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- 1From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBartonella species are increasingly associated with a range of human and animal diseases. Despite this, we have a poor understanding of the ecology and epidemiology of many species, especially those circulating in wild...
- 2From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The reemergence of tuberculosis (TB) as a global health problem over the past 2 decades, accompanied by increased drug resistance, which represents a serious problem both in terms of TB control and...
- 3From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGlobal evaluation of influenza vaccination in children indicates that current recommendations are not followed. Most children at high risk for influenza-related complications do not receive the vaccine, and increased...
- 4From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOn p. 519, in the table entitled "Characteristics of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) outbreaks, United States, 1996-2003," the serotype of the strain associated with outbreak number 16 was O169:H41 not O169:H49....
- 5From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOptimization of methods for ruling out Bacillus anthracis leads to increased yields, faster turnaround times, and a lighter workload. We used 72 environmental non-B. anthracis bacilli to validate methods for ruling out...
- 6From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium definitive phage type 104 has emerged during the 1980s and 1990s as a world health problem because of its implications in animal and human...
- 7From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: We have read with interest many of the articles concerning West Nile virus (WNV) published in the July 2003 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Last summer Ohio was one of the leading states with WNV...
- 8From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The epidemic cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 appeared in Latin America in 1991 after a 100-year absence. Following its explosive appearance in Peru, travelers on the Amazon River brought cholera to...
- 9From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" by William Carlos Williams, a physician and poet It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there....
- 10From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedApril 13-15, 2004 Biodefense Vaccines, Therapeutics and Diagnostics: Policy, Funding, Development, Testing, Production, and Distribution Hamilton Crowne Plaza Washington, DC Contact: (818) 888-4444 Web site:...
- 11From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRobert Ellis Shope, one of the world's most distinguished arbovirologists and a dear friend of many colleagues around the world, died of complications of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Galveston, Texas, on January 19,...
- 12From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIncidence rates of pulmonary tuberculosis among immigrants from high incidence countries remain high for at least a decade after immigration into the Netherlands. Possible explanations are reactivation of old infections...
- 13From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 2001, Myanmar (Burma) had its largest outbreak of dengue--15,361 reported cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS), including 192 deaths. That year, 95% of dengue viruses isolated from...
- 14From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe describe a pilot study that attempted to infect human volunteers with Cyclospora cayetanensis. Seven healthy volunteers ingested an inoculum of Cyclospora oocysts (approximately 200-49,000 oocysts). The volunteers...
- 15From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTo date, investigations of Pneumocystis jirovecii circulation in the human reservoir through the dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) locus analysis have only been conducted by examining P. jirovecii isolates from...
- 16From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn December 2002, a colloquium was organized by the Institut Pasteur and the Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Paris, France, to review what current knowledge exists on the impact of antimicrobial bacterial resistance and...
- 17From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPneumonic plague poses a potentially increasing risk to humans in plague nonendemic regions either as a consequence of an aerosolized release or through importation of the disease. Pneumonic plague is person-to-person...
- 18From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIxodes scapularis (deer ticks) from Maine were tested for multiple infections by polymerase chain reaction and immunofluorescence. In 1995, 29.5%, 9.5%, and 1.9% of deer ticks were infected with Borrelia burgdorferi,...
- 19From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedInfluenza A viruses occur worldwide in wild birds and are occasionally associated with outbreaks in commercial chickens and turkeys. However, avian influenza viruses have not been isolated from wild birds or poultry in...
- 20From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAvoparcin, a glycopeptide antimicrobial agent related to vancomycin, has been used extensively as a growth promoter in animal feeds for more than 2 decades, and evidence has shown that such use contributed to the...