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165 publication(s) trouvée(s)
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Knowledge of and Practices Around Zoonotic Diseases Amongst Actors in the Livestock Trade in the Lake Victoria Crescent Ecosystem in East Africa
Abstract Background: Zoonotic diseases pose a direct threat to health and undercut livelihoods in the communities in which they occur. …
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Leveraging Google Search Data and Artificial Intelligence Methods for Provincial-level Influenza Forecasting: A South African Case Study
This paper investigates the usefulness of Google search patterns with Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques for timely influenza-like illness (ILI) forecasting …
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Sub-national tailoring of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Mali based on malaria surveillance and rainfall data
BACKGROUND: In malaria endemic countries, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) interventions are performed during the high malaria transmission in accordance with …
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Molecular epidemiological surveillance of viral agents of acute lower respiratory tract infections in children in Accra, Ghana
BACKGROUND: Acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRTI) in children under 5 years is known to be predominantly caused by respiratory …
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Understanding and experience of adverse event following immunization (AEFI) and its consequences among healthcare providers in Kebbi State, Nigeria: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Vaccines used in the national immunization program are relatively safe and effective. However, no vaccine is perfectly safe. Therefore, …
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Impact of periodic intensification of routine immunization within an armed conflict setting and COVID-19 outbreak in Cameroon in 2020
INTRODUCTION: Cameroon's Southwest Region (SW) has been hit by an armed conflict for over half a decade now, negatively affecting …
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A community-based confinement strategy to reduce the spread of Ebola Virus Disease: An analysis of the 2018-2020 outbreak in the DRC.
Abstract BackgroundDespite tremendous progress on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), challenges remain in the implementation of holistic strategies to quickly stop …
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COVID-19 frontline primary health care professionals’ perspectives on health system preparedness and response to the pandemic in the Mahalapye Health District, Botswana
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization issued interim guidelines on essential health system preparedness and response measures for the coronavirus disease …
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Evaluation of the electronic Early Warning and Response Network (EWARN) system in Somalia, 2017–2020
BACKGROUND: In 2008, Somalia introduced an electronic based Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) for real time detection and …
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Epidemiology of first cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, from March to April 2020 and molecular characterization of the spike protein, in Gabon
Background After the first cases of coronaviruses disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China in January 2020, the epidemic spread around the …
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Optimising Malaria Control Interventions in Mali Based on Epidemiological Surveillance and Rainfall Data
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Accelerating implementation of District Health Information Systems: Perspectives from healthcare workers from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Background: Although electronic health record systems are critical for healthcare management, there has been genuine concern about the quantity and …
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Patterns of diarrhoeal disease among under-five children in Plateau State, Nigeria, 2013–2017
BACKGROUND: Diarrhoea is the second commonest cause of under-five mortality accounting for over half a million deaths annually. Although the …
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The Contribution of Periodic Intensification of Routine Immunization to Vaccination Coverage and Disease Surveillance in the South West Region of Cameroon amid Sociopolitical Crisis and Covid-19 Outbreak in 2020
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Whole genome sequencing of two human rhinovirus A types (A101 and A15) detected in Kenya, 2016-2018
Background: Virus genome sequencing is increasingly utilized in epidemiological surveillance. Genomic data allows comprehensive evaluation of underlying viral diversity and …
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Vertical disease programs and their effect on integrated disease surveillance and response: perspectives of epidemiologists and surveillance officers in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) is a cost-effective surveillance system designed to curb the inefficiency associated with vertical …
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Beyond Raw Performance: Neural Machine Translation Based Multi-lingual Classification of Tweets for Automated Disease Surveillance
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The African Network for Improved Diagnostics, Epidemiology and Management of common infectious Agents
BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa, acute respiratory infections (ARI), acute gastrointestinal infections (GI) and acute febrile disease of unknown cause (AFDUC) …
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Epidemiological surveillance of H9N2 avian influenza virus infection among chickens in farms and backyards in Egypt 2015-2016
BACKGROUND AND AIM: LPAI H9N2 infection among the poultry population in Egypt constitutes an additional risk factor in the poultry …
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Assessment of the core and support functions of the integrated disease surveillance and response system in Zanzibar, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Disease surveillance is a cornerstone of outbreak detection and control. Evaluation of a disease surveillance system is important to …