Background: Acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRI) is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Globally, human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is the most common pathogen ...

Background: The European Core Health Indicators (ECHI) are a key source of comparable health information for the European Union (EU) and its Member States (MS). The ECHI shortlist contains 88 indicators which were ...

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is safe and effective in preventing cervical cancer in females. As HPV infections can also induce cancers of the anus, penis and oral cavity, male vaccination is also ...

Background: Infection with Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) is the most commonly reported sexually transmitted infection in Europe. In Germany, Ct screening is offered free of charge to pregnant women since 1995 and to women ...

Monitoring immune system activation of wild animals has garnered increasing interest within the field of ecological immunology, leading to an urgent need for non-invasive biomarkers measuring these changes. Urinary neopterin, ...

Hintergrund: Für eine quantifizierbare Bewertung der Qualität von Primärdatenerhebungsprozessen in epidemiologischen Studien auf Basis von Begleitungen und Beobachtungen durch Monitore im Feld (Site Visits) sind in der ...

Unzureichend behandelt kann die Stoffwechselerkrankung Diabetes mellitus zu schwerwiegenden Folgeerkrankungen führen. Nationale und internationale Analysen zeigen einen kontinuierlichen Anstieg der Diabetesprävalenz über ...

Quality Control for Molecular Diagnostics (QCMD), an international provider for External Quality Assessment (EQA) programmes, has introduced a programme for molecular diagnostics of Zika virus (ZIKV) in 2016, which has ...

Objectives: To investigate individual, interpersonal and environmental baseline factors predicting regular aerobic physical activity (PA) participation among older adults in Germany at follow-up 12 years later. Design: ...

Motivation: Next generation sequencing (NGS) has provided researchers with a powerful tool to characterize metagenomic and clinical samples in research and diagnostic settings. NGS allows an open view into samples useful ...