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Veterinary Record (168)25 2011
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Melioidosis became a notifiable disease in Western Australia (WA) 2 years after the West Kimberley melioidosis outbreak. Two cases of melioidosis caused by the outbreak genotype of Burkholderia pseudomallei (National Collection of Type Cultures [NCTC] 13177) occurred in 1998 and 1999 in persons who v...
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PMID: 21633018
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Outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis occur regularly in residential care facilities (RCFs), with norovirus being the most common agent. Notification of outbreaks to public health authorities is encouraged in Australia, although there is limited evidence that this results in public heal...
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PMID: 22010509
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Public Health Reports (126)1 2011
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We detected hospitalized patients admitted from 2003 through 2005 with a discharge diagnosis associated with one of eight notifiable diseases. Initially, we compared all cases identified through IHD diagnoses fields with cases reported to CEDRS. Second, we chose four diseases and conducted medical r...
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PMID: 21337935
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Public Health Reports (126)1 2011
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While all states have regulations requiring reporting of diseases from healthcare professionals and facilities, underreporting is substantial. To improve reporting to the New York State (NYS) Occupational Lung Disease Registry (OLDR), the NYS Department of Health's Bureau of Occupati...
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PMID: 21337928
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Public Health Reports (126)1 2011
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To assess the number of epidemiologists and epidemiology capacity nationally, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists surveyed state health departments in 2004, 2006, and 2009. This article summarizes findings of the 2009 assessment and analyzes five-year (2004-2009) tre...
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PMID: 21337933
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Public Health Reports (126)1 2011
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We evaluated four key attributes of NYC's HIV incidence surveillance system-simplicity, data quality, timeliness, and acceptability--using CDC's guidelines for surveillance system evaluation. The evaluation revealed that the system could potentially provide HIV incidence estimates stratified by boro...
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PMID: 21337929
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Public Health Reports (126)1 2011
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Disease surveillance for hepatitis C in the United States is limited by the occult nature of many of these infections, the large volume of cases, and limited public health resources. Through a series of discrete processes, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health modified its su...
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PMID: 21337927
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Tijdschrift voor diergeneeskunde (135)24 2010
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (15)48 2010
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To identify procedures employed by publicly funded clinical diagnostic laboratories in the United Kingdom (UK) for the detection of Cryptosporidium in community cases of diarrhoea, a telephone survey was conducted between August 2008 and January 2009 of all such laboratories that test stools from co...
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PMID: 21144447
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (15)48 2010
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An outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae type 2 was detected in September 2009 in two hospitals in a suburb south of Paris, France. In total, 13 KPC-producing K. pneumoniae type 2 cases (four with infections and nine with digestive-tract colonisations)...
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PMID: 21144448
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Neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of bacterial meningitis and sepsis . The case-fatality rate for meningococcal disease is 10%--14%; survivors can experience brain damage, hearing loss, limb loss, and learning disabilities . On December 11, 2009, the California Department of Public Health (C...
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PMID: 21085089
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (15)46 2010
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We conducted a survey among 29 European countries (the European Union Member States, Iceland and Norway) to gather information on the spread of NDM-1-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Europe, on public health responses and on available national guidance on detection, surveillance and control. A total...
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PMID: 21144431
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects nearly 4 million persons and causes an estimated 12,000 deaths each year in the United States. For the 10-year period from 2010 to 2019, the direct medical cost of chronic HCV infection is projected to exceed $10.7 billion, the societal cost of premature mor...
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PMID: 21048562
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A review of sentinel laboratory performance: identification and notification of bioterrorism agents.
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The bioterrorism challenge program (LPS, LPX) provides important comparative data from more than 1300 sentinel laboratories that can be used by individual laboratories to evaluate their identification and LRN reporting performance....
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PMID: 20923306
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To analyze the spatial distribution of reported AIDS cases in adults and its association with living conditions in the city of Campinas, Southeastern Brazil.
Data on AIDS cases in men (n=2,945) and women (n=1,230) aged more than 13 years and living in Campinas, recorded in the SINAN (Brazilian Infor...
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PMID: 20835499
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Emerging Infectious Diseases (16)10 2010
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We compared isolates obtained in 1999 and 2005 and used data from the Queensland notification scheme to report the clinical relevance of these isolates. The incidence of notified cases of clinically significant pulmonary disease rose from 2.2 (1999) to 3.2 (2005) per 100,000 population. The pattern...
