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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Increased Risk of Sarcomas in Children With Congenital Anomalies: Findings From the Genetic Overlap Between Anomalies and Cancer in Kids (GOBACK) Registry Linkage Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors that contribute disproportionately to cancer mortality in children. Although congenital anomalies are among the strongest known risk factors for childhood cancer, the risk of specific sarcoma subtypes among affected individuals has not yet been thoroughly evaluated. Procedure We
Russ Wolters, Ji Yun Tark, Tiffany M. Chambers, Tania A. Desrosiers, Michael E. Scheurer, Charles Shumate, Wendy N. Nembhard, Mahsa M. Yazdy, Eirini Nestoridi, Amanda E. Janitz, Jean Paul Tanner, Russell S. Kirby, Jason L. Salemi, Yao Yu, Chad D. Huff, Sharon E. Plon, Philip J. Lupo, Jeremy M. Schraw   +17 more
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Clinical performance of the urine‐based TERT promoter AbsoluteQ Digital PCR for non‐invasive detection of bladder cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
A urine‐based digital PCR assay targeting two hotspot TERT promoter variants detected bladder cancer with high sensitivity and no false positives in this case–control cohort. The streamlined AbsoluteQ workflow outperformed Sanger sequencing and supports non‐invasive molecular testing for bladder cancer detection.
Anna Nykel, Izabela Kubiak, Lena Rutkowska, Żaneta Kasprzyk, Łukasz Kępczyński, Michał Bednarek, Dariusz Sobieraj, Jacek Wilkosz, Piotr Kania, Adam Jędrzejczyk, Bogdan Kałużewski, Agnieszka Gach, Tadeusz Kałużewski   +12 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

Molecular characterization of covRS mutations in M1UK Streptococcus pyogenes

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) acquires covRS mutations driving a hypervirulent bacterial state, frequently associated with invasive disease‐like necrotizing fasciitis. We demonstrate that the newly emerged M1UK GAS lineage can also acquire these mutations.
Jarrad Pritchard, Emma‐Jayne Proctor, Jiawa Wang, Nikolas P. Johnston, Andrew Hayes, Georgia McCorkell, Haibo Yu, Jai Tree, Mark R. Davies, Mark J. Walker, Ronald Sluyter, Stephan Brouwer, Martina L. Sanderson‐Smith   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source