2020

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Public Transportation Vehicles: A Case Study in Hunan Province, China.

Here we report a case study of a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak event during bus trips of an index patient in Hunan Province, China. This retrospective investigation suggests potential airborne transmission of …

Transmissibility of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis in small-scale outbreaks in Hunan Province, China.

Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) outbreaks are reported frequently in China. However, the transmissibility of AHC remains unclear. This study aimed to calculate the transmissibility of the disease with and without interventions. An AHC …

Transmissibility of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis in small-scale outbreaks in Hunan Province, China.

Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) outbreaks are reported frequently in China. However, the transmissibility of AHC remains unclear. This study aimed to calculate the transmissibility of the disease with and without interventions. An AHC …

Epidemiological characteristics and transmissibility of shigellosis in Hubei Province, China, 2005 - 2017.

BACKGROUND: Shigellosis is one of the main diarrhea diseases in developing countries. However, the transmissibility of shigellosis remains unclear. METHODS: We used the dataset of shigellosis cases reported between January 2005 and December 2017, …

COVID-19: Time to exonerate the pangolin from the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to humans.

The emergence of COVID-19 has triggered many works aiming at identifying the animal intermediate potentially involved in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to humans. The presence of SARS-CoV-2-related viruses in Malayan pangolins, in silico analysis of …

Letter to the editor in response to 'Seasonality of the transmissibility of hand, foot and mouth disease: a modelling study in Xiamen City, China'.

Epidemiological Characteristics and Spatiotemporal Trend Analysis of Human Brucellosis in China, 1950–2018

The rate of brucellosis, a zoonotic disease, has rapidly increased in humans brucellosis(HB) in recent years. In 1950-2018, a total of 684,380 HB cases (median 2274/year (interquartile range (IQR) 966-8325)) were reported to the National Infectious …