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PMID: 20875283
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (16)10 2010
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In 2001 a visceral leishmaniasis (VL) surveillance system was set up for children aged < or = 12 years in the primary health system in Meshkin-Shahr district of Ardebil province, north-western Islamic Republic of Iran. All cases with clinical signs and symptoms of VL and positive by the direct agglu...
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PMID: 21222421
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Epidemiology and Infection (138)10 2010
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The disease pyramid of under-ascertainment for surveillance of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) in New Zealand has been estimated using 2005-2007 data on notifiable diseases, a community telephone survey, and a survey of diagnostic laboratories. For each notified case of AGI there were an estima...
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PMID: 20196904
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Challenges exist in comparing foodborne disease outbreaks (FBDOs) across states due to important differences in reporting practices and investigations. Variables such as FBDO size, population size, number of tourists, and suspected etiology are important to consider when interpreting FBDO data. Anal...
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PMID: 20873527
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In 2008, 65 communicable diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 160,508 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, an increase of 9% on the number of notifications in 2007. In 20...
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PMID: 21090178
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The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System received 8,677 notifications of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes in Australia from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009. The alphaviruses, Barmah Forest and Ross River, accounted for 6,574 (78%) of these notifications during 2008-09. There were 1,009 not...
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PMID: 21090179
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The Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory (NPRL) is accredited by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the testing of faecal specimens from acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases and operates as a regional poliovirus reference laboratory for the Western Pacific Region. The NPRL, in col...
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PMID: 21090182
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Communicable disease monitoring and response activities must be based upon local public health surveillance systems, even during infectious disease emergence, natural disasters, and during bioterrorism events. The NSW Department of Health has developed an emergency department surveillance system int...
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PMID: 21090186
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Public health measures have been targeting potential exposure to Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) since the first recognised human cases, more than a decade ago. The effect of these measures on the epidemiology of notifications of potential exposure has not been investigated since 2003. Trends in no...
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PMID: 21090189
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While chlamydia testing and notification rates increased over the review period, the percentage of chlamydia tests performed remained low. There was a greater increase in testing rates among women than men, and the highest were among women aged 15-24. Chlamydia notification rates increased across al...
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PMID: 20690912
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We calculated incidence rates and hospital discharges during this period by geographical region. Incidence rate for the period was 2.2 per 100,000 inhabitants with higher rates in the regions of Coquimbo, La Araucania and Magallanes. The hospital discharge rate for the period was 6 per 100.000 inhab...
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PMID: 21046718
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We undertook a study to evaluate the effectiveness of the National Childhood Immunisation Programme (NCIP) over the past 26 years by reviewing the epidemiological trends of the diseases protected, the immunisation coverage and the changing herd immunity of the population during the period of 1982 to...
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PMID: 20697671
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (16)7 2010
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This article reports on a comparative study of the national notifiable infectious diseases surveillance systems currently employed in the United States of America, Australia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the aim ofdeveloping a modified system specific to the needs of the Iranian health syst...
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PMID: 20799535
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With the introduction of the new NTP policy, case notification of childhood TB increased from 189 (2004-2005) to 731 for the 2 years 2006-2007. The annual notification rate of childhood TB cases increased from 1.4 (2004-2005) to 5.2 per 100 000 population (2006-2007). Of the total 920 childhood TB c...
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PMID: 20550771
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Our findings indicate that employer training can improve reporting knowledge.
Copyright 2010 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved....
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PMID: 20031271
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Although the number of confirmed cases of spotted fever has been declining in Brazil since 2005, the mortality rate (20% to 30%) is still high in comparison to other countries. This high mortality rate is closely related to the difficulty in making the diagnosis and starting the correct treatment. O...
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PMID: 20721447
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To analyze the daily data of epidemic Mumps in a province from 2004 to 2008 and set up exponential smoothing model for the prediction.
To predict and warn the epidemic mumps in 2008 through calculating 7-day moving summation and removing the effect of weekends to the data of daily reported mumps cas...
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PMID: 20726265
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Campylobacter infection is a notifiable infectious disease in Victoria and with more than 6,000 cases notified annually, it is the second most commonly notified disease after chlamydia. The objectives of Campylobacter infection surveillance in Victoria are to monitor the epidemiology of Campylobacte...
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PMID: 20677420
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Surveillance of all human prion diseases in Australia has been the responsibility of the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry (ANCJDR) on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing since the Registry's inception in October 1993. The ANCJDR was established i...
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PMID: 20677418
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We collected data on all specimens tested for influenza (including H1N1) by polymerase chain reaction between May and August 2009 at Townsville Hospital. Patients requiring admission to hospital and a proportion of non-admitted patients had clinical characteristics recorded. Multi-variable logistic...
