Im Epidemiologischen Bulletin 42/2019 berichtet das NRZ für Staphylokokken und Enterokokken über Häufigkeit, Eigenschaften und Verbreitung von MRSA in Deutschland. Trotz rückläufiger MRSA-Prävalenzen und -Inzidenzen ergibt ...

Die globale Polioeradikationsinitiative der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) und ihrer Partner (GPEI) wurde vor über 30 Jahren initiiert. Das endgültige Eradikationsziel konnte auch 2018 nicht erreicht werden. Die WHO ...

Emerging virus diseases present a global threat to public health. To detect viral pathogens in time-critical scenarios, accurate and fast diagnostic assays are required. Such assays can now be established using mass ...

We screened ticks and human clinical specimens to detect and characterize tick phleboviruses and pathogenicity in vertebrates. Ticks were collected at locations in Istanbul (Northwest Anatolia, Thrace), Edirne, Kırklareli, ...

The Gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes occurs ubiquitously in the environment and infects humans upon ingestion. It encodes four PadR-like repressors, out of which LftR has been characterized previously and was ...

The increasing labor market participation of women in Europe leads to many women and men having to reconcile paid work with family work and thus reporting work-family conflict (WFC). WFC is related to different dimensions ...

Porcine circovirus 3 (PCV3) is a newly described member of the virus family Circoviridae. PCV3 is highly distributed among pigs and wild boars worldwide. A sudden introduction of PCV3 was recently observed in a herd of ...

Dietary supplements may contribute to nutrient intake; however, actual data on dietary supplement use among adolescents living in Germany are rare. The aim of this analysis was to describe the current use of dietary ...

The development of an educational concept of a training programme for infection prevention and control (IPC) was seen as a key issue to successfully address the complexity of change processes of professional IPC routines ...