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Preliminary report: The most considerable outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in France in the last two decades, Albertville, September 2025 [PDF]

Eurosurveillance
In September 2025, 50 laboratory-confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease (LD) were identified in Albertville, in south-eastern France. Initially, 23 patients were only clinically diagnosed and only confirmed later due to limited sensitivity of the ...
the Albertville LD Outbreak Team Investigation
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Effects of camptothecin on histological structures and gene expression profiles of fat bodies in Spodoptera frugiperda

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2021
Spodoptera frugiperda is a serious threat to global food production. Our previous study demonstrated that Camptothecin (CPT), a bioactive secondary metabolite from Camptotheca acuminata (Decne: Nyssaceae), exhibits adverse impact on the larval midgut of ...
Benshui Shu, Xianmei Yang, Jinghua Dai, Haikuo Yu, Jingcheng Yu, Xiangli Li, Liang Cao, Jintian Lin   +7 more
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Influence of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance outputs produced by the UK health security agency (UKHSA) outbreak surveillance team on decision-making by local stakeholders

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) COVID-19 Outbreak Surveillance Team (OST) was established in June 2020 to provide Local Authorities (LAs) in England with surveillance intelligence to aid their response to the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. Reports
Katriina Willgert, Jo Hardstaff, Stephanie Shadwell, Alex Bhattacharya, Paula Blomquist, Roberto Vivancos, Ian Simms   +6 more
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Evaluation of WGS-subtyping methods for epidemiological surveillance of foodborne salmonellosis [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Salmonellosis is one of the most common foodborne diseases worldwide. Although human infection by non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) enterica subspecies enterica is associated primarily with a self-limiting diarrhoeal illness, invasive bacterial ...
Mohammed, M., Mohammed, M., Thapa, S., Thapa, S.   +3 more
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Growth inhibition of Spodoptera frugiperda larvae by camptothecin correlates with alteration of the structures and gene expression profiles of the midgut

BMC Genomics, 2021
Background Spodoptera frugiperda is a serious pest that causes devastating losses to many major crops, including corn, rice, sugarcane, and peanut. Camptothecin (CPT) is a bioactive secondary metabolite of the woody plant Camptotheca acuminata, which has
Benshui Shu, Yan Zou, Haikuo Yu, Wanying Zhang, Xiangli Li, Liang Cao, Jintian Lin   +6 more
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The comparison of gut gene expression and bacterial community in Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae) adults fed on Murraya exotica and ‘Shatangju’ mandarin (Citrus reticulate cv. Shatangju)

BMC Genomics, 2023
Background Diaphorina citri Kuwayama is an important citrus pest. It serves as the vector for the transmission of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), which induced a destructive disease, Huanglongbing, and caused huge economic losses.
Jinghua Dai, Xueming Cai, Luyang Liu, Yanzheng Lin, Yuting Huang, Jintian Lin, Benshui Shu   +6 more
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The bacterial and fungal communities of the larval midgut of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) varied by feeding on two cruciferous vegetables

Scientific Reports, 2022
Spodoptera frugiperda is a highly polyphagous pest worldwide with a wide host range that causes serious losses to many economically important crops. Recently, insect-microbe associations have become a hot spot in current entomology research, and the ...
Li Yuning, Liu Luyang, Cai Xueming, Yang Xianmei, Lin Jintian, Shu Benshui   +5 more
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Country food consumption in Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Foodbook study 2014–2015

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2021
Background: This article presents a descriptive summary of the consumption of various country food (i.e. locally harvested plant and animal foods) products by residents of Yukon (YT), Northwest Territories (NT) and Nunavut (NU).
Vanessa Morton, Anna Manore, Nadia Ciampa, Shiona Glass-Kaastra, Matt Hurst, Angie Mullen, Jennifer Cutler   +6 more
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Using ante-natal clinic prevalence data to monitor temporal changes in malaria incidence in a humanitarian setting in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Malaria Journal, 2018
Background The number of clinical cases of malaria is often recorded in resource constrained or conflict settings as a proxy for disease burden. Interpreting case count data in areas of humanitarian need is challenging due to uncertainties in population ...
Joel Hellewell, Patrick Walker, Azra Ghani, Bhargavi Rao, Thomas S. Churcher   +4 more
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A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015 [PDF]

, 2018
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an increased risk of wound botulism, a potentially fatal acute paralytic illness. During the first 6 months of 2015, a large outbreak of wound botulism was confirmed among PWID in Scotland, which resulted ...
Amanda Weir, Andrew McAuley, CC McGuigan, CN Ramsay, Corinne Amar, D Akbulut, DJ Passaro, E MacDonald, E Tweed, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Gauri Godbole, Gillian Penrice, GY Chang, Health Protection Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD), J McLauchlin, J Sobel, J Strang, JA Jones, JA Stoltz, K Alpers, K Dunleavy, Kathie Grant, Kirsten M. A. Trayner, Kirsty Roy, M Desai, M Harris, M Ragonnet-Cronin, M Schroeter, MG Booth, N Markwick, National Records of Scotland, NE Palmateer, Public Health England, Health Protection Scotland, Public Health Wales, and Public Health Agency Northern Ireland, RJ Gordon, SB Werner, Scottish Government, Scottish Health Protection Network, SJ Hahné, SR Offerman, TN Wenham, VD Hope, VD Hope, Y Soukup-Baljak   +43 more
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