Paige Fletcher, Kyle L. O’Donnell, Joseph F. Rhoderick, Corey W. Henderson, Atsushi Okumura, Trenton Bushmaker, Ayato Takada, Chad S. Clancy, Gábor Kemenesi, Andrea Marzi
{"title":"Lack of Lloviu Virus Disease Development in Ferret Model","authors":"Paige Fletcher, Kyle L. O’Donnell, Joseph F. Rhoderick, Corey W. Henderson, Atsushi Okumura, Trenton Bushmaker, Ayato Takada, Chad S. Clancy, Gábor Kemenesi, Andrea Marzi","doi":"10.3201/eid3012.240818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.240818","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The first isolate of the emerging filovirus Lloviu virus (LLOV) was obtained in 2022. No animal disease models have been established. We assessed the pathogenic potential of LLOV in ferrets after intranasal, intramuscular, or aerosol exposure. The lack of disease development shows ferrets are not a disease model for LLOV.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142690537","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}
Gideon Loevinsohn, Cecilia Then Paulino, Jessica Spring, Holly R. Hughes, Angela Cadavid Restrepo, Helen Mayfield, Michael de St. Aubin, Janeen Laven, Amanda Panella, William Duke, Marie Caroline Etienne, Gabriela Abdalla, Salome Garnier, Naomi Iihoshi, Beatriz Lopez, Lucia de la Cruz, Bernarda Henríquez, Margaret Baldwin, Farah Peña, Adam J. Kucharski, Marietta Vasquez, Emily Zielinski Gutiérrez, Aaron C. Brault, Ronald Skewes-Ramm, Colleen L. Lau, Eric J. Nilles
{"title":"Chikungunya Outbreak Risks after the 2014 Outbreak, Dominican Republic","authors":"Gideon Loevinsohn, Cecilia Then Paulino, Jessica Spring, Holly R. Hughes, Angela Cadavid Restrepo, Helen Mayfield, Michael de St. Aubin, Janeen Laven, Amanda Panella, William Duke, Marie Caroline Etienne, Gabriela Abdalla, Salome Garnier, Naomi Iihoshi, Beatriz Lopez, Lucia de la Cruz, Bernarda Henríquez, Margaret Baldwin, Farah Peña, Adam J. Kucharski, Marietta Vasquez, Emily Zielinski Gutiérrez, Aaron C. Brault, Ronald Skewes-Ramm, Colleen L. Lau, Eric J. Nilles","doi":"10.3201/eid3012.240824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.240824","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 2014 chikungunya outbreak in the Dominican Republic resulted in intense local transmission, with high postoutbreak seroprevalence. The resulting population immunity will likely minimize risk for another large outbreak through 2035, but changes in population behavior or environmental conditions or emergence of different virus strains could lead to increased transmission. </p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142690539","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}
Anuradha Chowdhary, Gaston I. Jofre, Ashutosh Singh, Andrius J. Dagilis, Victoria E. Sepúlveda, Allison T McClure, Daniel R. Matute
{"title":"Autochthonous Blastomyces dermatitidis, India","authors":"Anuradha Chowdhary, Gaston I. Jofre, Ashutosh Singh, Andrius J. Dagilis, Victoria E. Sepúlveda, Allison T McClure, Daniel R. Matute","doi":"10.3201/eid3012.240830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.240830","url":null,"abstract":"<p><em>Blastomyces</em> spp. fungi, the causal agent of blastomycosis, are common in North America but do occur in other areas of the world. The most prevalent pathogen in the genus is <em>B. dermatitidis</em>. Most<em> B. dermatitidis</em> isolates originate from North America, but there are sporadic reports of <em>B. dermatitidis</em> recovery from Africa and Asia. High-quality reports that incorporate genetic information about the fungus outside North America have been rare. Genome sequencing of 3 fungal isolates from patients in India with chronic respiratory diseases revealed that the isolates belong to a genetically differentiated lineage of <em>B. dermatitidis</em>. Because the patients had no history of traveling outside of Asia, blastomycosis was most likely autochthonously acquired, which suggests a local population of <em>B. dermatitidis</em>. Our results suggest the endemic range of <em>B. dermatitidis</em> is larger than previously thought, calling for a reassessment of the geographic range of different agents of endemic mycoses.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"116 1-2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142690569","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}
Sunil More, Timothy A. Snider, Akhilesh Ramachandran
{"title":"Sporotrichosis in Domestic Cat and Zoonotic Transmission","authors":"Sunil More, Timothy A. Snider, Akhilesh Ramachandran","doi":"10.3201/eid3012.240864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.240864","url":null,"abstract":"Sporotrichosis Case in Domestic Cat and Zoonotic Transmission","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684257","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":"On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service","authors":"Dale J. Hu","doi":"10.3201/eid3012.241059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.241059","url":null,"abstract":"On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684285","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}
Anurag Kumar Kushwaha, Ashish Shukla, Breanna M. Scorza, Rahul Chaubey, Dharmendra Kumar Maurya, Tulika Kumari Rai, Shyamali Yaduvanshi, Shweta Srivastava, Gaetano Oliva, Epke A. Le Rutte, Rajiv Kumar, Om Prakash Singh, Puja Tiwary, Shakti Kumar Singh, Scott A. Bernhardt, Phillip Lawyer, Edgar Rowton, Christine A. Petersen, Shyam Sundar
