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Veterinary Record (169)20 2011
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Veterinary Record (169)13 2011
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In 2003, the university-based Program on Work and Health in Central America, SALTRA, was launched to build national and regional capacities in occupational safety and health with the goal of preventing and reducing poverty in Central America. SALTRA has implemented 20 projects including action projec...
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PMID: 21905390
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This study evaluated telavancin activity against 3868 Staphylococcus aureus and 1003 coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) collected from 33 European hospitals (2009-2010). Studies of telavancin potency included analysis of strains with decreased susceptibility to glycopeptides. Telavancin (MIC(50/...
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PMID: 21851873
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Journal of Public Health (33)2 2011
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We analysed the trends in the epidemiology of TB in children in London aged 0-14 years between 1999 and 2006.
Data were extracted from the Enhanced TB Surveillance System.
Between 1999 and 2006, there were 1370 cases of TB in children. Incidence was higher in older ch...
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PMID: 20587642
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Veterinary Record (168)8 2011
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Occasionally, the efficacy of screening for cancer recurrence has been evaluated by means of case-control studies. However, these studies generally have not been designed and analyzed in a manner that will yield an unbiased result. The commentary shows that by adhering to the principles developed fo...
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PMID: 21130350
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Human encephalitis in Australia causes substantial mortality and morbidity, with frequent severe neurological sequelae and long-term cognitive impairment. This review discusses a number of highly pathogenic zoonotic viruses which have recently emerged in Australia, including Hendra virus and Australi...
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PMID: 21781616
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Zoonoses of public health significance may occur in wildlife, livestock or companion animals, and may be detected by the human or animal health sectors. Of particular public health interest are foodborne, arboviral and emerging zoonoses (known/unknown, endemic/exotic). A coordinated One Health approa...
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PMID: 21781617
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From the emergence of Hendra virus and Menangle virus in Australia to the global pandemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome and influenza viruses (both H5N1 and H1N1), there has been a surge of zoonotic virus outbreaks in the last two decades. Although the drivers for virus emergence remain poorl...
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PMID: 21781618
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To study prevalence, determinants, and complications at diagnosis of diabetes and intermediate hyperglycemia (IH) in Kisantu, a semirural town in Bas-Congo province, Democratic Republic of Congo.
A large-scale analytical cross-sectional population-based survey was performed in 2007 in Kisantu. After...
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PMID: 20705425
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Surveillance of multi drug resistant organisms in a health care setting is a necessity to have optimum treatment out come and less of treatment failures. Once any health care setting gets colonized with multi drug resistant organisms, it is very difficult to decontaminate the environment. On review o...
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PMID: 21563611
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Microbiological surveillance data is of crucial importance in appropriate management of patients with infectious diseases. The current study was conducted to study the microbiological surveillance data along with antibiotic sensitivity patterns for isolates collected at a single tertiary care center...
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PMID: 21563612
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In 2007, recommendations were proposed for the molecular typing of meningococci. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was recommended to guide national and international disease management, whilst facilitating studies of population biology and evolution. Sequencing of porA variable regi...
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PMID: 21123522
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Joint Commission perspectives. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (30)12 2010
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Continuous surveillance of acute diarrhea in France has been conducted by Inserm's sentinel network of general practitioners (GP) since 1991. Similar GP-based studies have been performed in the Netherlands, Austria and the UK. The causes of most cases of acute diarrhea are unclear. I...
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PMID: 22046706
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Zhonghua Yixue Zazhi (90)44 2010
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To learn the prevalence rate and distribution of bronchial asthma of Li nationality in Hainan by epidemiological survey so as to provide rationales for preventing and treating asthma.
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PMID: 21211339
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Trends in Parasitology (26)11 2010
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To provide feedback to guide injury prevention interventions and to test the feasibility of integrating injury surveillance into the existing primary healthcare service for children under 6 years of age.
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PMID: 21037265
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Lancet Infectious Diseases (10)11 2010
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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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Tijdschrift voor diergeneeskunde (135)19 2010
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Tijdschrift voor diergeneeskunde (135)19 2010
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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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The introduction of a rotavirus vaccine makes it important to determine the need for vaccination n a population. This study in Jordan in 2007-08 determined the incidence and clinical features of rotavirus gastroenteritis among children aged under 5 years admitted to hospital with diarrhoea. Of 148 c...
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PMID: 21222424
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Epidemiology and Infection (138)10 2010
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We constructed a syndromic surveillance system to collect directly information on daily health conditions directly from local residents via the internet [web-based daily questionnaire for health surveillance system (WDQH SS)]. This paper considers the feasibility of the WDQH SS and its ability to de...
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PMID: 20067657
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Epidemiology and Infection (138)10 2010
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In late 2002, health professionals from the ministries of health and academia of Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel formed the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS) to facilitate trans-border cooperation in response to infectious disease outbreaks. The first mi...
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PMID: 20158930
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We studied the number of ILI subjects visiting sentinel and non-sentinel healthcare facilities during the 2008-09 season in Saku, Nagano prefecture, obtaining the numbers of cases from sentinel and non-sentinel facilities. Most ILI subjects visited internal and pediatric facilities, and some visited...
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PMID: 20960936
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The Australian Collaboration for Chlamydia Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (ACCESS) was established with funding from the Department of Health and Ageing to trial the monitoring of the uptake and outcome of chlamydia testing in Australia. ACCESS involved 6 separate networks; 5 clinical networks invol...
