Surveillance strategies for Classical Swine Fever in wild boar – a comprehensive evaluation study to ensure powerful surveillance [PDF]
, 2017 Surveillance of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) should not only focus on livestock, but must also include wild boar. To prevent disease transmission into commercial pig herds, it is therefore vital to have knowledge about the disease status in wild boar.
A Catley +28 more
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Surveillance in Hogwarts: Dumbledore's balancing act between managerialism and anarchism [PDF]
, 2017 This article considers the fictional depiction of surveillance in Harry Potter, and compares the two different models of school leadership represented by Dolores Umbridge and Albus Dumbledore.
Chan, Aaron Yu Kwan
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Whole genome characterization of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W isolates, circulating in Moscow
Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2017 Introduction. The invasive meningococcal disease (meningitis and/or septicemia) is actual problem of public health in Russia. Neisseria meningitidis isolates are classified into serogroups, PorA/FetA VRs, sequence types and clonal complexes.
K. O. Mironov +2 more
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‘Next-Generation’ surveillance: an epidemiologists’ perspective on the use of molecular information in food safety and animal health decision-making [PDF]
, 2015 Advances in the availability and affordability of molecular and genomic data are transforming human health care. Surveillance aimed at supporting and improving food safety and animal health is likely to undergo a similar transformation.
Dufour, S. +3 more
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SurF: an innovative framework in biosecurity and animal health surveillance evaluation [PDF]
, 2018 Surveillance for biosecurity hazards is being conducted by the New Zealand Competent Authority, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to support New Zealand's biosecurity system.
Bingham, P +9 more
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Economics of zoonoses surveillance in a ‘One Health’ context: an assessment of Campylobacter surveillance in Switzerland [PDF]
, 2017 Cross-sectorial surveillance and general collaboration between the animal and the public health sectors are increasingly recognized as needed to better manage the impacts of zoonoses.
Häsler +8 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background The aim of this study was to determine the proportions and predictors of late presentation (LP) and advanced HIV disease (AD) in Oman. LP and AD were defined as presenting with a baseline CD4 count of
Ali Elgalib +8 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 Intro: As a nouveau approach for active surveillance of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in Cameroon, community-based surveillance (CBS) of AFP has been implemented in security challenged settings in Far North Region of Cameroon since 2015.
N. Nkem +14 more
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Alpha-fetoprotein detection of hepatocellular carcinoma leads to a standardized analysis of dynamic AFP to improve screening based detection [PDF]
, 2016 Detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) through screening can improve outcomes. However, HCC surveillance remains costly, cumbersome and suboptimal. We tested whether and how serum Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP) should be used in HCC surveillance.
Ahn, Sang Hoon +11 more
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