Parasites & Vectors, 2022 Background Vector-borne diseases are a major burden to public health. Controlling mosquitoes is considered the most effective way to prevent vector-borne disease transmission.
André B. B. Wilke +5 more
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Developing a Primary Care EMR-based Frailty Definition using Machine Learning
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018 Introduction Frailty is a geriatric syndrome that is predictive of heightened vulnerability for disability, hospitalization, and mortality. Annually an estimated 250,000 frail Canadians die, and this estimate is expected to double in the next 40 years ...
Sylvia Aponte-Hao +7 more
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Evaluation of Methods for Sampling the Malaria Vector Anopheles darlingi (Diptera, Culicidae) in Suriname and the Relation With Its Biting Behavior [PDF]
, 2011 The effectiveness of CO2-baited and human-baited mosquito traps for the sampling of Anopheles darlingi Root was evaluated and compared with human landing collections in Suriname.
Andriessen, R. +4 more
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Tick related diseases in Switzerland, 2008 to 2011
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2012 QUESTION UNDER STUDY: To determine the incidence and determinants of tick related diseases in Switzerland, such as tick bites and Lyme borreliosis in primary care and tick borne encephalitis.
Ekkehardt Altpeter +5 more
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How pharmacoepidemiology networks can manage distributed analyses to improve replicability and transparency and minimize bias [PDF]
, 2020 Several pharmacoepidemiology networks have been developed over the past decade that use a distributed approach, implementing the same analysis at multiple data sites, to preserve privacy and minimize data sharing.
Brown, Jeffrey S. +5 more
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Optimizing sentinel surveillance in temporal network epidemiology [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 AbstractTo help health policy makers gain response time to mitigate infectious disease threats, it is essential to have an efficient epidemic surveillance. One common method of disease surveillance is to carefully select nodes (sentinels, or sensors) in the network to report outbreaks.
Yuan Bai +5 more
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Field trial for assessment of avian influenza vaccination effectiveness in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2008 The aim of this field study was to determine the efficacy of vaccination against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus strain H5N1 in Indonesia.
Bouma, A. +9 more
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Evaluation of the design of the influenza-like illness sentinel surveillance system in Brazil [PDF]
Cadernos de Saúde Pública: The influenza-like illness (ILI) sentinel surveillance operates in Brazil to identify respiratory viruses of public health relevance circulating in the country and was first implemented in 2000. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the importance
Laís Picinini Freitas +13 more
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The Sentiworld project: global mapping of sentinel surveillance networks in general practice
BMC Primary Care, 2022 Background Sentinel networks composed of general practitioners (GPs) represent a powerful tool for epidemiologic surveillance and ad-hoc studies. Globalization necesitates greater international cooperation among sentinel networks.
Andrew Meci +10 more
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Sentinel surveillance for travellers' diarrhoea in primary care [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2007 Abstract Background Travellers' diarrhoea is the most common health problem among international travellers and much of the burden falls on general practitioners. We assessed whether sentinel surveillance based in primary care could be used to monitor changes in the epidemiology of travellers' diarrhoea.
Sarvotham Tinnu S +4 more
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