Kinder und Jugendliche haben im Vergleich zu Erwachsenen ein besonders hohes Risiko, Unfallverletzungen zu erleiden. Um Unfallverletzungen vorzubeugen, sind detaillierte Kenntnisse über das gesamte Unfallgeschehen und über ...

Objective: We aimed to retrospectively reconstruct the timing of transmission events and pathways in order to understand why extensive preventive measures and investigations were not sufficient to prevent new cases. ...

Introduction: In January 2013, the National Reference Centre for Salmonella (NRC) detected a salmonellosis cluster in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, caused by uncommon O4 non-agglutinating, monophasic Salmonella (S.) Typhimurium ...

Objectives: Time trends on the incidence and characteristics of invasive vulvar cancer in Germany have so far been studied in few local population- and hospital based tumor registries. We aimed to provide an overview ...

Background: The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is the result of a transspecies transmission of a gammaretrovirus with fatal consequences for the new host. Like many retroviruses, KoRV induces lymphoma, leukemia and an ...

Legionella oakridgensis is able to cause Legionnaires’ disease, but is less virulent compared to L. pneumophila strains and very rarely associated with human disease. L. oakridgensis is the only species of the family ...

Background: Francisella isolates from patients suffering from tularemia in Germany are generally strains of the species F. tularensis subsp. holarctica. To our knowledge, no other Francisella species are known for ...

Background: Giardia duodenalis is a common flagellated protozoan parasite that infects the small intestine of a wide range of vertebrate hosts. This study aimed to determine whether tracing of G. duodenalis isolates by ...

Hintergrund: Die Ständige Impfkommission in Deutschland empfiehlt eine Impfung gegen humane Papillomviren der Hochrisikotypen 16 und 18. Die Dauer des Impfschutzes wurde in einigen Studien angegeben, bisher aber nicht ...