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: Acceptance rates of seasonal influenza vaccine among elderly were low, and a significant proportion did not receive the 2009 H1N1 vaccine because it was unclear that they should receive it. Unambiguous education of patients and physicians is needed to achieve high rates of influenza vaccination amo...
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PMID: 21537156
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The Ministry of Health (MOH) publishes clinical practice guidelines on Chronic Hepatitis B Infection to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based guidance on managing important medical conditions. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations...
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PMID: 21552794
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We consider control of reaction and population systems by imposing transitions between states with different numbers of particles or individuals. The transitions take place at predetermined instants of time. Even where they are significantly less frequent than spontaneous transitions, they can expon...
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PMID: 21517535
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Measles is regarded as a disease that can be eliminated by vaccination; however, disease epidemics still occur in Wuhan, China. This study explored the effect of measles control programmes on the periodic structure of disease epidemics in Wuhan. The monthly reported measles incidence from 1953 to 20...
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PMID: 20478086
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Recombinant monoclonal antibodies (mAB) are a new class of medicinal preparations with the potential for wide application to the treatment of viral infections. Marked progress in the development of therapeutic mAB against respiratory syncytial influenza A viruses, West Nile virus, and some others has...
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PMID: 21786598
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Injecting drug users (IDUs) experience numerous health problems, but report barriers to utilising general practitioners (GPs). A nurse-led Harm Minimisation-based Primary Healthcare (HMPH) service for IDUs was established within a needle and syringe program in inner-city Sydney with Area Health Servi...
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PMID: 21616018
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To use evidence-based principles to develop infection control algorithms to ensure the protection of healthcare workers and the continuity of health service provision during a pandemic.
: Evidence-based algorithms were developed from published research as well as "needs and values" assessments. Rese...
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PMID: 21037474
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To develop a questionnaire for self-assessment of biosecurity practices at equine boarding facilities and to evaluate infectious disease control practices in these facilities in Colorado.
Cross-sectional study.
64 equine boarding facilities in Colorado.
Survey questions were rated according to impor...
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PMID: 21073388
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In July 2003, the authors investigated an outbreak of Shigella sonnei infections in Marion County, Oregon. Nineteen confirmed and 37 presumptive cases, mostly young children, were identified. A case-control study implicated play in an interactive fountain in a city park (matched odds ratio undefined...
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PMID: 21133311
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This article addresses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for 2010-2011 seasonal influenza vaccination campaigns, identifies lessons learned, outlines new recommendations for preventing and controlling influenza this year, and encourages implementing flu vaccine clinics i...
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PMID: 21053794
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We review recent efforts to incorporate human behaviour into disease models, and propose that such models can be broadly classified according to the type and source of information which individuals are assumed to base their behaviour on, and according to the assumed effects of such behaviour. We hig...
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PMID: 20504800
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We examine whether four strategies that were largely successful in other countries (aggressive active case detection, improved anti-relapse therapy for P. vivax infections, distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets, and selective house spraying with residual insecticides) are likely to work in Br...
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PMID: 21045365
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New ARV enrolments increased annually to 25% of the estimated need by the end of 2007. Average waiting times to enrolment decreased from 5.82 months to 3.24 months. Median CD4 counts at enrolment increased from 89 to 124 cells/mm3. There is a staff vacancy rate of 38% in the ARV programme and an ina...
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PMID: 20822648
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Our results show an association between risk-taking attitudes and youth travel behavior. However, adult supervision during travel and parental directives prior to travel should be taken into consideration. Communication messages should emphasize the importance of pretravel advice, target parents of...
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PMID: 20920052
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Prior to 2009, influenza pandemic planners had primarily planned for a virus that would originate in a location other than North America, giving public health officials in the United States time to determine its severity before widespread disease occurred here. Thus, response plans for schools focus...
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PMID: 20957924
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Currently there have reported pandemic (H1N1) 2009 over 200 countries and areas globally with more than 16,813 victims according to World Health Organization. Demographic characterization of those cases seemed to be consistent around the world that is higher incidence among school age children and h...
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PMID: 20845735
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Humans experienced various disease pandemics in the history of the world. Disease can spread over the world more rapidly and in larger scale than in any other time in the past as the world is getting smaller. The World Health Organization established its innovative event-based surveillance system in...
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PMID: 20845758
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The efforts made by the government of Japan and its people to prevent and control the spread of the disease and to limit its health impact had three major characteristics: (1) Suspension of schools in wide geographical areas particularly at the early stage of the outbreak. (2) High proportion of the...
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PMID: 20845734
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We describe those lessons learnt as well as steps to be taken in the future....
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PMID: 20845751
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We also mentioned the treatment guidelines of IDSA, WHO and the Japanese association for infectious diseases....
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PMID: 20845740
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Biological weapons are weapons of mass destruction that use pathogens (bacteria, viruses) or the toxins produced by them to target living organisms or to contaminate non-living substances. In the past, biological warfare has been repeatedly used. Anthrax, plague and smallpox are regarded as the most...
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PMID: 20717866
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Infective dermatitis (ID) is a chronic, relapsing dermatitis associated with human T-lymphotrophic virus (HTLV)-1 which was initially described in Jamaican children. Although most cases have been reported in Jamaica, ID may be seen in other HTLV-1 endemic areas, such as Brazil, Japan, sub-Saharan Af...
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PMID: 20691499
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The study of the fitness for military service in the Republic of Bashkortostan according to the medical examination results has shown that the common morbidity in draft-age adolescents increased in four times. More significant risk factors determining the growth of chronic non-infectious diseases in...
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PMID: 21089432
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Sedigheh Zakeri,
Qutbuddin Kakar,
Faezeh Ghasemi,
Ahmad Raeisi,
Waqar Butt,
Najibullah Safi,
Mandana Afsharpad,
Muhammad Suleiman Memon,
Saber Gholizadeh,
Masoud Salehi,
Hoda Atta,
Ghasem Zamani and
Navid Dinparast Djadid
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Species identification and information on transmission pattern of malaria parasite in any malaria endemic area is key to success for a malaria control programme. In this investigation, malaria diagnosis using molecular method was used to assess the transmission pattern of malaria parasite in three m...
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PMID: 20693586
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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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We produce food and the ways consumers perceive agriculture have changed, bringing new challenges and new opportunities for human, animal, and environmental well-being. Issues that increasingly confront food producers today are about assuring the quality, safety, and security of the food products th...
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PMID: 20665312
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We explore inappropriate antimicrobial use in this part of the world and suggest possible solutions to mitigate the problem....
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PMID: 20586562
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Provincial broiler-chicken marketing boards in Canada have recently implemented an on-farm food safety program called Safe, Safer, Safest. The purpose of this study was to measure broiler chicken producers' attitudes toward the program and food safety topics and use of highly recommended good produc...
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PMID: 20615340
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The increasing use of corticosteroids, immune modulators, and biologics as a mainstay of therapy in certain Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients have placed these inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients at increased risk for a variety of infections, many of which are preventable by prior...
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PMID: 20104218
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Newborn infants, particularly those born prematurely are at increased risk of infections, including vaccine preventable ones, resulting in an increased morbidity and mortality risk. Defects associated with higher mortality may involve external barriers and the innate and adaptive sys...
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PMID: 20519937
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