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- 1From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedCholera outbreaks have occurred in Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya almost every year since 1977-1978, when the disease emerged in these countries. We used a multiscale,...
- 2From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIn October 2010, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti treated some of the first patients with cholera in Haiti. Over the following 10 months, a strategic plan was developed and implemented to improve the management of cases...
- 3From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAfter epidemic cholera emerged in Haiti in October 2010, the disease spread rapidly in a country devastated by an earthquake earlier that year, in a population with a high proportion of infant deaths, poor nutrition,...
- 4From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedResearch indicates that "Vibrio cholerae" was newly introduced into Haiti" in 2010 (1). Yet, as recently as July 2011, the Boston Globe claimed that "Cholera appeared in Haiti last year for the first time since the...
- 5From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedOseltamivir is 1 of 2 antiviral medications available for the treatment of influenza B virus infections. We describe and characterize a cluster of influenza B viruses circulating in North Carolina with a mutation in the...
- 6From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Diseases caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in patients with Sjogren syndrome have rarely been reported (1,2). In addition, showerheads in residential bathrooms as a source of Mycobacterium...
- 7From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed[kal'er-e] From the Greek chole for bile. Although the term cholera is now used only to refer to disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, until the late 19th century any diarrheal illness might be referred to...
- 8From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedCholera is rare in the United States (annual average 6 cases). Since epidemic cholera began in Hispaniola in 2010, a total of 23 cholera cases caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 have been confirmed in the United...
- 9From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: In 2010, the city of Ngaoundere in Cameroon experienced its first reported epidemic of meningococcal meningitis. Ngaoundere, with an estimated population of 180,000, is the main city in the Adamaoua...
- 10From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWhen epidemic cholera appeared in Haiti in October 2010, the medical community there had virtually no experience with the disease and needed rapid training as the epidemic spread throughout the country. We developed a...
- 11From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIn response to the recent cholera outbreak, a public health response targeted high-risk communities, including resource-poor communities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A survey covering knowledge and practices indicated that...
- 12From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedNovember 6-8, 2011 2011 European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Diseases Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) Stockholm, Sweden http://www.escaide.eu, or email escaide.conference@ecdc.europa.eu November...
- 13From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedGroup A Streptococcus (GAS) is a human-adapted pathogen that causes a variety of diseases, including pharyngitis and invasive infections. GAS strains are categorized by variation in the nucleotide sequence of the gene...
- 14From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedDuring the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, water and seafood samples were collected to detect Vibrio cholerae. The outbreak strain of toxigenic V. cholerae O1 serotype Ogawa was isolated from freshwater and seafood...
- 15From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Syphilis, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, is primarily a sexually transmitted infection, but T. pallidum can also be transmitted by infected pregnant women to their children. Every year, at...
- 16From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe number of cases and severity of disease associated with dengue infection in Sri Lanka has been increasing since 1989, when the first epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever was recorded. We identified a new dengue...
- 17From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedSince the early 1800s, there have been 7 cholera pandemics, and 2011 marks not only the 1-year anniversary of the reappearance of cholera in Haiti but also the 50th anniversary of the onset of the current cholera...
- 18From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedA cholera outbreak in Laos in July 2010 involved 237 cases, including 4 deaths. Molecular subtyping indicated relatedness between the Vibrio cholerae isolates in this and in a 2007 outbreak, uncovering a clonal group of...
- 19From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: After the devastating outbreak of cholera in Haiti in mid-October 2010, several hypotheses have emerged regarding the origin of the outbreak. Some articles and media reports pointed to the United Nations...
- 20From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Infection with Shigella spp. is a major cause of foodborne diseases, which have increased considerably during the past decades, but only a small fraction of cases are reported (1). S. dysenteriae and S....