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Disease and Pest Outbreaks

1986
Until recent times, the periodic irruptions of infectious diseases have been significant factors in the lives of humans and in the history of civilized society. Today many of the serious infectious diseases of humankind have been controlled. However, the increased control of human infectious disease has not lessened the importance of studying and ...
Wilfred M. Post, Donald L. DeAngelis, Curtis C. Travis   +2 more
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Investigation of Disease Outbreaks

2015
This chapter reviews concepts associated with infectious disease outbreaks, including disease surveillance, mechanisms used to detect outbreaks, and the epidemiological steps used to investigate an outbreak. We catalogue both routine and novel laboratory detection methods that can be used in an outbreak setting and examples in which laboratory testing ...
Iona Munjal, Belinda Ostrowsky
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The Investigation of Outbreaks of Toxicologic Disease

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, 1988
Use of this basic epidemiologic approach will solve many toxicologic problems. Epidemiologic techniques have a key role in integrating and assimilating the data derived from a toxicologic investigation. Hypotheses are proposed and tested based on the data obtained and analyzed.
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The Investigation of Outbreaks of Infectious Disease

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, 1988
The ability to control infectious diseases is contingent upon recognizing and eliminating the source of infection or disrupting the transfer of infectious agent to susceptible hosts. In this article, methods of identification of infectious agents, the presence of carriers and environmental reservoirs, and their impact upon investigations are discussed.
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Tackling future disease outbreaks

Veterinary Record, 2005
SIR, – The outbreak of Newcastle disease in Surrey last month was a valuable test of DEFRA’s contingency plan and the relationship between DEFRA, our stakeholders and delivery partners. I believe now is the time for our profession to consider what issues have been raised about how we engage ...
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Dengue Disease Outbreak Detection

2014
Early detection of outbreak of a disease may help in timely and effective public health interventions. Our motivation for this work is to assist EHD planning officer to analyze the incidence data and based on it declare whether there is an outbreak or not.
Pankaj, Dayama, Kameshwaran, Sampath
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Preventing an exotic disease outbreak and responding to such outbreaks

The Bovine Practitioner, 1982
Many diseases that are exotic to the United States are currently spreading in the world. Rift Valley fever has spread from South and Central Africa, all the way to Egypt. Increased outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have recently appeared in a number of European countries.
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Onconephrology: The intersections between the kidney and cancer

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021
Mitchell H Rosner, Kenar D Jhaveri, Mark A Perazella   +2 more
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Surveillance of foodborne disease outbreaks in China, 2003–2017

, 2020
Weiwei Li, S. Pires, Zhitao Liu, Xiaochen Ma, Jinjun Liang, Yuyan Jiang, Jiang Chen, Junhua Liang, Santao Wang, Lian-sen Wang, Yafang Wang, Can Meng, X. Huo, Z. Lan, S. Lai, Chengwei Liu, Haihong Han, Jikai Liu, P. Fu, Yunchang Guo   +19 more
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Coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak

Panminerva Medica, 2020
Nello De Vita, Piero Emilio Balbo, Francesco Gavelli, Luigi Mario Castello, Rui Shi, Filippo Patrucco, Paolo Ravanini, Arthur Pavot   +7 more
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