Lyme disease surveillance in England and Wales, 1986 1998.

Foodborne disease surveillance in England and Wales 1984. Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre.

Competence of pheasants as reservoirs for Lyme disease spirochetes.

Pheasants, Phasianus colchicus L., constitute a major part of the ground-feeding avifauna of England and Wales and are important hosts to immature stages of Ixodes ricinus L., the principal tick vector of Lyme borreliosis spirochetes in Europe. Therefore, their competence as hosts for Borrelia burgdorferi Johnson, Schmid, Steigerwalt & Brenner sensu lato was investigated. One group of pheasants...

Longitudinal study of Lyme borreliosis in a high risk population in Switzerland.

Orienteers from all parts of Switzerland (n = 416) were included in a longitudinal study for Lyme borreliosis. In spring 1986, the seroprevalence was 28.1%. At the beginning of the study, 84.3% of orienteers reported a history of tick bite, and 3.8% reported a past history of Lyme borreliosis. During the first (spring 1986-autumn 1986), second (autumn 1986-spring 1987) and third (spring 1987-au...

Public health advice based on routine mumps surveillance in England and Wales.

In view of the increase in the number of mumps cases in 2009 and of the reports of mumps outbreaks in 2010, we report on the most recently available mumps surveillance data in England and Wales.

Increased detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children in England and Wales, October 2011 to January 2012.

Community surveillance data, based on quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis, showed that one in seven children aged 5–14 years with respiratory signs tested positive for Mycoplasma pneumoniae in England and Wales from October 2011 to January 2012 – a higher proportion than that seen in previous years. Multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis indicates that at least ...