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Modelling Ebola [PDF]

open access: yesScience Progress, 2016
This paper is the combination of a review on the problems of data collection and modelling efforts of the recent Ebola epidemics. After a brief review of data availability, the modelling frameworks have been discussed. Both deterministic and stochastic models have been reviewed and supplemented with a short discussion of some problems of parameter ...
Kamalaldin, Kamalaldin   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Adult and paediatric haematology and clinical chemistry laboratory reference limits for Liberia

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2020
Background: As more research is conducted in Liberia, there is a need for laboratory reference limits for common chemistry and haematology values based on a healthy population. Reference limits from the United States may not be applicable.
Mark W. Kieh   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

MARCH8 Restricts Ebola Virus Replication by Blocking the Viral Glycoprotein Processing and Glycosylation

open access: yesProceedings, 2020
Ebola virus (EBOV) glycoprotein (GP) is a class I fusion protein whose maturation is dependent on furin-mediated processing. EBOV-GP is heavily glycosylated, with glycans constituting ~50% of its molecular mass.
Changqing Yu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation).
Kathleen Lynch
wiley   +1 more source

Awareness of Ebola Virus Disease and Information Seeking Behaviour of Rural Dwellers in Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesFolia Toruniensia, 2021
Aim: The study investigated the awareness of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and information seeking behaviour of rural dwellers in Nigeria. Methods: The survey type of the descriptive research design was used in conducting the study and the study group ...
Ebiye V. Edonkumoh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The laboratory health system and its response to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Liberia

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2016
The laboratory system in Liberia has generally been fragmented and uncoordinatedAccordingly, the country’s Ministry of Health established the National Reference Laboratoryto strengthen and sustain laboratory services. However, diagnostic testing services
Stephen B. Kennedy   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sources of Mapping used in Humanitarian Emergencies: The Case of Ebola

open access: yesQuaestiones Geographicae, 2022
The need to rapidly respond to health emergencies has generated various institutional initiatives to identify their location, through mapping. This study employs a qualitative-exploratory method, based on the daily monitoring of eight Ebola epidemics ...
Barra Martínez José Antonio   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bat portraits in times of pandemic

open access: yesMedicine Anthropology Theory, 2020
In this Photo Essay, photographs are combined with drawings collected in Burkina Faso in the years following the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak. Portraits of bats are shown.
Michele Cros
doaj   +1 more source

A review of strategies used to retain participants in clinical research during an infectious disease outbreak: The PREVAIL I Ebola vaccine trial experience

open access: yesContemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2018
Introduction: This article describes a retrospective review of participant follow-up and retention strategies in the Partnership for Research on the Ebola Virus in Liberia (PREVAIL) I Vaccine Trial.
Sarah Browne   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pre-Ebola virus disease laboratory system and related challenges in Liberia

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2016
Prior to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Liberia, the laboratory system was duplicativefragmented and minimally coordinated. The National Reference Laboratory was conceptualisedto address the existing challenges by promoting the implementation of ...
Stephen B. Kennedy   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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