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1. Nonpolio Enterovirus Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Taiwan, 2020

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Shu-Chen Kuo, Hsiao-Hui Tsou, Hsiao-Yu Wu, Ya-Ting Hsu, Fang-Jing Lee, Shu-Man Shih, Chao A. Hsiung, and Wei J. Chen

Subjects
COVID-19, coronavirus disease, SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, viruses, respiratory infections, Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract

In Taiwan, lower nonpolio enterovirus activity during the coronavirus disease pandemic in 2020 compared with 2014–2019 might be attributable to adherence to nonpharmaceutical interventions. The preventable fraction among unexposed persons indicated that 90% of nonpolio enterovirus activity might have been prevented during 2014–2019 by adopting the same measures enforced in 2020.

Published
2021
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2. Collateral Benefit of COVID-19 Control Measures on Influenza Activity, Taiwan

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Shu-Chen Kuo, Shu-Man Shih, Li-Hsin Chien, and Chao A. Hsiung

Subjects
coronavirus disease, SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, viruses, respiratory infections, zoonoses, Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract

Taiwan has strictly followed infection control measures to prevent spread of coronavirus disease. Meanwhile, nationwide surveillance data revealed drastic decreases in influenza diagnoses in outpatient departments, positivity rates of clinical specimens, and confirmed severe cases during the first 12 weeks of 2020 compared with the same period of 2019.

Published
2020
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3. Levofloxacin-Resistant Haemophilus influenzae, Taiwan, 2004–2010

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Shu-Chen Kuo, Pei-Chen Chen, Yih-Ru Shiau, Hui-Ying Wang, Jui-Fen Lai, Wen Huang, and Tsai-Ling Yang Lauderdale

Subjects
Haemophilus influenzae, fluoroquinolone resistance, GyrA, ParC, Taiwan, respiratory infections, Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
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Levofloxacin resistance in Haemophilus influenzae has increased significantly in Taiwan, from 2.0% in 2004 to 24.3% in 2010 (p

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2014
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4. Nonpolio Enterovirus Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Taiwan, 2020

Author

Wei J. Chen, Ya Ting Hsu, Hsiao Yu Wu, Hsiao-Hui Tsou, Shu Man Shih, Shu-Chen Kuo, Fang Jing Lee, and Chao A. Hsiung

Subjects
Microbiology (medical), 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Adolescent, Epidemiology, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), viruses, 030231 tropical medicine, Taiwan, lcsh:Medicine, Disease, medicine.disease_cause, lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases, 03 medical and health sciences, respiratory infections, 0302 clinical medicine, nonpharmaceutical, Nonpolio Enterovirus Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Taiwan, 2020, Pandemic, Research Letter, Enterovirus Infections, Medicine, Humans, lcsh:RC109-216, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, interventions, Coronavirus, Enterovirus, nonpolio enterovirus, business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, lcsh:R, virus diseases, COVID-19, Infant, Virology, zoonoses, Infectious Diseases, coronavirus disease, Child, Preschool, preventable fraction, business, Coronavirus Infections, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Abstract

In Taiwan, lower nonpolio enterovirus activity during the coronavirus disease pandemic in 2020 compared with 2014–2019 might be attributable to adherence to nonpharmaceutical interventions. The preventable fraction among unexposed persons indicated that 90% of nonpolio enterovirus activity might have been prevented during 2014–2019 by adopting the same measures enforced in 2020.

Published
2021

5. Collateral Benefit of COVID-19 Control Measures on Influenza Activity, Taiwan

Author

Chao A. Hsiung, Shu-Chen Kuo, Li Hsin Chien, and Shu Man Shih

Subjects
Office Visits, Epidemiology, lcsh:Medicine, Disease, medicine.disease_cause, Disease Outbreaks, COVID-19 Testing, Hygiene, Outpatients, Pandemic, Influenza A virus, Infection control, Coronavirus, media_common, Coinfection, Incidence, Incidence (epidemiology), Masks, Infectious Diseases, coronavirus disease, Quarantine, influenza, Coronavirus Infections, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, media_common.quotation_subject, Physical Distancing, Pneumonia, Viral, Taiwan, lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases, Betacoronavirus, respiratory infections, Internal medicine, Influenza, Human, Research Letter, medicine, Humans, viruses, lcsh:RC109-216, Pandemics, Clinical Laboratory Techniques, SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, lcsh:R, COVID-19, medicine.disease, zoonoses, Influenza B virus, Communicable Disease Control, infection control measures, business, Collateral Benefit of COVID-19 Control Measures on Influenza Activity, Taiwan
Abstract

Taiwan has strictly followed infection control measures to prevent spread of coronavirus disease. Meanwhile, nationwide surveillance data revealed drastic decreases in influenza diagnoses in outpatient departments, positivity rates of clinical specimens, and confirmed severe cases during the first 12 weeks of 2020 compared with the same period of 2019.

Published
2020

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