Objective To describe injection practices worldwide in terms of frequency and safety. Design
Literature review. The global burden of disease project of the World Health Organization …

OBJECTIVE: To draw up evidence-based guidelines to make injections safer. METHODS: A
development group summarized evidence-based best practices for preventing injection-…

Background Tens of millions of children are exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
globally every year; however, there are no contemporary estimates of the risk of developing …

As part of the 2000 Global Burden of Disease study, we quantified the death and disability
from injection-associated infections with hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and …

Background This report describes a large international chocolate-associated Salmonella
outbreak originating from Germany. Methods We conducted epidemiologic investigations …

From January 2008 to April 2009, 72 cases of severe Clostridium difficile infection were reported
from 18 different districts in the state of Hesse, Germany. A total of 41 C. difficile isolates …

In November 2005, an outbreak of tularemia occurred among 39 participants in a hare hunt
in Hesse, Germany. Previously reported tularemia outbreaks in Germany dated back to the …

In 2004, a major outbreak of hepatitis A among tourists returning from Egypt involved 351
case-patients from 9 European countries who were infected with a single strain (genotype 1b). …

The rise of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) represents an increasing threat
to patient safety and healthcare systems worldwide. Citrobacter spp., long considered not to …

The risk of tuberculosis (TB) is variable among individuals with latent Mycobacterium
tuberculosis infection (LTBI), but validated estimates of personalized risk are lacking. In pooled …