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Electronic monitoring of doffing using video surveillance to minimise error rate and increase safety at Howard Springs International Quarantine Facility

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2022
Background Safe donning and doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) are critical to prevent transmission of infectious diseases. Novel strategies to improve infection prevention and control (IPC) adherence can optimise safety.
Stephanie J. Curtis, Abigail Trewin, Kathleen McDermott, Karen Were, Kate Clezy, Kathy Dempsey, Nick Walsh   +6 more
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Analysis on the United Nations standby partnership

地震科学进展, 2021
This paper introduces the United Nations standby partnership （SBP），focuses on the SPB’s launch condition and selection mechanism of the United Nations World Health Organization，analysis the United Nations SPB operation mechanism，which contains the daily ...
Na Gao, Wei Gao, Baokun Ning, Minhao Qu
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Performance of existing and novel surveillance case definitions for COVID-19 in household contacts of PCR-confirmed COVID-19

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Optimized symptom-based COVID-19 case definitions that guide public health surveillance and individual patient management in the community may assist pandemic control. Methods We assessed diagnostic performance of existing cases definitions (e.
Hannah E. Reses, Mark Fajans, Scott H. Lee, Charles M. Heilig, Victoria T. Chu, Natalie J. Thornburg, Kim Christensen, Sanjib Bhattacharyya, Alicia Fry, Aron J. Hall, Jacqueline E. Tate, Hannah L. Kirking, Scott A. Nabity, The U.S. COVID-19 Household Investigation Team   +13 more
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An outdoor hotel quarantine facility model in Australia: best practice with optimal outcomes

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2022
Objective: To describe the operationalisation of a novel outdoor quarantine facility managed by the Australian Medical Assistance Team, the Howard Springs International Quarantine Facility (HSIQF) at the Centre for National Resilience in the Northern ...
Stephanie J. Curtis, Abigail Trewin, Kathleen McDermott, Karen Were, Tracy Walczynski, Len Notaras, Nick Walsh   +6 more
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Prevalence of risk behaviors and correlates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity among in-school contacts of confirmed cases in a Georgia school district in the pre-vaccine era, December 2020–January 2021

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background There is a continuing risk for COVID-19 transmission in school settings while transmission is ongoing in the community, particularly among unvaccinated populations. To ensure that schools continue to operate safely and to inform implementation
Marisa Hast, Megan Swanson, Colleen Scott, Emeka Oraka, Catherine Espinosa, Eleanor Burnett, Esther A. Kukielka, Marion E. Rice, Lemlem Mehari, Jazmyn McCloud, Danielle Miller, Rachel Franklin, Jacqueline E. Tate, Hannah L. Kirking, Elana Morris   +14 more
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Taking Responsibility for Responsibility [PDF]

Public Health Ethics, 2019
AbstractGovernments, physicians, media and academics have all called for individuals to bear responsibility for their own health. In this article, I argue that requiring those with adverse health outcomes to bear responsibility for these outcomes is a bad basis for policy.
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COVID-19 case management strategies: what are the options for Africa?

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2021
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has put a strain on health systems globally. Although Africa is the least affected region to date, it has the weakest health systems and an exponential rise in cases as has been observed in other ...
Joy Luba Lomole Waya, David Ameh, Joseph Lou K. Mogga, Joseph F. Wamala, Olushayo Oluseun Olu   +4 more
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Moving from rhetoric to action: how Africa can use scientific evidence to halt the COVID-19 pandemic

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020
The ongoing pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 has spread rapidly to all countries of the world. Africa is particularly predisposed to an escalation of the pandemic and its negative impact given its weak economy and health systems.
Olushayo Oluseun Olu, Joy Luba Lomole Waya, Sylvester Maleghemi, John Rumunu, David Ameh, Joseph Francis Wamala   +5 more
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CD83 expression characterizes precursor exhausted T cell population

Communications Biology, 2023
CD83, a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, is a novel marker to discriminate precursor exhausted T cells from terminally exhausted and bystander tumor-infiltrating T-lymphocytes.
Zhiwen Wu, Toshiaki Yoshikawa, Satoshi Inoue, Yusuke Ito, Hitomi Kasuya, Takahiro Nakashima, Haosong Zhang, Saki Kotaka, Waki Hosoda, Shiro Suzuki, Yuki Kagoya   +10 more
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Evaluation of self-administered antigen testing in a college setting

Virology Journal, 2022
Background The objective of our investigation was to better understand barriers to implementation of self-administered antigen screening testing for SARS-CoV-2 at institutions of higher education (IHE).
Sarah C. Tinker, Jessica L. Prince-Guerra, Kelly Vermandere, Jenna Gettings, Cherie Drenzik, Gary Voccio, Tonia Parrott, Jan Drobeniuc, Tonya Hayden, Stephen Briggs, Debbie Heida, Natalie Thornburg, Lisa C. Barrios, John C. Neatherlin, Sabrina Madni, Catherine N. Rasberry, Kenneth D. Swanson, Azaibi Tamin, Jennifer L. Harcourt, Sandra Lester, Lydia Atherton, Margaret A. Honein   +21 more
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