Roel, Elena Raventós, Berta Burn, Edward Pistillo, Andrea Prieto-Alhambra, Daniel Duarte-Salles, Talita
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Emerging infectious diseases
Evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout on socioeconomic COVID-19-related inequalities is scarce. We analyzed associations between socioeconomic deprivation index (SDI) and COVID-19 vaccination, infection, and hospitalization before and after vaccine rollout in Catalonia, Spain. We conducted a population-based cohort study during Sep...
Ciruela, Pilar Soldevila, Núria García-Garcia, Juan José González-Peris, Sebastià Díaz-Conradi, Alvaro Redin, Alba Viñado, Belén Izquierdo, Conchita Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen Domínguez, Angela
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Emerging infectious diseases
We analyzed the effect of COVID-19 on healthcare demand and invasive pneumococcal disease in children in Catalonia, Spain. Compared with 2018-2019, we noted large reductions in healthcare activities and incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease in 2020. These changes likely resulted from nonpharmaceutical measures implemented during the COVID-19 p...
Li, Yifan Merbah, Mélanie Wollen-Roberts, Suzanne Beckman, Bradley Mdluli, Thembi Swafford, Isabella Mayer, Sandra V King, Jocelyn Corbitt, Courtney Currier, Jeffrey R
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Emerging infectious diseases
Prior immune responses to coronaviruses might affect human SARS-CoV-2 response. We screened 2,565 serum and plasma samples collected from 2013 through early 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic began, from 2,250 persons in 4 countries in Africa (Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda) and in Thailand, including persons living with HIV-1. We detected Ig...
Filaire, Fabien Lebre, Laetitia Foret-Lucas, Charlotte Vergne, Timothée Daniel, Patrick Lelièvre, Aurélie de Barros, Antoine Jbenyeni, Adam Bolon, Pierrick Paul, Mathilde
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Emerging infectious diseases
Avian influenza A(H5N8) virus has caused major epizootics in Europe since 2016. We conducted virologic analysis of aerosol and dust collected on poultry farms in France during 2020-2021. Our results suggest dust contributes to viral dispersal, even early in an outbreak, and could be a valuable surveillance tool.
Cole, Lyndsey D Slate, Molly Minneman, Samantha Bozzella, Michael J
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Emerging infectious diseases
Eight weeks after having laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections, 2 otherwise healthy, fully immunized adolescent patients in the United States who were experiencing related signs and symptoms were diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Our findings indicate that COVID-19 vaccination does not completely protec...
Fall, Amary Gallagher, Nicholas Morris, C Paul Norton, Julie M Pekosz, Andrew Klein, Eili Mostafa, Heba H
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Emerging infectious diseases
We report enterovirus D68 circulation in Maryland, USA, during September-October 2021, which was associated with a spike in influenza-like illness. The characterized enterovirus D68 genomes clustered within the B3 subclade that circulated in 2018 in Europe and the United States.
Zhu, Wenfei Li, Xiyan Dong, Jie Bo, Hong Liu, Jia Yang, Jiaying Zhang, Ye Wei, Hejiang Huang, Weijuan Zhao, Xiang
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Emerging infectious diseases
The recent rise in the frequency of influenza A(H5N6) infections in China has raised serious concerns about whether the risk for human infection has increased. We surveyed epidemiologic, clinical, and genetic data of human infections with A(H5N6) viruses. Severe disease occurred in 93.8% of cases, and the fatality rate was 55.4%. Median patient age...
Leeman, David Flannagan, Joe Chudasama, Dimple Dack, Kyle Anderson, Charlotte Dabrera, Gavin Lamagni, Theresa
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Emerging infectious diseases
Each September in England, ≈1 million students relocate to study at universities. To determine COVID-19 cases and outbreaks among university students after their return to university during the COVID pandemic in September 2020, we identified students with COVID-19 (student case-patients) by reviewing contact tracing records identifying attendance a...
Sofonea, Mircea T Roquebert, Bénédicte Foulongne, Vincent Morquin, David Verdurme, Laura Trombert-Paolantoni, Sabine Roussel, Mathilde Bonetti, Jean-Christophe Zerah, Judith Haim-Boukobza, Stéphanie
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Emerging infectious diseases
We analyzed 324,734 SARS-CoV-2 variant screening tests from France enriched with 16,973 whole-genome sequences sampled during September 1, 2021-February 28, 2022. Results showed the estimated growth advantage of the Omicron variant over the Delta variant to be 105% (95% CI 96%-114%) and that of the BA.2 lineage over the BA.1 lineage to be 49% (95% ...
Shirreff, George Zahar, Jean-Ralph Cauchemez, Simon Temime, Laura Opatowski, Lulla
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Emerging infectious diseases
Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 infection frequently occur in hospitals. Preventing nosocomial infection requires insight into hospital transmission. However, estimates of the basic reproduction number (R0) in care facilities are lacking. Analyzing a closely monitored SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a hospital in early 2020, we estimated the patient-to-patient tran...
