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2018-08-31ZeitschriftenartikelWest-Nil-Virus-(WNV-)Infektion bei einem Vogel (Bartkauz) in Halle (Saale) nachgewiesen Im Epidemiologischen Bulletin 36/2018 wird über den Fund eines West-Nil-Virus-positiven Bartkauzes, der in einer Voliere in Halle (Saale) im August 2018 verstorben war, berichtet. Wie sich dieser Vogel infiziert hat, ist ...
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2015-05-11ZeitschriftenartikelWhat caused the outbreak of ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neonatal intensive care unit, Germany 2009 to 2012? Reconstructing transmission with epidemiological analysis and whole-genome sequencing Objective: We aimed to retrospectively reconstruct the timing of transmission events and pathways in order to understand why extensive preventive measures and investigations were not sufficient to prevent new cases. ...
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2022-07-30Zeitschriftenartikel“What Do You Need? What Are You Experiencing?” Relationship Building and Power Dynamics in Participatory Research Projects: Critical Self-Reflections of Researchers Participatory approaches create opportunities for cooperation, building relationships, gaining knowledge, rethinking, and eventually changing power structures. From an international perspective, the article looks at the ...
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2015-11-25ZeitschriftenartikelWhat influences availability of medicines for the community management of childhood illnesses in central Uganda? Implications for scaling up the integrated community case management programme Background: The integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of childhood illnesses strategy has been adopted world over to reduce child related ill health and mortality. Community Health workers (CHWs) who implement ...
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2022-03-06ZeitschriftenartikelWhat is the empirical basis for converting banded ordinal data on numbers of sex partners among MSM into a continuous scale level variable? A secondary analysis of 13 surveys across 17 countries Background: To provide empirically based guidance for substituting partner number categories in large MSM surveys with mean numbers of sexual and condomless anal intercourse (CAI) partners in a secondary analysis of survey ...
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2022-03-06ZeitschriftenartikelWhat is the empirical basis for converting banded ordinal data on numbers of sex partners among MSM into a continuous scale level variable? A secondary analysis of 13 surveys across 17 countries Background To provide empirically based guidance for substituting partner number categories in large MSM surveys with mean numbers of sexual and condomless anal intercourse (CAI) partners in a secondary analysis of ...
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2011-08-11ZeitschriftenartikelWhat is the evidence for giving chemoprophylaxis to children or students attending the same preschool, school or college as a case of meningococcal disease? We performed a systematic literature review to assess the effectiveness of chemoprophylaxis for contacts of sporadic cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in educational settings. No studies directly compared IMD ...
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2023-06-14ZeitschriftenartikelWhat is the health status of girls and boys in the COVID-19 pandemic? Selected results of the KIDA study Background: It is well known that there are gender differences in the health behaviour and physical and mental health of children. The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the health and lifestyles of children and adolescents by ...
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2021-04-23ZeitschriftenartikelWhat makes a market transaction morally repugnant? Many people find it morally impermissible to put kidneys, jury duty exemptions, or permits for having children on the free market. All of these are examples of repugnant transactions—market transactions that third ...
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2018-10-17ZeitschriftenartikelWhat motivates Ebola survivors to donate plasma during an emergency clinical trial? The case of Ebola-Tx in Guinea Introduction During the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic, the Ebola-Tx trial evaluated the use of convalescent plasma (CP) in Guinea. The effectiveness of plasmapheresis trials depends on the recruitment of plasma ...
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2022-11-18ZeitschriftenartikelWhat the Phage: a scalable workflow for the identification and analysis of phage sequences Phages are among the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth. Phage prediction from sequence data is a crucial first step to understanding their impact on the environment. A variety of bacteriophage prediction ...
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2021-09-09ZeitschriftenartikelWhat WGS Reveals about Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica in Wildlife in Germany The aim of this study was to gain an overview of the genetic diversity of Salmonella found in wildlife in Germany. We were particularly interested in exploring whether wildlife acts as a reservoir of certain serovars/subtypes ...
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2009-08-13ZeitschriftenartikelWhat will the next influenza season bring about: seasonal influenza or the new A(H1N1)V? An analysis of German influenza surveillance data For the next influenza season (winter 2009-10) the relative contributions to virus circulation and influenza-associated morbidity of the seasonal influenza viruses A(H3N2), A(H1N1) and B, and the new influenza A(H1N1)v are ...
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2024-09-18ZeitschriftenartikelWhen do parents report their child's administrative ADHD diagnosis? A utilisation-based analysis from the consortium project INTEGRATE-ADHD Background: This article examines discrepancies in the frequency of diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents in Germany using information on health care utilisation from both ...
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2019-07-23ZeitschriftenartikelWhere did you come from, where did you go: Refining metagenomic analysis tools for horizontal gene transfer characterisation Abstract Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has changed the way we regard evolution. Instead of waiting for the next generation to establish new traits, especially bacteria are able to take a shortcut via HGT that enables ...
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2021-05-07ZeitschriftenartikelWhich Meso-Level Characteristics of Early Childhood Education and Care Centers Are Associated with Health, Health Behavior, and Well-Being of Young Children? Findings of a Scoping Review Characteristics of early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers might be relevant for children’s health. This scoping review aims to provide an overview of the association between meso-level characteristics (MLCs) of ...
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2024-01StudienarbeitWhite Spot Analyse zur Versorgung von Patienten mit Lungenkrebs in qualitätsgesicherten Strukturen in Deutschland Im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes soll eine White Spot Analyse durchgeführt werden, in der die Versorgungslandschaft von Lungenkrebspatienten herausgestellt wird. Hier soll neben einer Standortanalyse zusätzlich die ...
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2010-08-01ZeitschriftenartikelWhite-Nose Syndrome Fungus (Geomyces destructans) in Bats, Europe White-nose syndrome is an emerging disease in North America that has caused substantial declines in hibernating bats. A recently identified fungus (Geomyces destructans) causes skin lesions that are characteristic of this ...
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2018-08-09ZeitschriftenartikelWhole genome analyses of CMY-2-producing Escherichia coli isolates from humans, animals and food in Germany Background: Resistance to 3rd-generation cephalosporins in Escherichia coli is mostly mediated by extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) or AmpC beta-lactamases. Besides overexpression of the species-specific chromosomal ...
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2018-10-06ZeitschriftenartikelWhole Genome Characterization of Orthopoxvirus (OPV) Abatino, a Zoonotic Virus Representing a Putative Novel Clade of Old World Orthopoxviruses Orthopoxviruses (OPVs) are diffused over the complete Eurasian continent, but previously described strains are mostly from northern Europe, and few infections have been reported from Italy. Here we present the extended ...