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https://read.qxmd.com/read/36951789/tick-borne-encephalitis-virus-igg-antibody-surveillance-vaccination-and-infection-induced-seroprevalences-south-western-germany-2021
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kathrin Euringer, Philipp Girl, Klaus Kaier, Jan Peilstöcker, Michael Schmidt, Michael Müller-Steinhardt, Beate Rauscher, Evelyn Bressau, Winfried V Kern, Gerhard Dobler, Johannes P Borde
BackgroundThe exact epidemiology of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) infections is unknown because many TBEV infections have an influenza-like or asymptomatic course. Surveillance data are based on patients with any (predominantly neurological) symptoms that prompted diagnostic testing. Infection- and vaccine-induced antibodies against TBEV can be distinguished using an NS1 IgG ELISA.AimIn a seroprevalence study we aimed to investigate TBEV antibody prevalence, incidences, manifestation indices and potential protection rates in a highly endemic district in south-western Germany...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36951788/monitoring-the-progress-achieved-towards-ending-tuberculosis-in-the-european-union-european-economic-area-2018-to-2021
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Veronica Cristea, Csaba Ködmön, Senia Rosales-Klintz, Anastasia Pharris, Marieke J van der Werf
We report progress in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) towards the Sustainable Development Goal target for tuberculosis (TB) and for the associated global/regional targets. The TB notification rate and the number of TB deaths declined since 2015 but, if current trends continue, the EU/EEA will not reach the 2030 targets. Performance on treatment initiation targets declined sharply during 2020-2021, while the percentage of TB cases with successful treatment outcomes remains low, at 47.9% of the multidrug-resistant TB cases...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36951787/a-one-health-approach-revealed-the-long-term-role-of-mycobacterium-caprae-as-the-hidden-cause-of-human-tuberculosis-in-a-region-of-spain-2003-to-2022
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Miguel Martínez-Lirola, Marta Herranz, Sergio Buenestado Serrano, Cristina Rodríguez-Grande, Eva Dominguez Inarra, Jose Antonio Garrido-Cárdenas, Ana María Correa Ruiz, María Pilar Bermúdez, Manuel Causse Del Río, Verónica González Galán, Julia Liró Armenteros, Jose María Viudez Martínez, Silvia Vallejo-Godoy, Ana Belén Esteban García, María Teresa Cabezas Fernández, Patricia Muñoz, Laura Pérez Lago, Darío García de Viedma
Introduction Mycobacterium caprae is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) not routinely identified to species level. It lacks specific clinical features of presentation and may therefore not be identified as the causative agent of tuberculosis. Use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) in the investigation of a family microepidemic of tuberculosis in Almería, Spain, unexpectedly identified the involvement of M. caprae .AimWe aimed to evaluate the presence of additional unidentified M. caprae cases and to determine the magnitude of this occurrence...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36951786/active-tuberculosis-screening-among-the-displaced-population-fleeing-ukraine-france-february-to-october-2022
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Jean-Paul Guthmann, Philippe Fraisse, Isabelle Bonnet, Jérôme Robert
Persons fleeing Ukraine since February 2022 have potentially higher risk of tuberculosis (TB) vs all European Union countries. Interest of active TB screening among this population is debated and not widely adopted. In this screening intervention by a network of TB centres in France, the number needed to screen (NNS) was 862 to find one case. This experience shows that this strategy may be relevant for TB control in situations of massive displacement, similar to that following the Russian invasion.
