COVID-19 et épidémies
COVID-19 et autres épidémies (Ebola, choléra, mpox, fièvres de Lassa et jaune, Marburg) : surveillance, riposte, vaccination et effets sur les sociétés.
Critères d'inclusion : Documents publiés sur SPHAERO dont le titre ou les mots-clés contiennent l'un des termes suivants (mot entier, avec ses variantes) : covid, sars-cov-2, coronavirus, pandémi, pandemic, ebola, choléra, mpox, monkeypox, lassa, fièvre jaune, yellow fever, marburg. Composition recalculée chaque nuit.
Responsable : Équipe éditoriale SPHAERO. Composition mise à jour le 07/11/2026.
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Exploring national COVID-19 variability across sub-Saharan Africa
Background In early March 2020, coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus, was declared a pandemic …
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Biblical pragmatism in the pandemic outbreak of Numbers 25:1–18: Towards an African paradigm
Numbers 25 presents a human crisis requiring swift leadership interventions to curb the plague. Leadership failure plays out on a …
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The contribution of family physicians to residential mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tshwane District, South Africa
During the start of the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, two family physicians in Tshwane, South …
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Effect of telephone counselling on the knowledge, attitude and practices of contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Egypt
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging respiratory illness. The World Health Organization declared it a public health …
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Celebrating the sacrament of Holy Communion during COVID-19: A Methodist perspective
This article forms part of the change agents special collection. It investigates the way the Methodist Church of Southern Africa …
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Validation of Roche immunoassay for severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 in South Africa
Background: Serology testing is an important ancillary diagnostic to the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for severe acute …
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A hybrid computational framework for intelligent inter-continent SARS-CoV-2 sub-strains characterization and prediction
Whereas accelerated attention beclouded early stages of the coronavirus spread, knowledge of actual pathogenicity and origin of possible sub-strains remained …
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Psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale amongst black South African university students
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread widely leading to a global public health crisis of a pandemic proportion. Whilst infection …
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HIV infection drives interferon signaling within intestinal SARS-CoV-2 target cells
SARS-CoV-2 infects epithelial cells of the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract and causes related symptoms. HIV infection impairs gut homeostasis and …
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COVID-19 and its effects on endothelium in HIV-positive patients in sub-Saharan Africa: Cardiometabolic risk, thrombosis and vascular function (ENDOCOVID STUDY)
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 has affected almost every country in the world, especially in terms of health system capacity and economic burden. …
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Implementation of the Ebola Virus Persistence in Ocular Tissues and Fluids (EVICT) study: Lessons learned for vision health systems strengthening in Sierra Leone
BACKGROUND: Following the West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak of 2013-2016 and more recent EVD outbreaks in the Democratic …
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Sachet water consumption as a risk factor for cholera in urban settings: Findings from a case control study in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo during the 2017–2018 outbreak
BACKGROUND: Behavioural risk factors for cholera are well established in rural and semi-urban contexts, but not in densely populated mega-cities …
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Whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of six SARS-CoV-2 strains isolated during COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia, North Africa
BACKGROUND: In Tunisia a first SARS-CoV-2 confirmed case was reported in March 03, 2020. Since then, an increase of cases …
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Knowledge, perceptions and effects of Ebola virus disease outbreak on the pig value chain in the agro-pastoralist district of Luwero, Central Uganda
BACKGROUND: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing, and livelihoods of communities. EVD …
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The shortcomings of emergency remote teaching in rural settings of Zimbabwe during COVID-19 school closures: Lessons from China’s experience
Background: In the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, schools were forced to close indefinitely with no clue …
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Perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant women in South Africa
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that has created a global health crisis and upended conventional methodologies, both in …
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South Africa’s multiple vulnerabilities, food security and livelihood options in the COVID-19 new order: An annotation
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and its crippling effects exacerbate many people’s vulnerability to food security across the world, …
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Extent and causes of increased domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: community health worker perspectives from Kenya, Bangladesh, and Haiti
Background Emerging data, media reports, and anecdotal evidence suggest that domestic violence (DV) has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, …
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A temperature reading of COVID-19 pandemic employee agility and resilience in South Africa
Orientation: Employee agility and resilience are central to the flourishing of employee and organisational life. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …
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Responding to COVID-19 threats to trial conduct: lessons learned from a feasibility trial of a psychological intervention for South African adolescents
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to the conduct of clinical trials. Strategies for overcoming common challenges to non-COVID-19 trial …