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- 1From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAvian Influenza David Swayne, editor Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2008 ISBN-10: 08138220472 ISBN-13: 978-0813820477 Pages: 628; Price: US $120.66 David Swayne has recruited top experts...
- 2From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWU polyomavirus (WUPyV) and KI polyomavirus (KIPyV) are novel human polyomaviruses. They were originally identified in human respiratory secretions, but the extent of human infection caused by these viruses has not been...
- 3From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Acinetobacter spp. have emerged as a cause of nosocomial infections, especially in intensive care units (ICUs). In South Korea, Acinetobacter spp. was ranked as the third most frequently found pathogen in...
- 4From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIn Haiti, >90% of the population descended from African slaves. Of 7,147 Haitian pregnant women sampled, 44% of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections were caused by genotype A1, which today is found mainly in eastern...
- 5From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedDuring rain, transient puddles form on roads, and this water is splashed into the air by moving vehicles. To determine whether this water contains Legionella pneumophila, we collected samples from roads. We found that...
- 6From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Human rhinovirus (HRV) is a common etiologic agent of upper respiratory tract infections and is associated with symptoms such as asthma and wheezing. HRV has >100 serotypes, and recently, several groups...
- 7From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed--Ono no Komachi "Gourd-shaped legs and wriggling worm lines" is how a Japanese critic described the style of early Torii artists of the Edo period (1615-1868). Named after the bustling city that would become...
- 8From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedVol. 14 No. 8 The author list was incorrect in the article Imported Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Europe (M.J. Pinazo et al.). The authors were Maria Jesus Pinazo, Jose Munoz, Ljiljana Betica, Tomislav Maretic, Sime...
- 9From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an acute peripheral neuropathy triggered by a preceding infectious illness. Gastroenteritis caused by Campylobacter jejuni is the most frequently reported antecedent event...
- 10From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBefore childhood vaccination was introduced in the 1940s, pertussis was a major cause of infant death worldwide. Widespread vaccination of children succeeded in reducing illness and death. In the 1990s, a resurgence of...
- 11From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedInvasive group B streptococcal (GBS) disease is a major cause of illness and death in older adults (1). A 2- to 4-fold increase in invasive GBS disease among US adults has been reported since the 1980s (2), and...
- 12From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedCryptococcus gattii has emerged as a human and animal pathogen in the Pacific Northwest. First recognized on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, it now involves mainland British Columbia, and Washington and...
- 13From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Tick-borne relapsing fevers caused by members of the genus Borrelia have been encountered throughout Africa, Asia, the Americas and, rarely, in southern Europe (1). The Borrelia species associated with...
- 14From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAntimicrobial drug treatment of community-acquired respiratory tract infections (RTIs) is usually initiated when the causative pathogen has not been documented. Treatment is therefore chosen empirically on the basis of...
- 15From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIn March 2009, human cases of infection with a novel strain of influenza A virus (H1N1) emerged in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. As of May 26, this contagious virus has spread to 46 countries, accounting for...
- 16From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWe identified avian influenza virus A (H5N1) infection in a child in Bangladesh in 2008 by routine influenza surveillance. The virus was of the same clade and phylogenetic subgroup as that circulating among poultry...
- 17From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases are major problems for healthcare systems worldwide. Unfortunately, because accurate prediction of the occurrence of such diseases is difficult, if not...
- 18From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAn evaluation of the relative importance of host and pathogen factors on the survival rates of patients with invasive Streptococcus pyogenes infection found a number of clinical and demographic factors to be associated...
- 19From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedLocal transmission of chikungunya, a debilitating mosquitoborne viral disease, was first reported in Singapore in January 2008. After 3 months of absence, locally acquired Chikungunya cases resurfaced in May 2008,...
- 20From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAugust 3-4, 2009 UC Berkeley CIDER SUMMIT 2009: Advances in the Control and Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases Sheraton Gateway Hotel Burlingame, CA, USA http://www.idready.org/...