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Meat production and zoonotic disease outbreaks in Asia
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 567-586, July 2024.Abstract Is there a link between meat production and infectious diseases? Researchers, policymakers and pundits argue that the growth of demand for meat in Asia can increase the risk of zoonotic diseases, pathogens that originate in animals and can be transmitted to humans. Using original data on zoonotic disease outbreaks in 22 Asian countries between
Ore Koren, Jessica Steinberg, Amit Hagar
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Homology modelling of transferrin-binding protein A from Neisseria meningitidis [PDF]
, 2005 Neisseria meningitidis, a causative agent of bacterial meningitis, obtains transferrin-bound iron by expressing two outer membrane located transferrin-binding proteins, TbpA and TbpB.
Evans, RW +3 more
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Adjuvants : an essential component of neisseria vaccines [PDF]
, 2009 Adjuvants may be classified into delivery systems and immune potentiator or modulator molecules based on their mechanism of action. Neisseria vaccines containing traditional adjuvants such as aluminium salts have existed for long time, but meningitis ...
Acevedo, R. +8 more
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Health Science Reports, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2024.Abstract Background and Aims Airborne diseases due to climate change pose significant public health challenges in Bangladesh. Little was known about the spatio‐temporal pattern of airborne diseases at the district level in the country. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the spatio‐temporal pattern and associated meteorological factors of ...
Arman Hossain Chowdhury +1 more
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The cost-effectiveness of alternative vaccination strategies for polyvalent meningococcal vaccines in Burkina Faso: A transmission dynamic modeling study. [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: The introduction of a conjugate vaccine for serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis has dramatically reduced disease in the African meningitis belt.
Cohen, Ted +8 more
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Reactive vaccination as a control strategy for pneumococcal meningitis outbreaks in the African meningitis belt: analysis of outbreak data from Ghana [PDF]
, 2019 Streptococcus pneumoniae is increasingly recognised as an important cause of bacterial meningitis in the African meningitis belt. The World Health Organization sets guidelines for response to outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis, but there are no ...
Afreh, OK +7 more
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Acute bacterial meningitis in adults [PDF]
, 2016 Over the past several decades, the incidence of bacterial meningitis in children has decreased but there remains a significant burden of disease in adults, with a mortality of up to 30%. Although the pathogenesis of bacterial meningitis is not completely
Heyderman, RS +4 more
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Development of Multi-Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Outbreak Detection of Neisseria meningitidis [PDF]
, 2006 Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of septicemia and meningitis worldwide. Traditional typing methods like pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for identifying outbreaks are subjective and time consuming.
Price, Alicia Anne
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Iowa Health Focus, September 2004 [PDF]
, 2004 Monthly newsletter for the Iowa Department of Public ...
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