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Estimating in Real Time the Efficacy of Measures to Control Emerging Communicable Diseases [PDF]
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2006 Controlling an emerging communicable disease requires prompt adoption of measures such as quarantine. Assessment of the efficacy of these measures must be rapid as well. In this paper, the authors present a framework to monitor the efficacy of control measures in real time.
Simon, Cauchemez +3 more
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Biomedical Research, A Tool to Address the Health Issues that Affect African Populations. [PDF]
, 2013 Traditionally, biomedical research endeavors in low to middle resources countries have focused on communicable diseases. However, data collected over the past 20 years by the World Health Organization (WHO) show a significant increase in the number of ...
Peprah, Emmanuel, Wonkam, Ambroise
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Zika virus disease: a public health emergency
Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016 No abstract available.
P. Jansen van Vuren, A. Kemp, J. Paweska
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Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background Members of the Anopheles gambiae complex breed in clean, sunlit temporary bodies of water. Anthropogenic pollution is, however, altering the breeding sites of the vectors with numerous biological effects.
Alexander C. S. N. Jeanrenaud +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Insecticide-based vector control is key to the reduction and elimination of malaria. Although insecticide resistance is common in malaria vector populations, the operational implications are often unclear.
Shüné V. Oliver +2 more
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A Model of Noncommunicable Diseases Determinants in Iran; a Qualitative Study [PDF]
, 2016 Aims: Non-communicable diseases have become an emerging pandemic globally with disproportionately higher rates in developing countries. This study aimed to design a representative model of non-communicable diseases determinants in Iran according to the ...
Akbari, H. +3 more
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Morbidity Pattern Among Out-Patients Attending Urban Health Training Centre in Srinagar [PDF]
, 2018 The current study was designed to identify the morbidity pattern of out-patients attending Urban Health Training Centre in an urban area of a medical college in Srinagar, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, North India.
Ali, H. (Haroon) +3 more
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Comparative Neutralization Activity of Commercial Rabies Immunoglobulin against Diverse Lyssaviruses
Vaccines, 2023 Novel lyssaviruses, the causative agents of rabies, continue to be described mostly due to increased surveillance in bat hosts. Biologicals for the prevention of rabies in humans have, however, remained largely unchanged for decades.
Jessica Coertse +3 more
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Integrated Serologic Surveillance of Population Immunity and Disease Transmission. [PDF]
, 2018 Antibodies are unique among biomarkers in their ability to identify persons with protective immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases and to measure past exposure to diverse pathogens. Most infectious disease surveillance maintains a single-disease focus,
Arnold, Benjamin F +3 more
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COVID-19: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 This Special Issue focuses on recent global research on the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic [...]
Peter A. Leggat +2 more
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