Emerging Infectious Diseases

Genetically Similar High-Risk Strains of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacterales in Humans and Companion Animals, United States

Dr. Richard Stanton, a molecular epidemiologist at CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, and Dr. Allison James, a veterinarian and microbiologist at CDC's Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, discuss their study on genetically similar high-risk strains of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales found in humans and companion animals in the United States.

Campylobacteriosis Outbreak Linked to Municipal Water, Nebraska, USA, 2021

Dr. Lauren Jansen, an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Brianna Loeck, and epidemiologist with the state of Nebraska, discuss an outbreak of campylobacteriosis that occurred in Nebraska in 2021.

National Surveillance of Human Ehrlichiosis Caused by Ehrlichia ewingii, United States, 2013-2021

Sydney Adams, a CDC ORISE fellow, and Dr. Johanna Salzer, a veterinary medical officer and epidemiology team lead in CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, discuss national surveillance of human ehrlichiosis caused by Ehrlichia ewingii in the United States.

Homelessness and Bartonella quintana Infections

Dr. Grace Marx, an infectious disease physician and medical epidemiologist with CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, and Dr. Emily Mosites, an epidemiologist at the Multnomah County Health Department in Portland, Oregon, discuss Bartonella quintana infections among people experiencing homelessness.

Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay to Detect Invasive Malaria Vector Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes

Cristina Rafferty, a molecular biologist with the US President's Malaria Initiative at CDC, and former Public Health Entomology for All program interns Gloria Raise and JeNiyah Scaife discuss a new loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay to detect invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes.