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Global Preparedness Against COVID-19: We Must Leverage the Power of Digital Health

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2020
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed many areas of public health preparedness that are lacking, especially in lower- and middle-income countries.
Sultan Mahmood, Khaled Hasan, Michelle Colder Carras, A. Labrique   +3 more
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The effect of temperature on persistence of SARS-CoV-2 on common surfaces

Virology Journal, 2020
Background The rate at which COVID-19 has spread throughout the globe has been alarming. While the role of fomite transmission is not yet fully understood, precise data on the environmental stability of SARS-CoV-2 is required to determine the risks of ...
Shane Riddell, Sarah Goldie, Andrew Hill, Debbie Eagles, Trevor W. Drew   +4 more
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Considerations for bioanalytical characterization and batch release of COVID-19 vaccines

npj Vaccines, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted hundreds of laboratories around the world to employ traditional as well as novel technologies to develop vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. The hallmarks of a successful vaccine are safety and efficacy.
Gautam Sanyal, Anna Särnefält, Arun Kumar   +2 more
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Rapid diagnostic test: a critical need for outbreak preparedness and response for high priority pathogens

BMJ Global Health
Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are critical for preparedness and response against an outbreak or pandemic and have been highlighted in the 100 Days Mission, a global initiative that aims to prepare the world for the next epidemic/pandemic by driving the ...
Paul A Kristiansen, Solomon Abebe Yimer, Birgitte Boonstra Booij, Gwen Tobert, Andrew Hebbeler, Paul Oloo, Polina Brangel, Maïna L'Azou Jackson, Richard Jarman, Danielle Craig, Michael Selorm Avumegah, Henshaw Mandi, Timothy Endy, Stacey Wooden, Carolyn Clark, Valentina Bernasconi, Amy Shurtleff   +16 more
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Establishing National Multisectoral Coordination and collaboration mechanisms to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone 2016–2018

One Health Outlook, 2019
Background The governments of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have acknowledged that weak health systems and poor coordination of efforts hampered effectiveness of the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak response.
Serge Agbo, Lionel Gbaguidi, Chethana Biliyar, Seydou Sylla, Mukeh Fahnbulleh, John Dogba, Sakoba Keita, Sarian Kamara, Amara Jambai, Albert Harris, Tolbert Nyenswah, Mane Seni, Sow Bhoye, Sambe Duale, Andrew Kitua   +14 more
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Job satisfaction among healthcare workers in Ghana and Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic: Role of perceived preparedness, stress, and burnout

PLOS Global Public Health, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected job satisfaction among healthcare workers; yet this has not been empirically examined in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We addressed this gap by examining job satisfaction and associated factors among healthcare workers in ...
P. Afulani, J. Nutor, P. Agbadi, Akua O. Gyamerah, J. Musana, R. Aborigo, O. Odiase, Monica Getahun, Linnet Ongeri, Hawa Malechi, Moses Obimbo Madadi, Benedicta Arhinful, A. Kelly, J. Awoonor-Williams   +13 more
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Australian Culex annulirostris mosquitoes are competent vectors for Japanese encephalitis virus genotype IV

Emerging Microbes and Infections
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is transmitted by Culex species of mosquitoes. In 2022, JEV belonging to a previously unrecognized lineage of genotype IV (GIV) caused a major outbreak of JE in South-eastern Australia, resulting in human cases and ...
Melissa J. Klein, Sarah A. Jackson, Willy W. Suen, Jean Payne, Darcy Beveridge, Mel Hargreaves, Donna Gillies, Jianning Wang, Kim R. Blasdell, Mike Dunn, Adam J. López-Denman, Peter A. Durr, David T. Williams, Prasad N. Paradkar   +13 more
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Optical microscopy reveals the dynamic nature of B. pseudomallei morphology during β-lactam antimicrobial susceptibility testing

BMC Microbiology, 2020
Background In Gram-negative species, β-lactam antibiotics target penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) resulting in morphological alterations of bacterial cells.
Heather P. McLaughlin, Julia Bugrysheva, David Sue   +2 more
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Strategies for supplying face masks to the population of Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background The use of face masks has become ubiquitous in Taiwan during the early COVID-19 pandemic. A name-based rationing system was established to enable the population of Taiwan to purchase face masks.
Chin-Mei Liu, Charles Tzu-Chi Lee, Shu-Mei Chou, Hai-Yun Ko, Jen-Hsin Wang, Yi-Chien Chih, Chia-Chi Chang   +6 more
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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