Östholm Balkhed, Åse Söderlund, Robert Gunnarsson, Lotta Wikström, Camilla Ljung, Helena Claesson, Carina Börjesson, Stefan
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Infection ecology & epidemiology
Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is a commensal and an opportunistic pathogen in dogs, and is also an opportunistic pathogen in humans. Here we report about a case of bacteraemia with a fatal outcome in a 77-year-old co-morbid male likely caused by a S. pseudintermedius and the investigation into the possible transmission from the two dogs in the pa...
Prasetya, Valentino Vito, Valentino Tanawi, Ivan N Aldila, Dipo Hertono, Gatot F
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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), a more severe form of dengue, is one of the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne diseases in the world. This study is motivated by the rising DHF incidence in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. We mainly utilized hot spot analysis, which employs spatial statistics to find at-risk areas for DHF outbreaks in Jaka...
Richter, Dania Schneider, Anne-Kathrin Schibalski, Anett Dahlkamp, Andreas Schröder, Boris
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Infection ecology & epidemiology
People may be exposed to questing Ixodes ricinus ticks in urban settings, e.g. residential gardens. Little is known about the garden characteristics that support a tick population. To determine which features in and around residential gardens support or limit the occurrence and abundance of questing I. ricinus ticks, we sampled them in residential ...
Roger, François Caron, Alexandre Morand, Serge Pedrono, Miguel de Garine-Wichatitsky, Michel Chevalier, Veronique Tran, Annelise Gaidet, Nicolas Figuié, Muriel de Visscher, Marie-Noël
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Infection ecology & epidemiology
Estrada-Peña, Agustín Fernández-Ruiz, Natalia
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Communities of vertebrates tend to appear together under similar ranges of environmental features. This study explores whether an explicit combination of vertebrates and their contact rates with a tick vector might constitute an indicator of the prevalence of a pathogen in the quest for ticks at the western Palearctic scale. We asked how 'indicator...
Jore, Solveig Braae, Uffe Christian Trier Møller, Frederik Friesema, Ingrid Paranthaman, Karthik Jalava, Katri Jourdan-DaSilva, Nathalie Löf, Emma Rehn, Moa Ethelberg, Steen
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Infection ecology & epidemiology
Consumer purchase data (CPD) can be a powerful tool in the investigation of foodborne outbreaks through analyses of electronic records of food that individuals buy. The objective of this study was to develop a common framework for use of CPD in foodborne outbreak investigations using the expertise of European public health professionals from 11 Eur...
Wallménius, Katarina Påhlson, Carl Nilsson, Kenneth
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Infection ecology & epidemiology
In a retrospective study, 36 patients with peripheral facial palsy were serologically evaluated for the presence of Rickettsia spp. and Borrelia spp. antibodies. All sera underwent immunofluorescence and Western blot analysis for IgG and IgM antibodies using Rickettsia helvetica and R. felis as antigens. Anti-Borrelia antibodies were detected using...
Kanamori, Hajime Baba, Hiroaki Weber, David J
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Infection ecology & epidemiology
Hirsbrunner, Andrew Rodriguez-Duran, Armando Jarvis, Jodie A Rudd, Robert J Davis, April D
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Infection ecology & epidemiology
The purpose of this study was to determine if Puerto Rican bats had previous exposure to rabies virus based on viral neutralizing antibodies. Our results demonstrate that 6.5% of the bats in this study had some exposure to rabies virus. The route of exposure is unknown but may have occurred following interaction with a rabid terrestrial animal or a...
Lundkvist, Åke Hanson, Stefan Olsen, Björn
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Infection ecology & epidemiology
The prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies on June 17-18, 2020 was investigated in two residential areas of Stockholm, Sweden. Among the residents in Norra Djurgårdsstaden, a newly built upper- and middle-class area of Stockholm, 4.1% of study participants had SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies, while in Tensta, a highly segregated low-income area, 30% of t...
