one of the most important infectious diseases in the world is malaria. about half of the world populations are exposed to the risk of the disease. the program for controlling and eradication of malaria has been being conducted in our country since many years ago. one of the public health problems in the endemic and non-endemic countries is imported malaria which can cause new and permanent infe...

The 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic came and left swiftly, resulting in more than 8,000 probable cases worldwide and 774 casualties. It is generally believed that quarantine of those individuals suspected of being infected was instrumental in quick containment of the outbreaks. In this work we propose a differential equation model that includes quarantine and other interv...

A novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus causes severe human infections and was first identified in March 2013 in China. The H7N9 virus has exhibited two epidemiological peaks of infection, occurring in week 15 of 2013 and week 5 of 2014. Taiwan, which is geographically adjacent to China, faces a large risk of being affected by this virus. Through extensive surveillance, launched in April 2013, f...

Nosocomial infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) account for increased morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs in critically ill patients worldwide. The intensive care unit (ICU) component of the German surveillance system for nosocomial infections (Krankenhaus-Infektions-Surveillance-System, KISS) has been supplemented with a module targeting the surveillance of ...

South Africa, having met the World Health Organisation's pre-elimination criteria, has set a goal to achieve malaria elimination by 2018. Mpumalanga, one of three provinces where malaria transmission still occurs, has a malaria season subject to unstable transmission that is prone to sporadic outbreaks. As South Africa prepares to intensify efforts towards malaria elimination, there is a need t...

Letters Authors reply: Diagnosis of a single imported dengue case who had travelled to Japan – how serious is it for travellers? Authors reply: Diagnosis of a single imported dengue case who had travelled to Japan – how serious is it for travellers?. To the editor: We would like to thank Ueno and Nishiura for their comments [1] on our paper entitled 'Autochthonous dengue virus infection in Japa...

INTRODUCTION Singapore is a transition country in Southeast Asia that is both vulnerable and receptive to the introduction and re-introduction of imported communicable diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS For a 10-year period between 1998 and 2007 we studied the trend, epidemiological characteristics, proportion of imported versus local transmission of malaria, viral hepatitis (hepatitis A and E),...