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Public health and economic costs of investigating a suspected outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. [PDF]

, 2007
This paper provides one of the first assessments of the burden of both the public health investigation and the economic costs associated with an apparent outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (LD) in South East London.
Joseph, CA, Rao, G, Outbreak Control Team, Surman-Lee, S, Harrison, TG, Heathcock, R, Lee, JV, Lock, K, Millett, C   +8 more
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Rifampicin resistance in tuberculosis outbreak, London, England [PDF]

, 2005
Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates cultured from 6 patients associated with an isoniazid-resistant M. tuberculosis outbreak acquired rifampicin resistance. The rpoB gene sequence showed that resistance was associated with rare mutations in each isolate.
Shorten, R J, McHugh, TD, Claxton, A P, Claxton, AP, Mary Jo Knobloch, Gillespie, S H, Claire Jenkins, Stephen H. Gillespie, Shorten, RJ, McHugh, T D, Edward A. Belongia, Richard E. Besser, Timothy D. McHugh, Robert J. Shorten, Burney A. Kieke, Carolyn Janette, Gillespie, SH, Jeffrey P. Davis, Jenkins, C, Alleyna P. Claxton, Gillespie, S H ; id_orcid   +20 more
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Evaluation of the performance of a dengue outbreak detection tool for China [PDF]

, 2014
An outbreak detection and response system, using time series moving percentile method based on historical data, in China has been used for identifying dengue fever outbreaks since 2008.
Wang, Liping, Yang, Weizhong, Clements, Archie C.A., Shengjie Lai, Hu, Wenbiao, Wenwu Yin, Yin, Wenwu, Hang Zhou, Zhou, Hang, Archie C A Clements, Archie C. A. Clements, Li, Zhongjie, Yu, Hongjie, Zhongjie Li, Lai, Shengjie, Weizhong Yang, Wenbiao Hu, Zhang, Honglong, Hongjie Yu, Clements, Archie C. A., Liping Wang, Honglong Zhang, Yang Weizhong, Yin Wenwu, Zhou Hang, Yu Hongjie, Li Zhongjie, Hu Wenbiao, Clements Archie C. A., Wang Liping, Zhang Honglong, Lai Shengjie   +31 more
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Genomic epidemiology of a protracted hospital outbreak caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Birmingham, England [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii commonly causes hospital outbreaks. However, within an outbreak, it can be difficult to identify the routes of cross-infection rapidly and accurately enough to inform infection control.
Chan, Jacqueline, Beryl Oppenheim, Chan, Jacqueline Z-M, Constantinidou, Chrystala, Bradley, Craig, Halachev, Mihail R, Pallen, Mark J, Pallen, Mark J., Nicola Cumley, Matthew Smith-Banks, Mihail R Halachev, Smith-Banks, Matthew, Halachev, Mihail R., Jacqueline Z-M Chan, Oppenheim, Beryl, Craig Bradley, Constantinidou, Chrystala I, Chrystala I Constantinidou, Cumley, Nicola, Mark J Pallen   +19 more
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Country food consumption in Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Foodbook study 2014–2015

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2021
Background: This article presents a descriptive summary of the consumption of various country food (i.e. locally harvested plant and animal foods) products by residents of Yukon (YT), Northwest Territories (NT) and Nunavut (NU).
Vanessa Morton, Anna Manore, Nadia Ciampa, Shiona Glass-Kaastra, Matt Hurst, Angie Mullen, Jennifer Cutler   +6 more
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outbreaker2: a modular platform for outbreak reconstruction

BMC Bioinformatics, 2018
Background Reconstructing individual transmission events in an infectious disease outbreak can provide valuable information and help inform infection control policy.
Finlay Campbell, Xavier Didelot, Rich Fitzjohn, Neil Ferguson, Anne Cori, Thibaut Jombart   +5 more
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Modelling the benefits of long-acting or transmission-blocking drugs for reducing Plasmodium falciparum transmission by case management or by mass treatment

Malaria Journal, 2017
Background Anti-malarial drugs are an important tool for malaria control and elimination. Alongside their direct benefit in the treatment of disease, drug use has a community-level effect, clearing the reservoir of infection and reducing onward ...
Michael T. Bretscher, Jamie T. Griffin, Azra C. Ghani, Lucy C. Okell   +3 more
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A simple approach to measure transmissibility and forecast incidence

Epidemics, 2018
Outbreaks of novel pathogens such as SARS, pandemic influenza and Ebola require substantial investments in reactive interventions, with consequent implementation plans sometimes revised on a weekly basis.
Pierre Nouvellet, Anne Cori, Tini Garske, Isobel M. Blake, Ilaria Dorigatti, Wes Hinsley, Thibaut Jombart, Harriet L. Mills, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Christophe Fraser, Christl A. Donnelly, Neil M. Ferguson, Steven Riley   +13 more
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Communicable disease outbreaks: Ethics in an outbreak

Australian Journal of General Practice, 2020
This fifth article in a series on communicable disease outbreaks explores ethical aspects of public health action, information disclosure and research in an epidemic.
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Outbreaks of salmonellosis [PDF]

BMJ, 1996
Knowing the serotype of a salmonella does not help in the treatment or prognosis of a case, nor is infection with different serotypes distinguishable clinically: all serotypes can cause serious disease, including septicaemia.1 Why then is it important for almost all 30 000 or so salmonellas reported annually to Britain's Public Health Laboratory ...
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