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- 1From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedInterdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death George Christakos, Ricardo A. Olea, Marc L. Serre, Hwa-Lung Yu, and Lin-Lin Wang Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2005 ISBN:...
- 2From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe describe a case of blastomycosis in an 8-year-old boy with Blastomyces-associated osteomyelitis and possible pulmonary involvement. We also identify 309 cases of blastomycosis in Ontario that were seen during a...
- 3From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA direct rapid immunohistochemical test (dRIT) was evaluated under field and laboratory conditions to detect rabies virus antigen in frozen and glycerol-preserved field brain samples from northwestern Tanzania. Compared...
- 4From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedInnovative regulatory and legislative measures to stimulate and facilitate the development of new antimicrobial drugs are needed. We discuss research approaches that can aid regulatory decision making on the treatment of...
- 5From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedScrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, is a severe febrile illness transmitted to humans by trombiculid mites, which normally feed on rodents. The first known outbreak of scrub typhus in Palau occurred in 2001...
- 6From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDengue virus type 1(DENV-1), which was responsible for the dengue fever outbreak in Yap State, Micronesia, in 2004, was isolated from serum samples of 4 dengue patients in Japan. Genome sequencing demonstrated that this...
- 7From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCommunity-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was first reported in Western Australia in the early 1990s from indigenous peoples living in remote areas. Although a statewide policy of screening...
- 8From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMarch 16-16, 2006 International Conference on Women and Infectious Diseases: Progress in Science and Action Marriott Marquis Hotel Atlanta, GA, USA http://www.womenshealthconf.org March 19-22, 2006...
- 9From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe report the findings of a case-control study of risk factors for sporadic cases of human campylobacteriosis in Denmark. In 3 different analytical models, the main domestic risk factor identified was eating fresh,...
- 10From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThailand has recently had 3 epidemic waves of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI); virus was again detected in July 2005. Risk factors need to be identified to better understand disease ecology and assist HPAI...
- 11From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe examined excess deaths after infection with Salmonella in a registry-based matched cohort study of 25,060 persons infected abroad and 5,139 infected within Sweden. The domestically infected have an increased...
- 12From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStructural Biology of Bacterial Pathogenesis Gabriel Waksman, Michael Caparon, and Scott Hultgren, editors American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC, 2005 ISBN: 1555813011 Pages: 326; Price: US $115.95...
- 13From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWater was the suspected vehicle of Toxoplasma gondii dissemination in a toxoplasmosis outbreak in Brazil. A case-control study and geographic mapping of cases were performed. T. gondii was isolated directly from the...
- 14From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPrudent prescribing of antimicrobial drugs to hospital inpatients may reduce incidences of antimicrobial drug resistance and healthcare-associated infection. We reviewed the literature from January 1980 to November 2003...
- 15From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: A 64-year-old man was admitted to the urology department of Cochin Hospital in Paris, France, for acute urinary retention. He had a history of recurrent urolithiasis and undocumented urinary tract...
- 16From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe retrospectively studied 420 pharyngeal swab specimens collected from Peruvian and Argentinean patients with influenzalike illness in 2002 and 2003 for evidence of human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Twelve specimens (2.3%)...
- 17From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo elucidate the role of ameba-associated microorganisms (AAMs) as etiologic agents of pneumonia, we screened for Legionella spp., Parachlamydia acanthamoeba, Afipia sp., Bosea spp., Bradyrhizobium spp., Mesorhizobium...
- 18From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCystic echinococcosis (CE) is an emerging zoonotic parasitic disease throughout the world. Human incidence and livestock prevalence data of CE were gathered from published literature and the Office International des...
- 19From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Delhi, in the northern part of India, has had outbreaks of dengue caused by various dengue virus types in 1967, 1970, 1982, 1988, and 1996 (1-5). In 1988, for the first time, a few cases of dengue...
- 20From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMolecular methods applied to 2,855 strains of Campylobacter-like organisms received from a surveillance network of Campylobacter infections in France identified 29 Arcobacter butzleri infections. This species ranks...