Emerging Infectious Diseases back issues from June 2002:
Clinical epidemiology of malaria in the highlands of western Kenya. (Perspective).(Statistical Data Included)
Jun 01, 2002; ... Malaria in the highlands of Kenya is traditionally regarded as unstable and limited by low temperature. Brief warm periods may facilitate malaria transmission and are therefore able to generate epidemic conditions in immunologically naive human populations living at high altitudes. The ...
Geographic association of Rickettsia felis-infected opossums with human murine typhus, Texas. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Application of molecular diagnostic technology in the past 10 years has resulted in the discovery of several new species of pathogenic rickettsiae, including Rickettsia felis. As more sequence information for rickettsial genes has become available, the data have been used to reclassify ...
Defining and detecting malaria epidemics in the highlands of western Kenya. (Research).(Statistical Data Included)
Jun 01, 2002; ... Epidemic detection algorithms are being increasingly recommended for malaria surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa. We present the results of applying three simple epidemic detection techniques to routinely collected longitudinal pediatric malaria admissions data from three health facilities ...
Waterborne outbreak of Norwalk-like virus gastroenteritis at a tourist resort, Italy. (Research).(Statistical Data Included)
Jun 01, 2002; ... In July 2000, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at a tourist resort in the Gulf of Taranto in southern Italy. Illness in 344 people, 69 of whom were staff members, met the case definition. Norwalk-like virus (NLV) was found in 22 of 28 stool specimens tested. The source of illness ...
Medical care capacity for influenza outbreaks, Los Angeles. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... In December 1997, media reported hospital overcrowding and "the worst [flu epidemic] in the past two decades" in Los Angeles County (LAC). We found that rates of pneumonia and influenza deaths, hospitalizations, and claims were substantially higher for the 1997-98 influenza season than the ...
Drought-induced amplification of Saint Louis encephalitis virus, Florida. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... We used a dynamic hydrology model to simulate water table depth (WTD) and quantify the relationship between Saint Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) transmission and hydrologic conditions in Indian River County, Florida, from 1986 through 1991, a period with an SLEV epidemic. Virus ...
Epidemiologic differences between cyclosporiasis and cryptosporidiosis in Peruvian children. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... We compared the epidemiologic characteristics of cyclosporiasis and cryptosporidiosis in data from a cohort study of diarrhea in a periurban community near Lima, Peru. Children had an average of 0.20 episodes of cyclosporiasis/year and 0.22 episodes of cryptosporidiosis/year of follow-up ....
Population-based study of acute respiratory infections in children, Greenland. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are frequent in Inuit children, in terms of incidence and severity. A cohort of 294 children <2 years of age was formed in Sisimiut, a community on the west coast of Greenland, and followed from 1996 to 1998. Data on ARI were collected during weekly ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae, Brooklyn, New York: fluoroquinolone resistance at our doorstep. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... To examine the resistance rates and epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Brooklyn, New York, isolates were collected during two boroughwide surveillance periods in 1997 and 1999. Of 138 isolates, 67% were susceptible to penicillin and 34% to ciprofloxacin. Susceptibility rates to ...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis: an emerging disease of free-ranging wildlife. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Expansion of ecotourism-based industries, changes in land-use practices, and escalating competition for resources have increased contact between free-ranging wildlife and humans. Although human presence in wildlife areas may provide an important economic benefit through ecotourism, ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Finland. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is no longer only hospital acquired. MRSA is defined as community acquired if the MRSA-positive specimen was obtained outside hospital settings or within 2 days of hospital admission, and if it was from a person who had not been ...
Neurocysticercosis in radiographically imaged seizure patients in U.S. emergency departments (1). (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Neurocysticercosis appears to be on the rise in the United States, based on immigration patterns and published cases series, including reports of domestic acquisition. We used a collaborative network of U.S. emergency departments to characterize the epidemiology of neurocysticercosis in ...
Two new rhabdoviruses (rhabdoviridae) isolated from birds during surveillance for arboviral encephalitis, northeastern United States. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Two novel rhabdoviruses were isolated from birds during surveillance for arboviral encephalitis in the northeastern United States. The first, designated Farmington virus, is a tentative new member of the Vesiculovirus genus. The second, designated Rhode Island virus, is unclassified ...
Cryptosporidium oocysts in a water supply associated with a cryptosporidiosis outbreak. (Research).
Jun 01, 2002; ... An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurred in and around Clitheroe, Lancashire, in northwest England, during March 2000. Fifty-eight cases of diarrhea with Cryptosporidium identified in stool specimens were reported. Cryptospondium oocysts were identified in samples from the water treatment ...
Parachlamydiaceae: potential emerging pathogens. (Synopsis).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Parachlamydiaceae, which naturally infect amoebae, form a sister taxon to the Chlamydiaceae on the basis of the Chlamydia-like cycle of replication and 80% to 90% homology of ribosomal RNA genes. Because intra-amoebal growth could increase the virulence of some intracellular bacteria, ...
Three drinking-water--associated cryptosporidiosis outbreaks, Northern Ireland. (Dispatches).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Three recent drinking-water-associated cryptosporidiosis outbreaks in Northern Ireland were investigated by using genotyping and subgenotyping tools. One Cryptosporidium parvum outbreak was caused by the bovine genotype, and two were caused by the human genotype. Subgenotyping analyses ...
Cluster of African trypanosomiasis in travelers to Tanzanian National Parks. (Dispatches).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Game parks in Tanzania have long been considered to be at low risk for African trypanosomiasis; however, nine cases of the disease associated with these parks were recently reported. The outbreak was detected through TropNetEurop, a sentinel surveillance network of clinical sites ...
Excretion of Vancomycin-resistant enterococci by wild mammals. (Dispatches).
Jun 01, 2002; ... A survey of fecal samples found enterococcal excretion in 82% of 388 bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus), 92% of 131 woodmice (Apodemus sylvaticus), and 75% of 165 badgers (Meles meles). Vancomycin-resistant enterococci, all Enterococcus faecium of vanA genotype, were excreted by 4.6% of ...
Fatal infection of a pet monkey with human herpesvirus 1. (Dispatches).
Jun 01, 2002; ... Concerns have been raised about pet monkeys as a potential threat to .humans. We report the opposite situation, a danger to pets that arises from humans. Similar to herpesvirus B (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1),.which endangers humans but not its host species, Human herpesvirus 1 can act as ...
Serologic evidence of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, Greece. (Letters).(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2002; ... To the Editor: Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), a tickborne infectious disease, was first described in 1994 (1). Several cases have been reported in the United States; reports of acute cases in Europe have been rare, although European serosurveys of the prevalence of antibodies to ...
Hantavirus infection with marked sinus bradycardia, Taiwan. (Letters).(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2002; ... To the Editor: Hantaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses belonging to the family Bunyaviridae (1,2), for which a number of species have been identified, including the Hantaan, Seoul, Puumala, Dobrava-Belgrade, and Sin Nombre viruses (1,2). Each hantavirus is associated with a specific rodent ...
Dictionary of Virology, Third Edition.
Jun 01, 2002; ... by Brian W.J. Mahy Academic Press San Diego, CA 422 pages A dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information about each word; it usually includes meaning, pronunciation, and etymology. The third edition of Brian Mahy's Dictionary of ...