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European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology.
Publisher:
Vieweg,. Berlin : Springer
Frequency: Twelve no. a year
Country: Germany
Language: English
Author(s):
European Society of Clinical Microbiology.
Start Year:1988 -
ISSN:
0934-9723 (Print)
1435-4373 (Electronic)
0934-9723 (Linking)
1435-4373 (Electronic)
0934-9723 (Linking)
Impact Factor
4.5
2022
| NLM ID: | 8804297 |
| (DNLM): | SR0062107(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 17800606 |
| Coden: | EJCDEU |
| LCCN: | sn 88026544 |
| Classification: | W1 EU72CHJ |
West Nile virus: an overview of its spread in Europe and the Mediterranean basin in contrast to its spread in the Americas. West Nile (WN) virus is a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus. It is widely distributed in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and southern Europe and was recently introduced to North America. Birds are involved in the cycle of transmission as amplifying hosts. Humans and horses are considered accidental dead-end hosts. WN fever was initially considered a minor arbovirosis, usually inducing a nonsymptomatic or a mild flu-like illness in humans, but some cases of encephalitis associated with fatalities were reported in Israel in the 1950s. After two silent decades, several human and equine outbreaks of ...
A case of equine granulocytic ehrlichiosis provides molecular evidence for the presence of pathogenic anaplasma phagocytophilum (HGE agent) in Germany. Based on seroprevalence studies and tick infection rates, tick-borne human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) is thought to occur in Germany, but to date no clinical case has been detected. Reported here are the first ehrlichial sequences derived from a German horse that fell ill with granulocytic ehrlichiosis. The analysis of three different genes (16S rRNA gene, groESL, and ankA) revealed up to 100% identity with ehrlichial sequences derived from patients with HGE in other countries or from infected ticks in Germany. Thus, the current lack of clinical cases of HGE in Germany is unlikely to resu...
Serologic responses to Rhodococcus equi in individuals with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection. Thirty healthy blood donors, 15 workers from horse-breeding farms, 69 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative persons at risk for HIV infection, 125 HIV-infected subjects without Rhodococcus equi infection, and nine HIV-infected patients with Rhodococcus equi pneumonia were evaluated in order to detect serum antibodies to Rhodococcus equi precipitate-soluble antigen by an enzyme immunoassay (EIA). Whereas EIA values for healthy donors, horse farm workers, individuals at risk for HIV infection, and HIV-positive subjects without Rhodococcus equi infection were comparable, HIV-infected patien...
Infection due to Actinobacillus lignieresii after a horse bite. No abstract available
