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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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Using genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 to support contact tracing and public health surveillance in rural Humboldt County, California

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic within the United States, much of the responsibility for diagnostic testing and epidemiologic response has relied on the action of county-level departments of public health.
Gunnar Stoddard, Allison Black, Patrick Ayscue, Dan Lu, Jack Kamm, Karan Bhatt, Lienna Chan, Amy L Kistler, Joshua Batson, Angela Detweiler, Michelle Tan, Norma Neff, Joseph L DeRisi, Jeremy Corrigan   +13 more
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Letter to the Editor: Pathogens detected from patients with acute respiratory infections negative for SARS-CoV-2, Saitama, Japan, 2020

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response
Utilizing data presented in the article by Miyashita et al., we illustrate the importance of testing data when assessing surveillance data. Accounting for the number of tests (denominator) and positivity (proportion of tests positive for a specific ...
Yuzo Arima, Yuuki Tsuchihashi, Osamu Takahara, Reiko Shimbashi, Takeshi Arashiro, Ayu Kasamatsu, Yusuke Kobayashi, Katsuhiro Komase, Takuri Takahashi, Kanako Otani, Fangyu Yan, Taro Kamigaki, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Motoi Suzuki   +13 more
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The Sentiworld project: global mapping of sentinel surveillance networks in general practice

BMC Primary Care, 2022
Background Sentinel networks composed of general practitioners (GPs) represent a powerful tool for epidemiologic surveillance and ad-hoc studies. Globalization necesitates greater international cooperation among sentinel networks.
Andrew Meci, Florence Du Breuil, Ana Vilcu, Thibaud Pitel, Caroline Guerrisi, Quentin Robard, Clément Turbelin, Thomas Hanslik, Louise Rossignol, Cécile Souty, Thierry Blanchon   +10 more
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Monkeypox Virus in Wastewater Samples from Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
Sewage surveillance provides useful epidemiologic and public health information on viral infections at the population level. We detected monkeypox virus DNA from sewage samples covering 85% of the population in Santiago Metropolitan Region Chile.
Manuel Ampuero, Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito, Marcela Ferrés, Ricardo Soto-Rifo, Aldo Gaggero   +4 more
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Yellow Fever Outbreak in Brazil: A crucial time for epidemiologic surveillance

Revista de Epidemiologia e Controle de Infecção, 2019
Brazil lived a crucial time for public health and epidemiologic surveillance on the fight against yellow fever (YF) during 2016/2017, mainly in southeastern states where the greatest population concentration occurs, the most economically developed region
Priscila Carminati Siqueira, Fernanda Mattos de Souza, Caroline Gava Alves, Mauro Niskier Sanchez, Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel, Thiago Nascimento do Prado   +5 more
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Nosocomial outbreak of coronavirus disease in two general wards during the initial wave of the pandemic in 2020, Tokyo, Japan

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2022
Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first reported in China and subsequently spread worldwide. In Japan, many clusters occurred during the first wave in 2020.
Naoya Sakamoto, Masayuki Ota, Tomoko Takeda, Atsushi Kosaka, Takuya Washino, Sentaro Iwabuchi, Minako Beppu, Itaru Nishiduka, Tamano Matsui, Motoi Suzuki, Fukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama   +10 more
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Prevalence of 21 Physician‐Defined Severe Toxicities Following Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment: Australian Retrospective Cohort Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, with an overall survival now surpassing 90% in developed countries. However, treatments are not without adverse effects. In this study, we apply the severe toxicity‐free survival (STFS) framework to determine the prevalence of 21 physician‐defined severe ...
Lane Collier, Brittany Grantham, Camilla Grud Nielsen, Louise Lundgren, Liv Andrés‐Jensen, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Chris Selman, Gareth Ball, Elyse Passmore, David A. Elliott, Rachel Conyers   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culture-Independence for Surveillance and Epidemiology [PDF]

Pathogens, 2013
Culture-independent methods in microbiology (quantitative PCR (qPCR), sequencing, microarrays, direct from sample matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectroscopy (MALDI-TOF MS), etc.) are disruptive technology. Rather than providing the same results as culture-based methods more quickly, more cheaply or with improved ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas in Children and Adolescents: Expert Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPN) is a rare low‐grade malignant exocrine pancreatic tumor, mostly discovered during the second decade of life in females, with a very good prognosis, provided microscopically complete surgical excision is achieved.
Sabine Irtan, Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almarez, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Maja Cesen, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Louise Galmiche, Jorg Fuchs, Sarah Braungart, Bilgehan Yalcin, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +18 more
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