International Journal of Infectious Disease

May 8, 2024 | ijidonline.com | Elena Vázquez |Vicente Soriano |Carmen Alvarez-Dominguez |Oscar de Gregorio-Vicente

Highlights•The hospitalizations and deaths from listeriosis in Spain have risen from 2000. •This increase was driven by the listeriosis in the elderly and immunosuppressed. •An increased incidence in 2019 was related to a large outbreak in Andalusia. •Hospitalizations with Listeria dropped drastically during the COVID-19 pandemic. •Despite being declared a mandatory notifiable disease in 2015, figures are worsening.

Mar 6, 2024 | ijidonline.com | Delia Goletti |Seif Al-Abri |Giovanni Battista Migliori |Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn

KeywordsTuberculosisEnd TB StrategyTB diagnosisTB treatmentWorld TB DayEvery year, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is commemorated on March 24 and is targeted at raising public and political awareness of TB, a preventable and treatable disease. World TB Day commemorates the day in 1882 when Professor Robert Koch announced his discovery of the microbial cause of TB, the TB bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Feb 22, 2024 | ijidonline.com | Andrei Dadu |European Programme |Askar Yedilbayev |Giovanni Battista Migliori

Highlights•The WHO European Reghion is an hotspot for MDR/RR-TB•New ambitious global tragets for 2023-2027 have been launched by the UNHTLM•Systematic Screening is key to approach TB Elimination•The PASS initiative was launched to enhance screening and TPT•18 high-burden countries will benefit from this new technical assistance approachAbstractThe World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that in 2022, 10.6 million people developed tuberculosis (TB).

Sep 8, 2023 | ijidonline.com | Emilia Vynnycky |Keppel Street |Jennifer Knapp |Timos Papadopoulos

Highlights • Many countries introduced rubella-containing vaccination (RCV) after 2010 • The global Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) incidence fell by 66% during 2010-2019 • By 2019, 32,000 (95% CI: 13,000-60,000) babies were born annually with CRS globally • The biggest reductions were in South East Asia and the Western Pacific region • Further declines in CRS incidence need continued high coverage and RCV in all nations Abstract Many countries introduced rubella-containing vaccination...

Jun 17, 2023 | ijidonline.com | Erin Flynn