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2019-02-26Zeitschriftenartikel

Emergence of the East-Central-South-African genotype of Chikungunya virus in Brazil and the city of Rio de Janeiro may have occurred years before surveillance detection

Souza, Thiago Moreno L.; Rangel Vieira, Yasmine; Delatorre, Edson; Barbosa-Lima, Giselle; Luiz, Raul Leal Faria; Vizzoni, Alexandre; Jain, Komal; Mesquita Miranda, Milene; Bhuva, Nishit; Gogarten, Jan F.; Ng, James; Thakkar, Riddhi; Surrage Calheiros, Andrea; Monteiro, Ana Paula Teixeira; Bozza, Fernando A.; Tschoeke, Diogo A.; Leomil, Luciana; de Mendonça, Marcos Cesar Lima; dos Santos Rodrigues, Cintia Damasceno; Torres, Maria C.; Bispo de Filippis, Ana Maria; Ribeiro Nogueira, Rita Maria; Thompson, Fabiano L.; Lemos, Christina; Durovni, Betina; Cerbino-Neto, José; Morel, Carlos M.; Lipkin, W. Ian; Mishra, Nischay

Brazil, which is hyperendemic for dengue virus (DENV), has had recent Zika (ZIKV) and (CHIKV) Chikungunya virus outbreaks. Since March 2016, CHIKV is the arbovirus infection most frequently diagnosed in Rio de Janeiro. In ...

2018-12-22Zeitschriftenartikel

Sepsis prediction during outbreaks at neonatal intensive care units through body surface screening for Gram-negative bacteria: systematic review and meta-analysis

Harder, Thomas; Haller, Sebastian; Eckmanns, Tim; Seidel, Juliane

Objective This systematic review focusses on the prognostic accuracy of neonatal body surface screening during outbreaks caused by Gram-negative bacteria for prediction of sepsis. In a previous systematic review we reported ...

2018-10-01Zeitschriftenartikel

Profiling antimicrobial peptides from the medical maggot Lucilia sericata as potential antibiotics for MDR Gram-negative bacteria

Hirsch, Rolf; Wiesner, Jochen; Marker, Alexander; Pfeifer, Yvonne; Bauer, Armin; Hammann, Peter E.; Vilcinskas, Andreas

Background The ability of MDR Gram-negative bacteria to evade even antibiotics of last resort is a severe global challenge. The development pipeline for conventional antibiotics cannot address this issue, but antimicrobial ...

2018-11-06Zeitschriftenartikel

Rodent control to fight Lassa fever: Evaluation and lessons learned from a 4-year study in Upper Guinea

Saez, Almudena Mari; Haidara, Mory Cherif; Camara, Amara; Kourouma, Fodé; Sage, Mickaël; Magassouba, N'Faly; Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth

Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever caused by an arenavirus. The disease is endemic in West African countries, including Guinea. The rodents Mastomys natalensis and Mastomys erythroleucus have been identified as Lassa ...

2018-10-11Zeitschriftenartikel

Effects of long-term methylphenidate use on growth and blood pressure: results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS)

McCarthy, Suzanne; Neubert, Antje; Man, Kenneth K. C.; Banaschewski, Tobias; Buitelaar, Jan; Carucci, Sara; Coghill, David; Danckaerts, Marina; Falissard, Bruno; Garas, Peter; Häge, Alexander; Hollis, Chris; Inglis, Sarah; Kovshoff, Hanna; Liddle, Elizabeth; Mechler, Konstantin; Nagy, Peter; Rosenthal, Eric; Schlack, Robert; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund; Zuddas, Alessandro; Wong, Ian C. K.

Background Concerns have been raised over the safety of methylphenidate (MPH), with regard to adverse effects on growth and blood pressure. Our study investigates whether, and to what extent, methylphenidate use in boys ...

2018-10-17Zeitschriftenartikel

What motivates Ebola survivors to donate plasma during an emergency clinical trial? The case of Ebola-Tx in Guinea

Ronse, Maya; Saez, Almudena Mari; Gryseels, Charlotte; Bannister-Tyrrell, Melanie; Delamou, Alexandre; Guillard, Alain; Briki, Mustapha; Bigey, Frédéric; Haba, Nyankoye; van Griensven, Johan; Grietens, Koen Peeters

Introduction During the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic, the Ebola-Tx trial evaluated the use of convalescent plasma (CP) in Guinea. The effectiveness of plasmapheresis trials depends on the recruitment of plasma ...

2018-06-08Zeitschriftenartikel

Educational inequalities in subjective health in Germany from 1994 to 2014: a trend analysis using the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP)

Moor, Irene; Günther, Sebastian; Knöchelmann, Anja; Hoebel, Jens; Pförtner, Timo-Kolja; Lampert, Thomas; Richter, Matthias

Introduction As trend studies have shown, health inequalities by income and occupation have widened or remained stable. However, research on time trends in educational inequalities in health in Germany is scarce. The aim ...

2018-06-15Zeitschriftenartikel

Development of Mobile Laboratory for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Detection in Africa

Weidmann, Manfred; Faye, Ousmane; Faye, Oumar; Abd El Wahed, Ahmed; Patel, Pranav; Batejat, Christophe; Manugerra, Jean Claude; Adjami, Aimee; Niedrig, Matthias; Hufert, Frank T.; Sall, Amadou A.

Background A mobile laboratory transportable on commercial flights was developed to enable local response to viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. Methods The development progressed from use of mobile real-time ...

2018-04-12Zeitschriftenartikel

Gender inequalities in the association between area deprivation and perceived social support: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis at the municipality level in Germany

Mena, Emily; Kroll, Lars Eric; Maier, Werner; Bolte, Gabriele

Objectives To investigate the association between area deprivation at municipality level with low perceived social support, independent of individual socioeconomic position and demographic characteristics. To assess whether ...

2018-10-02Zeitschriftenartikel

Opportunistic HPV vaccination at age 16–23 and cervical screening attendance in Sweden: a national register-based cohort study

Kreusch, Teresa; Wang, Jiangrong; Sparén, Pär; Sundström, Karin

Objectives To investigate whether cervical screening attendance differs between human papillomavirus (HPV)-vaccinated and unvaccinated women and to investigate potential underlying socioeconomic factors. Design Prospective ...

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