Katrin Mende, Miriam L Beckius, Wendy C Zera, Fatma Onmus-Leone, Clinton K Murray, David R Tribble
{"title":"Low Prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae among wounded military personnel.","authors":"Katrin Mende, Miriam L Beckius, Wendy C Zera, Fatma Onmus-Leone, Clinton K Murray, David R Tribble","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are a global health problem that affect both civilian and military populations. Among wounded warriors, MDROs further complicate the care of trauma-related infections, resulting in extended duration of hospitalization, as well as increased morbidity and mortality. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae were frequently isolated from wounded warriors. The potential emergence of difficult-to-treat carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae represented a serious challenge for clinicians. We examined carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae prevalence among wounded military personnel over a 6-year period (2009-2015). Among 4090 Enterobacteriaceae isolates collected, 16 (0.4%) were carbapenem-resistant, of which the majority was Enterobacter aerogenes (44%) followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (37%), and Escherichia coli (19%). Five isolates (31%) collected from 2 patients were carbapenemase-producers with one associated with an infection. All 5 carbapenemase-producing isolates were resistant to all tested carbapenems and each carried one carbapenemase gene (4 with blaKPC-3 and 1 with blaNDM-1). Overall, although a large number of Enterobacteriaceae isolates were collected, only a small proportion was carbapenem-resistant and data indicate a lack of a cluster. Due to these limited numbers, it is difficult to make any conclusions regarding the association between carbapenem resistance, antibiotic exposure, and clinical outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 2-17","pages":"12-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5577940/pdf/nihms846365.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35357836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A location-specific spreadsheet for estimating Zika risk and timing for Zika vector surveillance, using US military facilities as an example.","authors":"Desmond H Foley, David B Pecor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Local Zika virus transmission in the United States involving one or both of the known vector species, Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus, is of major concern. To assist efforts to anticipate the risks of transmission, we developed an Excel spreadsheet tool that uses vector and virus temperature thresholds, remotely sensed maximum temperature, and habitat suitability models to answer the questions: \"is Zika transmission likely here?\" and \"when should we conduct vector surveillance?\" An example spreadsheet, updated regularly and freely available, uses near real-time and forecast temperature data to generate guidance, based on a novel four level Zika risk code, for 733 US military facilities in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of Guam and Puerto Rico.</p>","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 1-17","pages":"34-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35001386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Will K Reeves, Myrna M Miller, Orhan Bayik, Leah Chapman
{"title":"Operational mosquito and vector-borne diseases surveillance at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey.","authors":"Will K Reeves, Myrna M Miller, Orhan Bayik, Leah Chapman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Arboviruses on Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, pose a threat to military personnel and civilians, but might also be relevant for understanding the threats in neighboring conflict zones such as Syria. We reviewed 6 years of mosquito and arbovirus surveillance at Incirlik Air Base. Over 6,000 mosquitoes were identified as Aedes caspius, Anopheles claviger, Culex mimeticus, Cx. perexiguus, Cx. pipiens, Cx. sinaiticus, and Culiseta longiareolata. Almost all of the mosquitoes (more than 90%) were Cx. perexiguus or Cx. pipiens. Both West Nile virus and Sindbis virus were detected in 6 mosquito pools among collections made in 2013, 2014, and 2015.</p>","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 1-17","pages":"86-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35002849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren Wilkerson, Martin Reyna Nava, Cheryl Battle-Freeman, Amelia Travassos da Rosa, Hilda Guzman, Robert Tesh, Mustapha Debboun
{"title":"The role of birds in arboviral disease surveillance in Harris County and the City of Houston, Texas.","authors":"Lauren Wilkerson, Martin Reyna Nava, Cheryl Battle-Freeman, Amelia Travassos da Rosa, Hilda Guzman, Robert Tesh, Mustapha Debboun","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Avian arboviral surveillance is an integral part of any disease-based integrated mosquito control program. The Harris County Public Health Mosquito and Vector Control Division has performed arboviral surveillance in the wild birds of Harris County and the City of Houston since 1965. Blood samples from live trapped birds were tested for arboviral antibodies to West Nile virus (WNV), St. Louis encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis, and Western equine encephalitis. A dead bird surveillance program was created in 2002 with the arrival of WNV in Harris County. Since implementation, the program has detected considerable variability in viral activity with annual WNV seroprevelance rates ranging from 2.9% to 17.7%, while the percentage of positive dead birds has ranged from 0.3% to 57.2%. In 2015, 1,345 live birds were sampled and 253 dead birds were tested, with WNV incidence rates of 16.5% and 5.9%, respectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 1-17","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6298035/pdf/nihms-998197.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35001383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leopoldo M Rueda, James E Pecor, Matthew Wolkoff, David Pecor, Sarah Benyamin, Philippe Boussès, Mustapha Debboun