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36951785/ending-tuberculosis-in-europe-resetting-the-course-in-the-post-covid-19-era
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Andrea Ammon, Hans Kluge
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36951784/a-new-method-for-near-real-time-nationwide-surveillance-of-nosocomial-covid-19-in-norway-providing-data-at-all-levels-of-the-healthcare-system-march-2020-to-march-2022
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Håvard Skagseth, Silje Bakken Jørgensen, Jacqui Reilly, Oliver Kacelnik
BackgroundGreat efforts have been made to minimise spread and prevent outbreaks of COVID-19 in hospitals. However, there is uncertainty in identifying nosocomial vs community-acquired infections. To minimise risks and evaluate measures, timely data on infection risk in healthcare institutions are required.AimsTo design an automated nationwide surveillance system for nosocomial COVID-19 using existing data to analyse the impact of community infection rates on nosocomial infections, to explore how changes in case definitions influence incidence and to identify patients and wards at highest risk and effects of SARS-CoV-2 variants...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36951783/mpox-outbreak-in-the-netherlands-2022-public-health-response-characteristics-of-the-first-1-000-cases-and-protection-of-the-first-generation-smallpox-vaccine
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Catharina E van Ewijk, Fuminari Miura, Gini van Rijckevorsel, Henry Jc de Vries, Matthijs Ra Welkers, Oda E van den Berg, Ingrid Hm Friesema, Patrick R van den Berg, Thomas Dalhuisen, Jacco Wallinga, Diederik Brandwagt, Brigitte Agl van Cleef, Harry Vennema, Bettie Voordouw, Marion Koopmans, Annemiek A van der Eijk, Corien M Swaan, Margreet Jm Te Wierik, Tjalling Leenstra, Eline Op de Coul, Eelco Franz
In early May 2022, a global outbreak of mpox started among persons without travel history to regions known to be enzootic for monkeypox virus (MPXV). On 8 August 2022, the Netherlands reported its 1,000th mpox case, representing a cumulative incidence of 55 per million population, one of the highest cumulative incidences worldwide. We describe characteristics of the first 1,000 mpox cases in the Netherlands, reported between 20 May and 8 August 2022, within the context of the public health response. These cases were predominantly men who have sex with men aged 31-45 years...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927721/undeclared-pre-exposure-or-post-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-pep-use-among-syphilis-positive-blood-donors-england-2020-to-2021
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Victoria Maddox, Claire Reynolds, Alieu Amara, Laura Else, Susan R Brailsford, Saye Khoo, Heli Harvala
An individualised blood donor selection policy was implemented in the United Kingdom from summer 2021. We have investigated the impact of this policy by comparing the extent of undeclared use of HIV pre-exposure or post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP/PEP) before and after this change. The rate of PrEP usage in syphilis-positive male blood donors has not changed since individualised donor assessment was implemented but provides continuing evidence of undisclosed PrEP use which may be associated with current or past higher-risk sexual behaviours...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927720/environmental-surveillance-of-antimicrobial-resistance-amr-perspectives-from-a-national-environmental-regulator-in-2023
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Alwyn Hart, Jonathan Warren, Helen Wilkinson, Wiebke Schmidt
The development, and in some cases increasing prevalence, of resistance to antimicrobials used in clinical and veterinary settings has long been recognised. In recent years, the concept of 'One Health' has added recognition of the role that the environment plays in health protection along with the need for protection of the health of the environment itself. Organisations including the World Health Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, and national governments have identified a need for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the environment to sit alongside the surveillance carried out in clinical, veterinary and food sectors...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927719/legionnaires-disease-in-the-eu-eea-increasing-trend-from-2017-to-2019
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Jonas Samuelsson, Lara Payne Hallström, Gaetano Marrone, Joana Gomes Dias
BackgroundThe burden of Legionnaires' disease (LD) in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) has increased during the last decade, with notification rates increasing from 1.2 to 1.4/100,000 population in 2012-16, to 1.8-2.2 within 2017-19.AimTo measure weekly excess cases during 2017-19 based on previous trends and determine whether a significant change in trend occurred, and to examine any differences in age, sex or level of imported infections.MethodsWe collated 2012-19 annual surveillance data from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) reported by EU/EEA countries...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927718/spatiotemporal-spread-of-tick-borne-encephalitis-in-the-eu-eea-2012-to-2020
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Jasper Van Heuverswyn, Luisa K Hallmaier-Wacker, Julien Beauté, Joana Gomes Dias, Joana M Haussig, Kristina Busch, Jana Kerlik, Mateusz Markowicz, Henna Mäkelä, Teresa Marie Nygren, Hana Orlíková, Maja Socan, Jakub Zbrzeźniak, Milda Žygutiene, Céline M Gossner
BackgroundTick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a vaccine-preventable disease involving the central nervous system. TBE became a notifiable disease on the EU/EEA level in 2012.AimWe aimed to provide an updated epidemiological assessment of TBE in the EU/EEA, focusing on spatiotemporal changes.MethodsWe performed a descriptive analysis of case characteristics, time and location using data of human TBE cases reported by EU/EEA countries to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control with disease onset in 2012-2020...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927717/tap-water-as-the-source-of-a-legionnaires-disease-outbreak-spread-to-several-residential-buildings-and-one-hospital-finland-2020-to-2021
