Bats are suspected to be a reservoir of several bacterial and viral pathogens relevant to animal and human health, but studies on Escherichia coli in these animals are sparse. We investigated the presence of E. coli in ...

In jungen Jahren erfolgt die Gesundheitsversorgung vor allem durch niedergelassene Ärztinnen und Ärzte. Analysiert wird in diesem Beitrag die Inanspruchnahme gesundheitlicher Versorgung von Kindern und Jugendlichen. ...

Clostridium (C.) chauvoei is a Gram-positive, spore forming, anaerobic bacterium. It causes black leg in ruminants, a typically fatal histotoxic myonecrosis. High quality circular genome sequences were generated for the ...

Hintergrund: Männer wollen sich heute stärker als früher in die Erziehung ihrer Kinder einbringen, sind aber zugleich beruflich stark eingebunden. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt, welche Bedeutung Elternschaft, ...

Campylobacter infection is the most commonly notified bacterial enteritis in Germany. We performed a large combined case-control and source attribution study (Nov 2011-Feb 2014) to identify risk factors for sporadic ...

Objective: Over time, prevalence changes in individual diabetes risk factors have been observed for Germany and other European countries. We aimed to investigate the temporal change of a summary measure of type 2 ...

Analysis of complete capsid sequences of the emerging norovirus GII.17 Kawasaki 308 from 13 countries demonstrated that they originated from a single haplotype since the initial emergence in China in late 2014. Global ...

Background: Although human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) is transmitted via the same routes as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), its worldwide seroprevalence differs drastically because HTLV is transmitted mainly via ...