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Vertical transmission of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging white-tailed deer populations [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting cervids across North America, Northern Europe, and Asia. Disease transmission among cervids has historically been attributed to direct animal-to-animal contact with ‘secreta ...
Audrey M. Sandoval, Amy V. Nalls, Erin E. McNulty, Nathaniel D. Denkers, Devon J. Trujillo, Zoe Olmsted, Ethan Barton, Jennifer R. Ballard, Daniel M. Grove, Jeremy S. Dennison, Natalie Stilwell, Christopher A. Cleveland, James M. Crum, Mark G. Ruder, Candace K. Mathiason   +14 more
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Awareness of Infectious Disease Screening During Early Pregnancy and Knowledge About its Vertical Transmission in Japan: A Report from the Pregnant Women Health Initiative

Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2023
Abstract Objectives We aimed to clarify the accuracy of pregnant women’s knowledge and understanding regarding infectious disease screening in early pregnancy and clarify the roles that should be played by health care providers in promoting the health of pregnant women and their children ...
Mizuha Odagami, Akiko Iwata, Kazumi Kubota, Kentaro Kurasawa, Mika Okuda, Shigeru Aoki, Tomoo Hirabuki, Tomoko Tujie, Haruya Saji, Tetsuya Hasegawa, Natsuko Kobayashi, Yutaka Ueda, Shinichi Ishioka, Takayuki Enomoto, Makoto Tsuji, Hiroyuki Shigeta, Kumi Koike, Hiroaki Tanaka, Rie Tsukinaga, Yoshimi Hasegawa, Reiko Numazaki, Hajime Ota, Hiroaki Kase, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Saito, Takaharu Yamawaki, Etsuko Miyagi   +26 more
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Integrated Serologic Surveillance of Population Immunity and Disease Transmission. [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
Antibodies are unique among biomarkers in their ability to identify persons with protective immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases and to measure past exposure to diverse pathogens. Most infectious disease surveillance maintains a single-disease focus,
Arnold, Benjamin F, Lammie, Patrick J, Priest, Jeffrey W, Scobie, Heather M   +3 more
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Dynamics of Hepatitis B Virus Disease with Infectious Latent and Vertical Transmission

WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE
Hepatitis B has become a major health threat because it is a life-threatening liver disease with an estimated 0.25 billion people suffering from this infectious disease worldwide. This paper presents a SLITR (Susceptible-Latent-Infectious-Treatment-Recovery) mathematical model that combines both vaccination and treatment as a means of controlling the ...
Helen O. Edogbanya, Anselm O. Oyem, John O. Dominic, Jessica M. Gyegwe   +3 more
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Effects of Vertical Transmission and Human Contact on Zika Dynamics

Complexity, 2022
The main objective of Zika transmission studies is to work out the simplest approach to scale back human mortality and morbidity caused by the disease. Therefore, it is essential to spot the relative importance of the various factors contributing to the ...
Abdoulaye Sow, Cherif Diallo, Hocine Cherifi   +2 more
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Analysis of the Dynamical Properties of a Discrete-Time Infectious Disease System with Vertical Transmission

Mathematics
An investigation on a discrete-time infectious disease model that incorporating vertical transmission is presented in this paper. Departing from prior research centered on continuous-time frameworks, our study adopts a discrete-time formulation to better
Yuhua Lin, Wenlong Wang, Yue Wang
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Natural vertical cotransmission of Dengue virus and Chikungunya virus from Aedes aegypti in Brumado, Bahia, Brazil [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2022
Background: Arthropod-borne viruses have recently emerged and are pathogens of various human diseases, including dengue, zika, and chikungunya viruses.
Henry Paul Granger Neto, Cínthya Viana Souza Rocha, Thiago Macêdo Lopes Correia, Natalia Maria Pereira da Silva, Bárbara Aparecida Chaves, Nágila Francinete Costa Secundino, Paulo Filemon Paolucci Pimenta, Fabrício Freire de Melo   +7 more
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Evaluating elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Suriname: a mixed method study

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023
Objectives. To evaluate the cascade of care for the elimination of mother-to-child-transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Suriname and identify sociodemographic and clinical factors preventing transmission to exposed infants. Methods.
Deborah Stijnberg, Suze Holband, Regillio Charles, Dorien Ulenaers, Ward Schrooten, Malti R. Adhin   +5 more
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The mechanism of parasite transmission as a tool of evolution and a criterion for a taxonomy of infectious disease

Pacific Medical Journal, 2022
This review discusses the principles of constructing epidemiological classifications of infectious diseases. A rationale is provided that taxonomy principles correspond to a combination of morphological and functional approaches.
S. L. Kolpakov
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Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission program in Iran

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background The reproductive health and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programs in Iran were integrated as a pilot project in September 2014. This study aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation and analysis of the PMTCT of HIV
Parvin Afsar Kazeroni, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Mandana Tira, Maryam Sargolzaiie, Sana Eybpoosh, Zahra Majdfar, Bushra Zareie, Mohammad Aziz Rasouli, Ebrahim Ghaderi   +8 more
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