abstract：:Piglets between 1 and 40 days of age were inoculated with varying numbers and with different isolates of Streptococcus suis type 2 by the intranasal, intravenous and subarachnoid routes. Less than 100 organisms of an isolate cultured from apparently normal pigs caused subclinical infection in 1-day-old piglets after i...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Robertson ID,Blackmore DK

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria cuniculi was isolated, between March 1987 and March 1989, from 38 cases of respiratory disease in small and large ruminants. In all but five cases N. cuniculi was cultured together with other potential respiratory pathogens. A survey was conducted to assess the prevalence of N. cuniculi in the pharyngeal reg...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Elad D,Shlomovitz S,Bernstein M,Bassan J

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple introductions of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains occurred to a new hospital in Hong Kong. Two years of clinical microbiological surveillance of the resulting outbreaks was combined with laboratory investigation by phage and antibiogram typing, and plasmid profiling. The outbreaks on...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Farrington M,Ling J,Ling T,French GL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most villagers in north-east Thailand carry water to their homes and store it in separate containers depending on its subsequent use. In one village, information on water use was collated with the bacteriological quality of stored water, water sources and fingertip-rinses. Stored water quality was a function of water-...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pinfold JV

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty progesterone-treated TO mice were infected intravaginally with Mycoplasma pulmonis. One month later, ten of the mice were given oestradiol which changed the reproductive cycle to the oestrous phase and within a week resulted in eradication of the organisms from six of them; vaginal persistence in the other mice...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Taylor-Robinson D,Furr PM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective epidemiological studies of beach water pollution were conducted in Hong Kong in the summers of 1986 and 1987. For the main study in 1987, a total of 18741 usable responses were obtained from beachgoers on nine beaches at weekends. The study indicated the overall perceived symptom rates for gastrointestinal...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Cheung WH,Chang KC,Hung RP,Kleevens JW

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological data on shigellosis in Teknaf, a coastal area of Bangladesh, were reviewed for a 10-year period (1975-84). Certain similarities and differences were observed in the epidemiology of the disease in Teknaf when compared with urban Dhaka and rural Matlab. Similarities included: round-the-year infection...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hossain MA,Albert MJ,Hasan KZ

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurized bottled milk supplied by a single dairy was frequently found to be contaminated with Yersinia spp. Investigations were carried out at the dairy in an effort to pinpoint the source of these organisms. Viable counts obtained from milk bottle rinses indicated that bottle washing was often unsatisfactory, and ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Greenwood MH,Hooper WL,Rodhouse JC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period 1981-8 a clinical trial of a Q fever vaccine (Q-vax; Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne) has been conducted in abattoir workers and other at-risk groups in South Australia. Volunteers in four abattoirs and visitors to the abattoirs were given one subcutaneous dose of 30 micrograms of a formal...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Marmion BP,Ormsbee RA,Kyrkou M,Wright J,Worswick DA,Izzo AA,Esterman A,Feery B,Shapiro RA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical information was collected on 722 cases of Listeria monocytogenes infections in humans occurring in Britain between 1967 and 1985. This series comprised 34% (248 cases) associated with pregnancy and 66% (474 cases) in non-pregnant adults and juveniles. The cases not associated with pregnancy comprised: 76% in ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： McLauchlin J

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal transmission of Campylobacter jejuni was investigated in campylobacter-free broiler chicks. One hundred and twenty chicks housed individually, were provided with water containing 10(2)-10(9) c.f.u./ml C. jejuni. Colonization was rapid [47 of 73 (64%) positive cloacal cultures within 3 days and 65 of 73 (89%...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Shanker S,Lee A,Sorrell TC

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new epidemiologic typing method based on electrophoresis of esterases had been developed for differentiating between clinical isolates of Branhamella catarrhalis. Twenty-two epidemiologically significant strains obtained from three Chest Units, a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and a Paediatric Unit were compared wit...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Picard B,Goullet P,Denamur E,Suermondt G

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible relationship between the results of a microbiological sampling programme and visual inspections carried out in local food-manufacturing premises was examined. Using five main parameters - overall appearance, personal hygiene, risk of contamination, temperature control, and training and education - a visua...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tebbutt GM,Southwell JM

