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Public health in Thailand: Emerging focus on non‐communicable diseases [PDF]
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2011 SUMMARYOver the past three decades, the public health landscape in Thailand has shifted remarkably. Currently chronic non‐communicable diseases represent the largest cause of mortality in the Thai population. In light of the current situation, this paper synthesizes what is known about the chronic non‐communicable disease situation in Thailand and ...
Kaufman, Nicholas D. +4 more
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Enfermedades infecciosas emergentes y reemergentes en los últimos 40 años
Revista Médica Hondureña, 2023 Scientific advances have made it possible to classify numerous infectious diseases as emerging and re-emerging, making it possible to establish the underlying causes of their emergence and to recommend optimal methods of ...
Efraín Bu Figueroa
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Viruses, 2019 Filovirus serological diagnosis and epidemiological investigations are hampered due to the unavailability of validated immunoassays. Diagnostic performance of three indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (I-ELISA) was evaluated for the detection of ...
Janusz T. Paweska +6 more
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Use of alternative bioassays to explore the impact of pyrethroid resistance on LLIN efficacy
Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background There is substantial concern that the spread of insecticide resistance will render long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) ineffective. However, there is limited evidence supporting a clear association between insecticide resistance and ...
Marissa K. Grossman +3 more
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Development of a Pan-Filoviridae SYBR Green qPCR Assay for Biosurveillance Studies in Bats
Viruses, 2023 Recent studies have indicated that bats are hosts to diverse filoviruses. Currently, no pan-filovirus molecular assays are available that have been evaluated for the detection of all mammalian filoviruses.
Jessica Coertse +5 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 The stability and infectivity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in liquid samples are of great concern to virus transmission via common beverages and sewage water.
Mizuki Fukuta +9 more
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The fight against non-communicable disease in emerging economies [PDF]
Nature, 2018 Health-care providers in low- and middle-income countries are shifting their focus away from infections, and towards the bigger problems of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Health-care providers in low- and middle-income countries are shifting their focus away from infections, and towards the bigger problems of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Rapid risk assessment for communicable diseases in humanitarian emergencies: validation of a rapid risk assessment tool for communicable disease risk in humanitarian emergencies [PDF]
Global Biosecurity, 2019 Background: Communicable diseases pose a significant risk in humanitarian emergencies. This paper reports on the development and validation of a rapid risk assessment tool for communicable diseases in humanitarian emergencies. Methods: We developed a tool assessing the 20 most critical risk factors for disease outbreaks in humanitarian emergencies ...
Hammer, Charlotte +2 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseSchistosomiasis remains the second leading cause of death among parasitic diseases globally, contributing substantially to chronic morbidity and disability.
Charlotte Sriruttan-Nel +4 more
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Phylodynamic Analysis of Ebola Virus Disease Transmission in Sierra Leone
Viruses, 2019 We generated genome sequences from 218 cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Sierra Leone (SLE) during 2014–2015 to complement available datasets, particularly by including cases from a period of low sequence coverage during peak transmission of ...
Petrus Jansen van Vuren +15 more
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