To estimate the proportion of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates
from humans that were sequence type (ST) 398, we surveyed 24 laboratories in 17 countries …

Background Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a major cause of bacterial meningitis
and septicaemia although infection by some serogroups may be prevented through …

We look at the stability of survey based subjective time preferences over time using data from
a Dutch panel survey with a long time horizon and find that the ranking of individual time …

When measuring inequality using conventional inequality measures, ethical assumptions
about distributional preferences are often implicitly made. In this paper, we ask whether the …

Background: Bacterial meningitis is a serious and potentially rapid life-threatening disease.
Therefore, to ensure appropriate treatment, early recognition of signs and symptoms is …

The epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is continuously
changing. Iceland has a low incidence of MRSA. A “search and destroy” policy (screening …

Efficiency calculations of violence prevention are likely to be severely biased if the hard-to-measure
value of utility reductions due to victimization is not included. We measure the …

To examine whether there is a relationship between the degree of Campylobacter contamination
observed in product lots of retail Icelandic broiler chicken carcasses and the incidence …

Background: Increasing resistance of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) to antibiotics calls for
constant re-evaluation of multidrug regimens that have been used to eradicate the infection. …

The recent increase in the incidence of methicllin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in all the
Nordic countries prompted the Scandinavian Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (SSAC…