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PMID: 21090187
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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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In 2009 there were 233 laboratory-confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) analysed by the National Neisseria Network, Australia, a nationwide network of reference laboratories. One hundred and thirty-five isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from invasive cases of meningococcal disease...
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PMID: 21090184
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We evaluated trend and clinical features of reported VC from April 2005 to March 2009. Reported VC decreased by 81%....
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PMID: 20442685
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Spain could be a potential area in Europe for the development and spread of emerging diseases from the tropics due to its geoclimatic characteristics, but there is little information on infectious diseases imported by travelers. The aim of this article was to analyze clinical-epidemiological charact...
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PMID: 20920050
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Illness in French travelers to Senegal: prospective cohort follow-up and sentinel surveillance data.
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We demonstrate that mild travel-related gastrointestinal symptoms and the lack of arthropod bites are significantly associated with poor observance of antimalarial prophylaxis.
In this study, we suggest the complementary nature of using cohort surveys and sentinel surveillance data. Effective protec...
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PMID: 20920049
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An outbreak of anthrax in Saskatchewan in 2006 affected more than 800 animals at 150 locations. The purpose of this study was to assess the spatial and temporal patterns among the cases to determine if there were any significant trends associated with this outbreak. Case and population data were fir...
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PMID: 20885827
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Tijdschrift voor diergeneeskunde (135)13 2010
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To evaluate the presence of Escherichia coli O157, cloacal swabs were collected from 60 adult frogs kept as pets and analyzed by culture methods and multiplex polymerase chain reaction for stx1, stx2, and E. coli attaching and effacing (eae) and hly genes. The pathogen was isolated from two samples...
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PMID: 20688702
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We re-evaluated existing literature related to AI virus in this species and tested breeding populations of Canada Geese from three states (Georgia, West Virginia, and Minnesota, USA) by virus isolation and serology. The ability of AI virus to persist in goose feces under experimental conditions also...
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PMID: 20688710
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We speculate that the high prevalence of Campylobacter spp. detected in gorilla fecal samples in this survey mostly reflects previously uncharacterized and nonpathogenic intestinal flora. The real-time PCR assay was more sensitive than bacterial culture with Campylobacter-specific media and commerci...
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PMID: 20688685
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We analyzed the results from nationwide surveillance of avian influenza (AI) from birds in South Korea's major wild bird habitats and the demilitarized zone of South Korea, 2003-2008. Of 28,214 fecal samples analyzed, 225 yielded influenza viruses, for a prevalence of 0.8%. Hemagglutinin (HA) subtyp...
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PMID: 20688693
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Hepatitis A vaccine was first licensed as a 2-dose vaccine for children aged >or=24 months in 1995. In 1996 and 1999, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended routine hepatitis A vaccination for children aged >or=24 months in communities with the highest rates of the disea...
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PMID: 20592688
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Virus Research (151)1 2010
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A new variant of influenza A H3N2 virus emerged in January 2009 and became the dominant strain in Taiwan in April 2009. The variant was also detected in imported cases from various regions, including East and Southeast Asia and North America, indicating that it has circulated globally. Compared to t...
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PMID: 20347893
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This report describes the pattern of the spread of the pandemic H1N1 2009 and compares 3 monitoring tools until the 57th week or January 31, 2010. The 1st week was from December 28th, 2008 to January 3rd, 2009. A total of 740,835 patients were reported to be infected with pandemic H1N1 2009 and 225...
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PMID: 20592911
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Evidence from swabs submitted from patients in the cohort who presented in general practice with influenza-like illness suggests that the introduction of influenza A (H1N1)v vaccine in Scotland during 2009 was associated with a high degree of protection. Influenza A (H1N1)v immunisation in primary h...
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PMID: 20630126
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Veterinary Record (166)26 2010
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Tijdschrift voor diergeneeskunde (135)12 2010
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Clinical Infectious Diseases (50)12 2010
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Avian Diseases (54)2 2010
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After the spread of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (AIV) from Asia into Russia, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa in 2005-06, the Swiss national AIV surveillance program was extended. One of the new focal points was Lake Constance, where sentinel duck stations and swim-in traps were...
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PMID: 20608533
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Definition of targets for vector control requires an understanding of the relationship between vector abundance and the intensity of arbovirus transmission. Using an extensive surveillance dataset with observations from sentinel chicken flocks and mosquito traps paired in time and space, hierarchica...
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PMID: 20519621
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Tijdschrift voor diergeneeskunde (135)11 2010
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Archives of Virology (155)6 2010
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We have monitored the serological status of ducks in three national sentinel stations. No WNV-positive reactions were found, whereas sera from coots from northern Iran were positive....
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PMID: 20437062
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Preventive Veterinary Medicine (95)1-2 2010
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We propose a new methodology to calculate the probability of detecting the disease if it is present in a heterogeneous population of small size with potentially different risk groups, differences in risk being defined using relative risks. To calculate this probability, for each possible arrangement...
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PMID: 20347494
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Epidemiology and Infection (138)6 2010
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We describe and evaluate the use of an electronic laboratory data system (WHONET) and a space-time permutation scan statistic for semi-automated disease outbreak detection. In collaboration with WHONET-Argentina, the national network for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance, we applied the syste...
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PMID: 19796449
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In February 2006, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended routine vaccination of all U.S. infants with 3 doses of a pentavalent rotavirus vaccine administered at ages 2, 4, and 6 months. In June 2008, ACIP updated its recommendations to include use of a second rotavirus v...
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PMID: 20448529
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