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‘Had it not been for her’: Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788–1834
Gender &History, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This article explores the intersections between gender, disability and care labour in the slaveholding societies of the British Caribbean from 1788 to 1834. Considered economic burdens by slaveholders, aged and disabled bondswomen were made productive through caring for their enslaved peers, many of whom were themselves temporarily ...
Stefanie Hunt‐Kennedy
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The problem of the diagnosis of early congenital syphilis: a case report
Лечащий Врач, 2021 Congenital syphilis is still a public health concern, and syphilis can go unnoticed in pregnant women, even in developed countries with active antenatal care.
V. I. Surganova +4 more
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Neurosyphilis presenting with papillitis [PDF]
, 2017 Syphilis is one of the oldest described infectious diseases in the world and is caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum[1]. Although now a rare disease, incidence is increasing with the number of diagnoses of the disease rising in England ...
Cooper, Sarah +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 We describe coverage of maternal syphilis screening, syphilis positivity, coverage of treatment and their association with maternal HIV infection and antiretroviral treatment (ART) status among pregnant women attending South African antenatal clinics ...
Tendesayi Kufa +7 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the seronegative conversion status of syphilis patients after centralized management and to analyze potential determinants.Materials and Methods: A retrospective population-based cohort study was conducted,
Zhenzhou Luo +7 more
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AI-Based Decadal Predictive Analysis of Twenty Infectious Diseases in China with an Improved BSTS-MCMC Model [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This study embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the decadal trends and future trajectories of twenty distinct infectious diseases in China from 1998 to 2021. A refined Hybrid Bayesian Structural Time Series (BSTS)-Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) model is employed, intertwining with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks to dissect intricate ...
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George Higoumenakis (1895-1983): Greek dermatologist [PDF]
, 2009 This paper describes the Higoumenakis sign, enlargement of the sternal end of the clavicle in patients with late congenital syphilis and the dermatologist after whom it is named. Several professors and doctors from the Medical School of the University of
Frangos, CC, Frangos, CC
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Positive syphilis serology contributes to intracranial stenosis in ischemic stroke patients
Brain and Behavior, 2021 Background and Purpose The risk of ischemic stroke is increased among people living with syphilis infection; however, whether syphilis is an independently risk for stenosis is unclear.
Lei Xiang +5 more
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Adaptive Group Testing on Networks with Community Structure: The Stochastic Block Model [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Group testing was conceived during World War II to identify soldiers infected with syphilis using as few tests as possible, and it has attracted renewed interest during the COVID-19 pandemic. A long-standing assumption in the probabilistic variant of the group testing problem is that individuals are infected by the disease independently.
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A comparative analysis of costs of single and dual rapid HIV and syphilis diagnostics: results from a randomised controlled trial in Colombia. [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: HIV and congenital syphilis are major public health burdens contributing to substantial perinatal morbidity and mortality globally. Although studies have reported on the costs and cost-effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for ...
Angel-Muller, Edith +6 more
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