Infectious Disease

• In the Journals

• Strain of MRSA associated with animal husbandry prevalent among veterinarians

• May 6, 2013
• A specific type of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — CC398 — is especially prevalent among veterinarians, and the infection seems...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• Clinicians urged to warn patients about pet frogs, salmonella risk

• April 29, 2013
• A nationwide outbreak of Salmonella typhimurium that occurred between 2008 and 2011 was linked to African dwarf frogs. Therefore, researchers for a recent...More »

• Zoonotic Infections

• Ecology, drivers and dynamics of zoonoses

• Infectious Disease News, March 2013
  Arnon Shimshony, MD
• More than 60% of human infectious diseases are caused by pathogens shared with wild or domestic animals. Human pathogens from all taxa contain zoonotic...More »

• ICAAC Overview Briefing

• September 22, 2012
• Members of the ICAAC Program Committee provide an overview of the 2012 ICAAC meeting and discuss sessions of particular interest. Leading the discussion ......More »

• Symptoms of Q fever pneumonia more severe than CAP

• July 12, 2012
• A prediction rule that identified patients at low-risk for Q fever pneumonia helped physicians from French Guiana make decisions about the use of...More »

• Contaminated surfaces lead to first human case of laboratory-acquired cowpox virus

• Infectious Disease News, August 2012
• Handling contaminated reagents or contact with contaminated surfaces was determined to be the most likely way that the first human case of...More »

• Animal contact poses risk for transmission of major enteric pathogens

• June 11, 2012
• Animal contact was responsible for transmission of multiple major enteric pathogens among US residents, with Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium and...More »

• Editorial

• New foot-and-mouth strain spreads across Gaza Strip

• Infectious Disease News, June 2012
  Arnon Shimshony, DVM
• On April 19, sick animals were detected in Rafah — a town on the border between the coastal Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip and Egypt. As...More »

• Zoonotic Infections

• Antibiotics in swine feed may promote bacterial gene exchange

• Infectious Disease News, February 2012
• Researchers have found that antibiotics in swine feed stimulated gene exchange in the intestinal microbial community and could therefore lead to transfer...More »

• P. knowlesi malaria circulating in Thailand for more than a decade

• Infectious Disease News, November 2011
• Researchers from Thailand identified Plasmodium knowlesi in human malaria cases from blood samples obtained in 1996, suggesting that this parasite is not...More »

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