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- 1From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: We read with interest the article by Finkbeiner et al. describing an epidemiologic survey of newly described astrovirus MLB1 (AstV-MLB1) conducted in the United States in 2008 (1). This study was an...
- 2From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince 2000-2001, dengue virus type 1 has circulated in the Pacific region. However, in 2007, type 4 reemerged and has almost completely displaced the strains of type 1. If only 1 serotype circulates at any time and is...
- 3From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn July 2007, a cluster of meningitis cases caused by an echovirus 4 strain was detected in 1 indigenous community in the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia. Illness was characterized by fever, vomiting, and...
- 4From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: In April 2009, a representative of the World Health Organization in Cairo voiced concern about the changing age-based pattern of human influenza A virus (H5N1) infection in Egypt (1). From March 2006...
- 5From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFebruary 19-21, 2010 2nd International Berlin Bat Meeting: Bat Biology and Infectious Diseases Berlin, Germany http://www.izw-berlin.de March 18-22, 2010 Fifth Decennial: International Conference on...
- 6From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo investigate feed as a source for fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in broiler chickens, we compared antimicrobial drug-resistant E. coli from broiler feed and broilers with ciprofloxacin-resistant human...
- 7From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedInfectious Disease: Pathogenesis, Prevention and Case Studies Nandini Shetty, Julian W. Tang, and Julie Andrews, editors Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4051-3543-6 Pages: 664; Price US $129.95...
- 8From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: We previously reported detection of double resistance to oseltamivir and amantadine of influenza virus A (H1N1) in Hong Kong during the first half of 2008 (1). Three different strains of A/Hong...
- 9From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNorovirus (NoV) is recognized as the commonest cause of acute gastroenteritis among adults. Susceptibility to disease has been associated with histo-blood group antigens and secretor status; nonsecretors are almost...
- 10From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPhage-encoded virulence genes of group A streptococci were detected in 10 (55.6%) of 18 isolates of group C streptococci that had caused bovine mastitis. Bovine isolates carried other genetic determinants, such as...
- 11From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSalmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg ranks among the top 3 serovars isolated from persons infected with Salmonella in Canada (1). It is more frequently reported in North America than in other regions of the world (2)....
- 12From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDuring the past 2 decades, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has gained global attention as a human pathogen in hospitals and in communities. Recent reports of MRSA infection and colonization of dogs...
- 13From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: I read with interest the article by Doi et al. about a lung transplant patient presumed to have Acinetobacter baumannii ventilator-associated pneumonia (1), but some points deserve comment. A. baumannii...
- 14From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEnterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is one of the most common causes of acute watery diarrhea among children and adults in the developing world, causing [approximately equal to] 400 million diarrheal episodes and...
- 15From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: In the past few years, several novel parvoviruses have been identified, including human parvovirus B19-related strains V9 and A6, and bocavirus. In 2005, parvovirus 4 (PARV4), a new putative member of the...
- 16From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCommunity transmission of influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was followed by high rates of hospital admissions in the Wellington region of New Zealand, particularly among Maori and Pacific Islanders. These findings may...
- 17From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSyphilis was expected to reemerge in Martinique after outbreaks occurred in large western urban centers in 1998 (1,2), and cases were reported in Guadeloupe in 2001 (3). Soon after the first cases were diagnosed in...
- 18From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus first appeared in March 2009 in Mexico. In June 2009, a pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization (1). Influenza A virus (H1N1) caused a pandemic in 1918-1919;...
- 19From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of adults hospitalized with pneumonia during the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak. Patients admitted to a general hospital in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, from April 10...
- 20From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFor more than a quarter of a century, I have accumulated from unexpected sources a ragbag of quotations relevant to the practice of epidemiology. I have even coined a few myself. This paper brings many of them together...