1221. Air and Surface Burden of Measles Virus in a Hospital Setting John Stehle Jr., PhD; Rebecca Mcnall, BS; Maria Blevins, BS; Jolyn Turner, PhD; Paul Rota, PhD; Werner Bischoff, MD, PhD; Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Herpesviruses Laboratory Branch Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atl...

Although mechanisms of modern military wounding may be distinct from those of ancient conflicts, the infectious sequelae of ballistic trauma and the evolving microbial flora of war wounds remain a considerable burden on both the injured combatant and their deployed medical systems. Battlefield surgeons of ancient times favoured suppuration in war wounding and as such Galenic encouragement of pu...

AIM To investigate the influences of bacterial or viral pathogen burden in the relationship of high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and the metabolic syndrome in a population-based study. METHODS Data from 1754 men and women aged >or=25 years, from the Persian Gulf Healthy Heart Study were analyzed. The definition of the metabolic syndrome according to the Adult Treatment Panel III wa...

BACKGROUND In southern Africa, a substantial health transition is underway, with the heavy burden of chronic infectious illness (HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis) paralleled by the growing threat of non-communicable diseases. We investigated the extent and nature of this health transition and considered the implications for primary health care. METHODS Health and sociodemographic surveillance starte...

BACKGROUND Infections with certain viruses, bacteria, and parasites have been identified as strong risk factors for specific cancers. An update of their respective contribution to the global burden of cancer is warranted. METHODS We considered infectious agents classified as carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. We calculated their population attributable ...

BACKGROUND Measuring the size of the infectious pool of tuberculosis (TB) is essential to understand the burden and monitor trends of TB control program performance. This study applied the concept of TB management time to estimate and compare the size of the TB infectious pool between 2009 and 2014 in West Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. METHODS New sputum smear-positive and smear-neg...

Infectious diseases played a major role and have influenced modern society, culture, farming practices. The threat posed by emerging zoo noses to the world’s economy, health safety is tremendous way Covid-19 pandemic disrupted civilisation complete failure exposes vulnerabilities of twenty first century. frequency Emerging Diseases (EIDs) there increased burden economic loss. emergence these fr...

This paper investigates the impact of infectious diseases on evolution sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads for a panel 77 countries. Using annual data over 2004–2020, we find that infectious-disease outbreaks have no discernible effect CDS spreads, after controlling macroeconomic and institutional factors. However, granular analysis using high-frequency indicates COVID-19 pandemic has h...

BACKGROUND Estimates of the burden of disease in adults in sub-Saharan Africa largely rely on models of sparse data. We aimed to measure the burden of disease in adults living in a rural area of coastal Kenya with use of linked clinical and demographic surveillance data. METHODS We used data from 18,712 adults admitted to Kilifi District Hospital (Kilifi, Kenya) between Jan 1, 2007, and Dec 3...

Objective(s) Studies have described immunomedulatory effects of sun exposure and ultraviolet radiation on infectious and neoplastic diseases. Here the effect of exposure to low potency radiation of sun on the course of leishmaniasis in mice was studied. Materials and Methods Fifteen BALB/c mice were exposed to suberythemogenic doses of sun (mean 180 mJ/cm2/day of UVB) 2 months before and 4 m...