Minh Hang Duong, Thi Ngoc Uyen Phan, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Ngoc Hien Nhon Ho, Thu Ngoc Nguyen, Viet Thinh Nguyen, Minh Thang Cao, Chan Quang Luong, Vu Thuong Nguyen, Vu Trung Nguyen
{"title":"Human Infection with Avian Influenza A(H9N2) Virus, Vietnam, April 2024","authors":"Minh Hang Duong, Thi Ngoc Uyen Phan, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Ngoc Hien Nhon Ho, Thu Ngoc Nguyen, Viet Thinh Nguyen, Minh Thang Cao, Chan Quang Luong, Vu Thuong Nguyen, Vu Trung Nguyen","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.241146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.241146","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In April 2024, Vietnam confirmed its first human case of influenza A(H9N2) in a 37-year-old man, marking a critical point in regional infectious disease monitoring and response. This case underscores the importance of robust surveillance systems and One Health collaboration in managing emerging zoonotic threats.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rigan Louis, Tracey L. Moquin, Carla Mavian, Assonic Barthelemy, Ruiyu Pu, Benjamin Anderson, V. Madsen Beau De Rochars, Maureen T. Long, Marco Salemi, John A. Lednicky, J. Glenn Morris
{"title":"Dengue and Other Arbovirus Infections among Schoolchildren, Haiti, 2021","authors":"Rigan Louis, Tracey L. Moquin, Carla Mavian, Assonic Barthelemy, Ruiyu Pu, Benjamin Anderson, V. Madsen Beau De Rochars, Maureen T. Long, Marco Salemi, John A. Lednicky, J. Glenn Morris","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.240791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.240791","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2021, we screened 91 children in Haiti with acute undifferentiated febrile illness for arbovirus infections. We identified a major outbreak of dengue virus type 2, with 67% of the children testing positive. Two others were positive for chikungunya East/Central/South African IIa subclade, and 2 were positive for Zika virus.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lawrence Huang, Erin P. Price, Derek S. Sarovich, Dean Johns, Shradha Subedi
{"title":"Bacteremia and Community-Acquired Pneumonia Caused by Pantoea stewartii Subspecies indologenes, Australia","authors":"Lawrence Huang, Erin P. Price, Derek S. Sarovich, Dean Johns, Shradha Subedi","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.240546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.240546","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report infection with the phytopathogen <em>Pantoea stewartii</em> subspecies <em>indologenes</em> in a macadamia farmer from southeast Queensland, Australia. The patient had bloodstream infection and pneumonia develop after an unidentified inoculation event. Investigation determined that the most likely mode of transmission was inhalation from an environmental source on the farm.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142981509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brittany B. Beavis, Jun Liu, Elizabeth E. Zumbrun, Ashley V. Bryan, April M. Babka, Nancy A. Twenhafel, Derron A. Alves, Margaret L. Pitt, Aysegul Nalca, Xiankun Zeng
{"title":"Sudan Virus Persistence in Immune-Privileged Organs of Nonhuman Primates","authors":"Brittany B. Beavis, Jun Liu, Elizabeth E. Zumbrun, Ashley V. Bryan, April M. Babka, Nancy A. Twenhafel, Derron A. Alves, Margaret L. Pitt, Aysegul Nalca, Xiankun Zeng","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.240983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.240983","url":null,"abstract":"<p>After the 2022–2023 Sudan virus (SUDV) disease outbreak in Uganda, we studied SUDV persistence in nonhuman primates that had survived acute infection without therapeutic intervention. We identified SUDV persistence in the vitreous chamber and immediately adjacent tissue in the eyes as well as in the seminiferous tubules in the testes but not in common target organs typically infected during the acute phase of disease. Specifically, SUDV persists primarily in macrophages in the eyes and Sertoli cells in the testes. Ocular and testicular SUDV persistence in nonhuman primates is accompanied by tissue damage, including inflammatory cell invasion. Our study suggests that long-term follow-up efforts are needed to reduce possible recrudescent disease and reignition of outbreaks caused by virus persistence in human survivors of SUDV infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142981512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acute Q Fever Patients Requiring Intensive Care Unit Support in Tropical Australia, 2015–2023","authors":"Cody Price, Simon Smith, Jim Stewart, Josh Hanson","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.240422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.240422","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Acute Q fever is classically described as a mild illness. We report 9 patients with acute Q fever in Queensland, Australia, who required intensive care unit support to survive. Clinicians should consider an acute Q fever diagnosis and its empirical treatment in critically ill persons in the appropriate clinical context.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142981511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ingrid Maria Cecilia Rubin, Puk Sandager, Lone Laursen, Shila Mortensen, Vithiagaran Gunalan, Raluca Datcu, Peter H.S. Andersen, Morten Rasmussen, Lasse S. Vestergaard, Uffe Vest Schneider
{"title":"Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Traveler Returning to Denmark from Phuket, Thailand, 2024","authors":"Ingrid Maria Cecilia Rubin, Puk Sandager, Lone Laursen, Shila Mortensen, Vithiagaran Gunalan, Raluca Datcu, Peter H.S. Andersen, Morten Rasmussen, Lasse S. Vestergaard, Uffe Vest Schneider","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.241510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.241510","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report a case of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in a pregnant woman from Denmark who traveled to Thailand during her first trimester. Late in the second trimester, severe microcephaly was diagnosed in the fetus, and ZIKV infection was confirmed. Travelers and clinicians should be aware of ongoing ZIKV risk in Thailand.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Axel Skafte-Holm, Thomas Roland Pedersen, Maria Frølund, Marc Stegger, Søren Hallstrøm, Astrid Rasmussen, Jørgen Skov Jensen
