Topics in Clinical Biosecurity: Disease Outbreaks
Listed below are all CBN* articles on Disease Outbreaks published since 2005
- 04/27/2012. Sapovirus: An Important Cause of Gastroenteritis Outbreaks: An underappreciated but important cause of norovirus-negative gastroenteritis outbreaks may be sapovirus. A recent paper in Emerging Infectious Diseases offers evidence of this with results of a study of outbreaks in Oregon and Minnesota over 7 years.
- 10/21/2011. Biosurveillance and Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis: Fine et al. recently published a retrospective study to determine whether access to real-time prevalence data for the very common condition of group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis could improve clinical care if incorporated into treatment algorithms.
- 03/03/2011. Social Network Analysis and Whole Genome Sequencing Aid in TB Outbreak Investigation: Researchers from British Columbia have just published results of a TB outbreak investigation in which the combined use of whole-genome sequencing and social-network analysis produced results not likely to have been achieved through traditional methods.
- Cholera in Haiti and Beyond. December 3, 2010.
- Lassa Fever in Philadelphia. October 8, 2010.
- Hundreds of Cutaneous Anthrax Cases in Bangladesh. September 15, 2010.
- Pertussis Resurgent in California. July 2, 2010.
- Puerto Rico Declares Dengue Fever Epidemic. March 22, 2010.
- Anthrax Cases Among Heroin Users in Europe Illustrate Novel Risk. January 21, 2010.
- Adenovirus 14: An Emerging Threat. April 17, 2009.
- New Arenavirus Identified as Cause of Cluster of Illness and Death in South Africa and Zambia. November 7, 2008.
- ASPR Makes First Playbook Available. March 28, 2008.
- Learning from the XDR-TB Experience: Policy Priorities Going Forward. June 7, 2007.
- Outbreak of Highly Lethal, Extensive Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa. September 6, 2006.
- Large Botulism Outbreak in Thailand. April 21, 2006.
- CDC Warns of Possible Exposure to Mumps During Air Travel. April 13, 2006.
- Mumps in Iowa. April 11, 2006.
- H5N1 in Turkey. January 13, 2006.
- Bad Bug: The New Epidemic of Clostridium difficile. January 6, 2006.
- Ribavirin Not Effective Against SARS. July 18, 2005.
- Marburg Situation Worsens. April 12, 2005.
- Airborne spread of SARS; Marburg outbreak. April 6, 2005.
*Formerly The Clinicians' Biosecurity Network Report; title changed in July 2011
