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Incidence of Typhoid Fever and the Validity of the Widal Test in Some Districts in Iraq [PDF]

Al-Anbar Medical Journal, 2020
Background: Typhoid fever is a serious infectious disease. In Iraq, the disease has a public health burden because it’s endemicity and there is an overestimation of the cases because the diagnosis almost depends on the Widal test.
Mousa A. Shubbar, Shakir M. Zighar
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Progress Toward Regional Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2021

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022
All six World Health Organization (WHO) regions have committed to eliminating measles.* The Immunization Agenda 2021-2030 (IA2030)† aims to achieve the regional targets as a core indicator of impact and positions measles as the tracer of a health system ...
Anna A. Minta, Matt Ferrari, S. Antoni, A. Portnoy, A. Sbarra, B. Lambert, S. Hauryski, C. Hatcher, Y. Nedelec, Deblina Datta, Lee-Ho Lee, Claudia Steulet, M. Gacic-Dobo, P. Rota, M. Mulders, A. Bose, W. Perea, P. O’Connor   +17 more
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Progress Toward Regional Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2020

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021
In 2012, the World Health Assembly endorsed the Global Vaccine Action Plan,* with the objective of eliminating measles† in five of the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions by 2020 (1).
M. Dixon, Matt Ferrari, S. Antoni, Xi Li, A. Portnoy, B. Lambert, S. Hauryski, C. Hatcher, Y. Nedelec, M. Patel, J. Alexander, Claudia Steulet, M. Gacic-Dobo, P. Rota, M. Mulders, A. Bose, A. Rosewell, K. Kretsinger, N. Crowcroft   +18 more
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Trends of the Global, Regional, and National Incidence of Measles, Vaccine Coverage, and Risk Factors in 204 Countries From 1990 to 2019

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
Background Measles is a highly contagious disease that has caused global morbidity and mortality. Though great progress has been made in measles elimination, the resurgence of measles has been observed in recent years.
Ruitong Wang, W. Jing, Min Liu, Jue Liu
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Measles in the 21st Century: Progress Toward Achieving and Sustaining Elimination

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
The global measles vaccination program has been extraordinarily successful in reducing measles-related disease and deaths worldwide. Eradication of measles is feasible because of several key attributes, including humans as the only reservoir for the ...
Paul A. Gastañaduy, J. Goodson, L. Panagiotakopoulos, P. Rota, W. Orenstein, Manisha M. Patel   +5 more
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Reduced ability to neutralize the Omicron variant among adults after infection and complete vaccination with BNT162b2, ChAdOx1, or CoronaVac and heterologous boosting

Scientific Reports, 2023
COVID-19 vaccines have dramatically reduced rates of severe infection requiring hospitalization. However, SARS-CoV-2 variants have reduced vaccine effectiveness at preventing any symptomatic infection.
Otávio Melo Espíndola, Trevon L. Fuller, Mia Ferreira de Araújo, Luis Fernando Lopez Tort, Lusiele Guaraldo, Guilherme Calvet, Paola Resende, Myrna Bonaldo, Jimmy Whitworth, Chris Smith, Marilda Siqueira, Patrícia Brasil   +11 more
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Analysis of Viral and Host Factors on Immunogenicity of 2018, 2019, and 2020 Southern Hemisphere Seasonal Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Adults in Brazil

Viruses, 2022
Annual vaccination against influenza is the best tool to prevent deaths and hospitalizations. Regular updates of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccines (TIV) are necessary due to high mutation rates in influenza viruses.
Artur Capão, Maria L. Aguiar-Oliveira, Braulia C. Caetano, Thayssa K. Neves, Paola C. Resende, Walquiria A. F. Almeida, Milene D. Miranda, Olindo A. Martins-Filho, David Brown, Marilda M. Siqueira, Cristiana C. Garcia   +10 more
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Measles Virus as an Oncolytic Immunotherapy

Cancers, 2021
Simple Summary Measles virus is currently under investigation as an innovative cancer treatment. The virus selectively replicates in and kills cancer cells.
C. E. Engeland, G. Ungerechts
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SARS-CoV-2 infection in pediatric population before and during the Delta (B.1.617.2) and Omicron (B.1.1.529) variants era

Virology Journal, 2022
Background COVID-19, the coronavirus disease that emerged in December 2019, caused drastic damage worldwide. At the beginning of the pandemic, available data suggested that the infection occurs more frequently in adults than in infants.
Haifa Khemiri, Kaouther Ayouni, Henda Triki, Sondes Haddad-Boubaker   +3 more
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SARS-CoV2 RT-PCR assays: In vitro comparison of 4 WHO approved protocols on clinical specimens and its implications for real laboratory practice through variant emergence

Virology Journal, 2022
Introduction RT-PCR testing on nasopharyngeal swabs is a key component in the COVID-19 fighting, provided to use sensitive and specific SARS-CoV2 genome targets.
Mariem Gdoura, Imen Abouda, Mehdi Mrad, Imen Ben Dhifallah, Zeineb Belaiba, Wasfi Fares, Anissa Chouikha, Maroua Khedhiri, Kaouther Layouni, Henda Touzi, Amel Sadraoui, Walid Hammemi, Zina Meddeb, Nahed Hogga, Sihem Ben Fadhel, Sondes Haddad-Boubaker, Henda Triki   +16 more
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