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A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015 [PDF]

, 2018
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an increased risk of wound botulism, a potentially fatal acute paralytic illness. During the first 6 months of 2015, a large outbreak of wound botulism was confirmed among PWID in Scotland, which resulted ...
Amanda Weir, Andrew McAuley, CC McGuigan, CN Ramsay, Corinne Amar, D Akbulut, DJ Passaro, E MacDonald, E Tweed, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Gauri Godbole, Gillian Penrice, GY Chang, Health Protection Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD), J McLauchlin, J Sobel, J Strang, JA Jones, JA Stoltz, K Alpers, K Dunleavy, Kathie Grant, Kirsten M. A. Trayner, Kirsty Roy, M Desai, M Harris, M Ragonnet-Cronin, M Schroeter, MG Booth, N Markwick, National Records of Scotland, NE Palmateer, Public Health England, Health Protection Scotland, Public Health Wales, and Public Health Agency Northern Ireland, RJ Gordon, SB Werner, Scottish Government, Scottish Health Protection Network, SJ Hahné, SR Offerman, TN Wenham, VD Hope, VD Hope, Y Soukup-Baljak   +43 more
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Candidates for chemosensory genes identified in the Chinese citrus fly, Bactrocera minax, through a transcriptomic analysis

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, Cong Kang, Mengqiu Qu, Junlong Chen, Mingshun Chen, Shuying Bin, Jintian Lin   +6 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., Gupta, Mayetri, Moser, Carlee B., White, Laura F.   +3 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
R. Dudfield, F. A. Bainbridge
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Preliminary estimation of the basic reproduction number of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China, from 2019 to 2020: A data-driven analysis in the early phase of the outbreak

bioRxiv, 2020
Backgrounds An ongoing outbreak of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pneumonia hit a major city of China, Wuhan, December 2019 and subsequently reached other provinces/regions of China and countries.
Shi Zhao, Qianying Lin, Jinjun Ran, S. Musa, Guangpu Yang, Weiming Wang, Y. Lou, Daozhou Gao, L. Yang, D. He, M. Wang   +10 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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Correlation between wastewater and COVID-19 case incidence rates in major California sewersheds across three variant periods

Journal of Water and Health, 2023
Monitoring for COVID-19 through wastewater has been used for adjunctive public health surveillance, with SARS-CoV-2 viral concentrations in wastewater correlating with incident cases in the same sewershed.
Angela Rabe, Sindhu Ravuri, Elisabeth Burnor, Joshua A. Steele, Rose S. Kantor, Samuel Choi, Stanislav Forman, Ryan Batjiaka, Seema Jain, Tomás M. León, Duc J. Vugia, Alexander T. Yu   +11 more
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Economic Effects of Coronavirus Outbreak (COVID-19) on the World Economy

Social Science Research Network, 2020
This report discusses the economic impact of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis across industries, and countries. It also provides estimates of the potential global economic costs of COVID-19, and the GDP growth of different countries.
Nuno Fernandes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

2011 German Escherichia coli outbreak: Alignment-free whole-genome phylogeny by feature frequency profiles [PDF]

, 2011
Accuracy of SNP-based whole-genome phylogeny reconstruction relies heavily on quality of sequence alignment which is particularly hindered by poorly assembled genomes. Alignment-free methods might provide additional insights. Here, we constructed a whole-
Hoi Shan Kwan, Lei LI, Man Kit Cheung, Wenyan Nong   +3 more
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THE CASE FOR COLLECTING, ANALYSING AND UTILISING SEXDISAGGREGATED DATA AND GENDERED DATA TO INFORM OUTBREAK RESPONSES, A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE FROM 2012-2022

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Intro: Understanding sex-related differences and gendered roles in outbreak dynamics is critical to deliver an effective response. Despite existing recommendations and minimum requirements, collection, analysis, and use of sex-disaggregated data and ...
M. Gales, E. Yonally Phillips, S. Heidari, L. Zilversmit Pao, M.-A. Degail, C. Dubray, M. Meudec, C. Rodriguez Ribas, M.R. Siddiqui, S. Carter   +9 more
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