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Humoral Immunity of Unvaccinated COVID-19 Recovered vs. Naïve BNT162b2 Vaccinated Individuals: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

Microorganisms, 2023
To study the differences in the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to the response to vaccination, we characterized the humoral immune kinetics of these situations.
Gili Joseph, Carmit Cohen, Carmit Rubin, Havi Murad, Victoria Indenbaum, Keren Asraf, Yael Weiss-Ottolenghi, Gabriella Segal-Lieberman, Yitshak Kreiss, Yaniv Lustig, Gili Regev-Yochay   +10 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in health systems of many countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite comparatively low rates of COVID-19 admissions and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the pandemic still had a ...
John Amuasi, Reinhard Busse, Wilm Quentin, Elliot Koranteng Tannor, Daniel Opoku   +4 more
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Preparedness of ICU networks for pandemics

Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2020
Purpose of review The recent COVID-19 outbreak has clearly shown how epidemics/pandemics can challenge developed countries’ healthcare systems. Proper management of equipment and human resources is critical to provide adequate medical care to all patients admitted to the hospital and the ICU for both pandemic-related and ...
Florio G., Zanella A., Pesenti A.
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Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð, Anna Magnea Hreinsdóttir, Adrijana Visnjic‐Jevtic, Alison Clark   +3 more
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Integral Scientific Advice for Outbreak Response: Lessons learned from an Avian Influenza Simulation in the Netherlands

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Background: The continuing avian influenza outbreaks in animals pose a public health threat worldwide. Concerns about the risk for humans are raising, now we see spread among different mammal species and animal to human transmission.
Dr Anja Schreijer, Dr. Femke Overbosch, Dr. Tomris Cesuroglu, Dr Charlotte Waltz, Drs. Bart Blokland, Drs Jeanette de Boer, Drs Tim Florschutz   +6 more
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Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies: insights from the World Health Organization’s regional initiatives

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid scale-up in the use of genomic surveillance as a pandemic preparedness and response tool. As a result, the number of countries with in-country SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing capability increased by 40 ...
Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Lisa L. Carter, Abdinasir Abubakar, Rachel Achilla, Amal Barakat, Nicksy Gumede, Alina Guseinova, Francis Yesurajan Inbanathan, Masaya Kato, Etien Koua, Juliana Leite, Marco Marklewitz, Jairo Mendez-Rico, Chavely Monamele, Biran Musul, Karen Nahapetyan, Dhamari Naidoo, Rachel Ochola, Mehmet Ozel, Philomena Raftery, Andrea Vicari, Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe, Joanna Zwetyenga, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Céline Barnadas, Mick Mulders, Dmitriy I. Pereyaslov, Jilian A. Sacks, Taylor Warren, Sébastien Cognat, Sylvie Briand, Gina Samaan   +31 more
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Is female genital mutilation/cutting associated with adverse mental health consequences? A systematic review of the evidence

BMJ Global Health, 2019
Introduction The adverse physical consequences of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) have been thoroughly investigated and documented. Yet, we know little about the adverse mental health consequences of the practice.
Sandro Galea, Salma M Abdalla
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Characterising COVID-19 school and childcare outbreaks in Canada in 2021: a surveillance study

BMJ Public Health
Background In January 2021, the Public Health Agency of Canada launched the Canadian COVID-19 Outbreak Surveillance System to monitor outbreaks by setting. Schools and childcare centres were identified as settings of interest, as children play a key role
Kaitlin Patterson, Erin McGill, Demy Dam, Anna Bellos, Cameron Mark Coulby, Rachel McCormick   +5 more
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Implementation and fidelity of reactive surveillance and response strategies for malaria elimination: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ Public Health
Introduction To achieve malaria elimination, case-based surveillance and response systems have been developed in endemic countries. This study systematically reviews the different types of reactive surveillance and response strategies for malaria, how ...
Win Han Oo, Win Htike, Julia C Cutts, Kaung Myat Thu, May Chan Oo, Freya J I Fowkes, Nilar Aye Tun, Ei Phyu Htwe, Aung Khine Zaw, Paul Anthony Agius   +9 more
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Pandemic Influenza and Community Preparedness

American Journal of Public Health, 2009
Objectives. We aimed to examine community knowledge about and attitudes toward the threat of pandemic influenza and assess the community acceptability of strategies to reduce its effect. Methods. We conducted computer-aided telephone interviews in 2007 with a cross-sectional sample of rural and metropolitan residents of South Australia. Results.
Marshall, H., Ryan, P., Roberton, D., Street, J., Watson, M.   +4 more
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