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2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
SUMMARY Two community-based density case-control studies were performed to assess risk factors for cholera transmission during inter-peak periods of the ongoing epidemic in two Haitian u...
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2020-03-13 • Epidemiology and Infection
2020-03-13 • Epidemiology and Infection
We conducted a matched case-control (MCC), test-negative case-control (TNCC) and case-cohort study in 2016 in Lusaka, Zambia, following a mass vaccination campaign. Confirmed cholera cas...
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2011-10-05 • Epidemiology and Infection
2011-10-05 • Epidemiology and Infection
Throughout the African meningitis belt, meningococcal meningitis outbreaks occur only during the dry season. Measles in Niger exhibits similar seasonality, where increased population den...
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2011-06-21 • Epidemiology and Infection
2011-06-21 • Epidemiology and Infection
High brucellosis seroprevalence rates in domestic swine herds have been reported in Wallis and Futuna Islands and are associated with a significant burden of human infection by Brucella ...
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2018-05-24 • Epidemiology and Infection
2018-05-24 • Epidemiology and Infection
Hepatitis E virus genotype 1 (HEV G1) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in Africa and Asia. HEV G1's natural history, including the incubation period, remains poorly under...
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2010-09-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
2010-09-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
Though largely controlled in developed countries, measles remains a major global public health issue. Regional and local transmission patterns are rooted in human mixing behaviour across...
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2016-08-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
2016-08-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
The epidemiology of surgical site infections (SSIs) in surgical programmes in sub-Saharan Africa is inadequately described. We reviewed deep and organ-space SSIs occurring within a traum...
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2010-06-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
2010-06-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
Measles vaccine efficacy is higher at 12 months than 9 months because of maternal immunity, but delaying vaccination exposes the children most vulnerable to measles mortality to infectio...
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2013-07-18 • Epidemiology and Infection
2013-07-18 • Epidemiology and Infection
SUMMARY A diphtheria outbreak occurred from February to November 2011 in the village of Kimba and its surrounding settlements, in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. We conducted a retros...
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2006-08-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
2006-08-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
The current WHO policy during measles outbreaks focuses on case management rather than reactive vaccination campaigns in urban areas of resource-poor countries having low vaccine coverag...