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Review of Geospatial Technology for Infectious Disease Surveillance: Use Case on COVID-19

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2020
This paper discusses on the increasing relevancy of geospatial technologies such as geographic information system (GIS) in the public health domain, particularly for the infectious disease surveillance and modelling strategies. Traditionally, the disease
S. Saran, Priyanka Singh, Vishal Kumar, P. Chauhan   +3 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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A space-time conditional intensity model for infectious disease occurence [PDF]

, 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, Johannes Elias, Sebastian Meyer, Meyer, Sebastian, Elias, Johannes, Michael Höhle   +5 more
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Surveillance of emerging infectious diseases for biosecurity

Science 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, Liu, Yuqi, Shen, Wanzhu, Zhao, Rongtao, Jiang, Bo, Song, Hongbin, Yan, Muyang, Ma, Hui   +7 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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Surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in 30 EU countries: Towards a European system?

, 2010
In this era of new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV), we described and compared surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and PCV policies in 30 European countries to provide guidance for Europe-wide surveillance.
Perrocheau, Anne, Celentano, Lucia Pastore, Stuart, James, de Greeffk, Sabine C, Kissling E, Lévy-Bruhl, Daniel, ECDC Country Experts for Pneumococcal Disease, Celentano LP, de Greeff, Sabine C, Tarragó, David, Stefanoff P, Amato-Gauci A, Kriz, Paula, Heuberger, Sigrid, Amato-Gauci, Andrew, Bruhl DL, Tarragó D, de Greef SC, Kriz P, Hanquet G, Kissling, Esther, ECDC country experts for pneumococcal disease, incl., Vergison A, Hanquet, Germaine, Stefanoff, Pawel, Heuberger S, Vergison, Anne, Bruhl, Daniel Levy, Perrocheau A, de Greeff, Sabine C., Stuart J, Mühlemann, Kathrin   +31 more
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Longitudinal study of infectious intestinal disease in the UK (IID2 study): incidence in the community and presenting to general practice [PDF]

, 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, Rait, Greta, Evans, Meirion Rhys, Tompkins, David S, Gray, Jim J., Rodrigues, LC, Gray, JJ, Tam, Clarence C., IID2 Study Executive Committee, Hunter, Paul R., O'Brien, Sarah J, Jim J Gray, Sarah J O'Brien, Hunter, Paul R, Clarence C Tam, Evans, MR, O'Brien, Sarah J., Rait, G, Paul R Hunter, David S Tompkins, Evans, Meirion R., Laura Viviani, Dodds, Julie P, Hunter, PR, Greta Rait, Julie P Dodds, Meirion R Evans, Tam, Clarence C, O'Brien, SJ, Gray, Jim J, Dodds, JP, Tompkins, David S., Tam, CC, Laura C Rodrigues, Viviani, Laura, Louise H Letley, Tompkins, DS, Letley, Louise H, Letley, LH, Viviani, L, Rodrigues, Laura C., Rodrigues, Laura C, Dodds, Julie P., Letley, Louise H.   +43 more
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Changing epidemiology and challenges of malaria in China towards elimination

Malaria 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, Junling Sun, Nick W. Ruktanonchai, Sheng Zhou, Jianxing Yu, Isobel Routledge, Liping Wang, Yaming Zheng, Andrew J. Tatem, Zhongjie Li   +9 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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Surveillance-response systems : the key to elimination of tropical diseases [PDF]

, 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, Robert Bergquist, Jun-Hu Chen, Utzinger, Jürg, Wei Hu, Ai, Lin, Bergquist, Robert, Tambo, Ernest, Xia Zhou, Marcel Tanner, Chen, Jun-Hu, Guo, Jia-Gang, Zhou, Xia, Ernest Tambo, Hu, Wei, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Jürg Utzinger, Lin Ai, Jia-Gang Guo, Tanner, Marcel, Hughes, Wei   +20 more
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