Published in Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
SARS-CoV-2 has shaken the world by extremely raising death tolls, illnesses, and economic losses. The virus is transmitted by humans to other humans, spreading to more than 200 countries. This research aims to analyze the transmission dynamics of novel Coronavirus-SARS-CoV-2 in South Sumatera Indonesia. This is epidemiologic research, and the resea...
Published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
BackgroundCurrent studies on the COVID-19 depicted a general incubation period distribution and did not examine whether the incubation period distribution varies across patients living in different geographical locations with varying environmental attributes. Profiling the incubation distributions geographically help to determine the appropriate qu...
Published in Der Pneumologe
Travellers to foreign countries can acquire infections with pathogens that are not endemic in Germany. In light of the steadily increasing foreign travel these infections in returning travellers are of growing importance. Older travellers and those with underlying diseases constitute a special risk group. The knowledge of pathogens endemic to forei...
Published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Since the outbreak of 2019-nCoV in December, Chinese government has implemented various measures including travel bans, centralized treatments, and home quarantines to slowing the transmission across the country. In this study, we aimed to estimate the incidence of 2019-nCoV infection among people under home quarantine in Shenzhen, China. Methods: ...
Published in Malaria Journal
BackgroundAs Swaziland progresses towards national malaria elimination, the importation of parasites into receptive areas becomes increasingly important. Imported infections have the potential to instigate local transmission and sustain local parasite reservoirs.MethodsTravel histories from Swaziland’s routine surveillance data from January 2010 to...
Published in American journal of infection control
Multidisciplinary focus group review of current triage practice identified gaps in identification of potentially infectious diseases. Modifications were made to triage and nursing assessment forms that were easy to maneuver, rapidly modifiable, and provided documentation-based decision support to expedite infection prevention measures. Development ...
Published in Current Emergency and Hospital Medicine Reports
Purpose of ReviewInternational travel has increased at a fast pace and will continue to rapidly rise. Concomitantly, with this increase in travel is the increase in post travel-related diseases, such as respiratory illnesses. Identifying the cause of the posttravel respiratory illness is a complex challenge for many healthcare professionals because...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
We present a case of nephrotic syndrome in a 38-year-old man of Ivorian origin. In the search of the cause of his illness an infection with Plasmodium malariae (P. malariae) was diagnosed by serology and by microscopy of a Giemsa thin blood smear which revealed rare gametocytes of P. malariae. Proteinuria significantly diminished within three month...
Published in Medizinische Klinik
Hintergrund:Die viszerale Leishmaniose ist in Deutschland mit jährlich zehn bis 30 erfassten Fällen eine seltene Importinfektion aus den Tropen und Subtropen sowie aus dem Mittelmeergebiet. Aufgrund der ähnlichen klinischen Symptomatik wird die viszerale Leishmaniose differentialdiagnostisch häufig zunächst als hämatoonkologische Erkrankung (z.B. m...
Published in Der Hautarzt
Die lupoide Leishmaniose stellt durch die ungewöhnliche Klinik und ihren chronischen, z. T. rezidivierenden Verlauf eine Sonderform kutaner Leishmaniosen dar. Klinisch und histologisch erinnert sie an einen Lupus vulgaris, der damit die wichtigste Differenzialdiagnose repräsentiert. Bei allen Patienten mit granulomatösen Erkrankungen im Gesicht aus...
