Tuberculosis in the Circumpolar Region, 2006-2012.

Setting: The northern circumpolar jurisdictions Canada (Northwest Territories, Nunavik, Nunavut, Yukon), Finland, Greenland, Norway, Russian Federation (Arkhangelsk), Sweden and the United States (Alaska).

Objective: To describe and compare demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics, including drug resistance and treatment completion, of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the northern circumpolar populations.

Design: Descriptive analysis of all active TB cases reported from 2006 to 2012 for incidence rate (IR), age and sex distribution, sputum smear and diagnostic site characteristics, drug resistance and treatment completion rates.

Epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in the North American Arctic, 2000-2010.

Objective: To determine the incidence of meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Streptococcus pneumoniae in the North American Arctic during 2000-2010.

Methods: Surveillance data were obtained from the International Circumpolar Surveillance network. We defined a case of bacterial meningitis caused by H.

Ten years of tuberculosis intervention in Greenland - has it prevented cases of childhood tuberculosis?

Background: The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) disease in Greenland doubled in the 1990s. To combat the increase, national TB interventions were initiated in 2000 and strengthened in 2007.

Objective: To determine whether the effect of interventions could be detected, we estimated the TB disease risk among children≤15 years before and after interventions were implemented.

Mycoplasma genitalium presence, resistance and epidemiology in Greenland.

Objectives: Greenland reports the highest rates of chlamydial infection and gonorrhea in the Arctic. Our objective was to determine the presence, and describe the basic epidemiology, of Mycoplasma genitalium for Greenland.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Epidemiology, surveillance and control of infectious diseases in the European overseas countries and territories, 2011.

The 25 European overseas countries and territories (OCTs) are closely associated with the European Union (EU) through the four related UE Member States: Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In 2008 and 2009, these four EU Member States, in association with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), reviewed the OCTs’ needs, with the objectives of documenting their capacity to prevent and respond to infectious diseases outbreaks, and identifying deficiencies. This Euroroundup is based on the review’s main findings, and presents an overview of the OCTs’ geography and epidemiology, briefly introduces the legal basis on which they are linked to the EU and describes the surveillance and infectious disease response systems.

[Various strategies for elimination of tuberculosis].

In Denmark the tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates per 100.000 individuals per year have decreased from 162 in the 1920s to 6. Greenland is a highly endemic country for TB with an incidence rate that parallels that of India.

Tuberculosis in Greenland--current situation and future challenges.

Objective: To describe the tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology in Greenland in 1998-2002 and to identify possible obstacles for reducing the TB incidence.

Study Design/methods: TB notification data were collected from the annual reports of the Chief Medical Officer, and culture verification data were collected from the International Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteriology at Statens Serum Institut, Denmark.

Results: The TB incidence in Greenland reached a peak of 185/100,000 in 2001.

A population-based registry study of infant mortality in the Arctic: Greenland and Denmark, 1973-1997.

Objectives: We sought to determine precise estimates of infant mortality rates and to describe overall trends in infant mortality in Greenland and Denmark from 1973 to 1997.

Methods: We analyzed data from population-based registries of all live-born infants in Greenland and Denmark to calculate infant mortality rates from 1973 to 1997.

Results: Between the periods of 1973-1977 and 1993-1997, neonatal mortality rates in Greenland declined from 20.

[Tuberculosis in Greenland 1994. A minor outbreak of new cases of tuberculosis in the village of Kullorsuaq].

An outbreak of pulmonary tuberculosis was detected in 1994 in a small village, Kullorsuaq, located 300 kilometres north of Upernavik in the north-western part of Greenland. The inhabitants of Kullorsuaq mainly live off subsistence, hunting, seal-hunting and fishing. Too many people were living in bad housing and with a general lack of sanitation facilities.

Effect of pretransplant graft irradiation on canine intestinal transplantation.

This study was done to define the tolerance of ex vivo administered irradiation to intestinal allograft and to assess the effect of irradiation on the incidence and severity of rejection and graft versus host disease after intestinal transplantation in dogs. Excessive intestinal damage was produced by 2,500 rads, but 750 and 1,500 rads produced no detectable acute or chronic damage in dogs observed from 100 days to two years. Using cyclosporine for postoperative immunosuppression, 1,500 rads reduced the incidence of acute (p = 0.