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PMID: 20677419
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Medical responsibility in the United Arab Emirates was formerly defined and governed according to Law 7 of 1975 for the practice of medical professions, which had been a part of civil law. The passing of Law 10 of 2008, namely the "Law on Medical Responsibility in UAE", enacted on 16th December 2008...
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PMID: 20382353
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In the TB database, 22.7% of all records belonged to patients with multiple records. When we excluded the first record of every patient in this group, 43.7% were classified as transfers, 29% as returns after default, 16.3% as relapses and 6.6% as true duplicates, while 2.9% were inconclusive and 1.5...
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PMID: 20392352
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Modern Healthcare (40)17 2010
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Veterinary Microbiology (142)1-2 2010
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The aim of this study was to identify limitations and incentives in reporting clinically suspect situations, possibly caused by classical swine fever (CSF), to veterinary authorities with the ultimate aim to facilitate early detection of CSF outbreaks. Focus group sessions were held with policy make...
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PMID: 19854004
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Critical Care Medicine (38)4 Suppl 2010
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We have an obligation to provide not only clinical care but also the research that guides initial and subsequent clinical responses during a pandemic. There are many challenges to conducting such research. The first is speed of response. However, given the near inevitability of certain events, for e...
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PMID: 20101176
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Public Health Reports (125 Suppl 3) 2010
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New York City approached the 1918 influenza epidemic by making use of its existing robust public health infrastructure. Health officials worked to prevent the spread of contagion by distancing healthy New Yorkers from those infected, increasing disease surveillance capacities, and mounting a large-s...
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PMID: 20568569
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Pacific health dialog : a publication of the Pacific Basin Officers Training Program and the Fiji School of Medicine (16)1 2010
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The objective in this manuscript is to describe the epidemiology of tuberculosis in 19 Pacific Island countries and territories by analysing routine surveillance data from 2000 to 2006. In addition, progress against World Health Organization targets is described. The setting is National Tuberculosis...
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PMID: 20968250
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Of the 446 cases evaluated, there was excellent agreement between the TB register and the TB treatment card, between the TB register and the quarterly reports and between the TB register and the laboratory register. Home interviews with 32 patients all confirmed the information contained in the trea...
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PMID: 20202301
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The National Tuberculosis Indicators Project (NTIP) is a secure, web-based monitoring system that uses routinely collected surveillance data on individual tuberculosis (TB) cases to measure the performance of state and local TB control programs, help programs to prioritize improvement efforts and fo...
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PMID: 20300056
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Avian Diseases (54)1 Suppl 2010
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Diagnosis and management of avian influenza outbreaks now include the use of validated real-time reverse transcription PCR (RRT-PCR) methods in many countries, including all member states of the European Union. Two outbreaks in poultry of notifiable avian influenza (H5 and H7 subtypes) that occurred...
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PMID: 20521700
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Avian Diseases (54)1 Suppl 2010
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This study was aimed at redesigning the Belgian active surveillance program for domestic birds in professional poultry holdings based on a risk analysis approach. A stochastic quantitative analysis, combining all data sources, was run to obtain sensitivity estimates for the detection of an infected...
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PMID: 20521701
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The 2008 influenza season was moderate overall, with fewer laboratory-confirmed cases and influenza-like illness (ILI) presentations than in 2007, which was the most severe influenza season since national reporting of influenza began in 2001. In 2008, the number of laboratory-confirmed notifications...
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PMID: 20521494
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This study aimed to investigate changes in the notification rate of malaria in refugees over a period of national policy change on pre-departure screening. Notifying clinicians were interviewed to complete a standardised enhanced surveillance form. A decline in refugee malaria notifications occurred...
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PMID: 20521497
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The completeness of the information was satisfactory. The clinical differences observed deserve attention from epidemiological surveillance agencies, which need to deal with the challenge of asymptomatic infection by Plasmodium....
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PMID: 20305969
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To examine the understanding of the reporting criteria of Hepatitis B (HB) and Hepatitis C (HC) of the medical staff in Yanbian Korean Minority autonomous prefecture and provide the advice for reporting HB and HC via network.
Questionnaires were distributed to doctors in 7 hospitals by the method of...
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PMID: 20450064
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Forty patients were under 10 years old. Seventeen (17/82) of 82 cases (20.7%) presented in the context of a family cluster. Ninety eight percent of cases (80/82) occurred among individuals living in rural areas and 66% during summer months). The overall fatality rate was 36.6%. Fever (93%), respirat...
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PMID: 20140316
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