Eurosurveillance moves on…

Eurosurveillance 2006;11 (11): 061116

Subsequent to this, 34 laboratories across England and one from Northern Ireland have reported identification of 77 Paecilomyces variotii isolates from normally sterile sites, nearly all from blood culture, to the HPA. The HPA Mycology Reference Laboratory (MRL) would usually receive only 5 or 6 P. variotii isolates per year. No source for the suspected contamination has yet been identified. Di...

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Note from the editors: A new virus bringing back memories from the past Detection of a novel human coronavirus by real-time reversetranscription polymerase chain reaction Novel coronavirus associated with severe respiratory disease: Case definition and public health measures I-MOVE: a European network to measure the effectiveness of influenza vaccines Survey of delivery of prophylactic immunogl...

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Change of guard in Eurosurveillance.

Rapid communications First detection of Echinococcus multilocularis in Sweden, February to March 2011 4 by E Osterman Lind, M Juremalm, D Christensson, S Widgren, G Hallgren, EO Ågren, H Uhlhorn, A Lindberg, M Cedersmyg, H Wahlström Gonorrhoea treatment failures to cefixime and azithromycin in England, 2010 7 by CA Ison, J Hussey, KN Sankar, J Evans, S Alexander Outbreak of rotavirus gastroente...

DNA amplification moves on

whether fasting and changes in diet might be changing leptin levels, thus altering the function of T cells. The implication of this new work is that leptin drives the activity of pro-inflammatory, self-reactive T cells, and that starvation, which reduces leptin production, changes the pattern of cytokines generated and the disease-inducing potential of the T cells. So, the authors show that ins...