Matczak, Soraya Levy, Corinne Fortas, Camille Cohen, Jérémie F Béchet, Stéphane Aït El Belghiti, Fatima Guillot, Sophie Trombert-Paolantoni, Sabine Jacomo, Véronique Savitch, Yann
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Background Interventions to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic may impact other respiratory diseases. Aims We aimed to study the course of pertussis in France over an 8-year period including the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, using multiple nationwide data sources and regression models. Metho...
Constant, Orianne Gil, Patricia Barthelemy, Jonathan Bolloré, Karine Foulongne, Vincent Desmetz, Caroline Leblond, Agnès Desjardins, Isabelle Pradier, Sophie Joulié, Aurélien
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Background West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV), two closely related flaviviruses, mainly follow an enzootic cycle involving mosquitoes and birds, but also infect humans and other mammals. Since 2010, their epidemiological situation may have shifted from irregular epidemics to endemicity in several European regions; this requires confirmati...
Pleininger, Sonja Indra, Alexander Golparian, Daniel Heger, Florian Schindler, Stefanie Jacobsson, Susanne Heidler, Stefan Unemo, Magnus
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We describe a gonorrhoea case with ceftriaxone plus high-level azithromycin resistance. In April 2022, an Austrian heterosexual male was diagnosed with gonorrhoea after sexual intercourse with a female sex worker in Cambodia. Recommended treatment with ceftriaxone (1 g) plus azithromycin (1.5 g) possibly failed. Worryingly, this is the second strai...
Kluge, Hans Ammon, Andrea
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Fazio, Cecilia Daprai, Laura Neri, Arianna Tirani, Marcello Vacca, Paola Arghittu, Milena Ambrosio, Luigina Cereda, Danilo Gramegna, Maria Palmieri, Annapina
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In Italy, serogroup C meningococci of the clonal complex cc11 (MenC/cc11) have caused several outbreaks of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) during the past 20 years. Between December 2019 and January 2020, an outbreak of six cases of IMD infected with MenC/cc11 was identified in a limited area in the northern part of Italy. All cases presented ...
Miura, Fuminari van Ewijk, Catharina Else Backer, Jantien A. Xiridou, Maria Franz, Eelco Op de Coul, Eline Brandwagt, Diederik van Cleef, Brigitte van Rijckevorsel, Gini Swaan, Corien
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In May 2022, monkeypox outbreaks have been reported in countries not endemic for monkeypox. We estimated the monkeypox incubation period, using reported exposure and symptom-onset times for 18 cases detected and confirmed in the Netherlands up to 31 May 2022. Mean incubation period was 8.5 days (5th–95th percentiles: 4.2–17.3), underpinning the cur...
Krzysztoszek, Arleta Gad, Beata Diedrich, Sabine Böttcher, Sindy Wieczorek, Magdalena
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Background Polioviruses are human pathogens which may easily be imported via travellers from endemic areas and countries where oral polio vaccine (OPV) is still routinely used to polio-free countries. Risk of reintroduction strictly depends on polio immunisation coverage. Sustaining a polio-free status requires strategies that allow rapid detection...
Muñoz-Chimeno, Milagros Bartúren, Silvia García-Lugo, Maira Alejandra Morago, Lucia Rodríguez, Álvaro Galán, Juan Carlos Pérez-Rivilla, Alfredo Rodríguez, Mercedes Millán, Rosario del Álamo, Manuel
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Background Hepatitis E virus genotype 3 (HEV-3) is widely distributed throughout Europe, with incidence of infections increasing in many countries. Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have reported the distribution of HEV-3 subtypes in cohorts of patients with hepatic disease. Aim To describe the distri...
Ferraro, Federica Caraglia, Anna Rapiti, Alessia Cereda, Danilo Vairo, Francesco Mattei, Giovanna Maraglino, Francesco Rezza, Giovanni
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Torres, Ana Rita Rodrigues, Ana Paula Sousa-Uva, Mafalda Kislaya, Irina Silva, Susana Antunes, Liliana Dias, Carlos Nunes, Baltazar
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Background Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were implemented worldwide to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Aim To evaluate the impact of tiered NPIs and a nationwide lockdown on reduction of COVID-19 incidence during the second and third epidemic waves in Portugal. Methods Surveillance data on laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases were used t...
