NIOSH to Expand Research on Workplace Transmission of Infectious Diseases

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Actionable sequence data on infectious diseases in the clinical workplace.

Among the wide variety of diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in the clinical workplace, infectious diseases pose unusually difficult problems. First, the diversity of disease-causing agents is prodigious, and infectious agents may disseminate to and invade almost any host anatomic compartment. Second, these agents, because of their short generation times and, in some cases, high mutation rat...

Transmission dynamics of infectious diseases on transportation networks

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Transmission of Infectious Diseases En Route to Habitat Hotspots

BACKGROUND The spread of infectious diseases in wildlife populations is influenced by patterns of between-host contacts. Habitat "hotspots"--places attracting a large numbers of individuals or social groups--can significantly alter contact patterns and, hence, disease propagation. Research on the importance of habitat hotspots in wildlife epidemiology has primarily focused on how inter-individu...

Infectious diseases due to Ewingella americana

Ewingella americana are Gram-negative, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive, lactose-fermenting, and bacterium that is as a new genus and species in the family Enterobacteriaceae. Ewingella americana is very public in some potatoes and mushrooms, in which it can cause a browning disorder called internal stipe necrosis. However, in humans, the discovery of Ewingella americana in the tissues and b...