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Post-acute COVID-19 condition in Saudi Arabia: A national representative study

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2022
Background: Many survivors of COVID-19 have developed symptoms and diseases similar to those observed after severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Faten A. AlRadini, Fahad Alamri, Muna S. Aljahany, Yasir Almuzaini, Yousef Alsofayan, Anas Khan, Nada Albogami, Maha Abdulrahim, Alanoud Almogbil, Ahmed Alahmari   +9 more
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Tuberculosis and mass gatherings—opportunities for defining burden, transmission risk, and the optimal surveillance, prevention, and control measures at the annual Hajj pilgrimage

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Tuberculosis (TB) is now the most common infectious cause of death worldwide. In 2014, an estimated 9.6 million people developed active TB. There were an estimated three million people with active TB including 360 000 with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)
Alimuddin Zumla, Abdulaziz Bin Saeed, Badriah Alotaibi, Saber Yezli, Osman Dar, Kingsley Bieh, Matthew Bates, Tamara Tayeb, Peter Mwaba, Shuja Shafi, Brian McCloskey, Eskild Petersen, Esam I. Azhar   +12 more
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Epidemiological and clinical features of COVID-19 patients in Saudi Arabia

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2021
Background: The aim of this study is to describe the clinical and demographic characteristics of COVID-19 patients, and the risk factors associated with death in Saudi Arabia to serve as a reference to further understand this pandemic and to help in the ...
Ahmed A. Alahmari, Anas A. Khan, Ahmed Elganainy, Emad L. Almohammadi, Ahmed M. Hakawi, Abdullah M. Assiri, Hani A. Jokhdar   +6 more
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Health care challenges at mass gatherings [PDF]

Ķazaķstannyṇ Klinikalyķ Medicinasy, 2020
Mass gatherings are unique events carrying the potential to severely strain public health planning and infrastructures by triggering the entire emergency mechanism of a community or nation.
Athanasios Zafeirakis, Panagiotis Efstathiou   +1 more
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Proportion of adult community-acquired pneumonia cases attributable to Streptococcus pneumoniae among Hajj pilgrims in 2016

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background: The Hajj mass gathering is a risk for pneumococcal disease. This study was performed to evaluate the proportion of adult community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) cases attributable to Streptococcus pneumoniae among Hajj pilgrims in 2016.
Ali AlBarrak, Badriah Alotaibi, Yara Yassin, Abdulaziz Mushi, Fuad Maashi, Yassein Seedahmed, Mohamed Alshaer, Abdulaziz Altaweel, Husameddin Elshiekh, Abdulhafiz Turkistani, Tanaz Petigara, John Grabenstein, Saber Yezli   +12 more
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Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia: A national retrospective study

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2020
Background: The global battle to contain the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic rages on. Previous studies described the clinical characteristics of COVID-19, but knowledge gaps remain in the Middle East region. Identifying these features
Yousef M Alsofayan, Saqer M Althunayyan, Anas A Khan, Ahmed M Hakawi, Abdullah M Assiri   +4 more
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Meningococcal serogroup A, C, W, and Y serum bactericidal antibody profiles in Hajj pilgrims

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014
Background: The religious seasons of Hajj and Umra in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have historically been associated with epidemics of meningococcal disease.
Ziad A. Memish, Saber Yezli, Malak Almasri, Abdullah Assiri, Abdulhafeez Turkestani, Helen Findlow, Xilian Bai, Ray Borrow   +7 more
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Meningococcal disease during the Hajj and Umrah mass gatherings

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
The Hajj and Umrah religious mass gatherings hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can facilitate the transmission of infectious diseases. The pilgrimages have been associated with a number of local and international outbreaks of meningococcal disease ...
Saber Yezli, Abdullah M. Assiri, Rafat F. Alhakeem, Abdulhafiz M. Turkistani, Badriah Alotaibi   +4 more
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Characteristics and Distribution of Heat-Related Illnesses during Hajj 2022

Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine
Background: Heat-related illnesses (HRI) are defined as elevated body core temperatures when exposed to an intense high temperature. HRIs include but are not limited to heat exhaustion (HE) and heat stroke (HS).
Yasir Almuzaini, Mariyyah Alburayh, Ahmed Alahmari, Fahad Alamri, Nomai Mukhtar, Ghadah Ahmed, Lamis Alabdullatif, Haytham Sheerah, Anas Khan   +8 more
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Prevention of meningococcal disease during the Hajj and Umrah mass gatherings: past and current measures and future prospects

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has a long history of instituting preventative measures against meningococcal disease (MD). KSA is at risk of outbreaks of MD due to its geographic location, demography, and especially because it hosts the annual Hajj ...
Saber Yezli, Abdulaziz A. Bin Saeed, Abdullah M. Assiri, Rafat F. Alhakeem, Muslim A. Yunus, Abdulhafiz M. Turkistani, Robert Booy, Badriah M. Alotaibi   +7 more
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