Patrizia Pasculli, Michele Antonacci, Maria Antonella Zingaropoli, Federica Dominelli, Federica Ciccone, Francesco Pandolfi, Yann Collins Fosso Ngangue, Giorgio Maria Masci, Roberta Campagna, Franco Iafrate, Valeria Panebianco, Carlo Catalano, Ombretta Turriziani, Gioacchino Galardo, Paolo Palange, Claudio Maria Mastroianni, Maria Ciardi
{"title":"SARS-CoV-2 vaccination influence in the development of Long-COVID clinical phenotypes.","authors":"Patrizia Pasculli, Michele Antonacci, Maria Antonella Zingaropoli, Federica Dominelli, Federica Ciccone, Francesco Pandolfi, Yann Collins Fosso Ngangue, Giorgio Maria Masci, Roberta Campagna, Franco Iafrate, Valeria Panebianco, Carlo Catalano, Ombretta Turriziani, Gioacchino Galardo, Paolo Palange, Claudio Maria Mastroianni, Maria Ciardi","doi":"10.1017/S0950268825000093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268825000093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143122494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wioleta Kitowska, Ana Cristina Gonzalez-Perez, Joana Sequeira Neto, Mari Kanerva, Heikki Kaukavuori, Irmeli Lindström, Heikki Frilander, Timothée Dub, Lotta Siira
{"title":"Second reported outbreak of pneumococcal pneumonia among shipyard employees in Turku, Finland, August - October 2023: a case-control study.","authors":"Wioleta Kitowska, Ana Cristina Gonzalez-Perez, Joana Sequeira Neto, Mari Kanerva, Heikki Kaukavuori, Irmeli Lindström, Heikki Frilander, Timothée Dub, Lotta Siira","doi":"10.1017/S0950268824001870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268824001870","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143079003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of temperatures on Malaria Incidence in vulnerable regions of Pakistan: Empirical Evidence and Future Projections.","authors":"Syeda Hira Fatima, Farrah Zaidi, Javeria Rafiq, Dinesh Bhandari, Asad Ali, Peng Bi","doi":"10.1017/S0950268825000111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268825000111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-38"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143064566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global climate change and seasonal variation of cellulitis in hospitalized children: A 30 year retrospective study.","authors":"Orli Megged, Allon Raphael, Amalia Burstyn, Noy Deri, Shepard Schwartz, Rachel Eisenberg, Ori Toker","doi":"10.1017/S0950268825000032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268825000032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143064564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José Mário Nunes da Silva, Fredi Alexander Diaz-Quijano
{"title":"The yield of tuberculosis contact investigation in São Paulo, Brazil: a community-based cross-sectional study.","authors":"José Mário Nunes da Silva, Fredi Alexander Diaz-Quijano","doi":"10.1017/S0950268824001675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268824001675","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The strategy of tuberculosis (TB) contact investigation is essential for enhancing disease detection. We conducted a cross-sectional study to evaluate the yield of contact investigation for new TB cases, estimate the prevalence of TB, and identify characteristics of index cases associated with infection among contacts of new cases notified between 2010 and 2020 in São Paulo, Brazil. Out of 186466 index TB cases, 131055 (70.3%) underwent contact investigation. A total of 652286 contacts were screened, of which 451704 (69.2%) were examined. Of these, 12243 were diagnosed with active TB (yield of 1.9%), resulting in a number needed to screen of 53 and a number needed to test of 37 to identify one new TB case. The weighted prevalence for the total contacts screened was 2.8% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.7%-2.9%), suggesting underreporting of 6021 (95% CI: 5269-6673) cases. The likelihood of TB diagnosis was higher among contacts of cases identified through active case-finding, abnormal chest X-ray, pulmonary TB, or drug resistance, as well as among children, adults, women, individuals in socially vulnerable situations, and those with underlying clinical conditions. The study highlights significant TB underreporting among contacts, recommending strengthened contact investigation to promptly identify and treat new cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":"153 ","pages":"e20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143064573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joshua Hayes, Seung Soo Lee, Jason Carnevale, Daniel Shamir, Marc Bohbot, Andrew G Kirk, Miltiadis Paliouras, Mark A Trifiro
{"title":"Performance and Functional Assessment of the Kimera P-IV Point-of-Care Plasmonic qPCR Prototype for Ultra Rapid Pathogen Detection of Chlamydia Trachomatis.","authors":"Joshua Hayes, Seung Soo Lee, Jason Carnevale, Daniel Shamir, Marc Bohbot, Andrew G Kirk, Miltiadis Paliouras, Mark A Trifiro","doi":"10.1017/S0950268825000081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268825000081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143064571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospective study of peripartum group B streptococcus colonization in Japanese mothers and neonates - ERRATUM.","authors":"Emiko Yoshida, Jun Takeda, Yojiro Maruyama, Naoko Suga, Satoru Takeda, Hajime Arai, Atsuo Itakura, Shintaro Makino","doi":"10.1017/S0950268825000020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268825000020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":"153 ","pages":"e19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143046010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nea Koskela, Julia Butt, Birgitta Michels, Kari Syrjänen, Seija Grenman, Tim Waterboer, Stina Syrjänen, Karolina Louvanto
{"title":"Risk factors associated with IgG seropersistence to Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium.","authors":"Nea Koskela, Julia Butt, Birgitta Michels, Kari Syrjänen, Seija Grenman, Tim Waterboer, Stina Syrjänen, Karolina Louvanto","doi":"10.1017/S095026882500007X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S095026882500007X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143028222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L Hannah Gould, Emily Colby, Andreas Pilz, Gordon Brestrich, Kate Halsby, Patrick Kelly, Jennifer Moisi, James Stark
{"title":"Lyme borreliosis awareness and risk perception-a survey in twenty European countries.","authors":"L Hannah Gould, Emily Colby, Andreas Pilz, Gordon Brestrich, Kate Halsby, Patrick Kelly, Jennifer Moisi, James Stark","doi":"10.1017/S0950268825000068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268825000068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143022863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sophie L Campman, Anders Boyd, Janke Schinkel, Liza Coyer, Charles Agyemang, Henrike Galenkamp, Anitra Koopman, Felix Chilunga, Jelle Koopsen, Aeilko Zwinderman, Suzanne Jurriaans, Karien Stronks, Maria Prins
{"title":"SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination status in six ethnic groups in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May-November 2022.","authors":"Sophie L Campman, Anders Boyd, Janke Schinkel, Liza Coyer, Charles Agyemang, Henrike Galenkamp, Anitra Koopman, Felix Chilunga, Jelle Koopsen, Aeilko Zwinderman, Suzanne Jurriaans, Karien Stronks, Maria Prins","doi":"10.1017/S0950268825000056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268825000056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143022864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}