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The Lancet Global Health, 2016 Background: Reducing the burden of malaria is a global priority, but financial constraints mean that available resources must be allocated rationally to maximise their effect.
Dr. Patrick G T Walker, PhD +3 more
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The impact of prior information on estimates of disease transmissibility using Bayesian tools [PDF]
, 2015 The basic reproductive number (R₀) and the distribution of the serial interval (SI) are often used to quantify transmission during an infectious disease outbreak.
Archer, Brett N. +3 more
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BMC Genomics, 2019 Background The males of many Bactrocera species (Diptera: Tephritidae) respond strongly to plant-derived chemicals (male lures) and can be divided into cue lure/raspberry ketone (CL/RK) responders, methyl eugenol (ME) responders and non-responders ...
Zhongzhen Wu +6 more
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A review of epidemiological parameters from Ebola outbreaks to inform early public health decision-making. [PDF]
, 2015 The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has, as of 29 April 2015, resulted in more than 10,884 deaths among 26,277 cases. Prior to the ongoing outbreak, Ebola virus disease (EVD) caused relatively small outbreaks (maximum outbreak ...
Bento, AI +4 more
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Legionnaires' disease: when an 'outbreak' is not an outbreak
Weekly releases (1997–2007), 2006 During August 2006, there was a large increase in non-travel related legionella cases throughout England and in the ...
A J, Pereira +9 more
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An Outbreak of Dysentery [PDF]
Journal of Hygiene, 1911 On February 10th, 1911, the attention of the Medical Officer of Health was called by the practitioner in charge to an outbreak of diarrhoea in a family named R. residing in Paddington. The note made at the interview was to the effect that cases had occurred on the 8th, 9th, and 10th (2 cases) of the month, the four patients having violent diarrhoea and
F A, Bainbridge, R, Dudfield
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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 +5 more
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Projections of Ebola outbreak size and duration with and without vaccine use in Équateur, Democratic Republic of Congo, as of May 27, 2018. [PDF]
, 2018 As of May 27, 2018, 6 suspected, 13 probable and 35 confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) had been reported in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. We used reported case counts and time series from prior outbreaks to estimate the total
Ackley, Sarah +17 more
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Genomic dissection of the 1994 Cronobacter sakazakii outbreak in a French neonatal intensive care unit [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Cronobacter sakazakii is a member of the genus Cronobacter that has frequently been isolated from powdered infant formula (PIF) and linked with rare but fatal neonatal infections such as meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis.
Dickins, B +6 more
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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 +3 more
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