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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, John Frean, Lucille Blumberg   +2 more
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The unfinished agenda of communicable diseases among children and adolescents before the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. [PDF]

, 2023
BackgroundCommunicable disease control has long been a focus of global health policy. There have been substantial reductions in the burden and mortality of communicable diseases among children younger than 5 years, but we know less about this burden in ...
GBD 2019 Child and Adolescent Communicable Disease Collaborators, GBD 2019 Child and Adolescent Communicable Disease Collaborators, .   +1 more
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Plague and listeriosis: current outbreaks, and an historical South African connection

Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
No abdtract available.
John Frean, Lucille Blumberg, Kerrigan McCarthy, Juno Thomas   +3 more
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The diversity of Plasmodium falciparum isolates from asymptomatic and symptomatic school-age children in Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of Congo

Malaria Journal, 2023
Background Understanding Plasmodium falciparum population diversity and transmission dynamics provides information on the intensity of malaria transmission, which is needed for assessing malaria control interventions.
Shirley V. Simpson, Sabin S. Nundu, Hiroaki Arima, Osamu Kaneko, Toshihiro Mita, Richard Culleton, Taro Yamamoto   +6 more
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Malaria Vector Surveillance and Control in an Elimination Setting in South Africa

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
South Africa’s malaria elimination plans are aligned to the World Health Organization’s aim for a malaria-free world and include specific objectives within a specified time frame.
Basil D. Brooke
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Communicable diseases

, 2023
Chapter 5 looks at defining communicable diseases and understanding and the impact on both animal and human health and how vital it is for veterinary nurses. This chapter does this in a clear and systematic way.
Costa, Marta, Barker, Emi N.
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A review on the progress of sex-separation techniques for sterile insect technique applications against Anopheles arabiensis

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
The feasibility of the sterile insect technique (SIT) as a malaria vector control strategy against Anopheles arabiensis has been under investigation over the past decade.
Thabo Mashatola, Cyrille Ndo, Lizette L. Koekemoer, Leonard C. Dandalo, Oliver R. Wood, Lerato Malakoane, Yacouba Poumachu, Leanne N. Lobb, Maria Kaiser, Kostas Bourtzis, Givemore Munhenga   +10 more
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COVID-19: Current Status and Future Prospects

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
This second Special Issue in a series of Special Issues in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease looks at recent global research on the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic [...]
Peter A. Leggat, John Frean, Lucille Blumberg   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experimental Inoculation of Egyptian Fruit Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) with Ebola Virus

Viruses, 2016
Colonized Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), originating in South Africa, were inoculated subcutaneously with Ebola virus (EBOV). No overt signs of morbidity, mortality, or gross lesions were noted.
Janusz T. Paweska, Nadia Storm, Antoinette A. Grobbelaar, Wanda Markotter, Alan Kemp, Petrus Jansen van Vuren   +5 more
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Marked Effects of Larval Salt Exposure on the Life History and Gut Microbiota of the Malaria Vector Anopheles merus (Diptera: Culicidae)

Insects, 2022
Anopheles merus can breed in a range of saltwater concentrations. The consequences of this ability on the life history of adult An. merus are poorly understood. This study examined the effects of exposure to 0, 2.1875, 4.375, 8.75, and 17.5 g/L of sodium
Ashmika Singh, Nashrin F. Patel, Mushal Allam, Wai-Yin Chan, Thabo Mohale, Arshad Ismail, Shüné V. Oliver   +6 more
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