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Integration of publicly available case-based data for real-time coronavirus disease 2019 risk assessment, Japan

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2022
In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Japan, a national COVID-19 cluster taskforce (comprising governmental and nongovernmental experts) was established to support the country’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in ...
Kota Ninomiya, Mariko Kanamori, Naomi Ikeda, Kazuaki Jindai, Yura K Ko, Kanako Otani, Yuki Furuse, Hiroki Akaba, Reiko Miyahara, Mayuko Saito, Motoi Suzuki, Hitoshi Oshitani   +11 more
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COMPUTATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY: BAYESIAN DISEASE SURVEILLANCE [PDF]

Advances in Bioinformatics and Its Applications, 2005
Disease monitoring plays a crucial role in the implementation of public health measures. The demographic profiles of the people and the disease prevalence in a geographic region are analyzed for inter-causal relationships. Bayesian analysis of the data identifies the pertinent characteristics of the disease under study.
ABBAS, KAJA, MIKLER, ARMIN R, RAMEZANI, AMIR, MENEZES, SHEENA   +3 more
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Event-based surveillance during EXPO Milan 2015. Rationale, tools, procedures, and initial results [PDF]

, 2016
More than 21 million participants attended EXPO Milan from May to October 2015, making it one of the largest protracted mass gathering events in Europe.
Bastiampillai, Anan Judina, Caporali, Maria Grazia, Costanzo, Virgilio, Declich, Silvia, Gabrielli, Eugenia, Gramegna, Maria, Linge, Jens P., Manso, Martina Del, Mantica, Eleonora, Napoli, Christian, Piatti, Alessandra, Pompa, Maria Grazia, Riccardo, Flavia, Vellucci, Loredana, Verile, Marco   +14 more
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Detecting geographical clusters of low birth weight and/or preterm birth in Japan

Scientific Reports, 2023
In Japan, mean birth weight has significantly decreased from 3152 g in 1979 to 3018 g in 2010 and the prevalence of preterm birth (PTB) has risen to 5.7% in the last thirty years.
Md. Obaidur Rahman, Daisuke Yoneoka, Yayoi Murano, Takashi Yorifuji, Hiromichi Shoji, Stuart Gilmour, Yoshiko Yamamoto, Erika Ota   +7 more
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Organisation of Health Care During an Outbreak of Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1999. [PDF]

, 2004
Organising health care was one of the tasks of the International Scientific and Technical Committee during the 1998-1999 outbreak in Durba/Watsa, in the north-eastern province (Province Orientale), Democratic Republic of Congo.
Borchert, M, Colebunders, R, Kinuani, L, Libande, M, Mustin, J P, Muyembe-Tamfum, J J, Olinda, L A, Pirard, P, Sleurs, H, Tshioko, F, Tshomba, A   +10 more
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A Geographically-Restricted but Prevalent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain Identified in the West Midlands Region of the UK between 1995 and 2008 [PDF]

, 2011
Background: We describe the identification of, and risk factors for, the single most prevalent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain in the West Midlands region of the UK.Methodology/Principal Findings: Prospective 15-locus MIRU-VNTR genotyping of all M ...
A Fok, AD Jackson, AL Gibson, Andrea L. Gibson, Annette Wood, AR Moss, Babatunde Olowokure, CS Lambregts-van Weezenbeek, D Alland, D van Soolingen, DC Perlman, E. Grace Smith, G de Vries, Helen Jones, Ibrahim Abubakar, J Love, Jason T. Evans, JD van Embden, JE Oeltmann, Jonathan S. Mann, JT Evans, K Brudey, Laura Anderson, LC Lazzarini, LC Lazzarini, LS Cowan, MC Ruddy, MW Borgdorff, P Supply, P Supply, Pam Sonnenberg, Pere-Joan Cardona, Peter M. Hawkey, PM Hawkey, PM Small, R Frothingham, R Stavrum, Robert L. Serafino Wani, S Ghebremichael, Sarah Gardiner, SJ McNabb, SV Kik, Zaluckyj Sarah   +42 more
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Epidemiologic Surveillance In Developing Countries [PDF]

Annual Review of Public Health, 1991
developed countries in many ways. Most people are poorer, less educated, more likely to die at a young age, and less knowledgeable about factors that cause, prevent, or cure disease. Biological and physical hazards are more common, which results in greater incidence, disability, and death. Although disease is common, both the people and government have
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Epidemiology: surveillance of fungal infections [PDF]

Medical Mycology, 2000
Surveillance for fungal diseases is essential to improve our understanding of their epidemiology and to enable research and prevention efforts to be prioritized. In order to conduct better surveillance for fungal diseases, it is important to develop more accurate and timely diagnostic tests, to follow rigorous epidemiological methods and to have ...
D, Ellis, D, Marriott, R A, Hajjeh, D, Warnock, W, Meyer, R, Barton   +5 more
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Geographic Distribution and Phylogeny of Soricine Shrew-Borne Seewis Virus and Altai Virus in Russia

Viruses, 2021
The discovery of genetically distinct hantaviruses (family Hantaviridae) in multiple species of shrews, moles and bats has revealed a complex evolutionary history involving cross-species transmission.
Liudmila N. Yashina, Sergey A. Abramov, Alexander V. Zhigalin, Natalia A. Smetannikova, Tamara A. Dupal, Anton V. Krivopalov, Fuka Kikuchi, Kae Senoo, Satoru Arai, Tetsuya Mizutani, Motoi Suzuki, Joseph A. Cook, Richard Yanagihara   +12 more
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Approaches to canine health surveillance [PDF]

, 2014
Effective canine health surveillance systems can be used to monitor disease in the general population, prioritise disorders for strategic control and focus clinical research, and to evaluate the success of these measures.
Brodbelt, D C, Church, D B, McGreevy, P D, O'Neill, D G, Sydney, Thomson, P C   +5 more
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