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Public Health Surveillance of Low-Frequency Populations [PDF]

Annual Review of Public Health, 2004
Public health agencies often require data that address the needs of special populations, such as minority groups. Sources of surveillance data often contain insufficient numbers of subjects to fully inform health agencies. In this review, we address the problems of and potential approaches for situations with insufficient surveillance data. We use the
Elena M. Andresen, Douglas A. Luke, Paula Diehr   +2 more
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Ascertainment of occupational histories in the working population: The occupational history calendar approach [PDF]

, 2011
Background Self-reported occupational histories are an important means for collecting historical data in epidemiological studies. An occupational history calendar (OHC) has been developed for use alongside a national occupational hazard surveillance tool.
Armitage, Axinn, Barraclough, Belli, Belli, Belli, Bond, Brower, Caspi, Cook, Day, Engel, Engel, Hoppin, Hunter, Lilley, McGuire, Statistics New Zealand, Statistics New Zealand, Stewart, Sverke, Tesche, Torgen, Warneryd, Zahm   +24 more
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Membrane filtration enrichment and optimization of nucleic acid extraction for qPCR detection of pathogenic bacteria in water – an experiment with Mycobacterium abscessus tester strain

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2023
ObjectiveTo establish a sensitive, reliable and rapid pre-treatment method for enrichment and nucleic acid extraction of pathogenic bacteria in water for fluorescent quantitative PCR (qPCR) detection of pathogenic bacteria in water.
Yan WU, Xiao ZHANG, Liang ZHANG, Fangxiao XING, Lan ZHANG   +4 more
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Event-based surveillance during EXPO Milan 2015. Rationale, tools, procedures, and initial results [PDF]

, 2016
More than 21 million participants attended EXPO Milan from May to October 2015, making it one of the largest protracted mass gathering events in Europe.
Bastiampillai, Anan Judina, Caporali, Maria Grazia, Costanzo, Virgilio, Declich, Silvia, Gabrielli, Eugenia, Gramegna, Maria, Linge, Jens P., Manso, Martina Del, Mantica, Eleonora, Napoli, Christian, Piatti, Alessandra, Pompa, Maria Grazia, Riccardo, Flavia, Vellucci, Loredana, Verile, Marco   +14 more
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Laboratory database population surveillance to improve detection of progressive chronic kidney disease.

Journal of renal care, 2013
BACKGROUND Some patients with chronic kidney disease are still referred late for specialist care despite the evidence that earlier detection and intervention can halt or delay progression to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).
D. M. Kennedy, K. Chatha, H. Rayner
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Meningococcal Disease in Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Review of Cases Reported Through Active Surveillance in the United States, 2000-2008. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundAlthough human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is an established risk factor for several bacterial infections, the association between HIV infection and meningococcal disease remains unclear.MethodsExpanded chart reviews were completed ...
Clark, Thomas A, Cohn, Amanda C, Farley, Monica M, Hall, H Irene, Harris, Christine M, Harrison, Lee H, Lee, Adria, Li, Jianmin, Lynfield, Ruth, MacNeil, Jessica R, Miller, Lisa, Nichols, Megin, Petit, Susan, Reingold, Arthur, Schaffner, William, Thomas, Ann, Wu, Henry M, Zell, Elizabeth   +17 more
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Prevalence of liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) in wild Red Deer (Cervus elaphus): coproantigen ELISA is a practicable alternative to faecal egg counting for surveillance in remote populations [PDF]

, 2016
Red deer (Cervus elaphus) are hosts of liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica); yet, prevalence is rarely quantified in wild populations. Testing fresh samples from remote regions by faecal examination (FE) can be logistically challenging; hence, we appraise ...
Craine, Alexandra, French, Andrew S., Gibb, Stuart W., Gordon-Gibbs, Danielle K., Mitchell, Gillian, Shaw, David, Skuce, Philip J., Taggart, Mark A., Zadoks, Ruth N.   +8 more
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Monitoring the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines into West Africa: design and implementation of a population-based surveillance system. [PDF]

, 2012
Routine use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) in developing countries is expected to lead to a significant reduction in childhood deaths. However, PCVs have been associated with replacement disease with non-vaccine serotypes.
Adegbola, Richard A, Akinsola, Bolanle, Baldeh, Ignatius, Greenwood, Brian M, Hill, Philip C, Howie, Stephen RC, Ikumapayi, Usman N, Jasseh, Momodou, Knoll, Maria Deloria, Lee, Ellen, Levine, Orin S, Mackenzie, Grant A, Plumb, Ian D, Saha, Debasish, Sambou, Sana, Touray, Kebba, Uchendu, Uchendu, Usuf, Effua, Wattiaux, Andre   +18 more
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Epidemiology of Invasive Early-Onset and Late-Onset Group B Streptococcal Disease in the United States, 2006 to 2015: Multistate Laboratory and Population-Based Surveillance

JAMA pediatrics, 2019
Importance Invasive disease owing to group B Streptococcus (GBS) remains an important cause of illness and death among infants younger than 90 days in the United States, despite declines in early-onset disease (EOD; with onset at 0-6 days of life) that ...
S. Nanduri, S. Petit, C. Smelser, M. Apostol, N. Alden, L. Harrison, R. Lynfield, P. Vagnone, Kari E Burzlaff, N. Spina, E. Dufort, W. Schaffner, A. Thomas, M. Farley, J. H. Jain, Tracy Pondo, L. McGee, B. Beall, S. Schrag   +18 more
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Recent Spatiotemporal Patterns of US Lung Cancer by Histologic Type

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
BackgroundAfter a period of increasing rates, lung cancer incidence is declining in the US for men and women. We investigated lung cancer rate patterns by gender, geographic location, and histologic subtype, and for total lung cancer (TLC), for the ...
Denise Riedel Lewis, Linda W. Pickle, Li Zhu   +2 more
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