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Assessment of clinical symptoms in household contacts of confirmed pertussis cases.
J Infect
November 2017
Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida (IRBLleida), Lleida, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Objectives: We assessed the value of the clinical symptoms included in the case definition of pertussis in household contacts of laboratory-confirmed cases.
Methods: A prospective epidemiological study was made in two Spanish regions. Household contacts were identified for each confirmed case reported during 2012 and 2013.
First Cases of Severe Flaccid Paralysis Associated With Enterovirus D68 Infection in Spain, 2015-2016.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
December 2017
From the *Spanish National Poliovirus Laboratory, National Centre for Microbiology, Institute of Health "Carlos III", Madrid, Spain; †Department of Pediatrics and **Department of Microbiology, Miguel Servet Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain; ‡Department of Pediatrics, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and Autonoma University, Barcelona, Spain; §Department of Pediatrics and §§Department of Preventive Medicine, University Hospital of Vigo (Alvaro Cunqueiro Hospital), Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain; ¶University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol School of Medicine, Barcelona, Spain; ‖Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Vigo (Meixoeiro Hospital), Vigo, Spain; ††Department of Microbiology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain; ‡‡Department of Microbiology, Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain; and ¶¶National Centre for Epidemiology, Institute of Health "Carlos III" and CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain.
Article Synopsis
- Enterovirus D68 has been linked to respiratory infections and, more recently, to serious conditions like myelitis and paralysis.
- This report focuses on the first instances of Enterovirus D68 found in patients with acute flaccid paralysis in Spain.
- The detected cases occurred between December 2015 and March 2016, highlighting a growing concern about this virus's impact.
Mammographic density assessed on paired raw and processed digital images and on paired screen-film and digital images across three mammography systems.
Breast Cancer Res
December 2016
Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69372, Lyon, Cedex 09, France.
Background: Inter-women and intra-women comparisons of mammographic density (MD) are needed in research, clinical and screening applications; however, MD measurements are influenced by mammography modality (screen film/digital) and digital image format (raw/processed). We aimed to examine differences in MD assessed on these image types.
Methods: We obtained 1294 pairs of images saved in both raw and processed formats from Hologic and General Electric (GE) direct digital systems and a Fuji computed radiography (CR) system, and 128 screen-film and processed CR-digital pairs from consecutive screening rounds.
Mammographic density (MD) is a quantitative trait, measurable in all women, and is among the strongest markers of breast cancer risk. The population-based epidemiology of MD has revealed genetic, lifestyle and societal/environmental determinants, but studies have largely been conducted in women with similar westernized lifestyles living in countries with high breast cancer incidence rates. To benefit from the heterogeneity in risk factors and their combinations worldwide, we created an International Consortium on Mammographic Density (ICMD) to pool individual-level epidemiological and MD data from general population studies worldwide.
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