Staphylococcus aureus (SA) is a commensal bacterium and opportunistic pathogen commonly associated with humans and is capable of causing serious disease and death including sepsis, pneumonia, and meningitis. Methicillin-resistant SA (MRSA) isolates are typically resistant to many available antibiotics with the common exception of vancomycin. The presence of vancomycin resistance in some SA isol...

Background: As COVID-19 disease surges across much of the world, researchers in different settings have a unique opportunity to address various research priorities that been identified. The challenges containment and mitigation strategies present for research, especially resource limited settings, could be significant negatively impact essential contribution these research.
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REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY The response to the first outbreak of contagious equine metritis in South Africa included pioneering a web-based platform to coordinate key aspects of a national, real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-based stallion screening programme to determine the distribution and prevalence of Taylorella equigenitalis in stallions and exposed mares. OBJECTIVES To define...

In 430 BC, a plague struck the city of Athens, which was then under siege by Sparta during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). In the next 3 years, most of the population was infected, and perhaps as many as 75,000 to 100,000 people, 25% of the city's population, died. The Athenian general and historian Thucydides left an eye-witness account of this plague and a detailed description to allow fu...

Over the last years, there has been an increasing acknowledgement of the impact on people’s health of infections by Norovirus. In the U.S.A. it is considered the most frequent cause of gastroenteritis, producing 19–21 millions of infections, 56,000–71,000 hospitalisations, and 570–800 deaths per year.1 Moreover, Norovirus is considered the main cause of outbreaks and sporadic cases of nonbacter...

The paper by Syed et al, 1 provides observations on the use of face masks by members of the public for protection against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) corona-virus (CoV). The authors' raise an important question as to whether masks are effective in preventing disease. The type of masks used can generally be categorised as either surgical or paper and are suggested to offer simil...

BACKGROUND The rising level of antimicrobial resistance among bacterial pathogens is one of the most significant public health problems globally. While the antibiotic resistance of clinically important bacteria is closely tracked in many developed countries, the types and levels of resistance and multidrug resistance (MDR) among pathogens currently circulating in most countries of sub-Saharan A...

To the Editor: Several dermatologic conditions show seasonal variation, including visits for actinic keratosis, acne, and folliculitis.1Hancox J.G. Sheridan S.C. Feldman S.R. Fleischer A.B. Seasonal variation of disease in USA: a study office from 1990 to 1998.Int J Dermatol. 2004; 43: 6-11Crossref PubMed Scopus (66) Google Scholar In well-known case molluscum contagiosum, environmental behavio...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most important respiratory pathogen of childhood and also contributes to substantial morbidity and mortality in the elderly. It was recently estimated that as a single infectious agent, RSV is second only to malaria as a cause of death in children between 1 month and 1 year of age [1]. In addition, the global impact as an adult pathogen has a comparable ...

The case report that this clinical commentary accompanies (Vichi et al. 2022) describes the diagnosis and treatment of a 2-year-old horse with cutaneous papillomatosis lesions, attributed to Equus caballus papillomavirus 2 (EcPV2) infection, concurrent habronemiasis. additional pathology caused by presence Habronematidae larvae necessitated surgical removal lesions. Without coinfection, infecti...