Background A worldwide outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been
associated with exposures originating from a single ill health care worker from Guangdong …

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has developed a new set of definitions for surveillance
of nosocomial infections. The new definitions combine specific clinical findings with …

To perform a valid comparison of rates among surgeons, among hospitals, or across time,
surgical wound infection (SWI) rates must account for the variation in patients' underlying …

Reports of illness resembling meningococcal disease date back to the 16th century. The
description reported by Vieusseux in 1805 is generally thought to be the first definitive …

From October 4 to November 2, 2001, the first 10 confirmed cases of inhalational anthrax
caused by intentional release of Bacillus anthracis were identified in the United States. …

As part of a Congressional initiative begun in 1999 to upgrade national public health
capabilities for response to acts of biological terrorism, the Centers for Disease Control and …

Objective. —To assess changes in oral antimicrobial drug prescribing by office-based
physicians from 1980 through 1992, with emphasis on the treatment of otitis media and sinusitis …

ObjectiveTo develop consensus-based recommendations for measures to be taken by
medical and public health professionals if hemorrhagic fever viruses (HFVs) are used as …

The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS) is an ongoing collaborative
surveillance system sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to obtain national …

A theoretical model is proposed that relates the level of ingestion of diarrhoea-causing
pathogens to the frequency of diarrhoea in the community. The implications of this model are that, …