Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic? Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future
(2020)
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Kapata, N., Ihekweazu, C., Ntoumi, F., Tajudeen, R., Chanda-Kapata, P., Mwaba, P., Mukonka, V., Bates, M., Tembo, J., Corman, V., Mfinanga, S., Asogun, D., Elton, L., Arruda, L. B., Thomason, M. J., Mboera, L., Yavlinsky, A., Haider, N., Simons, D., Hollmann, L., …Zumla, A. (2020). Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic? Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.049
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Anthropogenic Threats to Wild Cetacean Welfare and a Tool to Inform Policy in This Area (2020)
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Nicol, C., Bejder, L., Green, L., Johnson, C., Keeling, L., Noren, D., Van der Hoop, J., & Simmonds, M. (2020). Anthropogenic Threats to Wild Cetacean Welfare and a Tool to Inform Policy in This Area. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00057Human activities and anthropogenic environmental changes are having a profound effect on biodiversity and the sustainability and health of many populations and species of wild mammals. There has been less attention devoted to the impact of human acti... Read More about Anthropogenic Threats to Wild Cetacean Welfare and a Tool to Inform Policy in This Area.
Poultry Coccidiosis: Design and Interpretation of Vaccine Studies (2020)
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Soutter, F., Werling, D., Tomley, F. M., & Blake, D. P. (2020). Poultry Coccidiosis: Design and Interpretation of Vaccine Studies. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00101Eimeria infection impacts upon chicken welfare and economic productivity of the poultry sector. Live coccidiosis vaccines for chickens have been available for almost 70 years, but the requirement to formulate blends of oocysts from multiple Eimeria s... Read More about Poultry Coccidiosis: Design and Interpretation of Vaccine Studies.
Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America (2020)
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Haider, N., Yavlinsky, A., Simons, D., Osman, A. Y., Ntoumi, F., Zumla, A., & Kock, R. A. (2020). Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America. Epidemiology and Infection, 148, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820000424Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV [SARS-COV-2]) was detected in humans during the last week of December 2019 at Wuhan city in China, and caused 24 554 cases in 27 countries and territories as of 5 February 2020. The objective of this study was to estimate... Read More about Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America.
Mammalian lectin arrays for screening host-microbe interactions (2020)
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Jégouzo, S. A. F., Nelson, C., Hardwick, T., Wong, S. T. A., Lau, N. K. K., Neoh, G. K. E., Castellanos-Rueda, R., Huang, Z., Mignot, B., Hirdaramani, A., Howitt, A., Frewin, K., Shen, Z., Fox, R. J., Wong, R., Ando, M., Emony, L., Zhu, H., Holder, A. L., Werling, D., …Drickamer, K. (2020). Mammalian lectin arrays for screening host-microbe interactions. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 295(14), 4541-4555. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA120.012783Many members of the C-type lectin family of glycan-binding receptors have been ascribed roles in the recognition of microorganisms and serve as key receptors in the innate immune response to pathogens. Other mammalian receptors have become targets th... Read More about Mammalian lectin arrays for screening host-microbe interactions.
The prevalence and risk factors for human Brucella species infection in a cross-sectional survey of a rural population in Punjab, India (2020)
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Mangtani, P., Berry, I., Beauvais, W., Holt, H. R., Kulashri, A., Bharti, S., Sagar, V., Nguipdop-Djomo, P., Bedi, J., Kaur, M., Guitian, J., McGiven, J., Kaur, P., Singh Gill, J. P., Grover, G. S., & Kumar, R. (2020). The prevalence and risk factors for human Brucella species infection in a cross-sectional survey of a rural population in Punjab, India. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trz133Brucellosis is an important neglected zoonosis. Effective cattle vaccines are available but are infrequently used in India, where rural households commonly own one or two cattle as sources of protein and income. We assessed the prevalence of infectio... Read More about The prevalence and risk factors for human Brucella species infection in a cross-sectional survey of a rural population in Punjab, India.
The prevalence and risk factors for human Brucella species infection in a cross-sectional survey of a rural population in Punjab, India (2020)
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Mangtani, P., Berry, I., Beauvais, W., Holt, H. R., Kulashri, A., Bharti, S., Sagar, V., Nguipdop-Djomo, P., Bedi, J., Kaur, M., Guitian, J., McGiven, J., Kaur, P., Singh Gill, J. P., Grover, G. S., & Kumar, R. (2020). The prevalence and risk factors for human Brucella species infection in a cross-sectional survey of a rural population in Punjab, India. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trz133Brucellosis is an important neglected zoonosis. Effective cattle vaccines are available but are infrequently used in India, where rural households commonly own one or two cattle as sources of protein and income. We assessed the prevalence of infectio... Read More about The prevalence and risk factors for human Brucella species infection in a cross-sectional survey of a rural population in Punjab, India.
Serological survey of wild cervids in England and Wales for bovine viral diarrhoea virus (2020)
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Hardstaff, J., Hunt, H., Tugwell, L., Thomas, C., Elattar, L., Brownlie, J., & Booth, R. E. (2020). Serological survey of wild cervids in England and Wales for bovine viral diarrhoea virus. Veterinary Record, https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.105527Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) is a production disease commonly found in British cattle herds. Species other than cattle have been shown to be infected with the virus, thereby providing a potential source of infection for livestock. This study surveyed... Read More about Serological survey of wild cervids in England and Wales for bovine viral diarrhoea virus.
Demography and commonly recorded clinical conditions of Chihuahuas under primary veterinary care in the UK in 2016 (2020)
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O’Neill, D. G., Packer, R. M. A., Lobb, M., Church, D. B., Brodbelt, D. C., & Pegram, C. (2020). Demography and commonly recorded clinical conditions of Chihuahuas under primary veterinary care in the UK in 2016. BMC Veterinary Research, 16(42), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-020-2258-1The Chihuahua, the world’s smallest dog breed, is a popular breed in the UK today. The VetCompass™ Programme collates de-identified clinical records from primary-care veterinary practices in the UK for epidemiological research. This study aimed to ch... Read More about Demography and commonly recorded clinical conditions of Chihuahuas under primary veterinary care in the UK in 2016.
Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018 (2020)
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Ghosh, S., Rana, M. S., Islam, M. K., Chowdhury, S., Haider, N., Kafi, M. A. H., Ullah, S. M., Shah, M. R. A., Jahan, A. A., Mursalin, H. S., Marma, A. S. P., Ali, S. M. E., Hossain, S., Bhowmik, R., Debnath, N. C., Shamsuzzaman, A. K. M., Ahmed, B.-N., Siddiqi, U. R., & Jhora, S. T. (2020). Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59109-wVaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006–2018 to quantify the impacts of MDV on human rabies incidence in... Read More about Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018.