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Animal sentinel surveillance: evaluating domestic dogs as sentinels for zoonotic pathogen surveillance

, 2010
The capacity of zoonotic pathogens to infect multiple hosts creates surveillance challenges but also provides opportunities to gather data from animal species that can be used to understand risks to human health. This thesis presents a conceptual and practical assessment of the utility of domestic dog serosurveillance for the detection and surveillance
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Sentinel surveillance of influenza in Europe 1997-1998

Eurosurveillance, 1998
The circulation of influenza virus is associated with increased consultation rates with general practitioners (GPs), increased hospital admissions, and excess deaths and has to be considered in health care planning.
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Tale of Two Centres—Exploring Bedside Challenges to Implementing a Clinical Quality Registry for Abdominal Wall Hernias in Metropolitan Australia

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background In an effort to improve hernia care and mesh product surveillance, the Australia and New Zealand Hernia Society (ANZ Hernia) has been setting up a prototype binational learning healthcare system virtual clinical quality registry (CQR) for clinical use.
Edward Young, Doug Fenton‐Lee, Julian Süsstrunk, Jorgen Ferguson, Matthew Amprayil, Yijie Yin, Rabieh Abu Assi, Alex Karatassas, Sanjeev Khurana, Chrys Hensman, Andrew Tse, Hamish Urquhart, Reginald V. N. Lord, Jean Wong, Darren Tonkin, Markus Trochsler, Guy J. Maddern   +16 more
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Improving influenza surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012
PROBLEM: Little is known about the burden of influenza in sub-Saharan Africa. Routine influenza surveillance is key to getting a better understanding of the impact of acute respiratory infections on sub-Saharan African populations.
C Steffen, F Debellut, BD Gessner, FC Kasolo, AA Yahaya, N Ayebazibwe, O Bassong, Y Cardoso, S Kebede, S Manoncourt, KA Vandemaele, AW Mounts   +11 more
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The potential demand for and strategic use of an HIV-1 vaccine in Southern India [PDF]

Even a modestly effective HIV-1 vaccine would be highly useful in India and could avoid millions of deaths. How should such a vaccine be introduced? Based on evidence of adoption of other vaccines in India, current levels of spending on them and coverage
Jha, Prabhat, Seshadri, Shreelata Rao, Subramaniyam, P.   +2 more
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Infectious intestinal disease : do we know it all? [PDF]

, 2006
Infectious intestinal disease (IID), with associated high morbidity and considerable mortality worldwide, causes a wide spectrum of illness. This ranges from mild discomfort to illness with severe complications.
Gauci, Charmaine, Gilles, Herbert M., Mamo, Julian, O’Brien, Sarah J.   +3 more
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Emergence of Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, Nannizziopsis barbatae and Paranannizziopsis in free‐ranging Australian reptiles

Australian Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
Emerging fungal diseases pose a threat to reptiles globally. Increasing detections of onygenalean fungi, particularly Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, Nannizziopsis spp. and Paranannizziopsis spp. in clinically diseased free‐ranging reptiles, indicate likely ongoing spread within wild reptile populations.
RG Butcher, B Ng, TH Hyndman, JP Wesson, E Jones, M Williams, D Brown, E Kay, A Gillett, L Valenza, LF Grogan   +10 more
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The Australian Penile Cancer Clinical Registry: a comprehensive national approach to data collection

BJU International, EarlyView.
Background Penile cancer is a rare malignancy, with an Australian incidence of 0.6 in 100 000 men, with a wide range of clinical presentations, from localised, curable tumours to aggressive forms with high morbidity and mortality. Epidemiological data and management guidelines for penile cancer in Australia are limited.
Henry Y.C. Pan, David Homewood, Harrison Lucas, Brendan Dittmer, Jiasian Teh, Jonathan S. O'Brien, Jianliang Liu, Ben Tran, Justin Chee, James A. Churchill, Nathan Lawrentschuk, Niall M. Corcoran   +11 more
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RVF surveillance in Mayotte: Tracking an invisible disease from the society point of view [PDF]

, 2014
Rift Valley fever circulates in Mayotte's ruminants' population since 2004 but no symptomatic case among ruminants was officially declared. An active surveillance system has been implemented but couldn't link any seroconversion with an abortion event in ...
Cardinale, Eric, Cavalerie, Lisa, Cetre-Sossah, Catherine, Chauvet, Eva, Dommergues, Laure, Figuié, Muriel, Pannequin, Marion, Tillard, Emmanuel   +7 more
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Five Decades of Innovation—Tailored Breast Cancer Treatment: 1976–2026

World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Ipshita Prakash, Pooja Ramakant, Sandra Krishnan, Sharon W. W. Chan, Tadahiko Shien, Kavitha Daester, Michael Douek, Mee Hoong See, Jacqueline Jeruss, Cheng‐Har Yip, Ines Buccimazza   +10 more
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