Seroprevalence and herd-level risk factors for seroprevalence of <em>Leptospira</em> spp. in sheep, beef cattle and deer in New Zealand (Publications)
AIMS To determine seroprevalence of Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo and L. interrogans serovar Pomona in beef cattle, sheep and deer in New Zealand and the association between farm-level risk
Transportation noise exposure, noise annoyance and respiratory health in adults: a repeated-measures study (Publications)
Transportation noise leads to sleep disturbance and to psychological and physiological sustained stress reactions, which could impact respiratory health. However, epidemiologic evidence on association
Comparative pan-genomic analyses of <em>Orientia tsutsugamushi </em>reveal an exceptional model of bacterial evolution driving genomic diversity (Publications)
Orientia tsutsugamushi, formerly Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, is an obligate intracellular pathogen that causes scrub typhus, an underdiagnosed acute febrile disease with high morbidity. Scrub typhus is
Novel high-throughput screening method using quantitative PCR to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of <em>Orientia tsutsugamushi... (Publications)
Objectives: To develop a method to enable the large-scale antimicrobial susceptibility screening of Orientia tsutsugamushi clinical isolates, using one timepoint and one concentration of antibiotics t
Case report: concurrent sympatric scrub typhus and Japanese spotted fever in Japan (Publications)
Scrub typhus and Japanese spotted fever-both rickettsial diseases-are endemic and notifiable in Japan and may cause a fatal outcome without prompt treatment. Here we present the first case of a concur
Identifying risk of viral failure in treated HIV-infected patients using different measures of adherence: the Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort... (Publications)
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is critical for successful treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), but comparisons across settings are difficult because adherence is measured in dif
Methionine-containing rhabdopeptide/xenortide-like peptides from heterologous expression of the biosynthetic gene cluster <em>kj12ABC</em> in... (Publications)
Seven new methionine-containing rhabdopeptide/xenortide-like peptides (1-7) were identified from Escherichia coli expressing the rhabdopeptide/xenortide-like peptide biosynthetic gene cluster kj12ABC
Assessing whether universal coverage with insecticide-treated nets has been achieved: is the right indicator being used? (Publications)
BACKGROUND/METHODS: Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are the primary tool for malaria vector control in sub-Saharan Africa, and have been responsible for an estimated two-thirds of the reduction in the
Environmental and health data needed to develop national surveillance systems in industrially contaminated sites (Publications)
BACKGROUND: this paper is based upon work from COST Action ICSHNet. Public health surveillance (PHS) of industrially contaminated sites (ICSs) is likely to play a role in supporting the monitoring of