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Adherence to preventive treatment for latent tuberculosis infection in close contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in China 肺结核患者密切接触者坚持潜伏肺结核感染预防治疗的情况:中国集群随机对照试验》。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107196
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Anti-filarial antibodies are sensitive indicators of lymphatic filariasis transmission and enable identification of high-risk populations and hotspots 抗丝虫抗体是淋巴丝虫病传播的敏感指标,可用于识别高危人群和热点地区。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107194
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Pathogen characteristics of respiratory infections in the season after the COVID-19 pandemic between August and December 2023: evidence from direct-to-consumer testing-based surveillance in Guangzhou and Beijing, China 2023年8月至12月COVID-19大流行后季节呼吸道感染的病原体特征:中国广州和北京基于消费者直接检测的监测证据。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107195
{"title":"Pathogen characteristics of respiratory infections in the season after the COVID-19 pandemic between August and December 2023: evidence from direct-to-consumer testing-based surveillance in Guangzhou and Beijing, China","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>In the fall-winter of 2023, China experienced its first epidemic season of respiratory diseases since the COVID-19 pandemic. Gathering timely data about pathogenetic characteristics of respiratory infections is crucial to complement current respiratory surveillance mechanisms in China. Data from direct-to-consumer (DTC) multi-respiratory pathogen (MRP) testing could serve as a novel source of multi-pathogen data for community-based surveillance.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>A pioneering initiative was launched to detect multiple respiratory pathogens in Beijing and Guangzhou, China. DTC MRP tests were used to provide proactive surveillance ahead of medical services.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>A total of 28,018 participants were enrolled between 22 August and 10 December 2023. Positive findings for at least one respiratory pathogen were observed in 26,202 (93.5%) participants. Influenza virus A, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and human adenovirus are the three leading viral pathogens detected with proportions of 18.0%, 10.6%, and 8.8%. Viral-bacterial pathogens were co-detected in 9736 (34.7%) of participants, which reduced to 22.2% for bacterial-bacterial co-detection, and 22.0% for bacterial mono-detection. The epidemiological ecology of respiratory pathogens within both viral clusters and specific pathogens varied among cities. The peak of RSV epidemics in Guangzhou occurred in the fall of 2023, earlier than in Beijing.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The innovative program offered enhanced surveillance capabilities beyond traditional methods, enabling prompt feedback about test results and mitigating the risk of cross-infection caused by waits in healthcare facilities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":14006,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infectious Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971224002662/pdfft?md5=2a902014af0e2a5cbdc21ea329e4964e&pid=1-s2.0-S1201971224002662-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141792471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Corrigendum to “Safety and effectiveness of isavuconazole in real-life non-neu tropenic patients” [International Journal of Infectious Diseases 144 (2024) 107070] 对 "异黄康唑在现实生活中对非新城疫患者的安全性和有效性 "的更正[《国际传染病杂志》144 (2024) 107070]。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107188
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Pandemic burden in low-income settings and impact of limited and delayed interventions: A granular modelling analysis of COVID-19 in Kabwe, Zambia 低收入环境中的大流行病负担以及有限和延迟干预措施的影响:对赞比亚卡布韦 COVID-19 的粒度模型分析。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107182
{"title":"Pandemic burden in low-income settings and impact of limited and delayed interventions: A granular modelling analysis of COVID-19 in Kabwe, Zambia","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107182","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107182","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>Pandemic response in low-income countries (LICs) or settings often suffers from scarce epidemic surveillance and constrained mitigation capacity. The drivers of pandemic burden in such settings, and the impact of limited and delayed interventions remain poorly understood.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We analysed COVID-19 seroprevalence and all-cause excess deaths data from the peri-urban district of Kabwe, Zambia between March 2020 and September 2021 with a novel mathematical model. Data encompassed three consecutive waves caused by the wild-type, Beta and Delta variants.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Across all three waves, we estimated a high cumulative attack rate, with 78% (95% credible interval [CrI] 71-85) of the population infected, and a high all-cause excess mortality, at 402 (95% CrI 277-473) deaths per 100,000 people. Ambitiously improving health care to a capacity similar to that in high-income settings could have averted up to 46% (95% CrI 41-53) of accrued excess deaths, if implemented from June 2020 onward. An early and accelerated vaccination rollout could have achieved the highest reductions in deaths. Had vaccination started as in some high-income settings in December 2020 and with the same daily capacity (doses per 100 population), up to 68% (95% CrI 64-71) of accrued excess deaths could have been averted. Slower rollouts would have still averted 62% (95% CrI 58-68), 54% (95% CrI 49-61) or 26% (95% CrI 20-38) of excess deaths if matching the average vaccination capacity of upper-middle-, lower-middle- or LICs, respectively.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Robust quantitative analyses of pandemic data are of pressing need to inform future global pandemic preparedness commitments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":14006,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infectious Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971224002534/pdfft?md5=cd8b2c77f819d495696470bdcbe902cd&pid=1-s2.0-S1201971224002534-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141787966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dengue outbreaks in Brazil and Latin America: the new and continuing challenges 巴西和拉丁美洲的登革热疫情:新的和持续的挑战。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107192
