New and emerging infectious diseases (Ebola, Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Candida auris): Focus on environmental survival and germicide susceptibility

Lessons learned from new emerging infectious disease, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus outbreak in Korea

Industrialization of transportation and human civilization has increased the frequency of travel and shortened the time of travel, resulting in many places around the globe within a day’s travel. Consequently, this human behavior has accelerated our risks for exposure to hitherto unknown pathogens. In the human history of epidemic outbreaks, whenever hosts and pathogens made contacts for the fi...

Environmental contamination by carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae ( CRE )

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Environmental contamination by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.

In the last decade, the global emergence of carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae has posed great concern to public health. Data concerning the role of environmental contamination in the dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are currently lacking. Here, we aimed to examine the extent of CRE contamination in various sites in the immediate surroundings of CRE carrie...

middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus: An Emerging Infection

A severe viral illness caused by a newly discovered coronavirus was first reported in the Middle East in 2012. The virus has since been named the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). MERS-CoV cases have been reported in several countries around the world in travellers from the Middle East., A substantial number of Indians live and work in Gulf countries. People from India al...