An epidemiological study on animal poisoning due to plants and zootoxins has been carried out by the Poison Control Centre of Milan (CAV) in collaboration with University (Italy). During period January 2015–March 2019, CAV received 932 calls poisonings, 12.66% (n = 118) which were related zootoxins. Among these, 95 enquiries (80.51%) concerned exposures 23 (19.49%) The dog was species most freq...

During the winter of 1995, a space-time cluster of seven suspected cases of legionnaires’ disease occurred on Merseyside, involving three neighbouring health districts. A multidisciplinary investigation team was established but failed to obtain convincing evidence of an outbreak. Investigation of the seven cases confirmed two as sporadic cases; other infections were found to explain the remaini...

The primary objective of this article is to introduce an immuno-epidemiological model of paratuberculosis (Johne’s disease). To develop the immuno-epidemiological model, we first develop an immunological model and an epidemiological model. Then, we link the two models through time-since-infection structure and parameters of the epidemiological model. We use the nested approach to compose the im...

Purpose: This qualitative study was to understand the awareness of epidemiological investigation tasks for nurses who were in charge coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) investigations.Methods: Before data collection, written consent obtained from 13 participants, and then collected September 1 December 31, 2021. Individual interviews conducted recorded by video interview using Zoom, transcribed...

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), which determines the genomic relatedness of isolates, is currently used for the epidemiological investigation of infectious agents such as bacteria. In particular, this method has been used for the epidemiological investigation of Legionella outbreaks. However, it takes 4 days to complete a Legionella-PFGE analysis. Due to partial digestion and DNA damag...

background and aims: since the epidemiological, clinical and experimental characteristics of meningitis are different for various locations, this study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of meningitis patients admitted to hospitals of yazd in the 2009 to 2013. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional and descriptive study, all 261 patients with meningitis were considered in ...