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Malaria Outbreak Investigation in Chipinge, Zimbabwe: A Case-control Study
... Staying within the radius of 3km from a river or dam or a perennial swamp was discovered to be significantly associated with contracting Malaria. Those that stayed within that zone had odds of 2.86 of contracting malaria ...
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Outbreak Investigation of Cholera in a Slum of Northern India
... Cholera is one of the oldest and best understood endemic diseases. An actual bacterial enteric disease, it is characterized in its severe form by sudden onset, profuse painless watery stools (rice- water stool), nausea ...
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Genomics and outbreak investigation: from sequence to consequence
... In conclusion, it is clear that WGS is already trans- forming the practice of outbreak investigation. However, the dizzyingly fast pace of change in this field, with steady improvements in high-throughput ...
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Reconstruction of the Genomes of Drug-Resistant Pathogens for Outbreak Investigation through Metagenomic Sequencing
... in outbreak inves- tigations are ...local outbreak and unexpectedly detected cocolonization with vanB ...local outbreak KPC ...an outbreak investigation for VRE, the importance of ...
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Measles outbreak investigation in Zaka, Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe, 2010
... measles outbreak investigation in Korea reveal the same finding that cases were high in unvaccinated and incompletely vaccinated children than those who were completely vaccinated ...
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Clinical relevance of and risk factors for HSV related tracheobronchitis or pneumonia: results of an outbreak investigation
... Our outbreak investigation aimed to determine the clinical relevance of and risk factors associated with HSV-related tracheobronchitis or pneumonia in critically ill patients, and to inv[r] ...
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An outbreak investigation of visceral leishmaniasis among residents of Dharan town, eastern Nepal, evidence for urban transmission of Leishmania donovani
... An outbreak investigation of visceral leishmaniasis among residents of Dharan town, eastern Nepal, evidence for urban transmission of Leishmania donovani Surendra Uranw1,2*, Epco Hasker2[r] ...
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Foodborne Illness Outbreak Investigation in a High-Profile Sports Club
... This outbreak highlights the importance of conside- ring food safety when organising mass catering for elite athletes, where the physical health of participants is ...
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Bubonic Plague Outbreak Investigation in the Endemic District of Tsiroanomandidy - Madagascar, October 2014 Rakotoarisoa A *1,2,3 , Ramihangihajason T 5, Ramarokoto C2 , Rahelinirina S 4, Halm A6 , Piola P 2, Ratsitorahina M 1,2 and Rajerison M 4
... The outbreak started on week 32 and finished on week 41, there were peaks in week 37, 39 and 41. Over an 11 week period, we identified 30 cases of bubonic plague of which 18 confirmed cases, 6 probable cases and 6 ...
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Measles outbreak investigation in Artuma Fursi Woreda, Oromia Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2018: a case control study
... Measles is one of immediately reportable disease in Ethiopia. On Wednesday morning, July 12/2018, one Suspected measles case was reported from Golbo Arba Kebele in Artuma Fursi Woreda. Within 2 h, three field ...
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Incubation period of typhoidal salmonellosis: a systematic review and meta analysis of outbreaks and experimental studies occurring over the last century
... Incubation period of typhoid fever, which is the time between exposure and onset of clinical symptoms, is one of the essential parameters to be studied. It is expected to be a distribution rather than a single estimate ...
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Workplace cluster of Bell’s palsy in Lima, Peru
... an investigation to confirm the existence of an outbreak, identify risk fac- tors, and explore possible infectious and environmental ...the outbreak investigation team included patient ...
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Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Modulates Behavioral and Brain Responses to Social Stress
... National Outbreak Reporting System ...an outbreak investigation was conducted ...foodborne outbreak investigation is crucial for attributing an illness to a food vehicle and for ...
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Epidemiological investigation of an outbreak of cutaneous sporotrichosis, Northern Territory, Australia
... Formal ethics committee approval was not required as this study was part of an outbreak investigation by the Centre for Disease Control, Darwin. However, verbal informed consent was obtained from all ...
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Validation and Implementation of Clinical Laboratory Improvements Act Compliant Whole Genome Sequencing in the Public Health Microbiology Laboratory
... ABSTRACT Public health microbiology laboratories (PHLs) are on the cusp of un- precedented improvements in pathogen identification, antibiotic resistance detec- tion, and outbreak investigation by using ...
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An acute gastroenteritis outbreak associated with person to person transmission in a primary school in Shanghai: first report of a GI 5 norovirus outbreak in China
... AGE outbreak occurred in a primary school in Shanghai, China. An outbreak investigation was undertaken, and fecal specimens, rectal swabs, and environmental swabs were ...this outbreak, ...
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The Effect of Professional Development on Middle School Teachers' Technology Integration: An Action Research Study
... disease outbreak investigations can potentially help to identify foods causing illness ...using outbreak investigation data collected by DHEC (Aim ...
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Recognition, Investigation, and Control of Communicable-Disease Outbreaks in Child Day-Care Settings
... Outbreak investigation and control is facilitated when public health departments have established specific day-care policies and protocols that address disease prevention and control dur[r] ...
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New approach to environmental investigation of an explosive legionnaires´ disease outbreak in Spain: early identification of potential risk sources by rapid Legionella spp immunosensing technique
... Fernando Cebrián is biologist from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, master ’ s degree in Health Management and Administration and a graduate diploma in Public Health from National School of Health, Carlos III ...
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Lessons learned from a textbook outbreak: EHEC-O157:H7 infections associated with the consumption of raw meat products, June 2012, Limburg, Belgium
... foodborne outbreak, involving 24 cases of which 5 developed HUS, in which the source could be traced back to a ...the outbreak and the start of the investigation. Detecting an outbreak as fast ...
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