Browsing by Subject "80 and over"
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2010-02-28ZeitschriftenartikelCharacteristics and risk factors for symptomatic Giardia lamblia infections in Germany Background: In developed countries, giardiasis is considered a travel related disease. However, routine surveillance data from Germany indicate that >50% of infections were acquired indigenously. We studied the epidemiological ...
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2009-11-12ZeitschriftenartikelClostridium difficile ribotypes 001, 017, and 027 are associated with lethal C. difficile infection in Hesse, Germany From January 2008 to April 2009, 72 cases of severe Clostridium difficile infection were reported from 18 different districts in the state of Hesse, Germany. A total of 41 C. difficile isolates from 41 patients were subjected ...
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2009-08-27ZeitschriftenartikelInfluenza A(H1N1)v in Germany: the first 10,000 cases The analysis of the first 10,000 cases of influenza A(H1N1)v in Germany confirms findings from other sources that the virus is currently mainly causing mild diseases, affecting mostly adolescents and young adults. Overall ...
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2009-10-16ZeitschriftenartikelLack of evidence for xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus(XMRV) in German prostate cancer patients Background: A novel gammaretrovirus named xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) has been recently identified and found to have a prevalence of 40% in prostate tumor samples from American patients carrying ...
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2010-02-04ZeitschriftenartikelListeriosis outbreak caused by acid curd cheese ‘Quargel’, Austria and Germany 2009 We report an outbreak of listeriosis in Austria and Germany due to the consumption of ‘Quargel’ cheese produced by an Austrian manufacturer. At the time of writing this report, the outbreak was known to account for 14 ...
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2009-10-15ZeitschriftenartikelLow ankle-brachial index predicts cardiovascular risk after acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack Background and purpose: A low ankle-brachial blood pressure index (ABI) is an established risk marker for cardiovascular disease and mortality in the general population, but little is known about its prognostic value in ...
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2009-09-01ZeitschriftenartikelPhylogeny and Disease Association of Shiga toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O91 The diversity and relatedness of 100 Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli O91 isolates from different patients were examined by multilocus sequence typing. We identified 10 specific sequence types (ST) and 4 distinct ...
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2007-06-01ZeitschriftenartikelSuccessful termination of a furunculosis outbreak due to lukS-lukF-positive, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in a German village by stringent decolonization, 2002-2005 Background: Skin infections due to Staphylococcus aureus have recently become a public concern, mainly because of emerging resistance against widely used antibiotics and specific virulence determinants. Strains harboring ...