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Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among tuberculosis laboratory workers in Iran [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2016
OBJECTIVES The risk of transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from patients to health care workers (HCWs) is a neglected problem in many countries, including Iran.
Mahshid Nasehi, Abdolrazagh Hashemi-Shahraki, Amin Doosti-Irani, Saeed Sharafi, Ehsan Mostafavi   +4 more
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Infection prevention and control in tertiary care hospitals of Bangladesh: results from WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF)

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2022
Introduction Infection prevention and control (IPC) in healthcare settings is imperative for the safety of patients as well as healthcare providers.
Md. Golam Dostogir Harun, Md Mahabub Ul Anwar, Shariful Amin Sumon, Md Zakiul Hassan, Tahmidul Haque, Syeda Mah-E-Muneer, Aninda Rahman, Syed Abul Hassan Md Abdullah, Md Saiful Islam, Ashley R. Styczynski, S. Cornelia Kaydos-Daniels   +10 more
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One Health in South Africa?

Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
No abstract available.
Jacqueline Weyer, Misheck Mulumba
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Gnathostomiasis Acquired by Visitors to the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020
Gnathostomiasis is a zoonotic nematode parasite disease, most commonly acquired by eating raw or undercooked fish. Although the disease is well known in parts of Asia and Central and South America, relatively few cases have been reported from Africa. Raw
John Frean
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Echinococcus multilocularis: An emerging pathogen in Hungary and Central Eastern Europe?

, 2003
Echinococcus multilocularis, the causative agent of human alveolar echinococcosis, is reported for the first time in Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Hungary.
Varga, István, Sréter, Tamás, Széll, Zoltán, Egyed, Zsuzsa, Zoltán Széll, Tamás Sréter, Zsuzsa Egyed, István Varga   +7 more
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Commentary: Emerging and other communicable diseases.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 1999
There is an increasing need for integrated, sustainable; and cost-effective approaches to the management of infectious diseases. For example, an emerging disease in one country may already be endemic in another country but nearing elimination in a third.
D, Heymann, J, Dzenowagis
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New Methodology for Estimating the Burden of Infectious Diseases in Europe [PDF]

, 2012
Kretzschmar M, Mangen M-JEJ, Pinheiro JP, et al. New Methodology for Estimating the Burden of Infectious Diseases in Europe. PLoS Medicine.
consortium, BCoDE, Fevre, Eric M., Lai Taavi, Claudia Stein, Mangen, MJ, Dep IRAS, FRANCO, ELISABETTA, Fevre, E.M., Kretzschmar, Mirjam, BCoDE consortium, Piotr Kramarz, Havelaar Arie H., Stein Claudia, Mangen, M, Pinheiro, P, Paulo Pinheiro, Beate Jahn, Mangen Marie-Josée J., Havelaar, AH, Cassini, Alessandro, Fèvre Eric M., Havelaar, A, Pinheiro, Paulo, Fevre, Eric, Longhi, Silvia, Havelaar, Arie H, Lai, Taavi, Fèvre, Eric M, Stein, C, Mangen, Marie-Josée J, Longhi, S, Beate Jahn (170765), Mirjam Kretzschmar, Mirjam Kretzschmar (27309), ?, ?, Longhi Silvia, Fèvre, EM, Mangen, M.J.J., Stein, C., Mangen, Marie-Josee E. J., Stein, C,, Cassini Alessandro, Eric M. Fèvre (125784), Pinheiro, Joao Paulo, Mangen, M.J., Pinheiro Paulo, Arie H. Havelaar (170779), Alessandro Cassini (170788), Risk Assessment of Toxic and Immunomodulatory Agents, Taavi Lai, Havelaar, A.H., Kramarz, Piotr, Arie H Havelaar, Kretzschmar Mirjam, Jahn, B., Cassini, A., BCoDE consortium, x, Lai, T, Kramarz, P, Piotr Kramarz (170792), Stein, Claudia, Kramarz Piotr, Jahn, Beate, Fèvre, E, Cassini, A, Marie-Josée J Mangen, Marie-Josée J. Mangen (170760), Havelaar, Arie H., Kretzschmar, M.E.E., Pinheiro, P., Silvia Longhi (170771), Jahn, B, Eric M Fèvre, Ricciardi, Gualtiero, Kretzschmar, M., Paulo Pinheiro (170764), Jahn Beate, Franco, E, Lai, T., Kramarz, P., Alessandro Cassini, Longhi, S., Taavi Lai (170775), Claudia Stein (170785), Silvia Longhi, Kretzschmar, M   +85 more
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Nutrition transition in South Asia: the emergence of non-communicable chronic diseases [PDF]

F1000Research, 2015
Overview: South Asian countries have experienced a remarkable economic growth during last two decades along with subsequent transformation in social, economic and food systems. Rising disposable income levels continue to drive the nutrition transition characterized by a shift from a traditional high-carbohydrate,
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A case of human survival of rabies, South Africa

Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Human survival from rabies is exceptionally rare. We report a case of human survival (with severe neurological sequelae) in a child from South Africa.
Jacqueline Weyer, Veerle Msimang-Dermaux, Janusz T. Paweska, Kevin le Roux, Premi Govender, Jessica Coertse, Wanda Markotter, Louis H. Nel, Lucille H. Blumberg   +8 more
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Use of evidence to support healthy public policy: a policy effectiveness-feasibility loop

, 2012
Public policy plays a key role in improving population health and in the control of diseases, including non-communicable diseases. However, an evidence-based approach to formulating healthy public policy has been difficult to implement, partly on ...
Fouad, Fouad, Unal, B, Capewell, S, Romdhane, Habiba Ben, Maziak, Wasim, Unwin, N, Unal, Belgin, Julia Critchley, Peter Phillimore, Wasim Maziak, Belgin Unal, Ben Romdhane, Habiba, Shoaibi, A, Unwin, Nigel, Phillimore, Peter, Sarah Bowman, Rana Khatib, Khatib, R, Maziak, W, Husseini, Abdullatif, Zaman, Shahaduz, Habiba Ben Romdhane, Phillmore, Peter, Husseini, A, Phillimore, P, Shoaimi, Azza, Ben Romdhane, H, Simon Capewell, Ahmad, Balsam, Fouad Fouad, Critchley, Julia, Fouad, F, Critchley, J, Shoaibi, Azza, Capewell, Simon, Khatib, Rana, Bowman, S, Bowman, Sarah, Azza Shoaibi, Zaman, S, Ahmad, B, Nigel Unwin, Balsam Ahmad, Sarah, Bowman, Abdullatif Husseini, Shahaduz Zaman   +45 more
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