a State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China b State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China Department of Entomology, Cornell Un...

The Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) consists of communicable disease authorities from various Australian Government agencies and state and territory health authorities, in addition to expert bodies and individuals in the specifi c areas of communicable disease epidemiology, clinical management, disease control and laboratory diagnosis. The CDNA provides national public health lea...

Background Back pain (BP) is a frequent disorder affecting currently up to 40% of adults in Western Europe. Most of it is said to be ‘non-specific’, i.e. lacking an obvious patho-anatomical explanation. It is seldom the consequence of a contagious disease caused by microorganisms. This does not exclude it from being communicable if ‘communicable’ is to refer to something being transmitted by sh...

1National Institute for Medical Research, Tabora, Tanzania. 2Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3021, Morogoro Tanzania.3Southern Africa Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Morogoro Tanzania. 4Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, Dar es Salaam Tanzania.5Department of Disease Control, University of Zambia, Lusaka Z...

Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna; Department of Clinical Microbiology and Department of Infectious Diseases, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro; Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm; Department of Clinical Sciences, Infectious Disease Research Unit, Malmö University Hospital, Lund ...