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Silja Mentula, Sohvi Kääriäinen, Sari Jaakola, Marjo Niittynen, Piia Airaksinen, Irma Koivula, Markku Lehtola, Ella Mauranen, Isto Mononen, Raija Savolainen, Susanna Haatainen, Outi Lyytikäinen
In Finland, all microbiology laboratories notify Legionella findings and physicians notify Legionnaires' disease (LD) cases to the National Infectious Disease Register. All cases are interviewed, and water samples obtained from potential places of exposure. Legionella isolates from humans and water are compared by whole genome sequencing (WGS). In March 2021, Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (Lp 1) pneumonia cases increased in one Finnish city (120,000 inhabitants) where single LD cases are detected annually...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927716/using-an-influenza-surveillance-system-to-estimate-the-number-of-sars-cov-2-infections-in-beijing-china-weeks-2-to-6-2023
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Li Zhang, Yi Zhang, Wei Duan, Shuangsheng Wu, Ying Sun, Chunna Ma, Quanyi Wang, Daitao Zhang, Peng Yang
With COVID-19 public health control measures downgraded in China in January 2023, reported COVID-19 case numbers may underestimate the true numbers after the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron wave. Using a multiplier model based on our influenza surveillance system, we estimated that the overall incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections was 392/100,000 population in Beijing during the 5 weeks following policy adjustment. No notable change occurred after the Spring Festival in early February. The multiplier model provides an opportunity for assessing the actual COVID-19 situation...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36892475/authors-correction-for-euro-surveill-2023-28-8
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(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36892474/sex-based-epidemiological-and-immunovirological-characteristics-of-people-living-with-hiv-in-current-follow-up-at-a-tertiary-hospital-a-comparative-retrospective-study-catalonia-spain-1982-to-2020
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Sara Toyos, Leire Berrocal, Ana González-Cordón, Alexy Inciarte, Lorena de la Mora, María Martínez-Rebollar, Montserrat Laguno, Emma Fernández, Juan Ambrosioni, Iván Chivite, Elisa de Lazzari, José Luis Blanco, Esteban Martínez, José M Miró, Josep Mallolas, Berta Torres
BackgroundEpidemiological and immunovirological features of people living with HIV (PLWH) can vary by sex.AimTo investigate, particularly according to sex, characteristics of PLWH who consulted a tertiary hospital in Barcelona, Spain, in 1982-2020.MethodsPLWH, still in active follow-up in 2020 were retrospectively analysed by sex, age at diagnosis, age at data extraction (December 2020), birth place, CD4+ cell counts, and virological failure.ResultsIn total, 5,377 PLWH (comprising 828 women; 15%) were included...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36892473/job-vacancies-at-the-european-centre-for-disease-prevention-and-control-ecdc
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(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36892472/incidence-aetiology-and-temporal-trend-of-bloodstream-infections-in-southern-sweden-from-2006-to-2019-a-population-based-study
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Oskar Ljungquist, Adam Blomstergren, Adam Merkel, Torgny Sunnerhagen, Karin Holm, Gustav Torisson
BackgroundBloodstream infections (BSI) are a public health concern, and infections caused by resistant bacteria further increase the overall BSI burden on healthcare.AimTo provide a population-based estimate of BSI incidence and relate this to the forthcoming demographic ageing western population change.MethodsWe retrieved positive blood cultures taken from patients in the Skåne region, southern Sweden, 2006-2019 from the Clinical Microbiology Department database and estimated incidence rates (IR), stratified by age (0-49, 50-64, 65-79, ≥ 80 years), sex, year, and species and described antimicrobial susceptibility for Enterobacterales...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36892471/author-s-correction-for-euro-surveill-2023-28-9
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(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36892470/molecular-surveillance-reveals-the-emergence-and-dissemination-of-ndm-5-producing-escherichia-coli-high-risk-clones-in-germany-2013-to-2019
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Jörg B Hans, Niels Pfennigwerth, Bernd Neumann, Yvonne Pfeifer, Martin A Fischer, Jessica Eisfeld, Jennifer Schauer, Sebastian Haller, Tim Eckmanns, Sören Gatermann, Guido Werner
BackgroundCarbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) are rapidly increasing worldwide, also in Europe. Although prevalence of CPE in Germany is comparatively low, the National Reference Centre for Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative Bacteria noted annually increasing numbers of NDM-5-producing Escherichia coli isolates.AimAs part of our ongoing surveillance programme, we characterised NDM-5-producing E. coli isolates received between 2013 and 2019 using whole genome sequencing (WGS).MethodsFrom 329 identified NDM-5-producing E...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36892469/multidrug-resistant-neisseria-gonorrhoeae-isolate-se690-mosaic-pena-60-001-gene-causing-ceftriaxone-resistance-internationally-has-spread-to-the-more-antimicrobial-susceptible-genomic-lineage-sweden-september-2022
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Daniel Golparian, Nora Vestberg, Wiktor Södersten, Susanne Jacobsson, Makoto Ohnishi, Hong Fang, Karin Haij Bhattarai, Magnus Unemo
We report a ceftriaxone-resistant, multidrug-resistant urogenital Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a female sex worker in Sweden, September 2022, who was treated with ceftriaxone 1 g, but did not return for test-of-cure. Whole genome sequencing of isolate SE690 identified MLST ST8130, NG-STAR CC1885 (new NG-STAR ST4859) and mosaic penA-60.001 . The latter, causing ceftriaxone resistance in the internationally spreading FC428 clone, has now also spread to the more antimicrobial-susceptible genomic lineage B, showing that strains across the gonococcal phylogeny can develop ceftriaxone resistance...
March 2023: Euro Surveillance
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