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of plasmid similarity is an important component in the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and in the detection of epidemic plasmids. The use of restriction endonucleases in the classification of transferable, multiply-resistant plasmids from faecal Enterobacteriaceae isolated at the Children's ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Shears P,Suliman G,Hart CA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the evaluation of a bancroftian filariasis control programme undertaken in Pondicherry from 1981-5. Integrated vector management was applied in one half of the town, and routine operations under the national programme (larviciding and chemotherapy) continued in the comparison area. The programme ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Subramanian S,Pani SP,Das PK,Rajagopalan PK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from an outbreak of acute respiratory illness in a boys boarding school originally thought to have been due to psittacosis (1) have been re-examined and evidence is presented that suggests that the outbreak was caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae, strain TWAR (2). ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Pether JV,Wang SP,Grayston JT

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial infection or colonization due to enterococci with high-level resistance to vancomycin (minimal inhibitory concentrations [MICs] between 64 and greater than 2000 mg/L) has occurred in 41 patients with renal disease. These vancomycin-resistant enterococci were cultured from many sources including blood. All b...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Uttley AH,George RC,Naidoo J,Woodford N,Johnson AP,Collins CH,Morrison D,Gilfillan AJ,Fitch LE,Heptonstall J

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and reproducible typing system based on restriction fragment size of chromosomal DNA was developed to compare isolates of Streptococcus uberis obtained from the bovine mammary gland. The endonuclease giving the most useful restriction patterns was Hind III. Although seven other endonucleases (Bgl 1, Eco R1, N...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Hill AW,Leigh JA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic Vibrio species are naturally-occurring bacteria in freshwater and saline aquatic environments. Counts of free-living bacteria in water are generally less than required to induce disease. Increases in number of organisms towards an infective dose can occur as water temperatures rise seasonally followed by gr...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： West PA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical features, treatment and outcome were assessed retrospectively by means of a questionnaire in 174 patients in general practice whose vaginal swabs yielded beta-haemolytic streptococci. These were compared with 96 patients whose swabs yielded no recognized microbial pathogens. Patients with group B streptococci...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Lewis RF

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of protection conferred by vaccinated dams on infant mice against colonization by Campylobacter jejuni depended on the bacterial strain, preparation, and route of administration of the vaccine. In some instances of homologous protection, serum bactericidal titres correlated well with protection. However, bo...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Abimiku AG,Dolby JM,Borriello SP

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year study from January 1981 to December 1982 was undertaken to determine the role of viruses in the causation of diarrhoea in hospitalized children in Pune, Maharashtra State, India. The stool samples of 426 children (213 diarrhoeal and 213 non-diarrhoeal controls) were investigated by electron microscopy and ELI...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Singh PB,Sreenivasan MA,Pavri KM

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 10-year period 1978-87 there were 48 outbreaks of food poisoning in Scottish hospitals affecting a total of 2287 persons of whom 12 died. This compared with 50 outbreaks during the previous 5 years (1973-77) when over 1500 persons and 7 deaths were recorded. Although the incidence of outbreaks has decreased...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Collier PW,Sharp JC,MacLeod AF,Forbes GI,Mackay F

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of interferon A (rIFN-alpha 2A), an Escherichia coli-derived interferon, in the prophylaxis of acute upper respiratory tract infection, was evaluated in a community-based double-blind placebo-controlled study in the Australian winter of 1985. The trial population of 412 healthy volunteers (190 males and 2...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Tannock GA,Gillett SM,Gillett RS,Barry RD,Hensley MJ,Herd R,Reid AL,Saunders NA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory influence of cyanuric acid on the virucidal effect of chlorine was studied. The time required for 99.9% inactivation of ten enteroviruses and two adenoviruses by 0.5 mg/l free available chlorine at pH 7.0 and 25 degrees C was prolonged approximately 4.8-28.8 times by the addition of 30 mg/l cyanuric aci...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Yamashita T,Sakae K,Ishihara Y,Isomura S,Inoue H

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using DNA probes specific for the genes encoding Vero cytotoxins 1 and 2 in hybridization experiments on faecal samples, Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) of serogroup O 157 were detected in 21 of 63 cases of haemorrhagic colitis, 9 of 31 cases of non-bloody diarrhoea and 14 of 68 cases of haemolytic ur...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Kleanthous H,Fry NK,Smith HR,Gross RJ,Rowe B

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mu-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detecting chlamydia-specific IgM was developed by use of the heat stable, lipopolysaccharide group-specific antigen and an alkaline phosphatase-labelled anti-chlamydia group-specific monoclonal antibody conjugate. The test was used to study the serological res...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Wreghitt TG,Robinson VJ,Caul EO,Paul ID,Gatley S

