Yezli S,Alotaibi B,Fournier PE,Raoult D,Parola P,de Santi VP,Gautret P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has been extensively studied in North America and Europe; however, limited data on CDI are available in the Asia-Pacific region. A multicentre retrospective study was conducted in this region. C. difficile isolates were subjected to multilocus sequence ty...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Luo Y,Cheong E,Bian Q,Collins DA,Ye J,Shin JH,Yam WC,Takata T,Song X,Wang X,Kamboj M,Gottlieb T,Jiang J,Riley TV,Tang YW,Jin D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigs play an important role in interspecies transmission of the influenza virus, particularly as "mixing vessels" for reassortment. Two influenza A/H1N1 virus strains, A/swine/Siberia/1sw/2016 and A/swine/Siberia/4sw/2017, were isolated during a surveillance of pigs from private farms in Russia from 2016 to 2017. Ther...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Sobolev I,Kurskaya O,Leonov S,Kabilov M,Alikina T,Alekseev A,Yushkov Y,Saito T,Uchida Y,Mine J,Shestopalov A,Sharshov K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomaviruses (HPV) contribute to most cervical cancers and are considered to be sexually transmitted. However, papillomaviruses are often found in cancers of internal organs, including the stomach, raising the question as to how the viruses gain access to these sites. A possible connection between blood tran...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Cladel NM,Jiang P,Li JJ,Peng X,Cooper TK,Majerciak V,Balogh KK,Meyer TJ,Brendle SA,Budgeon LR,Shearer DA,Munden R,Cam M,Vallur R,Christensen ND,Zheng ZM,Hu J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 78-year-old woman with a long-term ankle spacer with antibacterials developed an intra-articular Candida auris infection. Treatment with systemic antifungal therapy plus an amphotericin B moulded cement spacer was successful. ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Roberts SC,Zembower TR,Bolon MK,Kadakia AR,Gilley JH,Ko JH,Clark J,Ward-Fore S,Taiwo BO

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Babesiosis is a tick-transmitted intraerythrocytic zoonosis. In Korea, the first mortalities were reported in 2005 due to Babesia sp. detection in sheep; herein we report epidemiological and genetic characteristics of a second case of babesiosis. Microscopic analysis of patient blood revealed polymorphic merozoites. T...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Hong SH,Kim SY,Song BG,Rho JR,Cho CR,Kim CN,Um TH,Kwak YG,Cho SH,Lee SE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinocandin resistance in Candida glabrata poses a serious clinical challenge. The underlying resistance mechanism of a pan-echinocandin-resistant C. glabrata isolate (strain L74) was investigated in this study. FKS mutants carrying specific mutations found in L74 were reconstructed by the Alt-R CRISPR-Cas9 system (F...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Hou X,Healey KR,Shor E,Kordalewska M,Ortigosa CJ,Paderu P,Xiao M,Wang H,Zhao Y,Lin LY,Zhang YH,Li YZ,Xu YC,Perlin DS,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occult hepatitis B virus infection (OBI) is a low-level asymptomatic phase of HBV infection. Evidence of OBI clinical relevance is emerging but the mechanisms of its occurrence remain unclear. In this study, the molecular characteristics of 97 confirmed OBI from Chinese blood donors were analyzed and relevant mutation...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Zhang L,Chang L,Laperche S,Ji H,Zhao J,Jiang X,Wang L,Candotti D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host switch events of influenza A viruses (IAVs) continuously pose a zoonotic threat to humans. In 2013, swine-origin H1N1 IAVs emerged in dogs soon after they were detected in swine in the Guangxi province of China. This host switch was followed by multiple reassortment events between these H1N1 and previously circul...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Wang G,Dos Anjos Borges LG,Stadlbauer D,Ramos I,Bermúdez González MC,He J,Ding Y,Wei Z,Ouyang K,Huang W,Simon V,Fernandez-Sesma A,Krammer F,Nelson MI,Chen Y,García-Sastre A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are foodborne pathogens causing severe gastroenteritis, which may lead to hemolytic uremic syndrome. The Locus of Enterocyte Effacement (LEE), a Pathogenicity Island (PAI), is a major determinant of intestinal epithelium attachment of a group of STEC strains; however, the ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Montero DA,Canto FD,Velasco J,Colello R,Padola NL,Salazar JC,Martin CS,Oñate A,Blanco J,Rasko DA,Contreras C,Puente JL,Scheutz F,Franz E,Vidal RM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that bacterial metabolism plays an important role in virulence. Acetyl phosphate (AcP), the high-energy intermediate of the phosphotransacetylase-acetate kinase pathway, is the major acetyl donor in E. coli. PhoP is an essential transcription factor for bacterial virulence. Here, we sho...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Ren J,Sang Y,Qin R,Su Y,Cui Z,Mang Z,Li H,Lu S,Zhang J,Cheng S,Liu X,Li J,Lu J,Wu W,Zhao GP,Shao F,Yao YF

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza viruses of the H4 subtype are widespread in wild birds, circulate in domestic poultry, readily infect mammals, and tolerate the insertion of a polybasic cleavage site. In addition, serological evidence suggests that humans working with poultry are exposed to these viruses. While H4 viruses are not of immedia...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Amanat F,Meade P,Strohmeier S,Krammer F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The continuing pandemic threat posed by avian influenza A/H5N1 viruses calls for improved insights into their evolution during human infection. We performed whole genome deep sequencing of respiratory specimens from 44 H5N1-infected individuals from Indonesia and found substantial within-host viral diversity. At nearl...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Welkers MRA,Pawestri HA,Fonville JM,Sampurno OD,Pater M,Holwerda M,Han AX,Russell CA,Jeeninga RE,Setiawaty V,de Jong MD,Eggink D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00