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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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Predictive Modeling of Cholera Outbreaks in Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2015
Despite seasonal cholera outbreaks in Bangladesh, little is known about the relationship between environmental conditions and cholera cases. We seek to develop a predictive model for cholera outbreaks in Bangladesh based on environmental predictors.
Halloran, M. Elizabeth, Koepke, Amanda A., Longini Jr., Ira M., Minin, Vladimir N., Wakefield, Jon   +4 more
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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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Neutral genomic microevolution of a recently emerged pathogen, salmonella enterica serovar agona [PDF]

, 2013
Salmonella enterica serovar Agona has caused multiple food-borne outbreaks of gastroenteritis since it was first isolated in 1952. We analyzed the genomes of 73 isolates from global sources, comparing five distinct outbreaks with sporadic infections as
Achtman, Mark, Brisse, Sylvain, Brown, Derek, Cormican, Martin, Fanning, Seamus, Guttman, David S., Litrup, Eva, McCann, Angela, Murphy, Ronan, Zhou, Zhemin   +9 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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Containing epidemic outbreaks by message-passing techniques [PDF]

, 2013
The problem of targeted network immunization can be defined as the one of finding a subset of nodes in a network to immunize or vaccinate in order to minimize a tradeoff between the cost of vaccination and the final (stationary) expected infection under ...
Altarelli, F., Braunstein, A., Dall'Asta, L., Wakeling, J. R., Zecchina, R.   +4 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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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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