In April 2011, an outbreak of Serratia marcescens infection/ colonisations occurred in the neonatal intensive care unit of Pescara General Hospital. Rapid microbiological investigations lead to identification of five cases of likely cross-transmission from a neonate hospitalised for S. marcescens sepsis: four infections and one neonate colonised post-mortem. Two low birth weight neonates died. ...

MICHAEL J. RENNIE,* RICHARD H. T. EDWARDS,* C. T. MERVYN DAVIES,? STEPHEN KRYWAWYCH,* DAVID HALLIDAYJ JOHN C. WATERLOW$ and DAVID J. MILLWARD$ *Department of Human Metabolism, University Colrege London Medical School, London W C l E SJJ, U.K., ?Medical Research Council Environmental Physiology Unit and $Department of Human Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London W C l ...

Ioanna G Alexandropoulou1,2*, Maria Panopoulou2, Theodoros A Parasidis1, Theocharis Konstantinidis1 and Theodoros C Constantinidis1 1Laboratory of Hygiene and Environmental Protection, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Campus (Dragana) Building , 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Microbiology Laboratory, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Campus (Dragana), 68100 Alexan...

Department of Veterinary Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackeho 1-3, CZ-612 42 Brno, Czech Republic Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Zemedelska 1, CZ-613 00 Brno, Czech Republic Department of Animal Nutrition and Fo...

Investigators: J. M. Ondov, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; T. J. Buckley, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns-Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; P. K. Hopke, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY; M. B. Parlange, JohnsHopkins University, Baltimore, MD; W. F. Rogge, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International Uni...

The Department of Environmental Hygiene of the National Swedish Environment Protection Board and of the Karolinska Institute have prepared an extensive review on health effects of air pollution, to be used by the Swedish Parliamentary Committee on Energy and the Environment. This report forms the basis for one part of the review, that on late effects. Much of the work on the review, is the resu...

Heat-shock proteins as antigens in autoimmunity Willem van Eden,* Els J. M. Hogervorst,* Marca H. M. Wauben,* Ruurd van der Zee,t and Claire, J. P. Boog* *Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Yalelaan I, 8508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands and +Department of Bacteriology, National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Hygi...

Institute of Hygiene and Occupational Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (E.D., U.v.R., I.S., I.P., A.W.R.), Institute of Environmental Analysis, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (L.M.H., S.R., A.V.H.), Chemical Research Department, Matís, Reykjavík, Iceland (S.R.), Department of Traumatology, TU Munich, Germany (L.H., A.N.), Department of Toxicology...

The past 5 years have been exciting and critical for the dental hygiene profession. It started when ADHA requisitioned an environmental scan that revealed an opportunity to move the profession in a new direction that provide for more leadership opportunities and roles for dental hygienists.1 Subsequent to this scan, the ADHA board of trustees developed a bold and comprehensive strategic plan th...

a Department of Trauma Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, University Medical Center Goettingen, Robert-Koch 40, 37075 Goettingen, Germany b Institute for Research in Operative Medicine, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Cologne, Germany c Department of Radiology, University of Goettingen, Robert-Koch 40, 37075 Goettingen, Germany d Department of Medical Microbi...