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Genomics and epidemiological surveillance [PDF]
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 This month’s Genome Watch highlights how genomic surveillance can provide important information for identifying and tracking emerging pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2.
Lo, Stephanie W., Jamrozy, Dorota
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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 +3 more
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Malaria genotyping for epidemiologic surveillance [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 Malaria control and elimination have, for more than a century, relied on traditional surveillance methods: catching mosquitoes or examining blood slides under a light microscope. Recent technological advances have started to change the game, including high-quality rapid diagnostic tests for malaria.
Bryan, Greenhouse, David L, Smith
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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 +5 more
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Norovirus Surveillance: An Epidemiological Perspective [PDF]
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016 Surveillance for norovirus is challenging because the nature of illness due to norovirus is such that the majority of people who are infected will not have any contact with medical services and are highly unlikely to have a sample collected for diagnosis.
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Post-Marketing Surveillance: Drug Epidemiology
Journal of International Medical Research, 1981 A description of the need for and appropriateness of a multi-component application of epidemiological methods to the post-marketing evaluation of drugs is presented. There is a need for the development of the art and science of Drug Epidemiology. The large number of drugs introduced over the last 40 years and the number of interventions constitute an ...
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[Epidemiological surveillance].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii, 1989 A case of Campylobacter infection in a 2-day old infant is described. The possibility for a newborn infant to get infected with Campylobacter jejuni directly from the infected mother in the process of parturition is considered. The methods of the laboratory diagnosis of Campylobacter infection, including the main principles of the identification of ...
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Postmarketing drug surveillance: an epidemiologic approach
Clinical Therapeutics, 1998 Postmarketing surveillance refers to any means of gathering information about a product after it has been approved for public use. Postmarketing surveillance studies address assorted aspects of beneficial and detrimental adverse drug effects, including the existence of particular causal effects, frequency of and risk factors for certain outcomes ...
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From epidemiological surveillance to European integration
Eurosurveillance, 1999 Between March and June 1999, 442 000 Kosovar refugees arrived in Albania. The national surveillance system was unprepared for this and an emergency communicable disease surveillance system was set up to detect and control potential outbreaks among the ...
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