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The changing epidemiology of bacillary dysentery and characteristics of antimicrobial resistance of Shigella isolated in China from 2004–2014

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016
Background Bacillary dysentery caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella is a significant public health problem in developing countries such as China.
Zhaorui Chang, Jing Zhang, Lu Ran, Junling Sun, Fengfeng Liu, Li Luo, Lingjia Zeng, Liping Wang, Zhongjie Li, Hongjie Yu, Qiaohong Liao   +10 more
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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
Schneidman, Miriam, Ramana N. V. Gandham, Miriam Schneidman, Stanley Sonoiya, Ope, Maurice, Gandham, Ramana N V, Sonoiya, Stanley, James Kariuki, Mwihaki Kimura, Kariuki, James, Maurice Ope, Kimura, Mwihaki, Mboera, Leonard E G, Leonard E. G. Mboera   +13 more
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Effectiveness of Public Health Digital Surveillance Systems for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control at Mass Gatherings: Systematic Review

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
Background Mass gatherings (MGs; eg, religious, sporting, musical, sociocultural, and other occasions that draw large crowds) pose public health challenges and concerns related to global health.
Noha Maddah, A. Verma, Maryam Almashmoum, J. Ainsworth   +3 more
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Mobile technologies for disease surveillance in humans and animals

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2014
A paper-based disease reporting system has been associated with a number of challenges. These include difficulties to submit hard copies of the disease surveillance forms because of poor road infrastructure, weather conditions or challenging terrain ...
Mpoki Mwabukusi, Esron D. Karimuribo, Mark M. Rweyemamu, Eric Beda   +3 more
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Surveillance and response systems for elimination of tropical diseases : summary of a thematic series in infectious diseases of poverty [PDF]

, 2016
The peer-reviewed journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty provides a new platform to engage with, and disseminate in an open-access format, science outside traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Zhou, Xiao-Nong, Xiao-Nong Zhou (92570), Yap, Peiling, Utzinger, Jürg, Robert Bergquist (377449), Xia Zhou (291729), Zhou, Xia, Bergquist, Robert, Peiling Yap (596280), Marcel Tanner (33894), JĂźrg Utzinger (3428396), Tanner, Marcel   +11 more
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Data science approaches to infectious disease surveillance

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2021
Novel data science approaches are needed to confront large-scale infectious disease epidemics such as COVID-19, human immunodeficiency viruses, African swine flu and Ebola.
Qingpeng Zhang
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Trends in CD4+ Cell Counts, Viral Load, Treatment, Testing History, and Sociodemographic Characteristics of Newly Diagnosed HIV Patients in Osaka, Japan, From 2003 through 2017: A Descriptive Study

Journal of Epidemiology, 2023
Background: The CD4 cell count of patients during diagnosis and distribution of CD4 cell counts in the patient population are important to understand infection-diagnosis interval and incidence rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection ...
Fumiko Kagiura, Ryota Matsuyama, Dai Watanabe, Yuuki Tsuchihashi, Kazuhiko Kanou, Takuri Takahashi, Yusuke Matsui, Masayuki Kakehashi, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Takuma Shirasaka   +9 more
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Evaluation of an ad hoc paper-based syndromic surveillance system in Ibaraki evacuation centres following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2018
Outbreaks of infectious diseases can occur after natural disasters as vital services are disrupted and populations move into evacuation centres. National notifiable disease surveillance may be inadequate in these situations because of resource-consuming ...
Matthew M Griffith, Yuichiro Yahata, Fujiko Irie, Hajime Kamiya, Aika Watanabe, Yusuke Kobayashi, Tamano Matsui, Nobuhiko Okabe, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Kazunori Oishi   +10 more
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Characteristics of Seasonal Influenza Virus Activity in a Subtropical City in China, 2013–2019

Vaccines, 2020
Background: To optimize seasonal influenza vaccination programs in regions with potentially complicated seasonal patterns, the epidemiological characteristics of seasonal influenza activity in a subtropical city of China were explored.
Aiqin Zhu, Jianhua Liu, Chuchu Ye, Jianxing Yu, Zhibing Peng, Luzhao Feng, Liping Wang, Ying Qin, Yaming Zheng, Zhongjie Li   +9 more
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Using digital surveillance tools for near real-time mapping of the risk of infectious disease spread

npj Digital Medicine, 2021
Data from digital disease surveillance tools such as ProMED and HealthMap can complement the field surveillance during ongoing outbreaks. Our aim was to investigate the use of data collected through ProMED and HealthMap in real-time outbreak analysis. We
S. Bhatia, Britta Lassmann, E. Cohn, A. Desai, Malwina Carrion, M. Kraemer, Mark Herringer, J. Brownstein, L. Madoff, A. Cori, P. Nouvellet   +10 more
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