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Using a grey relational analysis in an improved Grunow–Finke assessment tool to detect unnatural epidemics

Risk Analysis, Volume 43, Issue 7, Page 1508-1517, July 2023., 2023
Abstract The Grunow–Finke epidemiological assessment tool (GFT) has several limitations in its ability to differentiate between natural and man‐made epidemics. Our study aimed to improve the GFT and analyze historical epidemics to validate the model.
Mengxuan Lin, Hui Chen, Leili Jia, Mingjuan Yang, Shaofu Qiu, Hongbin Song, Ligui Wang, Tao Zheng   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Field Evaluation of a Safe, Easy, and Low‐Cost Protocol for Shipment of Samples from Suspected Cases of Foot‐and‐Mouth Disease to Diagnostic Laboratories

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
Identification and characterization of the foot‐and‐mouth disease virus (FMDV) strains circulating in endemic countries and their dynamics are essential elements of the global FMD control strategy. Characterization of FMDV is usually performed in reference laboratories (RL).
Aurore Romey, Hussaini G. Ularamu, Abdulnaci Bulut, Syed M. Jamal, Salman Khan, Muhammad Ishaq, Michael Eschbaumer, Graham J. Belsham, Cindy Bernelin-Cottet, Anthony Relmy, Mathilde Gondard, Souheyla Benfrid, Yiltawe S. Wungak, Claude Hamers, Pascal Hudelet, Stéphan Zientara, Labib Bakkali Kassimi, Sandra Blaise-Boisseau, Daniel Diaz   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dual-Use Quickscan: A Web-Based Tool to Assess the Dual-Use Potential of Life Science Research

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021
Research on pathogenic organisms is crucial for medical, biological and agricultural developments. However, biological agents as well as associated knowledge and techniques, can also be misused, for example for the development of biological weapons ...
Iris M. Vennis, Mirjam M. Schaap, Petra A. M. Hogervorst, Arnout de Bruin, Sjors Schulpen, Marijke A. Boot, Mark W. J. van Passel, Saskia A. Rutjes, Diederik A. Bleijs   +8 more
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Training in tools to develop quantitative microbial risk assessment along the food chain of Spanish products

EFSA Journal, Volume 20, Issue S2, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Food safety is a widespread challenge. Every year it is estimated that almost 1 in 10 people in the world fall ill after eating contaminated food resulting in over 400,000 deaths. The risk of outbreaks is higher when consuming ready‐to‐eat (RTE) products because they are eaten without a further cooking process that could inactivate pathogenic ...
Alessandro Zambon, Alberto Garre Perez, Sara Spilimbergo, Pablo S Fernández Escámez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the ecological realism of plant species distribution models with ecological indicator values [PDF]

, 2020
Species distribution models (SDMs) are routinely applied to assess current as well as future species distributions, for example to assess impacts of future environmental change on biodiversity or to underpin conservation planning.
Ellenberg H., Ellenberg H., Fagerli H., Fourcade Y., Frank D., Hazeu G. W., Hennekens S. M., Hill M. O., Janssen J. A. M., Landolt E., Pignatti S., Schaminée J. H. J., Schaminée J. H. J., Schaminée J. H. J., Schaminée J. H. J., Settele J., Thuiller W.   +16 more
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Grand challenge in biosafety and biosecurity [PDF]

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Stephen A. Morse
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Competencies, training and applied risk assessment for biorisk management advisors

One Health & Risk Management, 2023
Introduction. In any clinical, veterinary, or research laboratory, special attention is crucial due to the nature of diagnostic samples and the uncertainty regarding the potential presence of any biological agent.
Dionysis VOURTSIS
doaj  

The Middle Eastern Biodiversity Network: Generating and sharing knowledge for ecosystem management and conservation [PDF]

, 2009
Despite prevailing arid conditions, the diversity of terrestrial and freshwater biota in the Middle East is amazingly high and marine biodiversity is among the highest on Earth.
Al-Jumaily, Masaa, Bariche, Michel, Khalaf, Maroof, Krupp, Friedhelm, Malek, Masoumeh, Streit, Bruno   +5 more
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Biosafety and biosecurity: a relative risk-based framework for safer, more secure, and sustainable laboratory capacity building [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Laboratory capacity building is characterized by a paradox between endemicity and resources: countries with high endemicity of pathogenic agents often have low and intermittent resources (water, electricity) and capacities (laboratories ...
Dickmann, Petra, Lightfoot, Nigel, Sheeley, Heather   +2 more
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Systematic approach towards establishing a National Inventory of Dangerous Pathogens

Global Health Action, 2021
International regulations stipulate that countries need to organize their biosafety and biosecurity systems to minimize the risk of accidental (biosafety) or malicious intentional (biosecurity) release of dangerous pathogens.
Iris M. Vennis, Diederik A. Bleijs, Sabrina Brizee, Harold H.J.L. Van Den Berg, Evelien Kampert, Saskia A. Rutjes, Mark W. J. Van Passel   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source