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- 1From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo describe the number and treatment of skin and soft tissue infections likely caused by Staphylococcus aureus in the United States, we analyzed data from the 1992-1994 and 2001-2003 National Ambulatory Medical Care...
- 2From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Scholars have routinely noted ways in which scientific inquiry is isolated from public life and popular attention and have bemoaned relatively low levels of scientific literacy among lay audiences (1-3)....
- 3From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedMultidrug-resistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans was recovered from the sputum of a patient with cystic fibrosis. The VEB-1 extended-spectrum β-lactamase was detected on a class 1 integron. This first report of a...
- 4From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedArtists and scientists express their understanding of sexual behavior differently. Artists use visual and spatial composition; scientists use collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. However, both art and...
- 5From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The first report of a patient with concurrent malaria (Plasmodiumfalciparum) and dengue was recently published in this journal (1). Herein is presumably the first report of concurrent dengue and malaria...
- 6From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAntibodies to chikungunya virus were detected by hemagglutination-inhibition assay in 33.6% of 2,000 infants' cord sera at delivery. Follow-up of 24 seropositive infants showed that the half-life of antibody persistence...
- 7From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The emergence of widespread resistance to chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Africa has caused a sharp rise in deaths from malaria. The World Health Organization therefore urgently recommends...
- 8From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedDuring the fall/winter season of 2004-05, we found 9 respiratory specimens positive for human parainfluenza virus type 4 (HPIV-4) in our laboratory (43% of all HPIVs) from patients with mild to moderate respiratory...
- 9From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAfter 10 years of absence, dengue virus type 4 (DENV-4) has recently reemerged in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. Phylogenetic analyses of strains isolated from 2004 to 2005 showed that they belong to DENV-4...
- 10From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: In August 1999, the Laboratory Response Network (LRN) was established to better integrate and improve laboratory capacity for responding to public health threats (1). However, while experts have focused on...
- 11From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedA patient may have been infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, at a food market that had live birds. Virus genes were detected in 1 of 79 wire cages for birds...
- 12From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Articles about influenza in the January 2006 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases discussed a pandemic possibly as profound in its effect as the 1918-19 pandemic, when attack rates were >20% worldwide and...
- 13From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWe investigated Clostridium difficile in calves and the similarity between bovine and human C. difficile PCR ribotypes by conducting a case-control study of calves from 102 dairy farms in Canada. Fecal samples from 144...
- 14From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedSurveillance of measles virus detected an epidemiologic link between a refugee from Kenya and a Dutch tourist in New Jersey, USA. Identical genotype B3 sequences from patients with contemporaneous cases in the United...
- 15From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedFebruary 23-25, 2007 IMED 2007: International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance Vienna, Austria Contact: info@isid.org or 617-277-0551 voice; 617-278-9113 fax http://imed.isid.org/ March 7-9, 2007 6th...
- 16From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWe asked Italian poultry workers about knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding avian influenza. It was perceived to be a low occupational hazard, and wearing protective equipment and handwashing were not routine...
- 17From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWe found a prevalence of 18% for enterotoxin gene-carrying (cpe+) Clostridium perfringens in the feces of healthy food handlers by PCR and isolated the organism from 11 of 23 PCR-positive persons by using hydrophobic...
- 18From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: During 1990 in Uruguay, a rickettsiosis in the spotted fever group was presumptively diagnosed for 3 patients who had fever, an initial small maculopapulous lesion at the site of a tick bite on the scalp,...
- 19From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedOf 52 patients with recurrent tuberculosis in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, 32 (61.5%) had isolates in which genotype patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis differed between first and second episodes. This result...
- 20From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a cytotoxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus that causes leukocyte destruction and tissue necrosis (1). Although produced by <5% of S. aureus strains, the toxin is...