Recent findings on Antibiotic Resistance (AR) have brought renewed attention to the comparison of data on AR from human and animal sectors. This is however a major challenge since the data is not harmonized. This study ...

Umgebungslärm ist eine große Belastung für die Menschen in Deutschland, insbesondere im urbanen Raum. Häufig sind mehrere Schallquellenarten für die Belastung verantwortlich. Die andauernde Belastung kann verschiedene und ...

Introduction The aim of this study was to estimate excess costs of depression in Germany and to examine the influence of sociodemographic and socioeconomic determinants. Methods Annual excess costs of depression per ...

Background Neonates are at major risk of sepsis, but data on neonatal sepsis incidence are scarce. We aimed to assess the incidence and mortality of neonatal sepsis worldwide. Methods We performed a systematic review ...

Improving the surveillance of tuberculosis (TB) is one of the eight core activities identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Respiratory Society to achieve TB elimination, defined as less than one ...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic is ongoing, with Europe and the Americas the current epicentres of transmission. As at 1 January, 2021, over 82 million cases and 1.8 million deaths have been reported ...

We report an outbreak of coronavirus disease with 74 cases related to a nightclub in Germany in March 2020. Staff members were particularly affected (attack rate 56%) and likely caused sustained viral transmission after ...

Here, we report the closed genome sequences of two representative Listeria monocytogenes strains belonging to PCR serogroup IVb, which are related to two large outbreaks of human listeriosis that affected Germany in 2015 ...