Browsing Resources in English by Subject "Outbreak"
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Complete coding sequence of Zika virus from Martinique outbreak in 2015
(2016-06)Zika virus is an Aedes-borne Flavivirus causing fever, arthralgia, myalgia rash, associated with Guillain–Barré syndrome and suspected to induce microcephaly in the fetus. We report here the complete coding sequence of the ... -
Comprehensive Testing Highlights Racial, Ethnic, and Age Disparities in the COVID-19 Outbreak
(2020-05-09)The United States (US), which is currently the epicenter for the COVID-19 pandemic, is a country whose demographic composition differs from that of other highly-impacted countries. US-based descriptions of SARS-CoV-2 ... -
Containing Covid-19 outbreaks with spatiallytargeted short-term lockdowns and mass-testing
(2020-05-09)We assess the efficacy of spatially targeted lockdown or mass-testing and case-isolation in individual communities, as a compliment to contact-tracing and social-distancing, for containing SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks. Using the ... -
Contributions of Latin American researchers in the understanding the novel coronavirus outbreak: A literature review
(2020-05-22)This paper aimed to give the visibility of Latin American researchers' contributions to the comprehension of COVID-19; our method was a literature review. Currently, the world is facing a health and socioeconomic crisis ... -
Does TB Vaccination Reduce COVID-19 Infection?: No Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis
(2020-04-22)In the middle of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the BCG hypothesis, the prevalence and severity of the COVID-19 outbreak seems to be correlated with whether a country has a universal coverage of Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin ... -
Early experiences with antibody testing in a Flemish nursing home during an acute COVID-19 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study
(2020-05-22)objectives: to assess the prevalence of COVID-19 (PCR-test) in residents and staff of a nursing home. To examine the presence of IgM and IgG antibodies in the sample and the relation between PCR and antibody test results. ... -
Estimates of the ongoing need for social distancing and control measures post-"lockdown" from trajectories of COVID-19 cases and mortality
(2020-05-05)By 29th April 2020, COVID-19 had caused more than 3 million cases across more than 200 countries. And most countries with significant outbreaks had introduced social distancing or "lockdown" measures to reduce viral ... -
How best to use limited tests? Improving COVID-19 surveillance in long-term care
(2020-04-22)Background: Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are particularly vulnerable to nosocomial outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), with high rates of transmission and mortality. Timely epidemiological surveillance ... -
Increased PCR screening capacity using a multi-replicate pooling scheme
(2020-04-22)Effective public health response to viral outbreaks such as SARS-CoV-2 is often informed by real-time PCR screening of large populations. Pooling samples can increase screening capacity. However, when a traditional pool ... -
Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold
(2020-05-21)As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spreads, the susceptible subpopulation is depleted causing the incidence of new cases to decline. Variation in individual susceptibility or exposure to infection ... -
The Influence of Contextual Factors on the Initial Phases of the COVID-19 Outbreak across U.S. Counties
(2020-05-22)Objectives: To examine the influence of county- and state-level characteristics on the initial phases of the COVID-19 outbreak across U.S. counties up to April 14, 2020. Methods: We used a statistical exponential growth ... -
Long-term clinical outcomes in survivors of coronavirus outbreaks after hospitalization or ICU admission: a systematic review and meta-analysis of follow-u studies
(2020-04-22)Objective: To determine the long-term clinical problems in adult survivors of coronavirus (CoV) infection [Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome ... -
Mathematical Modeling & the Transmission Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Cali, Colombia: Implications to a 2020 Outbreak & public health preparedness
(2020-05-10)Introduction: As SARS-COV-2 and the disease COVID-19 is sweeping through countries after countries around the globe, it is critical to understand potential burden of a future outbreak in cities of Colombia. This pandemic ... -
New SIR model used in the projection of COVID 19 cases in Brazil
(2020-05-24)In this work, we proposed a variant of the SIR model, taking as based on models used to describe the epidemic outbreak in South Korea and Portugal, to study the COVID-19epidemic curve in Brazil. The model presented here ... -
The Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A PRISMA Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Clinical and Paraclinical characteristics
(2020-04-22)An outbreak of pneumonia, caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was Identified in China in Dec 2019. This virus expanded worldwide, causing global concern. Clinical, laboratory and imaging features of this infection are ... -
A simple criterion to design optimal nonpharmaceutical interventions for epidemic outbreaks
(2020-05-21)To mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, much emphasis exists on implementing non-pharmaceutical interventions to keep the reproduction number below one. But using that objective ignores that some of these interventions, like ... -
Social distancing and movement constraint as the most likely factors for COVID-19 outbreak control in Brazil
(2020-05-08)As thousands of new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed, there is an increasing demand to understand the factors underlying the spread of this disease. Using country-level data, we modeled the early growth in the number ... -
Successful containment of COVID-19: the WHO-Report on the COVID-19 outbreak in China
(2020-03-17)SARS-CoV-2 is a new Coronavirus, with first infections detected in humans late in 2019. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has led to a large outbreak in China and is currently causing outbreaks in many countries. The disease ... -
Transmission Dynamics of Zika Virus in Island Populations: A Modelling Analysis of the 2013-14 French Polynesia Outbreak
(2016-06)Between October 2013 and April 2014, more than 30,000 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease were estimated to have attended healthcare facilities in French Polynesia. ZIKV has also been reported in Africa and Asia, and in ...