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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Pythium insidiosum is a widespread pathogen that causes pythiosis in mammals. Recent increase in cases reported in North America indicates a need to better understand the distribution and persistence of the pathogen in the environment.
Manuel Jara +4 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) found throughout tropical and subtropical Africa. In Madagascar, the condition is widespread and endemic in 74% of all administrative districts in the country.
Mark A. Deka
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Topographic mapping of retinal function with the SLO-mfERG under simultaneous control of fixation in Best's disease [PDF]
, 2003 Purpose: To introduce the scanning laser ophthalmoscope-evoked mfERG (SLO-mfERG) as a new method to measure focal retinal function. Methods: Sixty-two healthy individuals and 12 patients with Best's disease were examined.
Kalpadakis, P., Rudolph, G.
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Mapping Ebola in wild animals for better disease control
eLife, 2014 Identifying the regions where wild animal populations could transmit the Ebola virus should help with efforts to prepare at-risk areas for future outbreaks.
Sebastian Funk, Peter Piot
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The Relative Risk Estimation of Pneumonia in Malaysia using Standardized Morbidity Ratio (SMR)
ASM Science Journal, 2021 Pneumonia is the most serious inflammatory disease of the respiratory system which cause millions of deaths worldwide especially for children under age five and older adults. The numbers of pneumonia cases reported keep on increasing from year to year in
IJLAL MOHD DIAH
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Ecological Niche Modeling: An Introduction for Veterinarians and Epidemiologists
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 Most infectious diseases in animals are not distributed randomly. Instead, diseases in livestock and wildlife are predictable in terms of the geography, time, and species affected. Ecological niche modeling approaches have been crucial to the advancement
Luis E. Escobar
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Mapping gene associations in human mitochondria using clinical disease phenotypes [PDF]
, 2009 Nuclear genes encode most mitochondrial proteins, and their mutations cause diverse and debilitating clinical disorders. To date, 1,200 of these mitochondrial genes have been recorded, while no standardized catalog exists of the associated clinical ...
Curt Scharfe +22 more
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Mapping of the EQ-5D index from clinical outcome measures and demographic variables in patients with coronary heart disease [PDF]
, 2010 The official published version of the article can be found at the link below.Background: The EuroQoL 5D (EQ-5D) is a questionnaire that provides a measure of utility for cost-effectiveness analysis.
Dyer, Matthew T. +19 more
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The impact of geographic mobility on the spread of COVID-19 in Hong Kong
Geospatial Health, 2022 The modern highly globalised economy is jeopardising human health as the increased mobility and interconnectedness has the potential to rapidly transmit pathogens across the globe.
Paulina Pui Yun Wong +2 more
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Disease Mapping With Generative Models [PDF]
The American Statistician, 2018 Disease mapping focuses on learning about areal units presenting high relative risk. Disease mapping models for disease counts specify Poisson regressions in relative risks compared with the expected counts. These models typically incorporate spatial random effects to accomplish spatial smoothing.
Feifei Wang +3 more
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