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Model Opioids Biosurveillance Strategy for Public Health Practice [PDF]

This document was developed by the APHL Opioids Biosurveillance Task Force (OBTF) with support from APHL staff and subject matter expertise provided by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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A Flexible Spatial Framework for Modeling Spread of Pathogens in Animals with Biosurveillance and Disease Control Applications

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2014
Biosurveillance activities focus on acquiring and analyzing epidemiological and biological data to interpret unfolding events and predict outcomes in infectious disease outbreaks.
Montiago X. LaBute, Benjamin H. McMahon, Mac Brown, Carrie Manore, Jeanne M. Fair   +4 more
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Botulinum Neurotoxin Detection Methods for Public Health Response and Surveillance

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2018
Botulism outbreak due to consumption of food contaminated with botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) is a public health emergency. The threat of bioterrorism through deliberate distribution in food sources and/or aerosolization of BoNTs raises global public ...
Nagarajan Thirunavukkarasu, Eric Johnson, Segaran Pillai, David Hodge, Larry Stanker, Travis Wentz, BalRam Singh, Kodumudi Venkateswaran, Patrick McNutt, Michael Adler, Eric Brown, Thomas Hammack, Donald Burr, Shashi Sharma   +13 more
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Biosurveillance: Preliminary Observations on Department of Homeland Security's Biosurveillance Initiatives [PDF]

, 2008
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The United States faces potentially dangerous biological threats that occur naturally or may be the result of a terrorist attack.
United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Fast, Scalable, and Practical: An Alkaline DNA Extraction Pipeline for Emergency Microbiomics Biosurveillance [PDF]

, 2021
Pandemics and environmental crises evident from the first two decades of the 21st century call for methods innovation in biosurveillance and early detection of risk signals in planetary ecosystems.
Gioula, Georgia, Kambouris, Manousos E., Goudoudaki, Stavroula, Kritikou, Stavroula, Velegraki, Aristea, Patrinos, George P., Milioni, Aphroditi, Manoussopoulos, Yiannis   +7 more
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A comprehensive review of Pseudoperonospora cubensis: biology, epidemiology, and disease management

Frontiers in Horticulture
Over the past two decades, significant changes in the population structure of Pseudoperonospora cubensis have been reported worldwide. These changes have been associated with, among other things, severe epidemics of cucurbit downy mildew that are now ...
Isaack Kikway, Isaack Kikway, Anthony P. Keinath, Peter S. Ojiambo   +3 more
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Annual cycle of bats in a cave of Jebel Errwa, a sub-desert zone of central Tunisia

Tropical Zoology, 2019
Bat use of the “Bat cave” of Jebel Errwa (central Tunisia) was studied over one year. A maximum of 650 bats were found during diurnal and nocturnal surveys.
Ridha Dalhoumi, Patricia Aissa, Hamouda Beyrem, Stéphane Aulagnier   +3 more
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Biosurveillance de la qualité des eaux de surface en Afrique : niveaux de contamination en polluants chimiques dont les composés pharmaceutiques émergents et les métaux lourds et utilisation de biomarqueurs, une revue de littérature

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Chemical pollution of surface waters represents a major challenge in Africa, particularly in urban and industrialized areas. The use of biomarkers to monitor this pollution has emerged as an effective approach to assess water quality and its impacts on ...
Afoussatou Amadou, Nelly Kelome, Victorien Tamègnon Dougnon   +2 more
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Automated Identification of Malaria-Infected Cells and Classification of Human Malaria Parasites Using a Two-Stage Deep Learning Technique

IEEE Access
The gold standard for diagnosing malaria remains microscopic examination; however, its application is frequently impeded by the lack of a standardized framework that guarantees uniformity and quality, particularly in scenarios with limited resources and ...
Dhevisha Sukumarran, Ee Sam Loh, Anis Salwa Mohd Khairuddin, Romano Ngui, Wan Yusoff Wan Sulaiman, Indra Vythilingam, Paul Cliff Simon Divis, Khairunnisa Hasikin   +7 more
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Farmland Biodiversity Monitoring Using DNA Metabarcoding

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Although 5–20% of global crop production is lost to arthropod damage, current biomonitoring programs are extremely limited. This study evaluates the feasibility of using metabarcoding to assess overall insect diversity and detect pest species in ...
Dirk Steinke, Muhammad Ashfaq, Chris Y. Ho, Kate H. J. Perez, Jayme E. Sones, Stephanie L. DeWaard, Jeremy R. DeWaard, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Paul D. N. Hebert   +9 more
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