To the Editor: Over the past 2 decades, human pythiosis has emerged as an important parafungal disease; Thailand reports the most cases (1,2). Given the rarity of this infection in humans and the limited attention of researchers to the disease, our understanding of its pathogenesis and other important traits, including its management, await investigation. We report 2 distinct cases.The first patient was a 63-year-old woman with hemoglobin AEBart's disease, a complex thalassemia/ hemoglobinopathy s...March, 2006 / [ Details... ]
The design and coordination of antirabies measures (e.g., oral vaccine and disease awareness campaigns) often depend on surveillance data. In Kentucky, health officials are concerned that the raccoon rabies epizootic that has spread throughout the east coast since the late 1970s could enter the state. The quality of surveillance data from Kentucky's 120 counties, however, may not be consistent. This article presents a geographic model that can be used with a geographic information system (GIS) to asse...Sept-Oct, 1999 / [ Details... ]
Analysis of clinical isolates of Vibrio parahaemolyticus from outbreaks in Chile in the cities of Puerto Montt in 2004 and Antofagasta in 1998 indicated that 23 of 24 isolates from Puerto Montt and 19 of 20 from Antofagasta belonged to the pandemic clonal complex that emerged in Southeast Asia in 1996. Vibrio parahaemolyticus infections that caused most seafoodborne gastroenteritis were associated with multiple diverse serotypes until 1996. Since then, however, most cases have been caused by th...Jan, 2005 / [ Details... ]
We evaluated 76 adenovirus type 7 (Ad7) isolates collected in Iowa from 1992 to 2002 and found that genome type Ad7d2 became increasingly prevalent. By 2002, it had supplanted all other Ad7 genome types. The association of Ad7d2 with severe illness and death calls for heightened public health concern. Human adenoviruses are the cause of a wide spectrum acute and chronic diseases. The associations of adenovirus with keratoconjunctivitis, upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonia, gastroenter...Jan, 2005 / [ Details... ]
An encephalitis outbreak in 2003 in children from India was attributed to Chandipura virus. Sequence analyses of G, N, and P genes showed 95.6%-97.6% nucleotide identity with the 1965 isolate (G gene, 7-11 amino acid changes); N and P genes were highly conserved. Chandipura virus (CHPV, family Rhabdoviridae), was implicated as the cause of a large outbreak of encephalitis in children, involving 329 cases with 183 deaths, from Andhra Pradesh State, India in 2003 (1). On the basis of serologic in...Jan, 2005 / [ Details... ]
Mycobacterium lentiflavum is a recently described nontuberculous mycobacterium that has mainly clinical importance in young children with cervical lymphadenitis and in immunocompromised patients. We describe a case of chronic pulmonary infection in an immunocompetent patient. Our observation confirms clinical, diagnostic, and treatment difficulties in the management of M. lentiflavum infection. Mycobacterium lentiflavum was described as a nontuerculous mycobacterium in 1966 (1,2). Most of the i...Jan, 2005 / [ Details... ]
Specimens from residents (N = 497) of an area in the Czech Republic affected by the 2002 flood were examined serologically for mosquitoborne viruses. Antibodies were detected against Tahyna (16%), Sindbis (1%), and Batai (0.2%) viruses, but not West Nile virus. An examination of paired serum samples showed 1 Tahyna bunyavirus (California group) infection. The 2002 flood in Bohemia struck the Czech Republic I just a few years after the 1997 flood (in Moravia and Silesia). Apart from Prague, exte...Jan, 2005 / [ Details... ]
Results from our model suggest that eating Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis-contaminated shell eggs caused 182,060 illnesses in the United States during 2000. Uncertainty about the estimate ranged from 81,535 (5th percentile) to 276,500 illnesses (95th percentile). Our model provides but 1 approach for estimating foodborne illness and quantifying in estimate uncertainty. Foodborne salmonellae are estimated to cause [approximately equal to] 1.3 million illnesses, 15,000 hospitalizations, ...Jan, 2005 / [ Details... ]
January 27-29, 2005 7th International Symposium on Febrile Neutropenia Barcelo Gran Hotel Renacimiento Seville, Spain Contact: 770-751-7332 or c.chase@imedex.com http://www.imedex.com/calendars/ infectiousdisease.htm March 16-18, 2005 Focus on Fungal Infections 15 Sheraton Bal Harbour Miami, Florida, USA Contact: 770-751-7332 or c.chase@imedex.com http://www.imedex.com/calendars/ infectiousdisease.htm April 9-12, 2005 Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Annual Meeting ...Jan, 2005 / [ Details... ]
An outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis affected passengers on two consecutive cruises of ship X and continued on 4 subsequent cruises despite a 1-week sanitization. We documented virus transmission by food and person-to-person contact, persistence of virus despite sanitization onboard, introduction of new strains, and seeding of an outbreak on land. We describe an investigation of a norovirus gastroenteritis outbreak aboard a cruise ship affecting 6 consecutive cruises and the use of sequence...Jan, 2005 / [ Details... ]