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Ebola virus outbreaks in Africa: Past and present

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2012
Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a zoonosis affecting both human and non-human primates (NHP). Outbreaks in Africa occur mainly in the Congo and Nile basins.
J.J. Muyembe-Tamfum, S. Mulangu, Justin Masumu, J.M. Kayembe, A. Kemp, Janusz T. Paweska   +5 more
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An Outbreak of Dysentery [PDF]

Journal of Hygiene, 1911
On February 10th, 1911, the attention of the Medical Officer of Health was called by the practitioner in charge to an outbreak of diarrhoea in a family named R. residing in Paddington. The note made at the interview was to the effect that cases had occurred on the 8th, 9th, and 10th (2 cases) of the month, the four patients having violent diarrhoea and
F A, Bainbridge, R, Dudfield
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Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in COVID-19 Intensive Care Patients: Identification of IncL-VIM-1 Plasmid in Previously Non-Predominant Sequence Types

Antibiotics, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, intensive care units (ICUs) operated at or above capacity, and the number of ICU patients coinfected by nosocomial microorganisms increased.
Javier E. Cañada-García, Eva Ramírez de Arellano, Miguel Jiménez-Orellana, Esther Viedma, Aida Sánchez, Almudena Alhambra, Jennifer Villa, Alberto Delgado-Iribarren, Verónica Bautista, Noelia Lara, Silvia García-Cobos, Belén Aracil, Emilia Cercenado, María Pérez-Vázquez, Jesús Oteo-Iglesias   +14 more
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Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Outbreaks in the United States, 2010–2017

Microorganisms, 2021
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) cause illnesses ranging from mild diarrhea to ischemic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS); serogroup O157 is the most common cause. We describe the epidemiology and transmission routes for U.S.
Danielle M. Tack, Hannah M. Kisselburgh, LaTonia C. Richardson, Aimee Geissler, Patricia M. Griffin, Daniel C. Payne, Brigette L. Gleason   +6 more
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AN OUTBREAK OF BOTULISM [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1920
The outbreak of botulism reported here occurred in January, 1920, in an Italian family, living in the Bronx, New York City. The source of the toxin was shown to be a glass jar of factory packed California ripe olives. These olives, consumed as such and also as part of a salad, caused the death of six of the seven members of the family who ate of them ...
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Metagenomic sequencing of mpox virus clade Ib lesions identifies possible bacterial and viral co-infections in hospitalized patients in eastern DRC

Microbiology Spectrum
Mpox is an emerging zoonotic disease that caused two public health emergencies of international concern within two years. Less is known about the interplay of microbial organisms in mpox lesions which could result in superinfections that exacerbate ...
Leonard Schuele, Leandre Murhula Masirika, Hayley Cassidy, Philip T. L. C. Clausen, Luca M. Zaeck, Marjan Boter, Pacifique Ndishimye, Jean Claude Udahemuka, Rory D. de Vries, Saria Otani, Richard Molenkamp, David F. Nieuwenhuijse, Justin Bengehya Mbiribindi, Freddy Belesi Siangoli, Marion Koopmans, Frank M. Aarestrup, Bas B. Oude Munnink   +16 more
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Strain-level characterization of foodborne pathogens without culture enrichment for outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionShotgun metagenomics has previously proven effective in the investigation of foodborne outbreaks by providing rapid and comprehensive insights into the microbial contaminant.
Florence E. Buytaers, Florence E. Buytaers, Bavo Verhaegen, Tom Van Nieuwenhuysen, Nancy H. C. Roosens, Kevin Vanneste, Kathleen Marchal, Kathleen Marchal, Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker   +8 more
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Colliding Epidemics and the Rise of Cryptococcosis

Journal of Fungi, 2015
Discovered more than 100 years ago as a human pathogen, the Cryptococcus neoformans–Cryptococcus gattii (C. neoformans–C. gattii) complex has seen a large global resurgence in its association with clinical disease in the last 30 years.
Christina C. Chang, Sharon C.-A. Chen
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Changes in drug demand when a pandemic coincides with other outbreaks in a war zone country: a cross-sectional pilot study

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2022
Background Yemen’s health system has severely deteriorated due to the ongoing civil war accompanied by the COVID-19 pandemic which coincided with other outbreaks of endemic infections.
Ebtesam A. Saleh, Randa N. Haddadin, Bassam Saleh, Eman Elayeh   +3 more
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Morbidity Rates of Q Fever in the Russian Federation and European Countries: Realities and Problems

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2015
Q fever poses a problem, both in the Russian Federation and abroad. Thereat, a new base normative document, sanitary-epidemiological regulations on coxiellosis prevention, has been developed and approved in the Russian Federation. For the first time ever
E. A. Yakovlev, S. V. Borisevich, A. Yu. Popova, E. B. Ezhlova, Yu. V. Demina   +4 more
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