{"title":"New records, distribution, and updated checklists of old world Phlebotomine sand flies, with emphasis on Africa, southwest Asia, and central Asia.","authors":"Leopoldo M Rueda, James E Pecor, Matthew Wolkoff, David Pecor, Sarah Benyamin, Philippe Boussès, Mustapha Debboun","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article includes new records, distribution, and updated checklist of Phlebotomine sand flies (Psychodidae, Diptera) in the Old World (Africa including West Indian Ocean Islands, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia) based on specimen collections housed in different repositories worldwide. About 124 species have primary types housed in 5 repositories including holotypes (45 species, 4 subspecies), syntypes (28 species, 3 subspecies), \"types\" (14 species), allotypes (10 species), paratypes (36 species, 3 subspecies), lectotypes (13 species), and cotype (5 species), mounted on 671 slides. New abbreviations were proposed for 2 subgenera in the genus Phlebotomus and 6 subgenera in the genus Sergentomyia. New country records were noted in Phlebotomus (4 species in 4 subgenera in 7 countries) and Sergentomyia (10 species in 4 subgenera in 8 countries). For species diversity in the Old World, Phlebotomus includes 92 species and 7 subspecies in 9 subgenera, while Sergentomyia includes 166 species and 16 subspecies in 12 subgenera. A total of 95 species and 7 subspecies of 2 genera (Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia) were recorded in Africa while about 26 species and 16 subspecies in Southwest Asia and Central Asia.</p>","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 1-17","pages":"65-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35001390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melissa N Garcia, Thomas L Cropper, Sarah M Gunter, Mathew M Kramm, Mary T Pawlak, Walter Roachell, Shannon E Ronca, Ralph A Stidham, Bryant J Webber, Heather C Yun
{"title":"Vector-borne diseases of public health importance for personnel on military installations in the United States.","authors":"Melissa N Garcia, Thomas L Cropper, Sarah M Gunter, Mathew M Kramm, Mary T Pawlak, Walter Roachell, Shannon E Ronca, Ralph A Stidham, Bryant J Webber, Heather C Yun","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 1-17","pages":"90-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35002850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indirect military occupational lead exposure to children at home: a case report.","authors":"Paul O Kwon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 1-17","pages":"112-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35002854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leopoldo M Rueda, Heung-Chul Kim, Sung-Tae Chong, Terry A Klein, Mustapha Debboun
{"title":"Biosurveillance and morphological variations of larvae and pupae of common malaria vectors, Anopheles (Anopheles) Hyrcanus group species in the Republic of Korea.","authors":"Leopoldo M Rueda, Heung-Chul Kim, Sung-Tae Chong, Terry A Klein, Mustapha Debboun","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A total of 4,576 Anopheles (Anopheles) Hyrcanus Group larvae belonging to 6 species (An. belenrae, An. kleini, An. sinensis, An. pullus, An. lesteri, and An. sineroides) were collected from 7 different habitat types in 3 provinces of the Republic of Korea. The occurrence and relative abundance of 6 Anopheles species were noted. The descriptions in the article of the waxy body ornamentations or patterns of An. (Ano.) Hyrcanus Group larvae and pupae may be useful for rapid field species identification when conducting larval mosquito surveillance.</p>","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 1-17","pages":"47-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35001387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges of practicing environmental epidemiology in the US military.","authors":"Coleen Baird, Jessica Sharkey, Joel Gaydos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 1-17","pages":"106-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35002852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lee P McPhatter, Paula D Mischler, Meiling Z Webb, Kamal Chauhan, Erica J Lindroth, Alec G Richardson, Mustapha Debboun
{"title":"Laboratory and semi-field evaluations of two (transfluthrin) spatial repellent devices against Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae).","authors":"Lee P McPhatter, Paula D Mischler, Meiling Z Webb, Kamal Chauhan, Erica J Lindroth, Alec G Richardson, Mustapha Debboun","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two transfluthrin-based spatial repellent products (Raid Dual Action Insect Repellent and Home Freshener and Raid Shield (currently not commercially available), SC Johnson, Racine WI) were evaluated for spatial repellent effects against female Aedes aegypti (L.) mosquitoes under laboratory (wind tunnel) and semi-field (outdoor enclosure) conditions. The placement of either product in the wind tunnel significantly reduced host-seeking behaviors. The mean baseline (control) landing counts for the Raid Dual Action and Raid Shield were reduced by 95% and 74% respectively. Mean probing counts for the Raid Dual Action were reduced by 95%, while the probing counts for the Raid Shield were decreased by 69%. Baseline blood-feeding success was significantly reduced for both treatments: Raid Dual Action (100%) and Raid Shield (96%). Semi-field evaluations were conducted in outdoor enclosures at the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence, Jacksonville, Florida. A moderate reduction in mosquito entry into military style tents resulted when either product was placed near the tent opening. The Raid Shield reduced mosquito entry into tents by 88%, while the Dual Action decreased entry by 66%.</p>","PeriodicalId":88789,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Army Medical Department journal","volume":" 1-17","pages":"13-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35001384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}