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Evaluation of the impact of shigellosis exclusion policies in childcare settings upon detection of a shigellosis outbreak

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background In the event of a shigellosis outbreak in a childcare setting, exclusion policies are typically applied to afflicted children to limit shigellosis transmission. However, there is scarce evidence of their impact.
Cristina Carias, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Jacqueline Hurd, Emily B. Kahn, Martin I. Meltzer, Anna Bowen   +5 more
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Comparison Of Bacillus anthracis Prepared Used Antigens As ‎Diagnostic kit Of Anthrax In Laboratoy Animals.‎

The Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2007
   This study was concerned on the preparation of several antigens on different types of culture media like brain heart infusion, tryptic soy agar and broth.
Al- Jebouri A.J. ‎, Al- Khatib G.M.‎   +1 more
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Potential for broad-scale transmission of Ebola virus disease during the West Africa crisis: lessons for the Global Health security agenda

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2017
Background The 2014–2016 Ebola crisis in West Africa had approximately eight times as many reported deaths as the sum of all previous Ebola outbreaks.
Eduardo A. Undurraga, Cristina Carias, Martin I. Meltzer, Emily B. Kahn   +3 more
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Vaccination and risk of lone atrial fibrillation in the active component United States military

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019
Purpose: To evaluate the hypothesis that receipt of anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) increases the risk of atrial fibrillation in the absence of identifiable underlying risk factors or structural heart disease (lone atrial fibrillation).
Michael M. McNeil, Susan K. Duderstadt, Jennifer F. Sabatier, Gina G. Ma, Jonathan Duffy   +4 more
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Aetiological, seasonal and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of diarrhoeal diseases in Bhutan (2016–2022): a retrospective study of surveillance data

BMJ Open
Objectives This study aimed to identify the aetiological spectrum, seasonal distribution and antimicrobial resistance patterns of diarrhoeal diseases in Bhutan.Study design and setting The study used a cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of secondary
Sangay Dorji, Kinley Gyem, Sonam Pelden, Dorji Tshering, Kinley Penjor, Rinzin Wangchuk, Jigme Tenzin, Birdi Lal Phuyel   +7 more
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Patterns of genomic deletions in monkeypox virus during the 2022 outbreak in the United States

Nature Communications
Poxviruses have a low overall rate of point mutations but are known to exhibit genomic duplications and deletions that can influence viral evolution.
Crystal M. Gigante, Daisy McGrath, Sophia Sukkestad, Hui Zhao, Mengfei Peng, Jade Takakuwa, Kimberly Wilkins, Vaughn Wicker, Audrey Matheny, Theodora Khan, Whitni B. Davidson, Mili Sheth, Alex Burgin, Julie Hand, Gillian Richardson, Danielle Haydel, Mark Burroughs, Jasmine Padilla, Justin S. Lee, Dhwani Batra, Ethan E. Hetrick, Dakota T. Howard, Kyle O’Connell, Jessica L. Rowell, Shatavia Morrison, Sarah Gillani, Michelle Lee, Anil Mangla, David Blythe, Robert Myers, Lynsey Kovar, Matthew H. Seabolt, Michael R. Weigand, Panayampalli S. Satheshkumar, Andrea M. McCollum, Christina L. Hutson, Yu Li   +36 more
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Risk of Nipah virus transmission through date palm sap trade in Bangladesh: a qualitative ethnographic study

One Health Outlook
Background Nipah virus is an emerging zoonotic pathogen with pandemic potential, primarily transmitted through the consumption of raw date palm sap contaminated with bat excretions.
A. K. M. Dawlat Khan, Ariful Islam, Sarah Munro, Pronesh Dutta, Md. Arif Khan, Monjurul Islam, Nabila Nujhat Chowdhury, Sharmin Sultana, Maryska Kaczmarek, Shusmita Dutta Choudhury, Tahmina Shirin, Jonathan H. Epstein   +11 more
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Resources needed for US CDC’s support to the response to post-epidemic clusters of Ebola in West Africa, 2016

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2018
Background West African countries Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea experienced the largest and longest epidemic of Ebola virus disease from 2014 to 2016; after the epidemic was declared to be over, Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone still experienced ...
Cristina Carias, Bishwa B. Adhikari, Fatima Ravat, Martin I. Meltzer, Barbara J. Marston   +4 more
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Performance of the Trioplex real-time RT-PCR assay for detection of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses

Nature Communications, 2018
The Trioplex real-time RT-PCR assay was developed for detection of Zika virus infections in areas with dengue and chikungunya transmission. Here, Santiago et al.
Gilberto A. Santiago, Jesús Vázquez, Sean Courtney, Katia Y. Matías, Lauren E. Andersen, Candimar Colón, Angela E. Butler, Rebecca Roulo, John Bowzard, Julie M. Villanueva, Jorge L. Muñoz-Jordan   +10 more
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Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in Thailand, 2016–2018

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2021
Background Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) is a global threat. Enterobacterales develops carbapenem resistance through several mechanisms, including the production of carbapenemases.
Wantana Paveenkittiporn, Meghan Lyman, Caitlin Biedron, Nora Chea, Charatdao Bunthi, Amy Kolwaite, Noppavan Janejai   +6 more
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