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Infection control in the brain and the eye

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain and the eye, is considered to have a ‘privileged’ mechanism for dealing with immunological challenge (immune privilege, IP). CNS IP has been revealed through experiments using foreign protein antigens and cell and tissue alloantigens (grafts), but evidence for a role for IP in modulating ...
John V. Forrester, Paul G. McMenamin, Samantha J. Dando   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of the Clinical Patterns in Varicella in a Tertiary Hospital at Coastal Karnataka [PDF]

, 2011
Context: There are very few studies regarding the clinical patterns and manifestations of a very common viral infection, Varicella, especially from south India.
Girish, PN, Shetty, NJ, Shetty, VH, Vaz, GF   +3 more
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Green Stool Predominance in Babies and Subsequent Bowel Function at 1–2 Years of Age

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To study the relationship between bowel function after birth and at 1–2 years of age in the prospective HELMi cohort of term infants. Methods We focused on infants with predominantly green stools (n = 152) for three consecutive weeks in early life and their sex, age, and delivery mode‐matched controls (n = 300), and evaluated bowel ...
L. Typpö, T. Solasaari, K. Korpela, W. M. de Vos, A. Salonen, K.‐L. Kolho   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating infectious disease parameters from data on social contacts and serological status

, 2010
In dynamic models of infectious disease transmission, typically various mixing patterns are imposed on the so-called Who-Acquires-Infection-From-Whom matrix (WAIFW).
Anderson, Beutels, Burnham, Cauchemez, Diekmann, Edmunds, Edmunds, Eurostat, Farrington, Farrington, Ferguson, FOD Economie Afdeling Statistiek, Garnett, Greenhalgh, Halloran, Hens, Hens, Hens, Kanaan, Longini, Mammen, Melegaro, Mikolajczyk, Mossong, Mossong, Nardone, Ogunjimi, Schwarz, Van Effelterre, Wallinga, Whitaker, Wood   +31 more
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Shoulder pain due to cervical radiculopathy: an underestimated long-term complication of herpes zoster virus reactivation? [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose To evaluate if herpes zoster virus (HZV) reactivation may be considered in the aetiology of cervical radiculopathy. Methods The study group was composed of 110 patients (52 M-58F;mean age ± SD:46.5 ± 6.12; range:40-73) with a clinical ...
AS Hilibrand, B Kuijper, Ciro Villani, DA Perez-Martienz, Daniele Passaretti, DH Gilden, E Viikari-Juntura, H Sandmark, HC Tong, I Steiner, JP Makela, K Radhakrishnan, KC Shah, KM Abbed, MC Sanchez, MM Ban Le, MM Vargo, MT Modic, MT Modic, NA Peterslund, PG Kennedy, PW Detwiler, R Atkinson, RE Yoss, RS Wainner, RW Johnson, S Gumina, S Shabat, Stefano Gumina, T Fujy, Vittorio Candela, W Frobin, W Frobin, W Frobin, Y Uematsu   +34 more
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Modelling Impact of Different Varicella Immunisation Strategies Upon Introduction in the Swedish National Programme

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Countries with varicella immunisation programmes have seen major reductions in disease burden. While two‐dose schedules are now universally adopted, dosing ages vary, and some countries initially include catch‐up vaccination of older children to speed impact. This modelling study assessed three two‐dose schedules in the Swedish setting (1)
Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Frida Kasteng, Annika Ersson, Sören Andersson, Emma Appelqvist, Marie Nordahl, Kari Johansen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rationale for Recommending Varicella Vaccination Into the Swedish National Immunisation Programme

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Under Swedish law, a vaccination may be included in the National Immunisation Programme (NIP) if it effectively prevents transmission in the population, is cost‐effective and aligns with ethical and humanitarian principles. The Public Health Agency of Sweden (PHAS) evaluated these criteria for introducing varicella vaccination. Methods The
Annika Ersson, Kari Johansen, Sören Andersson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Skin Condition Classification with a Visual Symptom Checker Trained using Reinforcement Learning

, 2019
We present a visual symptom checker that combines a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent as a Question Answering (QA) model. This method increases the classification confidence and accuracy of the visual
M Rotmensch, ML Puterman, RS Sutton, V Mnih, Y Chali   +4 more
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Health Economic Evaluation of Varicella Vaccination Within the Swedish National Vaccination Programme for Children

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To assess the cost‐effectiveness of including varicella vaccination in the Swedish national vaccination programme for children together with the added impact of catch‐up vaccination of susceptible older children. Methods An epidemiological transmission model was used to assess the cost‐effectiveness of a two‐dose national varicella ...
Frida Kasteng, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Annika Ersson, Ellen Wolff, Sören Andersson, Kari Johansen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using qualitative methods to validate a stated preference survey for evaluating health services, CHERE Discussion Paper No 47 [PDF]

This study used a qualitative approach to assess parents? opinions of a self-completed stated preference discrete choice modelling (SPDCM) questionnaire for assessing the uptake of a new childhood vaccination against chickenpox. The aim was to assess the
Angela Yeoh, Jane Hall, Marion Haas, Patricia Kenny, Rosalie Viney   +4 more
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