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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Disease Surveillance"”.
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News Analytics for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance
Traditional disease surveillance can be augmented with a wide variety of open sources, such as online news media, twitter, blogs, and web search records. Rapidly increasing volumes of these open sources are proving to be extremely valuable resources in helping analyze, detect, and forecast …
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Evaluation and continuous improvement of foodborne disease surveillance.
… and improvement methods to a foodborne disease outbreak detection and investigation process. This thesis is the results of investigation into the three following research questions: 1) can foodborne disease outbreak responder training and work experience be measured in an electronic …
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Assessmnet of the Performance of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response System in Zambia
Well-functioning disease surveillance and response systems are vital for the effective implementation of disease control and prevention programmes. In 2000, Zambia adopted the World Health Organisation for Africa Regions’ (WHO-AFRO) Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response strategy (IDSR) to …
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Assessmnet of the Performance of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response System in Zambia
Well-functioning disease surveillance and response systems are vital for the effective implementation of disease control and prevention programmes. In 2000, Zambia adopted the World Health Organisation for Africa Regions’ (WHO-AFRO) Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response strategy (IDSR) to …
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Infectious Disease Surveillance Using Emerging Data Sources: Applications to Antimicrobial Resistance and COVID-19
… of the deadly threat posed by infectious diseases in our interconnected world. We face mounting challenges in tackling both emerging diseases as well as longstanding threats like the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance. Simultaneously, the digital revolution has unleashed a vast array …
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Disease Surveillance and Implications on Public Health Decisions: Example of invasive Salmonellosis in sub-Saharan Africa
… An estimated 3.4 million people develop iNTS disease annually and the case fatality rate is as high as 20-25% in areas with limited resources. Around 11-20 million people are diagnosed with typhoid fever every year with 128,000 to 161,000 losing their lives to the disease. For typhoid fever, …
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A comprehensive standards-based framework for enabling semantic interoperability of disease surveillance data for Namibia through adopting health standards
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree PhD in Information Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2020.
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Enhancing Disease Surveillance at The Site of Outbreak Using Mobile Phone Technology: The Case of Ngorongoro District Arusha, Tanzania
… and performance of human and animal health disease surveillance systems in Tanzania using Ngorongoro district in Arusha region, Tanzania as a case example. The acceptability and reliability of the use of Android mobile phones in the “one health” community- based surveillance system was …
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Insights from serological surveillance in infectious disease epidemiology
Traditional infectious disease surveillance methods rely on testing of symptomatic individuals. However, such methods are often poor indicators of the true burden of infection in a population due to varying rates of subclinical infections, non-specific symptoms, and heterogeneity in health seeking …
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Metagenomic investigation of co-infections of Ebola virus disease and Lassa fever patients
… extremely promising method for broad, unbiased disease profiling of patients for disease surveillance and diagnosis. Here, we use two popular metagenomics tools in union, k-mer-based Kraken with reads and BLAST- and LCAbased MEGAN with assembled contiguous sequence. We analyze sequence from 463 …
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Study of Behaviour Change and Impact on Infectious Disease Dynamics by Mathematical Models
… human behaviour changes' effects on infectious disease transmission dynamics. It centers on two main topics. The first concerns how behaviour response evolves during epidemics and the effects of adaptive precaution behaviour on epidemics. The second topic is how to build general framework models …
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Predicting the Spread and Management of the Cassava Brown Streak Disease Epidemic
Cassava Brown Streak disease (CBSD) is a viral disease of cassava that causes necrosis of the edible root tissue, which reduces both consumable and marketable yield. In 2004, CBSD emerged in Uganda and has since been spreading rapidly through previously unaffected regions of East Africa and into …
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Prospective Spatio-Temporal Surveillance Methods for the Detection of Disease Clusters
In epidemiology it is often useful to monitor disease occurrences prospectively to determine the location and time when clusters of disease are forming. This aids in the prevention of illness and injury of the public and is the reason spatio-temporal disease surveillance methods are implemented. …
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Computational, statistical and graph-theoretical methods for disease mapping and cluster detection
Epidemiology, the study of disease risk factors in populations, emerged between the 16th and 19th centuries in response to terrifying epidemics of infectious diseases such as yellow fever, cholera and bubonic plague. Traditional epidemiological studies have led to modifications in hygiene, diet, …
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INVESTIGATION OF GREAT LAKES LAKE WHITEFISH EGG FERTILITY AND HEALTH
… optimization of iodophor exposure, and continued disease surveillance in older stocks.</p>
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Vascular Function in Women and Children Following a Pregnancy Complicated by Preeclampsia
… is linked to later-life cardiovascular disease development in both mother and offspring. However, the mechanisms responsible for this phenomenon have not been determined, nor how they can be ameliorated. Non-invasive vascular assessment allows for the evaluation of subclinical indicators …
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INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF LIPID DROPLETS AS INTRACELLULAR MECHANICAL STRESSORS IN NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE
… external mechanical stress have been linked to disease and cancer development in multiple tissues, including the liver, where cirrhosis (which increases stiffness markedly) is the major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Stiffness is correlated with cancer development and patient …
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Development of a Fluorescence Microsphere Immunoassay for Detection of PRRSV Infection Using Oral Fluid Samples as an Alternative to Serum-based Assays
… continues to be one of the most devastating diseases in the swine industry throughout the world. PRRSV has caused the swine industry more than $600 million a year. PRRSV causes late term abortions, infertility, and severe respiratory disease in nursery and growing/finishing pigs. For …
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