First wave of COVID-19 hospital admissions in Denmark: a Nationwide population-based cohort study.

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its associated disease coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is a worldwide emergency. Demographic, comorbidity and laboratory determinants of death and of ICU admission were explored in all Danish hospitalised patients.

Methods: National health registries were used to identify all hospitalized patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis.

Plasmodium cynomolgi as Cause of Malaria in Tourist to Southeast Asia, 2018.

We report human infection with simian Plasmodium cynomolgi in a tourist from Denmark who had visited forested areas in peninsular Malaysia and Thailand in August and September 2018. Because P. cynomolgi may go unnoticed by standard malaria diagnostics, this malaria species may be more common in humans than was previously thought.

Depressive symptoms are frequent among drug users, but not associated with hepatitis C infection.

Aim: To compare the prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms among drug users with and without hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey study carried out at the 2 major drug treatment centres on the island of Funen, Denmark. Participants were drug users presenting to the 2 treatment centres.

Osteitis in the dens of axis caused by Treponema pallidum.

Background: Syphilis has been referred to as "the great imitator" due to its ability to imitate other diseases. Untreated syphilis becomes a systemic infection that can involve almost every organ systems. Treponema pallidum has a high affinity for bone tissue, but osteitis has mainly been described in late stages of the disease.