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Variability in clinical assessment of clade IIb mpox lesions

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Objectives: The ongoing global outbreak of mpox, caused by clade IIb mpox virus, poses significant challenges in accurately categorizing and assessing the diversity of lesions.
Benjamin Jones, Amy Paterson, Naseem AlKhoury, Josephine Bourner, Jake Dunning, Piero Olliaro, Amanda Rojek   +6 more
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Cultivating community-based participatory research (CBPR) to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: an illustrative example of partnership and topic prioritization in the food services industry

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background As an illustrative example of COVID-19 pandemic community-based participatory research (CBPR), we describe a community-academic partnership to prioritize future research most important to people experiencing high occupational exposure to COVID-
Michael Hoerger, Seowoo Kim, Brenna Mossman, Sarah Alonzi, Kenneth Xu, John C. Coward, Kathleen Whalen, Elizabeth Nauman, Jonice Miller, Tracey De La Cerda, Tristen Peyser, Addison Dunn, Dana Zapolin, Dulcé Rivera, Navya Murugesan, Courtney N. Baker   +15 more
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Bubonic plague: can the size of buboes be accurately and consistently measured with a digital calliper?

Trials, 2023
Introduction Conducting clinical research on treatments for emerging infectious diseases is often complicated by methodological challenges, such as the identification of appropriate outcome measures to assess treatment response and the lack of validated ...
Josephine Bourner, Ravaka Randriamparany, Tsinjo Fehizoro Rasoanaivo, Emmanuelle Denis, Rindra Vatosoa Randremanana, Michel Vaillant, Alex Paddy Salam, Bronner P. Gonçalves, Piero Olliaro   +8 more
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Is COVID-19 another case of the obesity paradox? Results from an international ecological study on behalf of the REPROGRAM Consortium Obesity study group

Archives of Medical Science, 2021
Introduction Obesity has emerged as one of the major risk factors of severe morbidity and cause-specific mortality among severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infected individuals.
Sonu Bhaskar, Sanja Jovanovic, Anubhav Katyal, Narayanan K. Namboodiri, Dimitrios Chatzis, Maciej Banach   +5 more
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Constitutional Rights of Labour During Covid 19 Pandemic: A Study of India and Indonesia [PDF]

, 2021
The Covid 19 pandemic, and the legal sanction for lockdowns and curfews in 2020, had a profound impact on workers even as economic downturn, reduction of labour demand, unemployment, severe financial distress, forced migration or confinement, assailed ...
Anggraeny, Isdian, Esfandiari, Fitria, Hidayah, Nur Putri, Pradhan, David   +3 more
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Analysis of SteraMist ionized hydrogen peroxide technology in the sterilization of N95 respirators and other PPE

Scientific Reports, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers, including of N95 masks (filtering facepiece respirators; FFRs).
Avilash K. Cramer, Deborah Plana, Helen Yang, Mary M. Carmack, Enze Tian, Michael S. Sinha, David Krikorian, David Turner, Jinhan Mo, Ju Li, Rajiv Gupta, Heather Manning, Florence T. Bourgeois, Sherry H. Yu, Peter K. Sorger, Nicole R. LeBoeuf   +15 more
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Vaccine escape in a heterogeneous population: insights for SARS-CoV-2 from a simple model

Royal Society Open Science, 2021
As a countermeasure to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there has been swift development and clinical trial assessment of candidate vaccines, with subsequent deployment as part of mass vaccination campaigns.
Julia R. Gog, Edward M. Hill, Leon Danon, Robin N. Thompson   +3 more
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Religious Behavior of Indonesian Muslims as Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic [PDF]

, 2021
Covid-19 has become a world pandemic, and Indonesia is among the worse cases. Problems that arise are faced by all parties, including religious elites as well as laypeople.
Hidayaturrahman, Mohammad, Husamah, H., Kusumawati, Ita Rahmania, Sudarman, Sudarman, Yanti, F.   +4 more
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3D Printed frames to enable reuse and improve the fit of N95 and KN95 respirators

BMC Biomedical Engineering, 2021
Background In response to supply shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs or “masks”), which are typically single-use devices in healthcare settings, are routinely being used for prolonged periods and in some ...
Malia McAvoy, Ai-Tram N. Bui, Christopher Hansen, Deborah Plana, Jordan T. Said, Zizi Yu, Helen Yang, Jacob Freake, Christopher Van, David Krikorian, Avilash Cramer, Leanne Smith, Liwei Jiang, Karen J. Lee, Sara J. Li, Brandon Beller, Kimberley Huggins, Michael P. Short, Sherry H. Yu, Arash Mostaghimi, Peter K. Sorger, Nicole R. LeBoeuf   +21 more
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Addressing stigma in infectious disease outbreaks: a crucial step in pandemic preparedness

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
There is a complex interplay between infectious disease outbreaks and the stigmatization of affected persons and communities. Outbreaks are prone to precipitating stigma due to the fear, uncertainty, moralisation, and abatement of freedoms associated ...
Amy Paterson, Amy Paterson, Piero L. Olliaro, Amanda Rojek   +3 more
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