We review current knowledge on the etiologic agents, clinical features, and epidemiologic characteristics of these emerging zoonoses.
This article provides an update on the etiologic agents, new clinical features, and evolving epidemiologic characteristics of these emerging zoonoses.
Interestingly, the pattern of the cerebral arterial spasm generated by a number of different etiologic causes has the particular feature of being segmental in nature.
Study design: Demographic features, clinical seizure types, etiologic factors, and laboratory findings of all 77 patients with seizures admitted to our neonatal intensive care unit over a consecutive 7-year period were extracted from the medical records.
Student's t test or chi square test was used, as appropriate, to compare clinical features of cases by etiologic organism.
In March 2003, we conducted a detailed retrospective investigation to describe the outbreaks in Meherpur and Naoganon, characterize their clinical features, and determine the etiologic agents, presence of asymptomatic infection, risk factors for infection and disease, and possible animal reservoirs.
Our findings suggest that the identification of perinatal morbidity and mortality rates, organisational features of care and etiologic factors on regional level are a valuable first step to customise antenatal healthcare.
Although AIDs encompass a broad range of phenotypic manifestations and severity, several features suggest that they share common etiologic factors.
We found a lower BMI to be associated with functional limitation and suggest that this measure represents a marker of advancing frailty, which has been described as a physiologic precursor and etiologic factor in disability, due to its central features of weakness, decreased endurance, and slowed performance[ 41].
