IDCR: Infectious Diseases in Corrections Report, Vol. 9 No. 5

Correction Vol. 8, No. 7

In Time-Space Clustering of Human Brucellosis, California, 1973–1992, by G. Fosgate et al., an error appears in the results section. The corrected sentence appears below and online at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol8no7/01-0351.htm . The Brucella species was identified in 229 (55%) of the 416 cases analyzed. B abortus was isolated from 39 cases, B. melitensis from 181, and B. suis from 9. We ...

Combination antifungal therapy without craniotomy in an immunocompromised patient with rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis: A case report

Correction, Vol. 8, No. 12

406 Emerging Infectious Diseases • Vol. 9, No. 3, March 2003 Correction, Vol. 8, No. 12 In the article "Induction of Inflammation by West Nile virus Capsid through the Caspase-9 Apoptotic Pathway" by Joo-Sung Yang, et al., errors occurred in the Figure 5 caption on page 1384: delta symbols inadvertantly dropped or were replaced by the letter "d." The corrected caption appears below and online h...

Pneumocystis carinii versus Pneumocystis jiroveci: Another Misnomer (Response to Stringer et al.)

276 Emerging Infectious Diseases • Vol. 9, No. 2, February 2003 the prevalence of HIV positivity among our patients is unknown, a preliminary study from Yangon shows that the prevalence of drug-resistant TB among HIV-seropositive and seronegative patients is the same (pers. comm., Myanmar national TB programs]. To our knowledge, this report is the first to describe drugresistant patterns in M. ...

First report of MIRU-VNTR genotyping of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis isolates from Egypt

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the causative agent of Johne’s disease, an economically important disease in ruminants worldwide. It was first isolated in Egypt in 2005. Since then, the pathogen has been detected in different Egyptian provinces. In order to trace the source of infection, genotyping using simple methods of high discriminatory power such as mycobacterial inte...