Trends in invasive bacterial diseases during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: analyses of prospective surveillance data from 30 countries and territories in the IRIS Consortium

Autor: David Shaw, MBBCh, Raquel Abad, PhD, Zahin Amin-Chowdhury, MSc, Adriana Bautista, MSc, Desiree Bennett, PhD, Karen Broughton, MSc, Bin Cao, ProfMD, Carlo Casanova, PhD, Eun Hwa Choi, ProfMD, Yiu-Wai Chu, PhD, Heike Claus, PhD, Juliana Coelho, PhD, Mary Corcoran, PhD, Simon Cottrell, PhD, Robert Cunney, MB, Lize Cuypers, PhD, Tine Dalby, PhD, Heather Davies, NZCS, Linda de Gouveia, NatDipMedTech, Ala-Eddine Deghmane, PhD, Walter Demczuk, BSc, Stefanie Desmet, PhD, Mirian Domenech, PhD, Richard Drew, MD, Mignon du Plessis, PhD, Carolina Duarte, PhD, Helga Erlendsdóttir, ProfMSc, Norman K Fry, PhD, Kurt Fuursted, MD, Thomas Hale, ProfPhD, Desiree Henares, PhD, Birgitta Henriques-Normark, ProfMD, Markus Hilty, PhD, Steen Hoffmann, MD, Hilary Humphreys, ProfMD, Margaret Ip, ProfMSc, Susanne Jacobsson, PhD, Christopher Johnson, PhD, Jillian Johnston, MBBS, Keith A Jolley, PhD, Aníbal Kawabata, Jana Kozakova, MD, Karl G Kristinsson, ProfMD, Pavla Krizova, MD, Alicja Kuch, PhD, Shamez Ladhani, MD, Thiên-Trí Lâm, MD, María Eugenia León, MSc, Laura Lindholm, MSc, David Litt, PhD, Martin C J Maiden, ProfPhD, Irene Martin, BSc, Delphine Martiny, ProfPhD, Wesley Mattheus, PhD, Noel D McCarthy, ProfDPhil, Mary Meehan, PhD, Susan Meiring, MBChB, Paula Mölling, PhD, Eva Morfeldt, PhD, Julie Morgan, HND, Robert Mulhall, PhD, Carmen Muñoz-Almagro, ProfMD, David Murdoch, ProfMD, Joy Murphy, BA Hons, Martin Musilek, PhD, Alexandre Mzabi, MD, Ludmila Novakova, MSc, Shahin Oftadeh, PhD, Amaresh Perez-Argüello, MLT, Maria Pérez-Vázquez, PhD, Monique Perrin, MD, Malorie Perry, MSc, Benoit Prevost, PhD, Maria Roberts, BSc(Hons), Assaf Rokney, PhD, Merav Ron, PhD, Olga Marina Sanabria, MPH, Kevin J Scott, PhD, Carmen Sheppard, PhD, Lotta Siira, PhD, Vitali Sintchenko, ProfPhD, Anna Skoczyńska, ProfPhD, Monica Sloan, Hans-Christian Slotved, DMSc, Andrew J Smith, ProfFRCPath, Anneke Steens, PhD, Muhamed-Kheir Taha, ProfMD, Maija Toropainen, PhD, Georgina Tzanakaki, ProfPhD, Anni Vainio, PhD, Mark P G van der Linden, PhD, Nina M van Sorge, ProfPhD, Emmanuelle Varon, MD, Sandra Vohrnova, MD, Anne von Gottberg, ProfPhD, Jose Yuste, PhD, Rosemeire Zanella, PhD, Fei Zhou, PhD, Angela B Brueggemann, ProfDPhil

Publikováno v: The Lancet: Digital Health, Vol 5, Iss 9, Pp e582-e593 (2023)

Summary: Background: The Invasive Respiratory Infection Surveillance (IRIS) Consortium was established to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on invasive diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitid

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Whole-genome sequence-informed MALDI-TOF MS diagnostics reveal importance of Klebsiella oxytoca group in invasive infections: a retrospective clinical study

Autor: Aline Cuénod, Daniel Wüthrich, Helena M. B. Seth-Smith, Chantal Ott, Christian Gehringer, Frédéric Foucault, Roxanne Mouchet, Ali Kassim, Gunturu Revathi, Deborah R. Vogt, Stefanie von Felten, Stefano Bassetti, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, Timm Hettich, Götz Schlotterbeck, Christina Homberger, Carlo Casanova, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Orli Sagi, Belén Rodríguez-Sánchez, Franco Müller, Martina Aerni, Valeria Gaia, Helke van Dessel, Greetje A. Kampinga, Claudia Müller, Claudia Daubenberger, Valentin Pflüger, Adrian Egli

Publikováno v: Genome Medicine, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2021)

Abstract Background Klebsiella spp. are opportunistic pathogens which can cause severe infections, are often multi-drug resistant and are a common cause of hospital-acquired infections. Multiple new Klebsiella species have recently been described, ye

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/4e3c3cd189ea432abd4c5e99a3c67984

Group B streptococcal colonization in elderly women

Autor: Rossella Baldan, Sara Droz, Carlo Casanova, Laura Knabben, Dorothy J. Huang, Christine Brülisauer, André B. Kind, Elke Krause, Stefanie Mauerer, Barbara Spellerberg, Parham Sendi

Publikováno v: BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021)

Abstract Background In non-pregnant adults, the incidence of invasive Group B Streptococcus (GBS) disease is continuously increasing. Elderly and immunocompromised persons are at increased risk of infection. GBS commonly colonizes the vaginal tract,

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/cd072ae0ba9c420caa7d7bd909670371

Re-emergence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and increase of serotype 23B after easing of COVID-19 measures, Switzerland, 2021

Autor: Carlo Casanova, Marianne Küffer, Stephen L. Leib, Markus Hilty

Publikováno v: Emerging Microbes and Infections, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 2202-2204 (2021)

Incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) has been low during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we found that the IPD numbers again increased in Switzerland during the first six months of 2021 and that this coincides with the l

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Transition From PCR-Ribotyping to Whole Genome Sequencing Based Typing of Clostridioides difficile

Autor: Helena M. B. Seth-Smith, Michael Biggel, Tim Roloff, Vladimira Hinic, Thomas Bodmer, Martin Risch, Carlo Casanova, Andreas Widmer, Rami Sommerstein, Jonas Marschall, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, Adrian Egli

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Vol 11 (2021)

Clostridioides difficile causes nosocomial outbreaks which can lead to severe and even life-threatening colitis. Rapid molecular diagnostic tests allow the identification of toxin-producing, potentially hypervirulent strains, which is critical for pa

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/51123fc76ddf42e8b0335fed76a265b7