An epidemic of contagious impetigo

A social contagious model of the obesity epidemic

Obesity has been recognized as a global epidemic by WHO, followed by many empirical evidences to prove its infectiousness. However, the inter-person spreading dynamics of obesity are seldom studied. A distinguishing feature of the obesity epidemic is that it is driven by a social contagion process which cannot be perfectly described by the infectious disease models. In this paper, we propose a ...

An Epidemic of “jhin-jhini” - a Strange Contagious Psychogenic Disorder in a Village in West Bengal

An epidemic psychogenic disorder called "Jhin-Jhini" which broke out in a village in West Bengal, is described. Tlie social anthropological perspective is explored.

Presence of the epidemic European fusidic acid-resistant impetigo clone (EEFIC) of Staphylococcus aureus in France.

LEO Pharma, Industriparken 55, DK-2750 Ballerup, Denmark; Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark; Service de Bactériologie-Hygiène, CHU Pitié-Salpetrière, Paris, France; Hopital Robert Debré, Service Dermatologie, Avenue de Général Koening, F-51092 Reims Cedex, France; Department of Clinical Microbiology, Central Pathology Laboratory, St James’s Hospital, Dublin 8, ...

The decline of the impetigo epidemic caused by the epidemic European fusidic acid-resistant impetigo clone: an 11.5-year population-based incidence study from a community in Western Norway

BACKGROUND From around the year 2000, Northern Europe experienced a rise in impetigo caused by Staphylococcus aureus resistant to fusidic acid. A single clone of S. aureus was found to be the bacterial pathogen involved in the impetigo outbreak in Norway, Sweden, the UK and Ireland, termed 'the epidemic European fusidic acid-resistant impetigo clone' (EEFIC). We have followed the incidence of i...

Impetigo Folliculorum