Piezzi, Vanja Gasser, Michael Atkinson, Andrew Kronenberg, Andreas Vuichard-Gysin, Danielle Harbarth, Stephan Marschall, Jonas Buetti, Niccolò
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Background Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), mostly Enterococcus faecium , are multidrug-resistant microorganisms that can cause nosocomial infections. VRE has increased throughout many European countries, but data from Switzerland are scarce. Aim The aim of this work was to characterise the epidemiology of enterococcal bacteraemias in Switze...
Guzmán Herrador, Bernardo R Rivera Ariza, Silvia Latasa Zamalloa, Pello Chong Valbuena, Andrea Julián Pachés, Paula Monge, Susana García San Miguel, Lucía Pérez Olaso, Oscar Sánchez Sagrado, Teresa Pichiule Castañeda, Myrian
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 community-wide transmission declined in Spain by early May 2020, being replaced by outbreaks and sporadic cases. From mid-June to 2 August, excluding single household outbreaks, 673 outbreaks were notified nationally, 551 active (>6,200 cases) at the time. More than half of these outbreaks and cases c...
Hyllestad, Susanne Iversen, Arild MacDonald, Emily Amato, Ettore Borge, Bengt Åge Sørby Bøe, Anton Sandvin, Aslaug Brandal, Lin T Lyngstad, Trude Marie Naseer, Umaer
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On 6 June 2019, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health was notified of more than 50 cases of gastroenteritis in Askøy. A reservoir in a water supply system was suspected as the source of the outbreak because of the acute onset and geographical distribution of cases. We investigated the outbreak to confirm the source, extent of the outbreak and ef...
Vestergaard, Lasse S Mølbak, Kåre
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Palazzolo, Claudia Maffongelli, Gaetano D’Abramo, Alessandra Lepore, Luciana Mariano, Andrea Vulcano, Antonella Bartoli, Tommaso Ascoli Bevilacqua, Nazario Giancola, Maria Letizia Di Rosa, Enrico
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Rota, Maria Cristina Scaturro, Maria Ricci, Maria Luisa
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Fouillet, Anne Pontais, Isabelle Caserio-Schönemann, Céline
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Through a weekly all-cause mortality surveillance system, we observed in France a major all-cause excess mortality from March to May 2020, concomitant with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic. The excess mortality was 25,030 deaths, mainly among elderly people. Five metropolitan regions were the most affected, particularly Île-de-France and...
Koteli, A Fitas, P Economou, M Konsolakis, C Fountoulis, Κ Perivolioti, E Vagiakou, H Ganteris, G Tsorlini, E Vagdatli, E
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Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) changes over time and continuous monitoring provides insight on trends to inform both empirical treatment and public health action. Aims To survey trends in relative isolation frequency (RIF) and AMR among key bloodstream pathogens using data from the Greek Electronic System for the Surveillance of AMR (WHO...
Escolano, Sylvie Mueller, Judith E Tubert-Bitter, Pascale
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Background Rotavirus is a major cause of severe gastroenteritis in children worldwide. The disease burden has been substantially reduced in countries where rotavirus vaccines are used. Given the risk of vaccine-induced intussusception, the benefit–risk balance of rotavirus vaccination has been assessed in several countries, however mostly without c...
Fischer, Fabienne Beatrice Saucy, Apolline Schmutz, Claudia Mäusezahl, Daniel
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Background Laboratory-confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) have been notifiable to the National Notification System for Infectious Diseases in Switzerland since 1999. Since 2015, a large increase in case numbers has been observed. Around the same time, syndromic multiplex PCR started to replace other diagnostic methods i...
