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2024-11-07 • BMC Medicine
2024-11-07 • BMC Medicine
BACKGROUND
Zaire Ebolavirus disease (EVD) outbreaks can be controlled using rVSV-ZEBOV vaccination and other public health measures. People in high-risk areas m...
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|Short Report
2024-08-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2024-08-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
We evaluated the spatiotemporal clustering of rapid diagnostic test−positive cholera cases in Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We detected spatiotemporal clusters that...
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2017-08-18 • bioRxiv
2017-08-18 • bioRxiv
Real-time forecasts based on mathematical models can inform critical decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks. Yet, epidemic forecasts are rarely evaluated during or after the...
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2018-12-01 • Epidemics
2018-12-01 • Epidemics
Although patterns of social contacts are believed to be an important determinant of infectious disease transmission, it remains unclear how the frequency and nature of human interactions...
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2018-04-11 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2018-04-11 • BMC Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Quantification of human interactions relevant to infectious disease transmission through social contact is central to predict disease dynamics, yet data from low-resource ...
Quantification of human interactions relevant to infectious disease transmission through social contact is central to predict disease dynamics, yet data from low-resource ...
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2019-03-02 • Epidemics
2019-03-02 • Epidemics
Health care workers (HCW) are at risk of infection during Ebola virus disease outbreaks and therefore may be targeted for vaccination before or during outbreaks. The effect of these stra...
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2019-08-17 • medRxiv
2019-08-17 • medRxiv
The Katanga region in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been struck by repeated epidemics of measles, with large outbreaks occurring in 2010–13 and 2015. In many of the affected...
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|Review
2021-03-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2021-03-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control. Although mass campaigns covering large populations are commonly used to control cholera, spatial targeting of case hous...
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2017-07-21 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2017-07-21 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a major zoonotic and arboviral hemorrhagic fever. The conditions leading to RVF epidemics are still unclear, and the relative role of climatic and anthropogeni...
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2022-05-23 • PLoS Computational Biology
2022-05-23 • PLoS Computational Biology
The fraction of cases reported, known as 'reporting', is a key performance indicator in an outbreak response, and an essential factor to consider when modelling epidemics and assessing t...
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2015-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2015-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
In some parts of western Africa, Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) have reached capacity. Unless capacity is rapidly scaled up, the chance to avoid a generalized Ebola epidemic will soon di...
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2019-02-11 • PLoS Computational Biology
2019-02-11 • PLoS Computational Biology
Real-time forecasts based on mathematical models can inform critical decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks. Yet, epidemic forecasts are rarely evaluated during or after the...
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2017-02-01 • Lancet
2017-02-01 • Lancet
BACKGROUND
rVSV-ZEBOV is a recombinant, replication competent vesicular stomatitis virus-based candidate vaccine expressing a surface glycoprotein of Zaire Ebolavirus. We tested the ...
rVSV-ZEBOV is a recombinant, replication competent vesicular stomatitis virus-based candidate vaccine expressing a surface glycoprotein of Zaire Ebolavirus. We tested the ...
Protocol
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2022-07-06 • BMJ Open
2022-07-06 • BMJ Open
INTRODUCTION
Cholera outbreaks in fragile settings are prone to rapid expansion. Case-area targeted interventions (CATIs) have been proposed as a rapid and efficient response strateg...
Cholera outbreaks in fragile settings are prone to rapid expansion. Case-area targeted interventions (CATIs) have been proposed as a rapid and efficient response strateg...
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2015-02-10 • PLoS Currents
2015-02-10 • PLoS Currents
Between August and November 2014, the incidence of Ebola virus disease (EVD) rose dramatically in several districts of Sierra Leone. As a result, the number of cases exceeded the capacit...
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2020-09-29 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-09-29 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging, zoonotic, arboviral hemorrhagic fever threatening livestock and humans mainly in Africa. RVF is of global concern, having expanded its geographica...
Protocol
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2022-03-08 • BMJ Open
2022-03-08 • BMJ Open
INTRODUCTION
Ebola virus disease (EVD) continues to be a significant public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Large-scal...
Ebola virus disease (EVD) continues to be a significant public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Large-scal...
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2017-04-10 • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2017-04-10 • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa was stopped by an enormous concerted effort of local communities and national and international organizations. It is not clear, however, how much the pu...
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2021-02-17 • bioRxiv
2021-02-17 • bioRxiv
The fraction of cases reported, known as ‘reporting’, is a key performance indicator in an outbreak response, and an essential factor to consider when modelling epidemics and assessing t...
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2022-02-16 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2022-02-16 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BACKGROUND
The evaluation of ring vaccination and other outbreak-containment interventions during severe and rapidly-evolving epidemics presents a challenge for the choice of a feasi...
The evaluation of ring vaccination and other outbreak-containment interventions during severe and rapidly-evolving epidemics presents a challenge for the choice of a feasi...