Eurosurveillance, Volume 14, Issue 2, 15 January 2009
Table of Contents
Rapid communications
by Unit for Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases
We report an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in neonates, affecting 11 newborn babies. The case fatality rate is currently 27%. The outbreak has been confirmed by detection of Legionella pneumophila(...)
by J Vicente, I Giraudon, J Matias, D Hedrich, L Wiessing
Drug overdose is an important cause of death among young adults in Europe. According to data reported by Member States to the EMCDDA, many of the European Union countries reported a rebound in the num(...)
Surveillance and outbreak reports
by RM Chalmers, K Elwin, AL Thomas, EC Guy, B Mason
To improve understanding of the aetiology and epidemiology of human cryptosporidiosis, over 8,000 Cryptosporidium isolates were submitted for typing to the species level over a four year period. The m(...)
by T Lernout, E Kissling, V Hutse, K De Schrijver, G Top
From August 2007 to May 2008, an outbreak of at least 137 cases of measles occurred in some orthodox Jewish communities in Antwerp, Belgium. The outbreak was linked to outbreaks in the same communitie(...)
Research articles
by S Vourli, H Vagiakou, G Ganteris, M Orfanidou, M Polemis, A Vatopoulos, H Malamou-Ladas
Staphylococcus aureus was isolated in 88 (30. 8%) of 286 adult patients suffering from various skin and soft-tissue infections examined in the outpatient department of a 650 bed tertiary-care hospital(...)
Eurosurveillance Edition: 15 January 2009