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Regional Initiatives in Support of Surveillance in East Africa: The East Africa Integrated Disease Surveillance Network (EAIDSNet) Experience. [PDF]

, 2013
The East African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network (EAIDSNet) was formed in response to a growing frequency of cross-border malaria outbreaks in the 1990s and a growing recognition that fragmented disease interventions, coupled with weak laboratory
Bond KC, Gresham L, James Kariuki, Leonard E.G Mboera, Maurice Ope, Mayala BK, Mboera LEG, Miriam Schneidman, Mwihaki Kimura, Olago D, Ramana N.V Gandham, Shikanga O, Stanley Sonoiya, WHO, WHO   +14 more
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Developing infectious disease surveillance systems [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2020
Lessons learnt from the current pandemic will be invaluable to tackle a potential second wave, however, gaps remain in our readiness to face future pandemics. At Nature Communications we wish to support further research providing insights into how national and international systems could be shaped for increased preparedness to both local or global ...
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Spatio-temporal epidemic modelling using additive-multiplicative intensity models [PDF]

, 2008
An extension of the stochastic susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model is proposed in order to accommodate a regression context for modelling infectious disease surveillance data. The proposal is based on a multivariate counting process specified by
Höhle, Michael
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Responding to the syphilis outbreak in Japan: piloting a questionnaire to evaluate potential risk factors for incident syphilis infection among men who have sex with men in Tokyo, Japan, 2015

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2016
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Masahiro Ishikane, Yuzo Arima, Ichiro Itoda, Takuri Takahashi, Takuya Yamagishi, Tamano Matsui, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Kazunori Oishi, Makoto Ohnishi   +8 more
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A Multifactorial Approach for Surveillance of Shigella spp. and Entero-Invasive Escherichia coli Is Important for Detecting (Inter)national Clusters

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Shigella spp. and entero-invasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) can cause mild diarrhea to dysentery. In Netherlands, although shigellosis is a notifiable disease, there is no laboratory surveillance for Shigella spp. and EIEC in place.
Maaike J. C. van den Beld, Maaike J. C. van den Beld, Frans A. G. Reubsaet, Roan Pijnacker, Airien Harpal, Sjoerd Kuiling, Evy M. Heerkens, B. J. A. (Dieneke) Hoeve-Bakker, Ramón C. E. A. Noomen, Amber C. A. Hendriks, Dyogo Borst, Han van der Heide, A. M. D. (Mirjam) Kooistra-Smid, A. M. D. (Mirjam) Kooistra-Smid, John W. A. Rossen   +14 more
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Transmission dynamics and control measures of COVID-19 outbreak in China: a modelling study

Scientific Reports, 2021
COVID-19 is reported to have been brought under control in China. To understand the COVID-19 outbreak in China and provide potential lessons for other parts of the world, in this study we apply a mathematical model with multiple datasets to estimate the ...
Xu-Sheng Zhang, Emilia Vynnycky, Andre Charlett, Daniela De Angelis, Zhengji Chen, Wei Liu   +5 more
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Livestock trade network: potential for disease transmission and implications for risk-based surveillance on the island of Mayotte [PDF]

, 2018
The island of Mayotte is a department of France, an outermost region of the European Union located in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and the coast of Eastern Africa.
A Namatovu, C Cetre-Sossah, D Dekker, D Krackardt, D Krackhardt, DJ Watts, ESM Tuppurainen, JC Gibbens, JH Ward, K Dellagi, KD Stark, L Danon, LM Mansley, MJ Anderson, P Tortosa, R Metras, R Metras, RR Kao   +17 more
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Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases in Japan: considerations for pre-travel advice for the 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2018
Introduction: In 2019 and 2020, Japan will host two international sporting events estimated to draw a combined 22 million visitors. Mass gatherings like these ones increase the risk of spread of infectious disease outbreaks and international transmission.
Matthew M. Griffith, Munehisa Fukusumi, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yusuke Matsui, Shingo Nishiki, Reiko Shimbashi, Saeko Morino, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Keiko Taya, Tamano Matsui, Kazunori Oishi   +10 more
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The landscape of vaccines in China: history, classification, supply, and price

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Vaccine regulation in China meets World Health Organization standards, but China’s vaccine industry and immunization program have some characteristics that differ from other countries.
Yaming Zheng, Lance Rodewald, Juan Yang, Ying Qin, Mingfan Pang, Luzhao Feng, Hongjie Yu   +6 more
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Pneumococcal meningitis in adults in 2014–2018 after introduction of pediatric 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Japan

Scientific Reports, 2022
We assessed the impact of the pediatric 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) on pneumococcal meningitis in adults in Japan in 2014–2018 by comparing epidemiological characteristics of adults with invasive pneumococcal disease with (n = 222 ...
Bin Chang, Kosuke Tamura, Hiroyuki Fujikura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Yoshinari Tanabe, Koji Kuronuma, Jiro Fujita, Kengo Oshima, Takaya Maruyama, Shuichi Abe, Kei Kasahara, Junichiro Nishi, Tetsuya Kubota, Yuki Kinjo, Yusuke Serizawa, Reiko Shimbashi, Munehisa Fukusumi, Tomoe Shimada, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Motoi Suzuki, Kazunori Oishi, the Adult IPD Study Group   +21 more
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