epidemicEpidemic diseases are defined by excess. They are dramatic and they attract attention. Endemic diseases, on the other hand, are regarded as "normal" and tend to be neglected. Yet it is clear that this contrast can entail inaccurate impressions of risk, as well as disparities in the ...
Rebound in epidemic control: how misaligned vaccination timing amplifies infection peaks Article Open access 06 November 2024 Introduction Vaccination is a potentially powerful preventive response against endemic infections, with two major infectious diseases, smallpox in humans and rinderpest in bovines...
- 《Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases》 被引量: 139发表: 1997年 Childhood accidents--an endemic of epidemic proportion. Information about accidental injury to children was obtained by studying children who presented at hospitals in South Glamorgan during a 6-month period. Just under 10 ...
Pandemic and epidemic infectious diseases such as COVID-19 or MERS-CoV impose a significant level of anxiety and stress on healthcare workers who are caring of infected patients, with their main concern being the risk of transmitting the infection to their families or to acquire it themselves. ...
Dynamical behaviors of an Echinococcosis epidemic model with distributed delays. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2017, 14(5&6): 1425-1445. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2017074 [9] Hongbin Guo, Michael Yi Li . Global dynamics of a staged progression model for infectious diseases. Mathematical ...
It used the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) [23] methodology to collect information regarding the HIV epidemic in Ndhiwa [21]. The NHIPS consisted of a household questionnaire, an individual questionnaire, and laboratory tests (HIV test, CD4 cell count, assays for recent infection, and ...
Sensitivity versus specificity graphs for VL disease distribution using the final ENM Full size image Table3shows that precipitation of the warmest quarter had the highest percent contribution, along with the highest increase and decrease in training gain in the jackknife test. As shown in Fig.3, ...
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease (Picornaviridae, genus Aphthovirus) of even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) and is one of the most important economic diseases of livestock in the world. Following the success of the rinderpest eradication programme, a resolution ado...
p-Values compare the HIV-infected versus uninfected status. (B) LOD for Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert Ultra. Culture-negative, smear-negative pooled sputum samples were diluted 1:2 in lysis buffer. The diluted sputum was spiked with M. tb H37Rv at 1500, 750, 375, 188, 94, 47, 24, 9, ...
Social support has been shown to be a protective resource for mental health among chronically ill adults and caregiver populations. However, to date no kno