Sex Differences in Response to Viral Vector Vaccines—Implications for Future Vaccine Design
ABSTRACT Vaccination represents one of the most impactful public health achievements, preventing 3.5 to 5 million deaths annually according to estimates of the World Health Organization. Yet, recent outbreaks of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases highlight the need for rapid and strategic vaccine development using vaccine platforms ...
Ilka Grewe +2 more
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Ebola Model and Optimal Control with Vaccination Constraints
The Ebola virus disease is a severe viral haemorrhagic fever syndrome caused by Ebola virus. This disease is transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person and objects contaminated with virus or infected animals, with a death ...
Area, Ivan +4 more
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Neurological, Cognitive, and Psychological Findings Among Survivors of Ebola Virus Disease From the 1995 Ebola Outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo: A Cross-sectional Study. [PDF]
BackgroundClinical sequelae of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have not been described more than 3 years postoutbreak. We examined survivors and close contacts from the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and determined ...
Bjornson, Zach +15 more
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Irregular and Infectious? COVID‐19, Ebola and the Securitization of Migration to Southern Europe
Abstract Securitization scholarship concentrates on the discursive association between undocumented migration, terrorism and crime. Our textual and visual analysis of Italian, Spanish and Maltese newspapers between 2013 and 2020 demonstrates that the discourses securitizing irregular mobility as a health risk became more salient than those linking ...
Eugenio Cusumano +2 more
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What we know about ocular manifestations of Ebola
Majid Moshirfar,1 Carlton R Fenzl,2 Zhan Li3 1Department of Ophthalmology, Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; 2John A Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA ...
Moshirfar M, Fenzl CR, Li Z
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Application of multiplex realtime PCR detection for hemorrhagic fever syndrome viruses
Background: Multiplex real-time PCR is a quick and cost effective method for detection of various gene simultaneously. HFSV (Hemorrhagic Fever Syndrome Virus) is a newly emerging infectious disease because of globalization and climate change. We tried to
Yoonhyuk Choi, Younghee Kim
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Isolation of Angola-like Marburg virus from Egyptian rousette bats from West Africa. [PDF]
Marburg virus (MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe Marburg virus disease (MVD). Most MVD outbreaks originated in East Africa and field studies in East Africa, South Africa, Zambia, and Gabon identified the Egyptian rousette bat (ERB; Rousettus ...
Amara, Emmanuel +49 more
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Projections of epidemic transmission and estimation of vaccination impact during an ongoing Ebola virus disease outbreak in Northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as of Feb. 25, 2019. [PDF]
BackgroundAs of February 25, 2019, 875 cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) were reported in North Kivu and Ituri Provinces, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hoff, Nicole A +12 more
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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Other than Ebola and Lassa [PDF]
Viral hemorrhagic fevers represent a group of diseases caused by enveloped RNA viruses. The epidemiology is broadly variable, ranging from geographically localized to more diffuse infections. Viral hemorrhagic fevers are classified as category A bioweapon agents by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Iannetta M. +9 more
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Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by the Lassa virus and is mainly spread through direct and indirect human–rodent interaction. In Nigeria, Lassa fever outbreaks are becoming more frequent, and studies suggest that changes in climatic and ecological conditions will exacerbate these trends. It is crucial that health professionals
Ibrahim Yusuf Eroje +2 more
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