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Method Development for Enteric Virus Recovery from Primary Sludge

Viruses, 2021
Enteric viruses, such as poliovirus, are a leading cause of gastroenteritis, which causes 2–3 million deaths annually. Environmental surveillance of wastewater supplements clinical surveillance for monitoring enteric virus circulation.
Yarrow S. Linden, Christine S. Fagnant-Sperati, Alexandra L. Kossik, Joanna Ciol Harrison, Nicola K. Beck, David S. Boyle, John Scott Meschke   +6 more
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Environmental Surveillance for Polioviruses in Haïti (2017–2019): The Dynamic Process for the Establishment and Monitoring of Sampling Sites

Viruses, 2021
Haïti is at risk for wild poliovirus (WPV) importation and circulation, as well as vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) emergence. Environmental surveillance (ES) for polioviruses was established in Port au Prince and Gonaïves in 2016.
Mary M. Alleman, Angela D. Coulliette-Salmond, Pierre Wilnique, Hanen Belgasmi-Wright, Leanna Sayyad, Kimberly Wong, Edmund Gue, Robert Barrais, Gloria Rey-Benito, Cara C. Burns, Everardo Vega   +10 more
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Haiti Poliovirus Environmental Surveillance

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019
Poliovirus (PV) environmental surveillance was established in Haiti in three sites each in Port-au-Prince and Gonaïves, where sewage and fecal-influenced environmental open water channel samples were collected monthly from March 2016 to February 2017. The primary objective was to monitor for the emergence of vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs) and the
Angela D, Coulliette-Salmond, Mary M, Alleman, Pierre, Wilnique, Gloria, Rey-Benito, Hanen Belgasmi, Wright, Jessica Wielgus, Hecker, Stacey, Miles, Silvia, Peñaranda, Donald, Lafontant, Salomon, Corvil, Jeannot, Francois, Emmanuel, Rossignol, Magalie, Stanislas, Edmond, Gue, Papa C, Faye, Christina J, Castro, Alexander, Schmidt, Terry Fei Fan, Ng, Cara C, Burns, Everardo, Vega   +19 more
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Monkeypox outbreak: Wastewater and environmental surveillance perspective

Science of The Total Environment, 2023
La variole du singe (MPXD), une maladie virale causée par le virus de la variole du singe (MPXV), est une maladie zoonotique émergente endémique dans certains pays d'Afrique centrale et occidentale, mais rarement signalée en dehors de la région touchée.
Ananda Tiwari, Sangeet Adhikari, Devrim Kaya, Md. Aminul Islam, Bikash Malla, Samendra P. Sherchan, Ahmad Ibrahim Al‐Mustapha, Manish Kumar, Srijan Aggarwal, Prosun Bhattacharya, Kyle Bibby, Rolf U. Halden, Aaron Bivins, Eiji Haramoto, Sami Oikarinen, Annamari Heikinheimo, Tarja Pitkänen   +16 more
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Knowledge discovery from mining the association between H5N1 outbreaks and environmental factors [PDF]

, 2010
The global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in poultry, wild birds and humans, poses a significant panzootic threat and a serious public health risk.
Prins, H.H.T., Si, Y., Skidmore, A.K., Wang, T.   +3 more
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Prolonged outbreak of clonal MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa on an intensive care unit: contaminated sinks and contamination of ultra-filtrate bags as possible route of transmission?

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2016
Background We report on an outbreak in a surgical, interdisciplinary intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital. We detected a cluster of ICU patients colonized or infected with multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Florian Salm, Maria Deja, Petra Gastmeier, Axel Kola, Sonja Hansen, Michael Behnke, Désirée Gruhl, Rasmus Leistner   +7 more
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High Diversity of Human Non-Polio Enterovirus Serotypes Identified in Contaminated Water in Nigeria

Viruses, 2021
Human enteroviruses (EVs) are highly prevalent in sewage and have been associated with human diseases with complications leading to severe neurological syndromes.
Manasi Majumdar, Dimitra Klapsa, Thomas Wilton, Erika Bujaki, Maria Dolores Fernandez-Garcia, Temitope Oluwasegun Cephas Faleye, Adefunke Olufunmilayo Oyero, Moses Olubusuyi Adewumi, Kader Ndiaye, Johnson Adekunle Adeniji, Javier Martin   +10 more
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The use of remotely sensed environmental parameters for spatial and temporal schistosomiasis prediction across climate zones in Ghana [PDF]

, 2019
Schistosomiasis control in sub-Saharan Africa is enacted primarily through preventive chemotherapy. Predictive models can play an important role in filling knowledge gaps in the distribution of the disease and help guide the allocation of limited ...
Biritwum, Nana-Kwadwo, Cruz, Melissa S., Gute, David M., Koch, Magaly, Kosinski, Karen C., Kulinkina, Alexandra V., Liss, Alexander, Naumova, Elena N., Ofosu, Anthony, Wrable, Madeline   +9 more
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Physical activity monitoring in Europe : the European physical activity surveillance system (EUPASS) approach and indicator testing. [PDF]

, 2003
Objectives: The main objective of this paper is to describe the approach and specific findings of the European Physical Activity Surveillance System (EUPASS) research project.
A Rütten, A Vuillemin, Bouchard, De Bourdeaudhuij, De Bourdeaudhuij, F Schena, H Ziemainz, J Welshman, King, M Sjöström, Rütten, Rütten, Sallis, T Stahl, Van Buuren, Vuori, WTM Ooijendijk, Y Vanden Auweele   +17 more
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International Monitoring for Environmental Health Surveillance [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2002
This paper offers an overview of existing international monitoring systems with relevance for environmental health surveillance. Representative monitoring systems are described that: address areas of chronic and acute exposure, and diseases and behavioural effects resulting from human-environment interactions; have an ecosystem focus with perhaps a ...
R Anthony, Hodge, J M Justin, Longo
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