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Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease, New York City, 1989-2000
Meningococcal disease is a broad term used to describe the different clinical syndromes resulting from Neisseria meningitidis infection.
Journal Article, March 01, 2003
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Amplification of the Sylvatic Cycle of Dengue Virus Type 2
Dengue is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes and caused by four viral serotypes (dengue virus serotypes 1-4 [DENV 1-4]) belonging to the genus Flavivirus of the Flaviviridae family.
Journal Article, March 01, 2003
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Influenza AH1N2 Viruses
The influenza A virus genome consists of eight single-stranded RNA segments of negative sense.
Journal Article, March 01, 2003
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Risk Factors for Sporadic Giardiasis
Giardia lamblia, a flagellate waterborne protozoan parasite, is a common cause of gastrointestinal disease in industrialized and unindustrialized countries.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
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Assess Regional Pneumococcal Resistance to Antibiotics
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of community-acquired illness, resulting in an estimated 3,000 cases of meningitis, 50,000 cases of bacteremia, 500,000 cases of pneumonia, and 7 million cases of otitis media each year in the United States.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
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Influenza AH1N2 Viruses
The influenza A virus genome consists of eight single-stranded RNA segments of negative sense.
Journal Article, March 01, 2003
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Emerging Pattern of Rabies Deaths
Molecular typing (i.e., phylogenetic analysis of DNA data) has shown that rabies viruses associated with insectivorous bats (L. noctivagans and P. subflavus variants in particular) are the culprits in what otherwise would have been unsolved cryptic human rabies deaths.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
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A Vaccinialike Virus Associated With Infection in Humans....
The poxviruses comprise a family of large DNA viruses capable of infecting vertebrate and invertebrate hosts.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
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Annual Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Risk
Studies are increasingly using levels of clustering of isolates from tuberculosis cases (proportion sharing identical DNA fingerprint patterns) to estimate the extent of disease attributable to recent transmission.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
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Endemic Babesiosis in Another Eastern State: New Jersey
In the United States, most of the hundreds of reported cases of babesiosis have been caused by Babesia microti, a parasite of small mammals transmitted by Ixodes scapularis (deer ticks); these ticks also transmit Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma (Ehrlichia) phagocytophila.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
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Viral Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Europe, 1995-2000
Viral pathogens are the most common cause of gastroenteritis in industrialized countries
Journal Article, March 01, 2003
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The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project
The 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is one of the world's busiest international boundaries.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
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Foot and Mouth Disease in Livestock
Cryptosporidium is a genus of enteric parasites, a leading cause of infectious diarrhea in humans and livestock.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
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Potential Vaccine for Human papillomavirus
Cervical cancer is one of the most common malignancies in women: this year in the United States, approximately 13,000 new cases will be diagnosed, and >4,000 women will die of the disease.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
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Texas Lifestyle Limits Transmission of Dengue Virus
Outbreaks of mosquito-borne infection are commonly assumed to occur wherever competent vectors and a suitable climate exist, and that "global warming" -- climate change caused by human activities -- will cause these diseases to move to higher altitudes and latitudes.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
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Waterborne Toxoplasmosis in North Rio de Janeiro State
Toxoplasmosis, a zoonotic protozoal disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, is horizontally transmitted to humans by the accidental ingestion of oocysts in cat feces or by eating raw or undercooked meat containing cysts.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
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Virus Vaccine, and Passive Immunization for Prevention
After the appearance of West Nile virus (WNV) in North America and the resulting human and equine cases of encephalitis, considerable efforts have focused on developing vaccines against this emerging viral pathogen.
Journal Article, December 01, 2002
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Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli...
The emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria has been well documented as a serious problem worldwide.
Journal Article, December 01, 2002
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Mass Vaccination Campaign Following Community Outbreak
Neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of bacterial meningitis and sepsis in children and young adults in the United States.
Journal Article, December 01, 2002
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First Isolation of West Nile Virus
West Nile virus (WNV), an arthropod-borne virus, is a member of the Japanese encephalitis virus serocomplex of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae, discovered in Uganda in 1937.
Journal Article, December 01, 2002
