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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedThe European Commission proposes to expand the zones under surveillance in Italy following the detection of three cases of highly pathogenic H7N7 avian influenza in this country. It adopted, on 27 August, an...
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From:Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Sim. Tin, Viroj. Wiwanitkit Dear Sir, Bovine brucellosis is an important infection that can be a public health threat. It is an important concern in tropical animal health and production. Prevention is a...
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From:Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Vol. 66, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedByline: Shachi. Desai, Purvi. Bhagat, Dipali. Parmar Occurrence of postoperative cluster endophthalmitis is a nightmare for the operating surgeon, the involved hospital, and the patients. Due to its multifactorial...
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From:Weekly Epidemiological Record (Vol. 93, Issue 32)In order to monitor the progress accomplished towards dracunculiasis eradication, district-wise surveillance indicators, a line list of cases and a line list of villages with cases are sent to WHO by the national...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 18, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedTo compare the timeliness of nongovernmental and governmental communications of infectious disease outbreaks and evaluate trends for each over time, we investigated the time elapsed from the beginning of an outbreak to...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 18, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAvian influenza viruses (H5N1) of clades 2.3.4.1, 2.3.4.2, and 2.3.2.1 were introduced into Laos in 20092010. To investigate these viruses, we conducted active surveillance of poultry during March 2010. We detected...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIdentifying patients with rare diseases associated with common symptoms is challenging. Hunter syndrome, or Mucopolysaccharidosis type II is a progressive rare disease caused by a deficiency in the activity of the...
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From:Nature (Vol. 573, Issue 7772) Peer-ReviewedThree years after Sri Lanka was declared free of the deadly disease, complacency is a big risk, warns Kamini Mendis. Three years after Sri Lanka was declared free of the deadly disease, complacency is a big risk, warns...
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From:Journal of Parasitology Research (Vol. 2019) Peer-ReviewedClinical cases of Moroccan residents have been recorded since 2004, indicating successful interruption of transmission of S. haematobium infection at national level. The first national survey initiated in 2009 for...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedHIV still constitutes a major public health problem in Africa, where the highest incidence and prevalence of the disease can be found in many rural areas, with multiple indigenous languages being used for communication...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 97, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective To assess the performance of an early warning, alert and response system (EWARS) developed by the World Health Organization (WHO)--EWARS in a Box--that was used to detect and control disease outbreaks after...
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From:Gut Pathogens (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Thermophilic Campylobacter species are a major cause of bacterial foodborne diarrhoea in humans worldwide. Poultry and their products are the predominant source for human campylobacteriosis. Resistance of...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedStructural and individual level factors in prisons create challenges towards detection and management of HIV/tuberculosis. WHO and India's HIV/tuberculosis control programs recommend intensified case finding in prisons....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Viruses are the most frequent cause of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) in children. It is currently unknown whether presence of a virus, the number of viruses, or type of virus, are associated with...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Seroprevalence surveys of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) antibodies are promising for estimating age-specific CT cumulative incidence, however accurate estimates require improved understanding of antibody...
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From:Applied Clinical Trials (Vol. 20, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedSome leading pharmaceutical companies are beginning to question the very fundamentals of how the industry conducts pharmacovigilance and are looking to cloud computing and utilizing a common hosted platform of...
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From:Review of Optometry (Vol. 151, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedNearly one million clinical visits for keratitis occur annually in the United States, according to a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC experts...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThere is international interest in monitoring severe events in the obstetrical population, commonly referred to as maternal near miss or severe maternal morbidity. These events can have significant consequences for...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedMeasles is a highly transmissible disease and is one of the leading causes of death among young children under 5 globally. While the use of ongoing surveillance data and-recently-dynamic models offer insight on measles...
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From:Canadian Journal of Public Health (Vol. 103, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective: Several surveillance definitions of influenza-like illness (ILI) have been proposed, based on the presence of symptoms. Symptom data can be obtained from patients, medical records, or both. Past research has...