A5008988409- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Dengue and Mosquito Control Research
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Poxvirus research and outbreaks
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
2020-2024
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2020-2024
In collaboration with state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments, CDC established the U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry (USZPR) in early 2016 to monitor pregnant women laboratory evidence of possible recent virus infection their infants.This report includes an analysis completed pregnancies (which include live births pregnancy losses, regardless gestational age) 50 states District Columbia (DC) reported USZPR from January 15 December 27, 2016. Birth defects potentially associated...
Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause congenital microcephaly and brain abnormalities (1), detection of RNA in clinical tissue specimens provide definitive laboratory evidence recent infection. Whereas duration viremia is typically short, prolonged placental, fetal, neonatal has been reported key diagnostic information by confirming (2). In accordance with guidance (3,4), CDC provides testing placental fetal tissues situations where this could add value. This report describes the...
Abstract We used monthly precipitation and temperature data to give early warning of years with higher West Nile Virus (WNV) risk in Nebraska. generalized additive models a negative binomial distribution smoothing curves identify combinations extremes timing that had the most influence, experimenting all drought data, lagged by 12, 18, 24, 30, 36 months. fit on from 2002 through 2011, Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) select best‐fitting model, 2012 as out‐of‐sample for prediction,...
West Nile virus (WNV) is the most common cause of human arboviral disease in contiguous United States, where only lineage 1 (L1) WNV had been found. In 2023, an immunocompetent patient was hospitalized Nebraska with neuroinvasive and multisystem organ failure. Testing at Centers for Disease Control Prevention indicated unusually high viral load acute antibody response. Upon sequencing serum cerebrospinal fluid, we detected 3 (L3) L1 genomes. L3 previously found Central Europe mosquitoes. The...
Abstract A male patient with distant history of extensive rabbit contact and pulmonary nodules for 6 years developed empyema. Francisella tularensis holarctica was isolated from thoracentesis fluid. Retrospective immunohistochemical examination a nodule, biopsied 3 prior, immunoreactive F. tularensis. These findings suggest the potential chronic tularemia.
Abstract In August 2021, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services was notified by a local public health department cluster two Lyme disease cases in patients with exposure to wooded areas county located their jurisdiction. Epidemiological investigations revealed that had similar symptom onset dates likely ticks at sites directly adjacent one another. Two environmental were completed October 2021 consisted tick surveys patients' reported exposure. 12 collected across identified...
ABSTRACT Aedes japonicus continues to spread westward and in this study, its presence is documented 8 counties Nebraska Bowie County, TX. In 1998, Ae. was collected Connecticut, New Jersey, York for the 1st records of species North America. Except Louisiana, it has been reported from all states that border or are east Mississippi River. Canada, Ontario eastern provinces. Pacific Northwest, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, midwestern do not River, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota only have...
On August 27, 2019, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were identified in a neighborhood located York, NE, through routine arboviral surveillance. Expanded surveillance using traps and morphologic identification revealed 118 adult Ae. throughout the adjacent neighborhood, including from larval sampling. Our findings describe first recorded introduction Nebraska provide evidence of breeding mosquito population, which suggests suitable habitat risk potential establishment, raising concerns about...