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Methods for determining disease burden and calibrating national surveillance data in the United Kingdom: the second study of infectious intestinal disease in the community (IID2 study) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background: Infectious intestinal disease (IID), usually presenting as diarrhoea and vomiting, is frequently preventable. Though often mild and self-limiting, its commonness makes IID an important public health problem.
Gray James J   +89 more
core   +1 more source

A Multifactorial Approach for Surveillance of Shigella spp. and Entero-Invasive Escherichia coli Is Important for Detecting (Inter)national Clusters

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

The landscape of vaccines in China: history, classification, supply, and price

open access: yesBMC 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Surveillance of emerging infectious diseases for biosecurity

open access: yesScience China Life Sciences, 2022
Emerging infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, continue to pose significant threats to human beings and their surroundings. In addition, biological warfare, bioterrorism, biological accidents, and harmful consequences arising from dual-use biotechnology also pose a challenge for global biosecurity.
Hao, Rongzhang   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A space-time conditional intensity model for infectious disease occurence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A novel point process model continuous in space-time is proposed for infectious disease data. Modelling is based on the conditional intensity function (CIF) and extends an additive-multiplicative CIF model previously proposed for discrete space epidemic ...
Höhle, Michael   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesWestern 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   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Longitudinal study of infectious intestinal disease in the UK (IID2 study): incidence in the community and presenting to general practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Objectives To estimate, overall and by organism, the incidence of infectious intestinal disease (IID) in the community, presenting to general practice (GP) and reported to national surveillance.
Evans, Meirion R   +43 more
core   +1 more source

Changing epidemiology and challenges of malaria in China towards elimination

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2019
Background Historically, malaria had been a widespread disease in China. A national plan was launched in China in 2010, aiming to eliminate malaria by 2020. In 2017, no indigenous cases of malaria were detected in China for the first time.
Shengjie Lai   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pneumococcal meningitis in adults in 2014–2018 after introduction of pediatric 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Japan

open access: yesScientific 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   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

Surveillance-response systems : the key to elimination of tropical diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Tropical diseases remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Although combined health efforts brought about significant improvements over the past 20 years, communities in resource-constrained settings lack the means of ...
Zhou, Xiao-Nong   +20 more
core   +1 more source

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