{"title":"Dogs as Reservoirs for Leishmania donovani, Bihar, India, 2018–2022","authors":"Anurag Kumar Kushwaha, Ashish Shukla, Breanna M. Scorza, Rahul Chaubey, Dharmendra Kumar Maurya, Tulika Kumari Rai, Shyamali Yaduvanshi, Shweta Srivastava, Gaetano Oliva, Epke A. Le Rutte, Rajiv Kumar, Om Prakash Singh, Puja Tiwary, Shakti Kumar Singh, Scott A. Bernhardt, Phillip Lawyer, Edgar Rowton, Christine A. Petersen, Shyam Sundar","doi":"10.3201/eid3012.240649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.240649","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Visceral leishmaniasis derived from <em>Leishmania donovani</em> is transmitted by sand flies (<em>Phlebotomus argentipes</em>) throughout the Indian subcontinent<em>.</em> Although considered anthroponotic, <em>L. donovani</em> infects other mammals susceptible to sand fly bites, including dogs. Aggressive strategies to reduce sand fly populations in India have led to flies seeking nonhuman hosts, so understanding the role of dogs in <em>L. donovani</em> transmission has become critical. Our study investigated <em>L. donovani</em> infection in dogs and the potential for such infections to be transmitted back to sand flies. We performed xenodiagnosis by using <em>P. argentipes</em> on dogs (n = 73) with quantitative PCR–detectible parasitemia in both endemic and outbreak villages. We found that 12% (9/73) of dogs were infectious to sand flies during winter and rainy seasons. Patients with visceral leishmaniasis remain primary sources of <em>L. donovani</em> transmission, but our findings suggest a possible link between canine infection and human exposure.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684280","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}
Souci Louis, Grace Marx, Alison F. Hinckley, Shannan N. Rich, Susan E. Beekmann, Philip M. Polgreen, Matthew Kuehnert, Jessica N. Ricaldi, Scott Santibañez
{"title":"Perspectives of Infectious Disease Physicians on Bartonella quintana Cases, United States, 2014–2024","authors":"Souci Louis, Grace Marx, Alison F. Hinckley, Shannan N. Rich, Susan E. Beekmann, Philip M. Polgreen, Matthew Kuehnert, Jessica N. Ricaldi, Scott Santibañez","doi":"10.3201/eid3012.240655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.240655","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a US survey of infectious disease specialists, 61 respondents reported seeing <span>></span>1 <em>Bartonella quintana</em> infection during 2014–2024. Diagnostic challenges included limited healthcare provider awareness, inadequate testing, and inconsistent healthcare access among affected populations. Early recognition of <em>B. quintana</em> infections is needed to improve outcomes among affected populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684346","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":"Novel Mastadenovirus Infection as Cause of Pneumonia in Imported Black-and-White Colobuses (Colobus guereza), Thailand","authors":"Chutchai Piewbang, Sabrina Wahyu Wardhani, Panida Poonsin, Pattiya Lohavicharn, Ratchanon Tengtawon, Thanakrit Charoenrat, Sitthichok Lacharoje, Sawang Kesdangsakonwut, Tanit Kasantikul, Nathamon Kosoltanapiwat, Somporn Techangamsuwan","doi":"10.3201/eid3012.241042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.241042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We identified a novel mastadenovirus, herein referred to as colobus adenovirus (CoAdV), as the likely cause of fatal respiratory and enteric diseases in multiple black-and-white colobuses (<em>Colobus guereza</em>) imported into Thailand in 2022. Among 9 affected colobuses, 4 died. Viral antigen was abundant in respiratory and enteric tissues, where prominent lesions and clinical signs were observed. We successfully cultivated CoAdV in Vero cells and characterized the complete viral genome, which indicated the virus is genetically distinct from other simian adenoviruses. We also conducted a retrospective study of archival samples from 7 other unrelated colobuses that had respiratory distress or diarrhea and found similar viral strains in 4 of those colobuses. Although we could not determine the potential harm to humans or other nonhuman primates from current information, the zoonotic and spillover potential of this virus to other related hosts should not be neglected. Veterinarians should consider CoAdV when pneumonia is diagnosed in colobuses.</p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"180 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684286","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}
Arata Hidano, Dina Koeut, Hannah Holt, William T.M. Leung, Sokhom Krean, Vutha Chim, Bunnary Seng, Sovannecheypo Chao, Wong Foong Ying, Pov Son, Sina Vor, Sokchea Huy, Ty Chhay, Sothyra Tum, San Sorn, Monidarin Chou, Yvonne C.F. Su, Gavin J.D. Smith, James W. Rudge
{"title":"Transmission of Swine Influenza A Viruses along Pig Value Chains, Cambodia, 2020–2022","authors":"Arata Hidano, Dina Koeut, Hannah Holt, William T.M. Leung, Sokhom Krean, Vutha Chim, Bunnary Seng, Sovannecheypo Chao, Wong Foong Ying, Pov Son, Sina Vor, Sokchea Huy, Ty Chhay, Sothyra Tum, San Sorn, Monidarin Chou, Yvonne C.F. Su, Gavin J.D. Smith, James W. Rudge","doi":"10.3201/eid3012.240695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.240695","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We analyzed >4,000 pig samples from slaughterhouses in Cambodia and found higher influenza A seroprevalence (40.0%) and prevalence (1.5%) among pigs from commercial farms than smallholder farms (seroprevalence 8.9%; prevalence 0.6%). Multivariable analyses revealed evidence of transmission after leaving farms. Findings have implications for influenza risk and surveillance in emerging livestock systems. </p>","PeriodicalId":11595,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Infectious Diseases","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684278","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}