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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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Acute deterioration in kidney function often occurs in patients with acute and chronic liver disease admitted to hospital. The true incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) is unknown due to the difficulty in accurately measuring kidney function in patients with liver failure, and the lack of a consen...
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PMID: 20427970
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The majority of men arrived from home or work and had not consumed alcohol or drugs in the 4 h before the visit. The visit lasted 201 min on average and time spent in particular sites or activities within venues varied somewhat with respect to the demographic and behavioural characteristics of the m...
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PMID: 20465984
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With the likelihood of risky sexual practices varying according to background, results from this study should be used to guide interventions aiming to promote safer sex in SOPVs....
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PMID: 20465985
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Since March 2010 a measles outbreak has been occurred in Genoa, Liguria, an administrative Region in Northern Italy. Epidemiological and molecular data on the outbreak, obtained from the passive mandatory notification system, the laboratory surveillance and an innovative syndrome surveillance system...
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PMID: 21155408
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We investigated whether these control measures have decreased the public expenditure associated with epidemics of LPAI and HPAI by comparing the direct and consequential losses of the 1999 epidemic to the losses associated with successive epidemics. The estimated total economic burden of the epidemi...
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PMID: 20460656
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As described elsewhere in this supplement, development of effective methods for prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has proven to be more challenging than development of effective treatment for the disease. New strategies to control the HIV epidemic are urgently needed; this u...
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PMID: 20397937
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