Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Africa"
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2010-10-05Zeitschriftenartikel2nd International External Quality Control Assessment for the Molecular Diagnosis of Dengue Infections Background: Currently dengue viruses (DENV) pose an increasing threat to over 2.5 billion people in over 100 tropical and sub-tropical countries worldwide. International air travel is facilitating rapid global movement ...
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2010-11-03ZeitschriftenartikelAfrican great apes are naturally infected with polyomaviruses closely related to Merkel cell polyomavirus The oncogenic Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) infects humans worldwide, but little is known about the occurrence of viruses related to MCPyV in the closest phylogenetic relatives of humans, great apes. We analyzed samples ...
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2016-05-13ZeitschriftenartikelBacterial contamination of water samples in Gabon, 2013 Contamination of water is a major burden in the public health setting of developing countries. We therefore assessed the quality of water samples in Gabon in 2013. The main findings were a contamination rate with coliforms ...
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2021-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelChallenges to the Fight against Rabies—The Landscape of Policy and Prevention Strategies in Africa Nearly 59,000 human deaths worldwide are attributable to rabies annually, of which more than a third occur in Africa. In recent years, progress has been made in both action and collaboration including implementation of ...
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2020-05-07ZeitschriftenartikelEliminating yellow fever epidemics in Africa: Vaccine demand forecast and impact modelling To counter the increasing global risk of Yellow fever (YF), the World Health Organisation initiated the Eliminate Yellow fever Epidemics (EYE) strategy. Estimating YF burden, as well as vaccine impact, while accounting for ...
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2016-02-01ZeitschriftenartikelEpidemiology of Epidemic Ebola Virus Disease in Conakry and Surrounding Prefectures, Guinea, 2014–2015 In 2014, Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was first reported during March in 3 southeastern prefectures in Guinea; from there, the disease rapidly spread across West Africa. We describe the epidemiology of EVD cases ...
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2009-11-14ZeitschriftenartikelExamining Landscape Factors Influencing Relative Distribution of Mosquito Genera and Frequency of Virus Infection Mosquito-borne infections cause some of the most debilitating human diseases, including yellow fever and malaria, yet we lack an understanding of how disease risk scales with human-driven habitat changes. We present an ...
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2013-08-07ZeitschriftenartikelEyjafjallajökull and 9/11: The Impact of Large-Scale Disasters on Worldwide Mobility Large-scale disasters that interfere with globalized socio-technical infrastructure, such as mobility and transportation networks, trigger high socio-economic costs. Although the origin of such events is often geographically ...
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2019-10-29ZeitschriftenartikelFly-derived DNA and camera traps are complementary tools for assessing mammalian biodiversity Background Metabarcoding of vertebrate DNA found in invertebrates (iDNA) represents a potentially powerful tool for monitoring biodiversity. Preliminary evidence suggests fly iDNA biodiversity assessments compare favorably ...
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2022-06-05ZeitschriftenartikelHigh prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies after the first wave of COVID-19 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: results of a cross-sectional household-based survey Background On October, 2020, after the first wave of COVID-19, only 8290 confirmed cases were reported in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the real prevalence remains unknown. To guide public health ...
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2012-06-12ZeitschriftenartikelHigh Prevalence of Giardia duodenalis Assemblage B Infection and Association with Underweight in Rwandan Children Background: Giardia duodenalis is highly endemic in East Africa but its effects on child health, particularly of submicroscopic infections, i.e., those below the threshold of microscopy, and of genetic subgroups ...
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2015-05-21ZeitschriftenartikelHuman seroprevalence indicating hantavirus infections in tropical rainforests of Côte d’Ivoire and Democratic Republic of Congo Hantaviruses are members of the Bunyaviridae family carried by small mammals and causing human hemorrhagic fevers worldwide. In Western Africa, where a variety of hemorrhagic fever viruses occurs, indigenous hantaviruses ...
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2017-11-20ZeitschriftenartikelOrigin, evolution, and global transmission of community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus ST8 USA300 is a pandemic clonal lineage of hypervirulent, community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) with specific molecular characteristics. Despite its high clinical relevance, the evolutionary ...
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2021-01-17ZeitschriftenartikelSARS-CoV-2 prevalence and immunity: a hospital-based study from Malawi Background: COVID-19 transmission and disease dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa are not well understood. Our study aims to provide insight into COVID-19 epidemiology in Malawi by estimating SARS-CoV-2 prevalence and immunity ...
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2018ZeitschriftenartikelUser Evaluation Indicates High Quality of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) After Field Deployment in Nigeria in 2015 and 2018 During the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2014–15, health agencies had severe challenges with case notification and contact tracing. To overcome these, we developed the Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management ...