Hintergrund Dem Klimawandel werden profunde Einflüsse auf die Epidemiologie von Infektionskrankheiten zugeschrieben. Die obligat pathogenen Erreger endemischer Systemmykosen und die Erreger der Kryptokokkose sind ...

Background Evidence-based policy measures need non-interest-guided information about the health status of a population and the diseases that affect the population the most. In such cases, a national burden of disease study ...

Muttermilch ist im ersten halben Lebensjahr die ideale Ernährung für Säuglinge und bietet gesundheitliche Vorteile für Kind und Mutter. Im Rahmen des Gesundheitsmonitorings des Robert Koch-Institutes werden mit der Studie ...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden erstmals für Deutschland Inzidenz- und Überlebensraten für die beiden wesentlichen Formen des Speiseröhrenkarzinoms präsentiert, basierend auf den Daten der bevölkerungsbezogenen Krebsregister. ...

Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), associated with antimicrobial use (AMU), is a major public concern. Surveillance and monitoring systems are essential to assess and control the trends in AMU and AMR. However, ...

Background Many parasites (protozoa and helminths) can be transmitted through food and lead to infections with high morbidity, as well as disease outbreaks. Although the importance of foodborne parasites (FBP) is recognised ...

Background Squirrels (family Sciuridae) are globally distributed members of the order Rodentia with wildlife occurrence in indigenous and non-indigenous regions (as invasive species) and frequent presence in zoological ...

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a major concern worldwide, leading to an extensive search for alternative drugs. Promising candidates are antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), innate immunity molecules, shown to be highly ...

Background Depression is frequently accompanied by other mental disorders and various somatic diseases; however, previous comorbidity studies often relied on self-reported data and have not simultaneously assessed the ...

Porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) are integrated in the genome of pigs and are transmitted like cellular genes from parents to the offspring. Whereas PERV-A and PERV-B are present in all pigs, PERV-C was found to be ...