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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Emerging diseases"”.
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X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change
… knowledge-making in the face of new, unknown, emerging diseases. It uses two cases, Australian X Disease of the early 1900s and Disease X of the dawning 2000s, to broadly interrogate how medical mystery-solvers marshall forms of experimentation and classification to identify and contain unknown …
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Space-time surveillance of emerging infectious disease
Emerging diseases are an increasingly important public health problem. This research investigates space-time disease surveillance for emerging infectious diseases. A system was developed in Sri Lanka monitoring clinical diagnoses in cattle, poultry and buffalo. Veterinarians submitted surveys using …
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Quantifying the Effect of Disease Characteristics on the Outcomes of Interventions Using Mathematical Modelling
Many emerging diseases have several common features in terms of their natural history; however, they differ in their quantifiable characteristics, such as transmissibility and infectiousness. These characteristics are crucial in determining whether there will be a local outbreak of the disease or …
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Modeling species geographic distributions in aquatic ecosystems using a density-based clustering algorithm
… to further the knowledge of directly-transmitted emerging diseases for which only limited data are available. Density-based clustering ecological niche modeling is termed here as Marble, honoring a previous, experimental version of this analytical approach, and is expected to provide new …
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Computational, statistical and graph-theoretical methods for disease mapping and cluster detection
… 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, and many other practices that have profoundly altered the dynamic between humans and diseases. In this thesis, …
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Bats as Bushmeat in Ghana
… antibiotics and antiviral treatments, infectious diseases still kill 15 million people around the world each year - one quarter of global deaths (Fauci and Morens, 2012). Emerging diseases, caused by new or newly expanding pathogens, form a rapidly changing and intensely challenging front of this …
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Bacterial Plant Pathogen Identification using Genomics and Metagenomics
… measures and minimizing the spread of infectious diseases. Conventional methods of identification are limited to specific pathogen species because they require prior knowledge and pure cultures of the pathogen. Therefore, these methods cannot detect new pathogens responsible for newly emerging …
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The Effect of Landscape Variables on Adult Mosquito (Diptera:Culicidae)Diversity and Behavior
Diseases vectored by mosquitoes cause millions of deaths each year. In modern times Florida*s disease risk has been reduced due to efforts to lessen the prevalence of mosquitoes through habitat modification of non-adults. With emerging diseases (i.e. Dengue and Chikunguya) encroaching into Florida …
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Combinatorial biochemistry of triterpene saponins in plants
… and resistance in microorganisms and newly emerging diseases. In microorganisms, combinatorial biochemistry is a widely used tool to increase structural variation in several classes of (microbial) natural products. Despite the potential importance of plant secondary metabolites, only a …
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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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News Analytics for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance
… detect, and forecast outbreaks of infectious diseases, especially new diseases or diseases spreading to new regions. However, these sources are in general unstructured (noisy) and construction of surveillance tools ranging from real-time disease outbreak monitoring to construction of …
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Characterisation of national immunisation programmes in countries experiencing public health emergencies within the WHO African region
… and Response, and the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases Mail) and the WHO/UNICEF immunisation database, respectively. The PHEs and immunisation indicators were stratified by country and summarised using descriptive statistics. The Mann-Whitney U test was carried out to determine the …
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Factors That Influence Mammalian Enteric Virus Infection
RNA viruses are a common cause of emerging diseases due to their vast genetic diversity. This diversity is largely attributed to mutations generated by the error-prone viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase during replication. Despite the ability to acquire mutations beneficial to the virus, most …
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Nanoelectroporation of single cell plants
… the potential to support rapid responses to emerging diseases and tackle global health inequity. This thesis aims to support the use of M. polymorpha as a model plant and potential bioproduction chassis for the expression of high value biologics, through the use of chloroplast expression. One …
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Genomic tools to investigate and characterise emerging and reemerging disease in aquatic invertebrates
Emerging and re-emerging diseases in aquatic invertebrates present significant challenges to global aquaculture, threatening food security, livelihoods, and ecosystem health. This thesis addresses critical knowledge gaps in the detection, characterisation, and management of aquatic invertebrate …
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Parasite-host interactions in an arctic goose colony
… some of the greatest rates of warming. Newly emerging diseases in the arctic are of particular interest due to the implications these may have at southern latitudes if temperatures continue to rise around the globe. It is important to document changes in pathogen populations, such as …
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Identifying loci conferring quantitative disease resistance in sorghum and maize against fungal foliar pathogens
… has been studied for resistance to a variety of diseases. Northern corn leaf blight and sorghum leaf blight are both caused by the hemibiotrophic fungus Exserohilum turcicum. Both qualitative and quantitative resistance against E. turcicum have been described in maize. In contrast, the genetic …
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Studies on Paphies australis (Mesodesmatidae) in Whangārei, Aotearoa New Zealand: an investigation into their declining health.
… disease outbreaks. Particularly through new and emerging diseases and opportunistic infections. Wild bivalve molluscs provide economic, ecological, and socio-cultural benefits. Healthy and sustainable kaimoana (shellfish/bivalves, seafood) are intrinsically linked to the wellbeing of many …
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Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Land Use on Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) Presence and Health in Central Saskatchewan
… environmental contamination, invasive species, emerging diseases, climate change, and overexploitation. Amphibians are particularly susceptible to habitat loss and contaminants because of their diverse habitat requirements and unique life histories and ecologies. The Canadian Prairie Pothole …
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Immunogenetics of free-ranging felids on Namibian farmlands
… responses to environmental changes such as emerging diseases. The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is a gene family that plays a central role in the vertebrate’s immune system by triggering the adaptive immune response after exposure to pathogens. MHC genes have become highly suitable …
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