Background Climate change constitutes a complex challenge posing an urgent threat to our
planet and life and creating an entirely different way of conceptualising the world and our …

Urbanization is intensifying worldwide, with two-thirds of the human population expected to
reside in cities within 30 years. The role of cities in human infectious disease is well …

Campylobacters remain highly important zoonotic pathogens worldwide which infect an
estimated 1% of the population of Western Europe each year. Certain campylobacters are …

Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of bacterial gastro-enteritis in the developed
world. It is thought to infect 2–3 million people a year in the US alone, at a cost to the …

Despite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great
amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific …

Background Although seasonality is a defining characteristic of many infectious diseases,
few studies have described and compared seasonal patterns across diseases globally …

Global climate change is predicted to alter precipitation and temperature patterns across the
world, affecting a range of infectious diseases and particularly foodborne infections such as …

This article, the sixth in a series reviewing the role of food workers in foodborne outbreaks,
describes the source and means of pathogen transfer. The transmission and survival of …

Disease transmission is hypothesized to occur through small quantities of contaminated
material carried on the feet, proboscis, legs, and body hairs or from material regurgitated or …

Objectives To review Campylobacter cases in England and Wales over 2 decades and
examine the main factors/mechanisms driving the changing epidemiology. Design A …