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Situating agent-based modelling in population health research [PDF]
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2021 Today’s most troublesome population health challenges are often driven by social and environmental determinants, which are difficult to model using traditional epidemiological methods.
Eric Silverman +6 more
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An agent-based modelling framework to study growth mechanisms in EGFR-L858R mutant cell alveolar type II cells [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceMutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are common in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), particularly in never-smoker patients. However, these mutations are not always carcinogenic, and have recently been reported in histologically ...
Helena Coggan +6 more
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Modelling the impact of timelines of testing and isolation on disease control
Infectious Disease Modelling, 2023 Testing and isolation remain a key component of public health responses to both persistent and emerging infectious diseases. Although the value of these measures have been demonstrated in combating recent outbreaks including the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
Ao Li, Zhen Wang, Seyed M. Moghadas
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Economic evaluation of COVID-19 rapid antigen screening programs in the workplace
BMC Medicine, 2022 Background Diagnostic testing has been pivotal in detecting SARS-CoV-2 infections and reducing transmission through the isolation of positive cases. We quantified the value of implementing frequent, rapid antigen (RA) testing in the workplace to identify
Thomas N. Vilches +4 more
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Rapid disappearance of influenza following the implementation of COVID-19 mitigation measures in Hamilton, Ontario [PDF]
Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2021 Background: Public health measures, such as physical distancing and closure of schools and non-essential services, were rapidly implemented in Canada to interrupt the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Kevin Zhang +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Nunavut, the northernmost Arctic territory of Canada, experienced three community outbreaks of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from early November 2020 to mid-June 2021.
Thomas N. Vilches +7 more
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Evaluation of TB elimination strategies in Canadian Inuit populations: Nunavut as a case study
Infectious Disease Modelling, 2022 Tuberculosis (TB) continues to disproportionately affect Inuit populations in Canada with some communities having over 300 times higher rate of active TB than Canadian-born, non-Indigenous people. Inuit Tuberculosis Elimination Framework has set the goal
Elaheh Abdollahi +5 more
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Population dynamics of epidemic and endemic states of drug-resistance emergence in infectious diseases [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 The emergence and spread of drug-resistance during treatment of many infectious diseases continue to degrade our ability to control and mitigate infection outcomes using therapeutic measures.
Diána Knipl +2 more
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EClinicalMedicine, 2021 Background: Despite passive immunization with palivizumab to select high-risk children under two years of age, the health and economic burden of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains substantial.
Shokoofeh Nourbakhsh +8 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background Patient screening at the time of hospital admission is not recommended as a routine practice, but may be an important strategy for containment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in hospital settings.
Sara Maghdoori, Seyed M. Moghadas
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