{"title":"Dengue outbreaks in Brazil and Latin America: the new and continuing challenges","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>To compare the number of suspected cases, severe cases, and deaths of dengue in 2023 and 2024 in Brazil and Latin America; and to describe its epidemiological profile.</p></div><div><h3>Design</h3><p>Observational study.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The data regarding dengue was retrieved from the Brazilian Ministry of Health website. The Chi-square test was used to compare the proportion of dengue cases in 2023 and 2024 according to gender, race, and age range. The odds ratio and the 95% confidence intervals were used to describe the data. The Spearman correlation test was used to compare the number of suspected cases, severe cases, and deaths of dengue with the number of distributed vaccines against dengue.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Dengue is one of the most common zoonoses in Latin America. In 2023, Brazil registered a total of 1,658,814 suspected cases of dengue with 1094 deaths. For 2024, a total of 1,978,372 suspected cases of dengue were reported only until the 11th epidemiological week, with 656 deaths. When comparing dengue cases reported in 2024 and 2023, there is an increase in suspected cases, with 20% more cases reported during the first 11 epidemiological weeks of 2024 than in the entire 52 epidemiological weeks of 2023. At the same time, in 2024, the Pan American Health Organization reported suspected cases in 20 Latin American countries, with 3073 cases of severe dengue and 1187 deaths. In Brazil, a different racial profile for dengue was described since Black people [OR = 1.56 (95% CI = 1.54-1.57)], Mixed individuals [OR = 1.36 (95% CI = 1.35-1.37), and Indigenous peoples [OR = 1.77 (95% CI = 1.70-1.85)] were more likely to be suspected cases of dengue in 2024 compared to 2023. Also, a positive correlation between the distributed vaccines with deaths due to dengue and the number of severe cases was described.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Brazil was responsible for more than 50% of suspected cases and deaths from dengue compared to the other Latin American countries in 2024. Furthermore, there is a different racial profile for dengue in Brazil, as Black people, Mixed individuals, and Indigenous peoples were more likely to be suspected cases of dengue in 2024 compared to 2023.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":14006,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infectious Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971224002637/pdfft?md5=be7b0769e2332d3969a74be3c319deb3&pid=1-s2.0-S1201971224002637-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141787965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A novel variant of Chlamydia psittaci causing human psittacosis in China 在中国引起人类鹦鹉热的新型鹦鹉热衣原体变种。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107180
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A set of diagnostic tests for detection of active Babesia duncani infection 一套用于检测活动性巴贝西亚登卡尼虫感染的诊断测试。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107178
{"title":"A set of diagnostic tests for detection of active Babesia duncani infection","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>Human babesiosis is an emerging and potentially fatal tick-borne disease caused by intraerythrocytic parasites of the <em>Babesia</em> genus. Among these, <em>Babesia duncani</em> is particularly notable for causing severe and life-threatening illness in humans. Accurate diagnosis and effective disease management hinge on the detection of active <em>B. duncani</em> infections. While molecular assays are available to detect the parasite in blood, a reliable method for identifying biomarkers of active infection remains elusive.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We developed the first <em>B. duncani</em> antigen capture assays, targeting two immunodominant antigens, BdV234 and BdV38. These assays were validated using established <em>in vitro</em> and <em>in vivo B. duncani</em> infection models, and following drug treatment.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The assays demonstrated no cross-reactivity with other species such as <em>B. microti, B. divergens, Babesia MO1,</em> or <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>, and can detect as few as 115 infected erythrocytes/µl of blood. Screening of 1731 blood samples from various biorepositories, including samples previously identified as Lyme and/or <em>B. microti</em>-positive, as well as new specimens from wild mice, revealed no evidence of <em>B. duncani</em> infection or cross-reactivity.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>These assays hold significant promise for various applications, including point-of-care testing for the early detection of <em>B. duncani</em> in patients, field tests for screening reservoir hosts, and high-throughput screening of blood samples intended for transfusion.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":14006,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infectious Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971224002492/pdfft?md5=51cc4e496e05633f51a71baccbfbf394&pid=1-s2.0-S1201971224002492-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141723549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Reactivation of herpes simplex virus 2 presenting as recurrent acute retinal necrosis following COVID-19 vaccination 接种 COVID-19 疫苗后,表现为复发性急性视网膜坏死的单纯疱疹病毒 2 复发。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107170
{"title":"Reactivation of herpes simplex virus 2 presenting as recurrent acute retinal necrosis following COVID-19 vaccination","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107170","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107170","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a vision-threatening uveitis caused by herpesviruses reactivation, which has recently been suggested to be associated with COVID-19 infection and after vaccination against it.</p></div><div><h3>Case description</h3><p>We present the case of a 58-year-old Japanese woman with ARN in the left eye due to herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV2) two days after receiving the fifth dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. The patient demonstrated an ARN history in the right eye and had been treated for it. The patient was administered oral steroids and immunosuppressive drugs for mixed connective tissue disease and organizing pneumonia. The patient was treated with intravenous acyclovir and foscarnet, and a vitrectomy was performed for retinal detachment. The lesion took approximately two months to scar.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>This report suggests that patients with an ARN history might be at risk of ARN recurrence because of the reactivation of the herpes simplex virus induced by COVID-19 vaccination.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":14006,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infectious Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971224002418/pdfft?md5=ae6afe931470e5631dac0c3b0d156135&pid=1-s2.0-S1201971224002418-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141723552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of lung transplantation in patients with severe COVID-19 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis 严重 COVID-19 感染患者的临床特征和肺移植结果:系统回顾和荟萃分析。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107176
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