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Wastewater surveillance for public health

Science, 2023
Wastewater contains information on pathogen spread, evolution, and outbreak ...
Levy, Joshua I, Andersen, Kristian G, Knight, Rob, Karthikeyan, Smruthi   +3 more
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Approaches to canine health surveillance [PDF]

Canine Genetics and Epidemiology, 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. The key attributes for optimal data collection systems that support canine disease surveillance are representativeness of the ...
O’Neill, Dan G, Church, David B, McGreevy, Paul D, Thomson, Peter C, Brodbelt, Dave C   +4 more
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Antemortem diagnosis of human rabies in a veterinarian infected when handling a herbivore in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2011
The Ministry of Health's National Human Rabies Control Program advocates pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for professionals involved with animals that are at risk of contracting rabies.
Mariana Gontijo de Brito, Talita Leal Chamone, Fernando José da Silva, Marcelo Yohito Wada, Alexandre Braga de Miranda, Juliana Galera Castilho, Maria Luiza Carrieri, Ivanete Kotait, Francisco Leopoldo Lemos   +8 more
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Evaluation of potential miticide toxicity to Varroa destructor and honey bees, Apis mellifera, under laboratory conditions

Scientific Reports, 2020
The honey bee, Apis mellifera L., is the world’s most important managed pollinator of agricultural crops, however, Varroa mite, Varroa destructor Anderson and Trueman, infestation has threatened honey bee survivorship.
Rassol Bahreini, Medhat Nasr, Cassandra Docherty, Olivia de Herdt, Samantha Muirhead, David Feindel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing community death notification in Uganda using a hackathon based approach to integrate mortality surveillance into the electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS)

Scientific Reports
Uganda faces persistent weaknesses in mortality surveillance, particularly in the notification of community deaths, which are frequently under-ascertained.
Jimmy Patrick Alunyo, Martin Bulamu, Sarah Racheal Akello, Mariam Nambuya, Paul Edward Okello, Enock Tuhereze, Joseph Kitumba, Robert Kato, Nicholas Isabirye, Bwire Godfrey, Allan Muruta, Caroline Kyozira   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Correction of self-reported BMI based on objective measurements: a Belgian experience

Archives of Public Health, 2018
Background Based on successive Health Interview Surveys (HIS), it has been demonstrated that also in Belgium obesity, measured by means of a self-reported body mass index (BMI in kg/m2), is a growing public health problem that needs to be monitored as ...
S. Drieskens, S. Demarest, S. Bel, K. De Ridder, J. Tafforeau   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

An evaluation of the severe acute respiratory infection surveillance system in Ireland

BMC Public Health
Background Expansion of the current single hospital site Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) surveillance programme in Ireland, to create a SARI sentinel hospital network, commenced in 2023.
Louise Marron, Roisin Duffy, Joan O’Donnell, Lisa Domegan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carbon monoxide poisoning surveillance in the Veterans Health Administration, 2010–2017

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Exposure to carbon monoxide (CO), the odorless, colorless gas resulting from incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons, is preventable. Despite the significant risk of morbidity and mortality associated with CO poisoning, there currently exists no
Gina Oda, Russell Ryono, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Patricia Schirmer, Mark Holodniy   +4 more
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Incidence and Severity of Carboplatin‐Associated Hearing Loss in Children With Cancer Assessed by the SIOP Boston 2012 Ototoxicity Criteria

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Platinum‐based chemotherapy is known to cause severe and debilitating hearing loss, but unlike cisplatin, the true incidence of carboplatin‐induced hearing loss remains unclear. We evaluated functional hearing outcomes in children receiving carboplatin to determine the incidence and severity of ototoxicity. Procedure We identified a
Aniket Chawla, Sean Carter, Andrew Wood, Sandra Staffieri, Andrew Dodgshun, David D. Eisenstat, Michael Sullivan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source