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Ebola virus disease: past, present and future

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2015
Ebola virus disease is one of the most deadly ailments known to mankind due to its high mortality rate (up to 90%) accompanying with the disease. Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is an infectious disease of animal that can be transmitted to both human and ...
Harish Rajak, Deepak Kumar Jain, Avineesh Singh, Ajay Kumar Sharma, Anshuman Dixit   +4 more
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Persistence of immunological memory as a potential correlate of long-term, vaccine-induced protection against Ebola virus disease in humans

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
IntroductionIn the absence of clinical efficacy data, vaccine protective effect can be extrapolated from animals to humans, using an immunological biomarker in humans that correlates with protection in animals, in a statistical approach called ...
Chelsea McLean, Karin Dijkman, Auguste Gaddah, Babajide Keshinro, Michael Katwere, Macaya Douoguih, Cynthia Robinson, Laura Solforosi, Dominika Czapska-Casey, Liesbeth Dekking, Yvonne Wollmann, Ariane Volkmann, Maria Grazia Pau, Benoit Callendret, Jerry Sadoff, Hanneke Schuitemaker, Roland Zahn, Kerstin Luhn, Jenny Hendriks, Ramon Roozendaal   +19 more
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Survey on Visualization of Information Diffusion over Networks

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Information Diffusion (ID) describes how a value (e.g., a pathogen, a rumor, a packet) spreads through an underlying “medium” network of elements (e.g., a social or computer network). Understanding the information diffusion process is essential to predicting trends, controlling misinformation, and enhancing decision‐making as well as ...
T. Baumgartl, M. Sondag, V. Filipov, M. Tuscher, S. Rajendran, S. Miksch, D. Archambault, A. Arleo, T. von Landesberger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frontline Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions of the Duty to Care During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Multi‐Method Study in Mozambique

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT COVID‐19 intensified ethical tensions between clinicians' duty to care and self‐protection amid PPE shortages. We explored frontline healthcare professionals' perspectives in Maputo, Mozambique. Semi‐structured interviews with healthcare professionals at four hospitals (April–June 2022) were recorded in Portuguese, transcribed, and ...
Ângela Alface, Graça Salomé, Khátia Munguambe, Troy D. Moon, Esperança Sevene, Elizabeth Heitman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resposta davant de l’epidèmia de malaltia pel virus Ebola a l’Àfrica Occidental (2014-2015): lliçons apreses en el nostre entorn [PDF]

, 2016
Virus Ebola; Àfrica Occidental; EpidemiaVirus Ebola; África Occidental; EpidemiaEbola virus; West Africa; EpidemicEl propòsit d’ aquest informe és fer una valoració dels aspectes més destacats de la gestió de l’epidèmia en el nostre entorn i poder fer ...
Comitè Científic Assessor de la Malaltia per Virus Ebola
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Recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara generating Ebola virus-like particles [PDF]

, 2017
There are currently no approved therapeutics or vaccines to treat or protect against the severe hemorrhagic fever and death caused by Ebola virus (EBOV). Ebola virus-like particles (EBOV VLPs) consisting of the matrix protein VP40, the glycoprotein (GP),
Wolferstätter, Michael, Gert Zimmer, Mark Suter, Michael Wolferstätter, Zimmer, Gert, Steigerwald, Robin, Suter, Mark, Hubertus Hochrein, Andrea S. Laimbacher, Marieken Klingenberg, Robin Steigerwald, Chaplin, Paul, Marc Schweneker, Klingenberg, Marieken, Paul Chaplin, Lauterbach, Henning, Hochrein, Hubertus, Laimbacher, Andrea S, Elisabeth M. Schraner, Schraner, Elisabeth M, Wagner, Susanne, Jürgen Hausmann, Hausmann, Jürgen, Susanne Wagner, Schweneker, Marc, Henning Lauterbach, Ulrike Dirmeier, Dirmeier, Ulrike   +27 more
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Wearable Electronic Monitoring of Vital Signs in Hospitalised Adults: A Nursing Focused Scoping Review of Clinical, Economic and Implementation Outcomes

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To synthesise evidence on wearable devices for continuous vital signs monitoring in adult hospital inpatients, focusing on clinical effectiveness, nursing perspectives, workflow impact, patient experience and resource implications. Design Scoping review.
Sian Myfanwy Shaw, Sophie Bethan Shaw, Gillian Janes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A multiplex assay to detect mosquito species, bloodmeal host source and Plasmodium in malaria vectors using Nanopore amplicon sequencing

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Insectary‐reared mosquitoes were simultaneously assessed for species identification, bloodmeal source analysis and Plasmodium detection, using a single multiplexed sequencing run on the MinION sequencing platform. The method was applied to 150 insectary‐reared mosquitoes, representing nine species blood‐fed with five vertebrate hosts and 40 samples for
E. Abby Rogers, Dieunel Derilus, Christopher Sandi, Lisa Reimer, Audrey Lenhart, Lucy Mackenzie Impoinvil   +5 more
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Virus-Vectored Ebola Vaccines [PDF]

Acta Naturae, 2017
The Ebola virus disease (EVD) is one of the most dangerous infections affecting humans and animals. The first EVD outbreaks occurred in 1976 in Sudan and Zaire. Since then, more than 20 outbreaks have occurred; the largest of which (2014-2016) evolved into an epidemic in West Africa and claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people. Although vaccination
I V, Dolzhikova, E A, Tokarskaya, A S, Dzharullaeva, A I, Tukhvatulin, D V, Shcheblyakov, O L, Voronina, S I, Syromyatnikova, S V, Borisevich, V B, Pantyukhov, V F, Babira, L V, Kolobukhina, B S, Naroditsky, D Y, Logunov, A L, Gintsburg   +13 more
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Knowledge and attitude towards Ebola and Marburg virus diseases in Uganda using quantitative and participatory epidemiology techniques.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
BackgroundUganda has reported five (5) Ebola virus disease outbreaks and three (3) Marburg virus disease outbreaks from 2000 to 2016. Peoples' knowledge and attitude towards Ebola and Marburg virus disease impact on control and prevention measures ...
Luke Nyakarahuka, Eystein Skjerve, Daisy Nabadda, Doreen Chilolo Sitali, Chisoni Mumba, Frank N Mwiine, Julius J Lutwama, Stephen Balinandi, Trevor Shoemaker, Clovice Kankya   +9 more
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