Browsing by Subject "Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control"
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2010-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelChanges to the varicella and pertussis immunisation schedule in Germany 2009: Background, rationale and implementation In July 2009, the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) modified its recommendations for varicella and pertussis vaccination, based on newly available data on disease epidemiology, vaccine effectiveness (VE) ...
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2013-02-14ZeitschriftenartikelEarly estimates of seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness in Europe: results from the i-move multicentre case–control study, 2012/13 We conducted a test-negative case–control study based in five European sentinel surveillance networks. The early 2012/13 adjusted influenza vaccine effectiveness was 78.2% (95% CI: 18.0 to 94.2) against influenza B, 62.1% ...
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2015-03-26ZeitschriftenartikelEbola response missions: To go or not to go? Crosssectional study on the motivation of European public health experts, December 2014 We surveyed European infectious disease epidemiologists and microbiologists about their decisions to apply for Ebola response missions. Of 368 respondents, 49 (15%) had applied. Applicants did not differ from non-applicants ...
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2011-03-24ZeitschriftenartikelHigh time to tackle childhood tuberculosis
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2014-09-04ZeitschriftenartikelMeasles virus spread initiated at international mass gatherings in Europe, 2011 Three parallel transmission chains of measles virus (MV) variant ‘D8-Villupuram’ (D8-V) originated from two coinciding international mass gathering (MG) events in Rimini, Italy, in June 2011. MV D8-V was independently ...
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2015-03-13ZeitschriftenartikelOutbreak of Trichinellosis Due to Wild Boar Meat and Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Post Exposure Prophylaxis, Germany, 2013 Background: Food safety authorities discovered that wild boar meat products contaminated with Trichinella spiralis had entered the food chain in Germany in March 2013. Public health authorities issued guidelines for health ...
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2007-09-07ZeitschriftenartikelPrioritization strategies for pandemic influenza vaccine in 27 countries of the European Union and the Global Health Security Action Group: a review Background: Although there is rapid progress in vaccine research regarding influenza pandemic vaccines it is expected that pandemic influenza vaccine production can only start once the pandemic virus has been recognized. ...
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2009-10-08ZeitschriftenartikelProgress in the surveillance of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Europe: 2001-2008 Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surveillance is important to get insight into the burden of disease and epidemic pattern of RSV infection. This information is useful for healthcare resource allocation as well as the ...
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2009-01-01ZeitschriftenartikelSelection Tool for Foodborne Norovirus Outbreaks Detection of pathogens in the food chain is limited mainly to bacteria, and the globalization of the food industry enables international viral foodborne outbreaks to occur. Outbreaks from 2002 through 2006 recorded in a ...
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2010-04-29ZeitschriftenartikelSpotlight on measles 2010: An epidemiological overview of measles outbreaks in Poland in relation to the measles elimination goal. The objective of this study was to describe transmission chains of measles observed in Poland during 2008-2009. A decade ago, the incidence of measles in Poland declined and approached one case per million inhabitants one ...
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2010-04-01ZeitschriftenartikelSpotlight on measles 2010: Preliminary report of an ongoing measles outbreak in a subpopulation with low vaccination coverage in Berlin, Germany, January- March 2010 Since early January 2010, Berlin has been experiencing a measles outbreak with 62 cases as of 31 March. The index case acquired the infection in India. In recent years, measles incidence in Berlin has been lower than the ...
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2016-12-23ZeitschriftenartikelSpread of yellow fever virus outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2015–16: a modelling study Background: Since late 2015, an epidemic of yellow fever has caused more than 7334 suspected cases in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including 393 deaths. We sought to understand the spatial spread of ...
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2007-06-01ZeitschriftenartikelSuccessful termination of a furunculosis outbreak due to lukS-lukF-positive, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in a German village by stringent decolonization, 2002-2005 Background: Skin infections due to Staphylococcus aureus have recently become a public concern, mainly because of emerging resistance against widely used antibiotics and specific virulence determinants. Strains harboring ...
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2015-03-26ZeitschriftenartikelSurveillance and Outbreak Response Management System (SORMAS) to support the control of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa In the context of controlling the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD), the World Health Organization claimed that ‘critical determinant of epidemic size appears to be the speed of implementation of rigorous control ...
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2006-04-01ZeitschriftenartikelSurvNet@RKI - A multistate electronic reporting system for communicable diseases In 2001 Germany implemented a new electronic reporting system for surveillance of notifiable infectious diseases (SurvNet@RKI). The system is currently being used in all 431 local health departments (LHD), the 16 state ...