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Bertiella studeri Infection in Children, Sri Lanka

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
We provide a detailed molecular and phylogenetic description of Bertiella studeri tapeworms infecting children in Sri Lanka. Our findings can be used to identify multiple species of Bertiella tapeworms that can infect human hosts in the Old World.
Anjalie Amarasinghe, Thanh H. Le, Susiji Wickramasinghe   +2 more
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COVID-19 as a zoonotic infection

Инфекция и иммунитет, 2021
Here we discuss the issues for attributing the new coronavirus infection COVID-19 to zoonoses based on the data on probable origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the possible formation of its reservoir in animals (bats) as well as human susceptibility.
A. N. Kulichenko, O. V. Maletskaya, N. S. Sarkisyan, A. S. Volynkina   +3 more
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SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses associate with sex, age and disease severity in previously uninfected people admitted to hospital with COVID-19: An ISARIC4C prospective study

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic enables the analysis of immune responses induced against a novel coronavirus infecting immunologically naïve individuals. This provides an opportunity for analysis of immune responses and associations with age, sex and disease ...
Eleanor Parker, Jordan Thomas, Kelly J. Roper, Samreen Ijaz, Tansy Edwards, Federica Marchesin, Ksenia Katsanovskaja, Lauren Lett, Christopher Jones, Hayley E. Hardwick, Chris Davis, Elen Vink, Sarah E. McDonald, Shona C. Moore, Steve Dicks, Steve Dicks, Keerthana Jegatheesan, Keerthana Jegatheesan, Nicola J. Cook, Joshua Hope, Peter Cherepanov, Myra O. McClure, J. Kenneth Baillie, Peter J. M. Openshaw, Lance Turtle, Antonia Ho, Malcolm G. Semple, William A. Paxton, Richard S. Tedder, Georgios Pollakis, ISARIC4C Investigators   +30 more
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Development and validation of a protocol to identify and recruit participants into a large scale study on liver fluke in cattle

BMC Veterinary Research, 2018
Background Liver fluke infection caused by the parasite Fasciola hepatica is a major cause of production losses to the cattle industry in the UK. To investigate farm-level risk factors for fluke infection, a randomised method to recruit an appropriate ...
Catherine M. McCann, Helen E. Clough, Matthew Baylis, Diana J. L. Williams   +3 more
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The fate and management of sick and dying cattle – Consequences on small-scale dairy farmers of peri-urban areas in India

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2020
Background: The livestock plays an important role in the economy of farmers. The mismanagement of sick and dying cattle leads to an increase in sanitation cost of municipalities, incidences of diseases by exposed carcasses, and hence more expenditure on ...
Shruti Pahwa, Sumant Swain
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Xenotransplantation and risks of zoonotic infections

Annals of Medicine, 2004
The shortage of human organs and tissues for transplantation and the advances in immunology of rejection and in genetic engineering have renewed interest in xenotransplantation--the transplantation of animal organs, tissues or cells to humans. Clinical trials have involved the use of non-human primate, porcine, and bovine cells/tissues/organs.
Roumiana S, Boneva, Thomas M, Folks
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English hospital episode data analysis (1998–2018) reveal that the rise in dog bite hospital admissions is driven by adult cases

Scientific Reports, 2021
Dog bites are a global health issue that can lead to severe health outcomes. This study aims to describe the incidence and sociodemographics of patients admitted to English National Health Service (NHS) hospitals for dog bites (1998–2018), and to ...
John S. P. Tulloch, Sara C. Owczarczak-Garstecka, Kate M. Fleming, Roberto Vivancos, Carri Westgarth   +4 more
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Trends and risk factors for death and excess all-cause mortality among notified tuberculosis patients in the UK: an analysis of surveillance data

ERJ Open Research, 2019
Introduction In the UK, several hundred patients notified with tuberculosis (TB) die every year. The aim of this article is to describe trends in deaths among notified TB patients, explore risk factors associated with death and compare all-cause ...
Debora Pedrazzoli, Katharina Kranzer, H. Lucy Thomas, Maeve K. Lalor   +3 more
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Wildlife as Source of Zoonotic Infections

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
Hilde Kruse, Anne-Mette Kirkemo, Kjell Handeland   +2 more
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Utilising accessible and reproducible neurological assessments in clinical studies: Insights from use of the Neurological Impairment Scale in the multi-centre COVID-CNS study

Clinical Medicine
Reproducible and standardised neurological assessment scales are important in quantifying research outcomes. These scales are often performed by non-neurologists and/or non-clinicians and must be robust, quantifiable, reproducible and comparable to a ...
Ali M. Alam, Glynn W. Webb, Ceryce Collie, Sashini Mariathasan, Yun Huang, Orla Hilton, Rajish Shil, Katherine C. Dodd, James B. Lilleker, Craig J. Smith, Ava Easton, Arina Tamborska, Rhys H. Thomas, Nicholas W.S. Davies, Thomas M. Jenkins, Michael Zandi, Laura Benjamin, Mark A. Ellul, Tom Solomon, Thomas A. Pollak, Tim Nicholson, Gerome Breen, Daniel J. van Wamelen, Nicholas W. Wood, Benedict D. Michael   +24 more
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