Abstract

In June 1999, the dioxin crisis, caused by dioxin-contaminated feed components, exploded in Belgium, resulting in withdrawal of chicken and eggs from the market. Through the sentinel surveillance system, a decrease in Campylobacter infections during June 1999 was noticed. A model was generated with the reports from preceding years (1994 to 1998), and a prediction of the number of infections in 1999 was calculated. The model shows a significant decline (40%) in the number of infections, mainly because of the withdrawal of poultry. The use of a disaster as an epidemiologic tool offers a unique opportunity to observe exceptional changes in the occurrence of infections or other diseases.

Highlights

  • These findings demonstrate low genetic diversity among Y132F isolates from the same country

  • 76.7% (23/30) of patients with Y132F isolates had no antifungal exposure within 30 days before candidemia detection, and their clonal transmission was not detected by routine hospital surveillance, partly because more than half of the patient hospitalizations did not overlap. These findings indicate that clonal Y132F isolates may be dormant over long periods and can survive and persist outside their host on hospital environmental surfaces, which may be similar to the behavior of C. auris [10]

  • We describe a case of B. miyamotoi disease in an immunocompetent patient in western Europe

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We describe an abdominal AGI caused by M. chimaera and Granulicatella adiacens. The objective of our study was to describe the characteristics of pediatric patients who had atypical or severe forms of the disease and to search for predictive factors for severe forms. The purpose of this study was to investigate and report 3 unusual cases of arboviral disease that occurred in Colorado in 2008. Based on the need for information about this aspect, we aimed to determine the diffusion of mcr-1–driven colistin resistance in the hospital environment

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