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- 1From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedEcologic niche modeling (ENM) is a growing field with many potential applications to questions regarding the geography and ecology of disease transmission. Specifically, ENM has the potential to inform investigations...
- 2From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTo evaluate the presence and extension of West Nile virus where French soldiers are stationed in Africa, specific antibody prevalence was determined by using ELISA and Western blot. Among 245 horses living in close...
- 3From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTwenty percent prevalence of West Nile virus antibody was found in free-ranging medium-sized Wisconsin mammals. No significant differences were noted in antibody prevalence with regard to sex, age, month of collection,...
- 4From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an established nosocomial pathogen worldwide but more recently has emerged as a highly virulent organism in the community, particularly in the United...
- 5From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTo evaluate risk factors for human infection with influenza A subtype H5N1, we performed a matched case-control study in Vietnam. We enrolled 28 case-patients who had laboratory-confirmed H5N1 infection during 2004 and...
- 6From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedHealthcare workers (HCWs) found the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to be stressful, but the long-term impact is not known. From 13 to 26 months after the SARS outbreak, 769 HCWs at 9 Toronto...
- 7From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTo investigate the epidemiology of human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2 entomologic surveys were conducted in 2005. Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and human-blood...
- 8From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed
Transmission of human and Macaque Plasmodium spp. to ex-captive orangutans in Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Data are lacking on the specific diseases to which great apes are susceptible and the transmission dynamics and overall impact of these diseases. We examined the prevalence of Plasmodium spp. infections in semicaptive... - 9From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: A serious outbreak of chikungunya disease recently occurred on Reunion Island (population ≅ 770,000) (1). Between March 1, 2005, and April 30, 2006, ≅ 255,000 cases were reported in this French territory...
- 10From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed
Nonpharmaceutical influenza mitigation strategies, US communities, 1918-1920 Pandemic. (DISPATCHES].
We studied nonpharmaceutical interventions used to mitigate the second, and most deadly, wave of the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic in the United States. We conclude that several small communities implemented potentially... - 11From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn 2003, US officials identified several human monkeypox cases and traced the virus exposure to infected captive prairie dogs. The virus was likely introduced through a shipment of imported African rodents, which were...
- 12From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedSnakes on a Plane was poised to be the blockbuster movie of the 2006 summer season. It featured reptiles smuggled onto an airplane as an unusual bioweapon of mass destruction. In a much less dramatic fashion, this absurd...
- 13From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn Europe, spirochetes within the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex are transmitted by Ixodes ricinus ticks. Specific associations are described between reservoir hosts and individual genospecies. We focused on...
- 14From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedPrevalence of hepatitis B genotype C in injection drug users in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, neighboring the "Golden Triangle," correlates well with overland drug-trafficking routes, the injection drug use...
- 15From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedEverglades virus (EVEV), an alphavirus in the Venezuelan equine encephalitis complex, circulates among rodents and vector mosquitoes in Florida and occasionally infects humans. It causes febrile disease, sometimes...
- 16From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBats have been identified as a natural reservoir for an increasing number of emerging zoonotic viruses, including henipaviruses and variants of rabies viruses. Recently, we and another group independently identified...
- 17From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedRabies viruses circulating in Ceara, Brazil, were identified by molecular analysis to be related to variants maintained by dogs, bats, and other wildlife. Most of these viruses are associated with human rabies cases. We...
- 18From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: A 3-year-old, neutered male, domestic shorthaired cat was referred for treatment to a veterinary specialty clinic in San Francisco, California, with a 1-year history of multifocal patches of crusted and...
- 19From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTo determine the effect of cattle on the risk for Lyme disease, we compared the prevalence of spirochete infection in questing vector ticks collected from a pasture with low-intensity cattle grazing with the prevalence...
- 20From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBorrelia garinii is the most neurotropic of the genospecies of B. burgdorferi sensu lato that cause Lyme disease in Europe, where it is transmitted to avian and mammalian reservoir hosts and to humans by Ixodes ricinus....