Publications by authors named "B Brodhun"
We determined whether the incidence rates of travel-associated Legionnaires' disease (TALD) in hotels in Germany increased after a previous occurrence and whether control measures required by the European Legionnaires' Disease Surveillance Network after a cluster (>2 cases within 2 years) restored the rate to baseline. We analyzed TALD surveillance data from Germany during 2015-2019; a total of 307 TALD cases (163 domestic, 144 nondomestic) in hotels were reported. The incidence rate ratio was 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 caused a large migration to other European countries, including Germany. This movement impacted the TB epidemiology, as Ukraine has a higher prevalence of TB and multidrug-resistant TB rates compared to Germany. Our descriptive analysis of TB surveillance data reveals important information to improve TB care in people displaced from Ukraine.
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- * In the German LeTriWa study, researchers worked with public health departments to pinpoint exposure sources 1-14 days before symptoms appeared, assigning weights to days of exposure to quantify risk.
- * Findings showed a median incubation period of 5 days and a mode of 6 days, reinforcing the established 2-10 day range used for tracking Legionnaires' disease cases.
Introduction: Sources of infection of most cases of community-acquired Legionnaires' disease (CALD) are unknown.
Objective: Identification of sources of infection of CALD.
Setting: Berlin; December 2016-May 2019.
Background: Evaluating the completeness of tuberculosis (TB) notification data is important for monitoring of TB surveillance systems. We conducted an inventory study to calculate TB underreporting in Germany in 2013-2017.
Methods: Acquisition of two pseudonymized case-based data sources (national TB notification data and antibiotic resistance surveillance data) was followed by two-source Capture-recapture (CRC) analysis, as case-based data from a third source was unavailable.