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and seventy-five consecutive clinical isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci, including strains associated with disease, contaminants and skin colonizers, were speciated, tested for slime production and for their sensitivity to a range of antibiotics. Staphylococcus epidermidis was the most commonly ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Deighton MA,Franklin JC,Spicer WJ,Balkau B

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food poisoning due to Salmonella typhimurium phage type 141 was unusual in the Sheffield area before 1984. The sudden increase in incidence of this phage type during 1984 and 1985, and its causative role in several small outbreaks in this period have been investigated. Epidemiological and laboratory investigations sug...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Chapman PA,Rhodes P,Rylands W

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the methylene blue test for the examination of cows milk was investigated in an inter-laboratory survey. A poor relationship was found between results of these tests and total viable counts. Coliforms were detected in a large number of pasteurized milks, indicating frequent post-pasteurization contamination...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Greenwood MH,Gill P,Coetzee EF,Ford BM,Hooper WL,Matthews SC,Patrick S

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 637 strains of Salmonella bareilly received from different parts of India between 1959 and 1985 were phage typed using five locally isolated wild phages. The overall typability was 94.5% and 11 different phage types could be defined. Phage types 10 and 1 were the most prevalent and the geographical and sour...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Singh G,Sharma NC,Jayasheela M,Saxena SN

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophoretic types B1 and B2 of carboxylesterase B produced by strains of Escherichia coli isolated from 100 septicaemia cases were correlated with alpha-haemolysin and mannose resistant haemagglutinin (MRHA) production and with clinical data including eventual underlying diseases, origin of septicaemia and evoluti...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Picard B,Goullet P

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and forty-eight patients from shared oncology and general medical wards were prospectively studied over a 6-month period for carriage of Clostridium difficile during an outbreak of clinical disease with an epidemic strain of the organism. Risk factors for infection were assessed. Acute leukaemia and/or its...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Heard SR,Wren B,Barnett MJ,Thomas JM,Tabaqchali S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a review of published data concerning the epidemiology of measles in developing countries. Simple mathematical models provide a framework for data analysis and interpretation. The analyses highlight differences and similarities in the patterns of transmission of the measles virus in developed and d...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： McLean AR,Anderson RM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 100 tropical aquaria from six pet shops were sampled for the presence of Salmonella, Campylobacter and Aeromonas species. Eight fish tanks contained unusual serotypes of salmonella. None had been used to house terrapins. One hundred and three isolates of Aeromonas species were obtained from 98 tanks. One ta...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Sanyal D,Burge SH,Hutchings PG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1976 and 1986, 258 incidents of suspected scombrotoxic fish poisoning were reported in Britain. Histamine analysis was carried out on 240 fish samples from these incidents, and 101 were found to contain greater than 5 mg histamine/100 g fish. The symptoms most consistently reported were rash, diarrhoea, flushi...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Bartholomew BA,Berry PR,Rodhouse JC,Gilbert RJ,Murray CK

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group L, beta-haemolytic streptococci can cause infection in dogs, pigs, cattle and sheep but there have been very few reports in man. In studies of skin infection in meat handlers we cultured group L streptococci from clinically infected wounds, impetigo and paronychia of 15 patients involved in the slaughter and pro...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Barnham M,Neilson DJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-point MCA method is very simple to perform and useful as a screening test in diagnosing leptospirosis in routine clinical laboratories. The kit, sensitized with six serovars occurring in Japan, was also useful in detecting serum antibodies of patients with leptospirosis in China. ...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Arimitsu Y,Matuhasi T,Kobayashi S,Sato T,Cui JJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 3-year period Branhamella catarrhalis was isolated in significant numbers from 239 (1.3%) of 19,488 specimens of sputum sent for routine microbiological examination at a 700-bed general hospital. The majority of patients (83%) were over 60 years of age and 65% were male. There was a distinct seasonal variatio...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： DiGiovanni C,Riley TV,Hoyne GF,Yeo R,Cooksey P

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Candida albicans can be differentiated by the morphological features of streak colonies developed on malt agar. A morphotyping system is proposed, where numerical codes are assigned primarily on the basis of the nature and extent of marginal fringing and the surface topography of the streak colony. The syst...

journal_title：Epidemiology and infection

authors： Phongpaichit S,Mackenzie DW,Fraser C

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00