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- 1From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFrida Kahlo (1910-1954). Self-Portrait with Monkey (1938). Oil on masonite, 16" x 12" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA Copyright 2003 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Ay. Cinco...
- 2From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAntimicrobial resistance to penicillin and macrolides in Streptococcus pneumoniae has increased in the United States over the past decade. Considerable geographic variation in susceptibility necessitates regional...
- 3From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA network was established to acquire basic knowledge of Cryptococcus neoformans in IberoAmerican countries. To this effect, 340 clinical, veterinary, and environmental isolates from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,...
- 4From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFrom February 1,2000, to December 4, 2001, a total of 119 bats (85 Megachiroptera and 34 Microchiroptera) were tested for Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) infection. Eight Megachiroptera were positive by...
- 5From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article proposes and discusses legal and administrative preparations for a bioterrorist attack. To perform the duties expected of public health agencies during a disease outbreak caused by bioterrorism, an agency...
- 6From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMichael B. Gregg Editor Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 2002 ISBN 0-19-514259-4 Pages: 451 pp Price: $49.95 Before the first edition of Field Epidemiology was published in 1996, no single authoritative...
- 7From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe report two Australian patients with soft tissue infections due to Photorhabdus species. Recognized as important insect pathogens, Photorhabdus spp. are bioluminescent gram-negative bacilli. Bacteria belonging to the...
- 8From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe assessed the effect of medical staff role models and the number of health-care worker sinks on hand-hygiene compliance before and after construction of a new hospital designed for increased access to handwashing...
- 9From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn "Transfusion-Associated Babesiosis after Heart Transplant" by Joseph Z. Lux et al., errors occurred in the text. On page 118, left column, lines 20-22, the sentence should read "he became symptomatic during the...
- 10From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNonhuman primates are widely used in biomedical research because of their genetic, anatomic, and physiologic similarities to humans. In this setting, human contact directly with macaques or with their tissues and fluids...
- 11From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo assess the role of horses as amplification hosts during the 1993 and 1996 Mexican Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) epizootics, we subcutaneously infected 10 horses by using four different equine isolates. Most...
- 12From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMarch 17-20, 2003 27th National Immunization Conference Chicago, IL Contact: Suzanne Johson DeLeon (404) 639-8225 E-mail: msj 1 @cdc.gov Website: http://www, cdc.gov/nip/nic April 6-8, 2003 Society for Healthcare...
- 13From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough surgical site infections (SSIs) are known to cause substantial illness and costs during the index hospitalization, little information exists about the impact of infections diagnosed after discharge, which...
- 14From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTaura syndrome virus (TSV) affects shrimp cultured for human consumption. Although TSV is related to the Cricket Paralysis virus, it belongs to the "picornavirus superfamily," the most common cause of viral illnesses....
- 15From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The proposal by Stringer et al. to change the name of neumocystis carinii found in humans to Pneumocystis jiroveci requires critical consideration (1). First, their rationale for the choice of Jirovec is...
- 16From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSeveral recent studies have used proportions of tuberculosis cases sharing identical DNA fingerprint patterns (i.e., isolate clustering) to estimate the extent of disease attributable to recent transmission. Using a...
- 17From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSalmonella Typhimurium DT12, isolated from a 35-day-old infant with diarrhea, was highly resistant to ampicillin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, gentamycin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, nalidixic acid,...
- 18From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Two days after returning from a 4-week trip in India, a 44-year-old woman was admitted to a local French hospital with diarrhea and a fever (40[degrees]C). The fever had started 2 days before her return...
- 19From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe describe a vaccinialike virus, Aracatuba virus, associated with a cowpoxlike outbreak in a dairy herd and a related case of human infection. Diagnosis was based on virus growth characteristics, electron microscopy,...
- 20From: Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo investigate risk factors for sporadic infection with Giardia lamblia acquired in the United Kingdom, we conducted a matched case-control study in southwest England in 1998 and 1999. Response rates to a postal...