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Imported cases of Chikungunya virus in Iran [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a widespread mosquito-borne virus representing a serious challenge to public health. The largest outbreak in the Middle-East was recorded in 2016–2017 in Pakistan.
Mohammad Hassan Pouriayevali, Farshid Rezaei, Tahmineh Jalali, Vahid Baniasadi, Mehdi Fazlalipour, Ehsan Mostafavi, Sahar Khakifirouz, Tahereh Mohammadi, Zahra Fereydooni, Mahsa Tavakoli, Sanam Azad-Manjiri, Motahareh Hosseini, Mahsa Ghalejoogh, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Anna-Bella Failloux, Mostafa Salehi-Vaziri   +15 more
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Heterogeneity in the onwards transmission risk between local and imported cases affects practical estimates of the time-dependent reproduction number. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, 2022
During infectious disease outbreaks, inference of summary statistics characterizing transmission is essential for planning interventions. An important metric is the time-dependent reproduction number (Rt), which represents the expected number of ...
Creswell R, Augustin D, Bouros I, Farm HJ, Miao S, Ahern A, Robinson M, Lemenuel-Diot A, Gavaghan DJ, Lambert BC, Thompson RN.   +10 more
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Accounting for Imported Cases in Estimating the Time-Varying Reproductive Number of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Hong Kong. [PDF]

J Infect Dis, 2021
Estimating the time-varying reproductive number, Rt, is critical for monitoring transmissibility of an infectious disease. The impact of imported cases on the estimation is rarely explored.
Tsang TK, Wu P, Lau EHY, Cowling BJ.
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of imported cases of COVID-19: a multicenter study. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis, 2021
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to expand. Herein, we report the epidemiological and clinical features of 478 patients with confirmed COVID-19 from a multicenter study conducted in four cities in China excluding ...
Zhang J, Yang S, Xu Y, Qin X, Liu J, Guo J, Tian S, Wang S, Liao K, Zhang Y, Ma Y, Chen Y.   +11 more
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Molecular epidemiological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in imported cases from 2021 to 2022 in Zhejiang Province, China [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundsThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been a global threat since 2020.
Biaofeng Zhou, Yi Sun, Haiyan Mao, Lingxuan Su, Yihan Lou, Hao Yan, Wenwu Yao, Honghu Chen, Yanjun Zhang   +8 more
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Brazil towards malaria elimination: A time-series analysis of imported cases from 2007 to 2022. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Malaria is a global health challenge, and international efforts are underway to alleviate its impact by 2035. Within the 249 million global cases, 0.6 million occur in the Americas, mainly in Venezuela, Brazil, and Colombia.
Garcia KKS, Laporta GZ, Soremekun S, Bottomley C, Abrahão AA, Moresco GG, Drakeley C, Costa AP, Siqueira AM.   +8 more
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Epidemiological features of domestic and imported cases with COVID-19 between January 2020 and March 2021 in Taiwan. [PDF]

Medicine (Baltimore), 2021
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic affecting numerous countries around the world. This study elaborates Taiwan's epidemiological characteristics from the 2020 to 2021 COVID-19 pandemic from human, temporal, and geographical ...
Wu CH, Chou YC, Lin FH, Hsieh CJ, Wu DC, Peng CK, Yu CP.   +6 more
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Modelling the spatial risk of malaria through probability distribution of Anopheles maculipennis s.l. and imported cases. [PDF]

Emerg Microbes Infect
Malaria remains one of the most important infectious diseases globally due to its high incidence and mortality rates. The influx of infected cases from endemic to non-endemic malaria regions like Europe has resulted in a public health concern over ...
Taheri S, González MA, Ruiz-López MJ, Magallanes S, Delacour-Estrella S, Lucientes J, Bueno-Marí R, Martínez-de la Puente J, Bravo-Barriga D, Frontera E, Polina A, Martinez-Barciela Y, Pereira JM, Garrido J, Aranda C, Marzal A, Ruiz-Arrondo I, Oteo JA, Ferraguti M, Gutíerrez-López R, Estrada R, Miranda MÁ, Barceló C, Morchón R, Montalvo T, Gangoso L, Goiri F, García-Pérez AL, Ruiz S, Fernandez-Martinez B, Gómez-Barroso D, Figuerola J.   +31 more
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Estimating internationally imported cases during the early COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2021
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, predictions of international outbreaks were largely based on imported cases from Wuhan, China, potentially missing imports from other cities.
Menkir TF, Chin T, Hay JA, Surface ED, De Salazar PM, Buckee CO, Watts A, Khan K, Sherbo R, Yan AWC, Mina MJ, Lipsitch M, Niehus R.   +12 more
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Transmission analysis of COVID-19 with discrete time imported cases: Tianjin and Chongqing as cases. [PDF]

Infect Dis Model, 2021
In 2020, an unexpectedly large outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic was reported in mainland China. As we known, the epidemic was caused by imported cases in other provinces of China except for Hubei in 2020.
Li MT, Cui J, Zhang J, Sun GQ.
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