Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is an established predictor of adverse health outcomes. The aim of this study is to investigate potential behavioral, interpersonal and socioeconomic correlates of CRF among men and women ...

Next-generation sequencing based base-by-base distance measures have become an integral complement to epidemiological investigation of infectious disease outbreaks. This study introduces PANPASCO, a computational pan-genome ...

Background: Campylobacter jejuni is a zoonotic pathogen that infects the human gut through the food chain mainly by consumption of undercooked chicken meat, raw chicken cross-contaminated ready-to-eat food or by raw ...

Background: Linezolid is an alternative treatment option for infections with multidrug-resistant Gram-positive bacteria including vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Some countries report an increasing number of isolates ...

Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic infection contracted through Toxoplasma gondii–contaminated food, soil, or water. Seroprevalence in Germany is high, but estimates of disease incidence are scarce. We investigated incidences for ...

Background: Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) is the only curative treatment modality for many patients affected by hematologic malignancies. However, it can cause debilitating long-term effects. ...

Hintergrund und Ziel der Arbeit: Informationen zur Mundgesundheit der Bevölkerung sind wichtig für die Einschätzung von (vermeidbarer) Krankheitslast, für die Einschätzung und Planung von Gesundheitsressourcen und -kosten ...

Hintergrund: Nicht-Cholera-Vibrionen nehmen im Rahmen des Klimawandels eine zunehmende Bedeutung als humane Pathogene ein, da die Prävalenz dieser Erreger im Meereswasser entscheidend von der Wassertemperatur abhängt. In ...

Background: To date, cost-effectiveness of influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations was assumed in several health economic modelling studies, but confirmation by real-world data is sparse. The aim of this study is to assess ...

Introduction: The aim of this mixed-method study was to determine the extent and determinants of inappropriate dispensing of antibiotics by licensed private drug retail outlets in Indonesia. Methods: Standardised patients ...