Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2007 In Brazil, syphilis and HIV infection are considered serious public health problems. However, in practice, epidemiological surveillance, prevention measures, and prenatal care seem to be more effective in the control of mother-to-child transmission of the HIV than in the control of transmission of the Treponema pallidum. Here we discuss the differences
Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr. +4 more
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A four year longitudinal sero-epidemiology study of Neospora caninum in adult cattle from 114 cattle herds in south west England : associations with age, herd and dam-offspring pairs [PDF]
, 2008 Background: Neosporosis caused by the protozoan parasite Neospora caninum, is an economically important cause of abortion, stillbirth, low milk yield, reduced weight gain and premature culling in cattle.
Green, Laura E. +5 more
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Integrating serological and genetic data to quantify cross-species transmission: brucellosis as a case study [PDF]
, 2016 Epidemiological data are often fragmented, partial, and/or ambiguous and unable to yield the desired level of understanding of infectious disease dynamics to adequately inform control measures.
Buza, Joram J. +8 more
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Invited review: Epidemics on social networks [PDF]
, 2013 Since its first formulations almost a century ago, mathematical models for disease spreading contributed to understand, evaluate and control the epidemic processes.They promoted a dramatic change in how epidemiologists thought of the propagation of ...
Kuperman, Marcelo N.
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Endemicity and prevalence of multipartite viruses under heterogeneous between-host transmission
, 2019 Multipartite viruses replicate through a puzzling evolutionary strategy. Their genome is segmented into two or more parts, and encapsidated in separate particles that appear to propagate independently.
Arenas, Alex +3 more
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A Metapopulation Model for Chikungunya Including Populations Mobility on a Large-Scale Network
, 2012 In this work we study the influence of populations mobility on the spread of a vector-borne disease. We focus on the chikungunya epidemic event that occurred in 2005-2006 on the R\'eunion Island, Indian Ocean, France, and validate our models with real ...
Arino +32 more
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Understanding HIV/AIDS in the African Context
, 2018 This book of readings is intended for courses in Global Health. The editors asked Prof. Stillwaggon to contribute a chapter summarizing her years of work on the spread of HIV/AIDS in populations among whom bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral diseases
Sawers, Larry, Stillwaggon, Eileen
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Impacts of Swachh Bharat Mission on Health and Communicable Disease Control: A Systematic Review Protocol. [PDF]
Health Sci RepVarshney K, Khatri C, Lamichhane P.
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Predictive model for neonatal HBV infection risk in infants of HBV-infected mothers in China: an observational study. [PDF]
Front Public HealthLiu X +10 more
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Emerging Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers for Human Cytomegalovirus Infection During Pregnancy: Unmet Needs and Future Perspectives. [PDF]
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