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The potential of pregnant women as a sentinel population for malaria surveillance [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2019
Abstract Background With increasing spatial heterogeneity of malaria transmission and a shift of the disease burden towards older children and adults, pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) have been proposed as a pragmatic sentinel population for malaria surveillance.
Manuel W Hetzel, Manuel W Hetzel, Renata Mandike, Christian Lengeler, Christian Lengeler, Penelope Vounatsou, Penelope Vounatsou, Frank Chacky, Fabrizio Molteni, Fabrizio Molteni, Sumaiyya G. Thawer, Sumaiyya G. Thawer, Nina C. Brunner, Nina C. Brunner, Manuela Runge, Manuela Runge, Amanda Ross, Amanda Ross, Ally Mohamed   +18 more
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Surveillance for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Medicaid Cirrhotic Population

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2013
To estimate hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in the Medicaid cirrhotic population.
Robert S. Sandler, Paul H. Hayashi, Michael D. Kappelman, Lena B. Palmer   +3 more
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Epidemiology of cerebral palsy in Bangladesh: a population‐based surveillance study

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2018
To examine the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of cerebral palsy (CP) in children in Bangladesh.
G. Khandaker, M. Muhit, T. Karim, H. Smithers-Sheedy, I. Novak, Cheryl A Jones, N. Badawi   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating the gap in rapid diagnostic testing: insights from subnational Kenyan routine health data

BMJ Open
Background Understanding diagnostic capacities is essential to addressing healthcare provision and inequity, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries.
Emelda A. Okiro, Bibian N. Robert, Angela K. Moturi, Felix Bahati, Peter M. Macharia   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Underlying conditions and risk of hospitalisation, ICU admission and mortality among those with COVID-19 in Ireland: A national surveillance study

The Lancet Regional Health. Europe, 2021
Background: To date, over 2 million people worldwide have died with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. To describe the experience in Ireland, this study examined associations between underlying conditions and the ...
Kathleen E. Bennett, Maeve Mullooly, Mark O'Loughlin, Margaret Fitzgerald, Joan O'Donnell, Lois O'Connor, Ajay Oza, John Cuddihy   +7 more
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Malaria in China: a longitudinal population-based surveillance study [PDF]

Epidemiology and Infection, 2020
Abstract This study aims to ascertain the long-term epidemic trends of malaria and evaluates the probability of achieving the eradication goal by 2020 in China. Data on malaria incidence and deaths were extracted from the China Information System for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cheng Ding, Xiaofang Fu, Shigui Yang, Shigui Yang, Yuqing Zhou, Xiaoxiao Liu, Chenyang Huang, Lanjuan Li, Jie Wu, Min Deng   +9 more
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Population-level surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli through sewage analysis

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2019
Introduction The occurrence of antibiotic resistance in faecal bacteria in sewage is likely to reflect the current local clinical resistance situation. Aim This observational study investigated the relationship between Escherichia coli resistance rates ...
Marion Hutinel, P. Huijbers, J. Fick, C. Åhrén, D. Larsson, Carl-Fredrik Flach   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating tools to define influenza baseline and threshold values using surveillance data, Egypt, season 2016/17

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2020
Background: Establishing influenza thresholds and transmission intensity can help evaluate seasonal changes in influenza severity and potential pandemics.
Basma AbdElGawad, Tomás Vega, Moustafa El Houssinie, Amira Mohsen, Manal Fahim, Hanaa Abu ElSood, Jean Jabbour, Alaa Eid, Samir Refaey   +8 more
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Adapting an integrated acute respiratory infections sentinel surveillance to the COVID-19 pandemic requirements, Egypt, 2020–2022

Public Health in Practice, 2023
Objectives: In Egypt, an integrated surveillance for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) was established in 2016 to identify the causes of ARIs. The surveillance system includes 19 governmental hospitals.
Manal Fahim, Hanaa Abu ElSood, Basma AbdElGawad, Ola Deghedy, Amel Naguib, Wael H. Roshdy, Shymaa Showky, Reham Kamel, Nancy Elguindy, Mohammad Abdel Fattah, Salma Afifi, Amr Kandeel, Khaled Abdelghaffar   +12 more
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Assessing and adjusting for differences between HIV prevalence estimates derived from national population-based surveys and antenatal care surveillance, with applications for Spectrum 2013 [PDF]

, 2015
Objective(s): To assess differences between HIV prevalence estimates derived from national population surveys and antenatal care (ANC) surveillance sites and to improve the calibration of ANC-derived estimates in Spectrum 2013 to more appropriately ...
Hogan, Daniel R., Mahy, Mary, Marsh, Kimberly, Salomon, Joshua A.   +3 more
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