{"title":"Mycoplasma phocimorsus in Woman with Tendinous Panaritium after Cat Scratch, Denmark","authors":"Axel Skafte-Holm, Thomas Roland Pedersen, Maria Frølund, Marc Stegger, Søren Hallstrøm, Astrid Rasmussen, Jørgen Skov Jensen","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.241219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.241219","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A panaritium developed in a woman in Demark after her cat scratched her. Analysis of tissue by 16S rRNA gene sequencing revealed <em>Mycoplasma phocimorsus</em>, known to cause seal finger. The source of the bacterium likely transmitted by the cat is unknown, but awareness of potential zoonotic transmission from cats should be raised.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco C. Ferreira, Tahmina Pervin, Wendy Tang, Joseph Hediger, Logan Thomas, Walter Cook, Michael Cherry, Benjamin W. Neuman, Gabriel L. Hamer, Sarah A. Hamer
{"title":"Respiratory Shedding of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.41.1 Lineage among Captive White-Tailed Deer, Texas, USA","authors":"Francisco C. Ferreira, Tahmina Pervin, Wendy Tang, Joseph Hediger, Logan Thomas, Walter Cook, Michael Cherry, Benjamin W. Neuman, Gabriel L. Hamer, Sarah A. Hamer","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.241458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.241458","url":null,"abstract":"<p>White-tailed deer (<em>Odocoileus virginianus</em>) have high value for research, conservation, agriculture, and recreation and might be key SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs. In November 2023, we sampled 15 female deer in a captive facility in Texas, USA. All deer had neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2; respiratory swab samples from 11 deer were SARS-CoV-2–positive by quantitative reverse transcription PCR, and 1 deer also had a positive rectal swab sample. Six of the 11 respiratory swab samples yielded infectious virus; replication kinetics of most samples displayed lower growth 24–48 hours postinfection in vitro than Omicron lineages isolated from humans in Texas in the same period. Virus growth was similar between groups by 72 hours, suggesting no strong attenuation of deer-derived virus. All deer viruses clustered in XBB Omicron clade and demonstrated more mutations than expected compared with contemporaneous viruses in humans, suggesting that crossing the species barrier was accompanied by a high substitution rate.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kara Phipps, Jennifer Yates, Jessica Pettit, Sean Bialosuknia, Danielle Hunt, Alan P. DuPuis, Anne Payne, William Lee, Kathleen A. McDonough
{"title":"Short-Lived Neutralizing Antibody Responses to Monkeypox Virus in Smallpox Vaccine–Naive Persons after JYNNEOS Vaccination","authors":"Kara Phipps, Jennifer Yates, Jessica Pettit, Sean Bialosuknia, Danielle Hunt, Alan P. DuPuis, Anne Payne, William Lee, Kathleen A. McDonough","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.241300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.241300","url":null,"abstract":"<p>JYNNEOS, a third-generation smallpox vaccine, is integral to monkeypox virus (MPXV) control efforts, but the durability of this modified vaccinia Ankara–Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) vaccine’s effectiveness is undefined. We optimized and used a plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) with authentic clade IIa MPXV and vaccinia virus to assess antibody responses over 12 months in 8 donors vaccinated with 2 doses of JYNNEOS. One donor previously received the ACAM2000 vaccine; 7 donors were smallpox vaccine–naive. IgG responses of the donors to vaccinia virus (L1, B5, and A33) or MPXV (E8, H3, A35) antigens and PRNT titers to both viruses peaked at 8 weeks postvaccination and waned rapidly thereafter in naive donors. MPXV PRNT titers were especially low; no naive donors demonstrated 90% plaque reduction. These data indicate a need for improved correlates of MPXV immunity to enable MVA-BN durability studies, given that recent clinical data support MVA-BN vaccine efficacy against MPXV despite low antibody responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tram T. Vuong, Federico A. Cazzaniga, Linh Tran, Jørn Våge, Michele Di Bari, Laura Pirisinu, Claudia D’Agostino, Romolo Nonno, Fabio Moda, Sylvie L. Benestad
{"title":"Prions in Muscles of Cervids with Chronic Wasting Disease, Norway","authors":"Tram T. Vuong, Federico A. Cazzaniga, Linh Tran, Jørn Våge, Michele Di Bari, Laura Pirisinu, Claudia D’Agostino, Romolo Nonno, Fabio Moda, Sylvie L. Benestad","doi":"10.3201/eid3102.240903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.240903","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an emerging prion disease in Nordic countries and has been detected in reindeer, moose, and red deer since 2016. CWD sporadically detected in moose and red deer in 3 Nordic countries demonstrated pathologic and strain characteristics different from CWD in reindeer, including an unexpected lack of prions outside the central nervous system as measured by standard diagnostic tests. Using protein misfolding cyclic amplification, we detected prions in the lymphoreticular system of moose and red deer with CWD in Norway and, remarkably, in muscles of both of those species and in CWD-infected reindeer. One moose lymph node and 1 moose muscle sample showed infectivity when experimentally transmitted to bank voles. Our findings highlight the systemic nature of CWD strains in Europe and raise questions regarding the risk of human exposure through edible tissues.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"204 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}