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- 1From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWe report an outbreak of cowpox virus among monkeys at a sanctuary for exotic animals. Serologic analysis and polymerase chain reaction were performed on blood and swab samples from different rodent species trapped at...
- 2From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: West Nile virus (WNV, Flaviviridae: Flavivirus) is emerging as a public health and veterinary concern. Since its introduction into North America in 1999, it has spread rapidly, reaching the Caribbean Basin...
- 3From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWe report a fatal case of encephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba in a 24-year-old woman from India with systemic lupus erythematosus. Diagnosis was made by identification of amebas in brain sections by immunofluorescence...
- 4From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe threat of zoonotic transmission of infectious agents at monkey temples highlights the necessity of investigating the prevalence of enzootic infectious agents in these primate populations. Biological samples were...
- 5From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOutbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) have resulted in increased discussion about community-based infection control measures, including voluntary quarantine. In the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto, Canada,...
- 6From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAllen Yung, Malcolm McDonald, Denis Spelman, Alan Street, Paul Johnson, Tania Sorrell, and Joe McCormack, editors IP Communications, East Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 2005 ISBN: 095786177X Pages: 602; Price:...
- 7From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedHantaviruses are endemic in the Balkan Peninsula. An outbreak of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome occurred in 2002 in Serbia and Montenegro. The epidemiologic characteristics and genetic relatedness of...
- 8From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA total of 3,101 fecal specimens were collected during an 8-year survey for rotavirus infection in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Group A rotavirus was detected in 774 (25.0%) specimens. Of these, 431 strains (55.7%) were analyzed...
- 9From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOur study showed that open pastures had more small mammal burrows than fenced pastures in Tibetan pastoralist communities in 2003. This characteristic was linked to a higher prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in...
- 10From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedUnderstanding predisposing factors for meningococcal carriage may identify targets for public health interventions. Before mass vaccination with meningococcal group C conjugate vaccine began in autumn 1999, we took...
- 11From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Rates of illness and death from Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) and reports of CDAD in persons without traditional risk factors (1) have been increasing. One particular strain of C....
- 12From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAn increase in Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) in British children has been linked to the widespread use of a diphtheria/tetanus/acellular pertussis combination vaccine (DTaP-Hib). We measured...
- 13From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles,...
- 14From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA total of 420 rodents in China were examined for Francisella tularensis by polymerase chain reaction. The infection rates were 4.76% in total, and 11.65%, 10.00%, 6.56%, 1.77%, and 0% in Jilin, Xinjiang, Heilongjiang,...
- 15From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedDespite the success of the adenovirus vaccine administered to US military trainees, acute respiratory disease (ARD) surveillance still detected breakthrough infections (respiratory illnesses associated with the...
- 16From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedInfluenza A viruses cause pandemics at random intervals. Pandemics are caused by viruses that contain a hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein to which human populations are immunologically naive. Such an HA can be...
- 17From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA new reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay was developed for identification of 28 Canadian human parechovirus (HPeV) isolates, including 20 HPeV-1, 3 HPeV-2, and 5 HPeV-3, recovered from 1985 to 2004....
- 18From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed"This I drew, using a mirror; it is my own likeness, in the year 1484, when I was still a child," wrote Albrecht Durer about his first self-portrait, sketched with great confidence and skill when he was 13 years old (1)....
- 19From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn 2004 and 2005, 5 metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-positive Acinetobacter baumannii isolates were found in 2 Greek hospitals. Isolates were unrelated and carried [bla.sub.VIM-1] in a class 1 integron; [bla.sub.OXA-51-] and...
- 20From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMixed Cryptosporidium infections were detected in 7 of 21 patients with a diagnosis of rare Cryptosporidium canis or C. fells infections; 6 patients were infected with 2 Cryptosporidium spp. and 1 patient with 3 species,...