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Invasive Meningococcal Disease—Changes in Epidemiologic Trends and Outcome over 24 Years in a Tertiary Care Hospital from Romania [PDF]
PathogensIntroduction: Despite the advances in its prevention, invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) remains a serious health problem worldwide due to its high morbidity and mortality, including in Romania, with 22% mortality rate.
Constanța-Angelica Vișan +8 more
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Deciphering Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT) Serogroup Cross-Reactivity in Leptospirosis: The Influence of Age and Antibody Titers [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseLeptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Leptospira spp., with over 250 serovars classified into 24 serogroups. Control measures depend on understanding serovar-specific epidemiology, yet the microscopic agglutination test (MAT) is only serogroup ...
Eric J. Nilles +5 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes contagious hemorrhagic disease of pigs with high morbidity and mortality. To identify the molecular characteristics of ASFV strains circulating in Guangxi province, southern China, a total of 336 tissue samples ...
Kaichuang Shi +6 more
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Prevalence of human leptospirosis in the Americas: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 Objective. To describe the prevalence of leptospirosis in the Americas. Methods. A systematic review and meta-analysis, in the period 1930 to 2017, performed on a search of six platforms: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Lilacs, Embase, and Cochrane ...
Ericka Souza Browne +5 more
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Viruses, 2023 Bunyamwera virus is the prototype of the Bunyamwera serogroup, which belongs to the order Bunyavirales of the Orthobunyavirus genus in the Peribunyaviridae family. Bunyamwera is a negative-sense RNA virus composed of three segments S, M, and L.
Moufid Mhamadi +11 more
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Seroprevalence of Leptospira spp. in horses from Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2022 : This study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with the presence of anti-Leptospira spp. antibodies in horses reared in the Eastern and Western Potiguar mesoregion, State of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil.
Huber Rizzo +6 more
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Scientific Opinion on VTEC-seropathotype and scientific criteria regarding pathogenicity assessment [PDF]
EFSA Journal, 2013 During 2007-2010, 13 545 confirmed human VTEC infections and 777 haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) cases were reported in the EU; isolates from 85 % of cases were not fully serotyped and therefore could not be classified using the Karmali seropathotype ...
EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Listeria monocytogenes is an etiologic agent of listeriosis, and has emerged as an important foodborne pathogen worldwide. In this study, the molecular characteristics of 155 L.
Hongzhi Zhang +6 more
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Serogroups and genetic diversity of diarrheagenic strains of Escherichia coli: a retrospective study
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2022 Introduction: Diverse serogroups of Escherichia coli cause sporadic cases and outbreaks of diarrhea among children. Our study aimed to evaluate the serogroups of diarrheagenic strains of E.
Anca Mare +6 more
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Meningococcal Disease in South Africa, 1999–2002
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007 We describe the epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in South Africa from August 1999 through July 2002, as reported to a laboratory-based surveillance system. Neisseria meningitidis isolates were further characterized.
Garry B. Coulson +6 more
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