Most Recent Articles from Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Diphyllobothriasis associated with eating raw Pacific salmon 

  Broad tapeworms such as Diphyllobothrium latum and D. nihonkaiense are exotic parasites that grow as long as 12 meters in the small intestine. By...

  06/01/09 by Naoki Arizono; Minoru Yamada; Fukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama; Kenji Ohnishi · More from publication

• Geographic clustering of leishmaniasis in northeastern Brazil 

  Leishmaniasis accounts for [approximately equal to]2 million disability-adjusted life years in [approximately equal to]90 countries, most of which...

  06/01/09 by Albert Schriefer; Luiz H. Guimaraes; Paulo R.L. Machado; Marcus Lessa; Helio A. Lessa; Ednaldo Lago; Guilherme Ritt; Aristoteles Goes-Neto; Ana L.F. Schriefer; Lee W. Riley; Edgar M. Carvalho · More from publication

• Lineage 2 West Nile virus as cause of fatal neurologic disease in horses, South Africa 

  West Nile virus (WNV), a mosquito-born flavivirus of the family Flaviviridae, is widely distributed throughout Africa, the Middle East, Asia, parts...

  06/01/09 by Marietjie Venter; Stacey Human; Dewald Zaayman; Gertruida H. Gerdes; June Williams; Johan Steyl; Patricia A. Leman; Janusz Tadeusz Paweska; Hildegard Setzkorn; Gavin Rous; Sue Murray; Rissa Parker; Cynthia Donnellan; Robert Swanepoel · More from publication

• Hantaviruses in rodents and humans, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China 

  Hantaviruses, members of the family Bunyaviridae and genus Hantavirus, can cause 2 human zoonoses: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS),...

  06/01/09 by Yong-Zhen Zhang; Feng-Xian Zhang; Na Gao; Jian-Bo Wang; Zhi-Wei Zhao; Ming-Hui Li; Hua-Xin Chen; Yang Zou; Alexander Plyusnin · More from publication

• Case-based surveillance of influenza hospitalizations during 2004-2008, Colorado, USA 

  Each year, in the United States, influenza infections cause an estimated 36,000 deaths (1) and >200,000 hospitalizations (2). The Centers for...

  06/01/09 by Rosemary Proff; Ken Gershman; Dennis Lezotte; Ann-Christine Nyquist · More from publication

• Tuberculosis disparity between US-born blacks and whites, Houston, Texas, USA 

  After the unprecedented resurgence in tuberculosis (TB) in the United States during 1985-1992, the annual incidence rate of TB steadily decreased...

  06/01/09 by Jose A. Serpa; Larry D. Teeter; James M. Musser; Edward A. Graviss · More from publication

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