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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jennifer Cable, Anthony Fauci, William E. Dowling, Stephan Guenther, Dennis A. Bente, Pragya Dhruv Yadav, Lawrence C. Madoff, Lin-Fa Wang, Rahul K. Arora, Maria Van Kerkhove, May C. Chu, Thomas Jaenisch, Jonathan H. Epstein, Simon David William Frost, Daniel G. Bausch, Lisa E. Hensley, Eric Bergeron, Ioannis Sitaras, Michael D. Gunn, Thomas W. Geisbert, Cesar Munoz-Fontela, Florian Krammer, Emmie de Wit, Pontus Nordenfelt, Erica Ollmann Saphire, Sarah C. Gilbert, Kizzmekia S. Corbett, Luis M. Branco, Sylvain Baize, Neeltje van Doremalen, Marco A. Krieger, Sue Ann Costa Clemens, Renske Hesselink, Dan Hartman
Summary: The importance of maintaining and strengthening investments in infrastructure, collaborations, laboratory and manufacturing capacity, diagnostics, etc. during the COVID-19 pandemic to enable quick, concerted responses to future threats, especially to zoonotic pathogens, was emphasized during a symposium gathering researchers from various sectors.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Emma Quinn, Kai Hsun Hsiao, Isis Maitland-Scott, Maria Gomez, Melissa T. Baysari, Zeina Najjar, Leena Gupta
Summary: The study described literature on web-based apps for surveillance and response to acute communicable disease outbreaks in the community. Findings indicated that these apps are primarily designed to improve early detection of disease outbreaks and should have more features to support information exchange and outbreak response actions.
JMIR PUBLIC HEALTH AND SURVEILLANCE
(2021)
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Remote Sensing
Fei Zhao, Sujin Zhang, Degang Zhang, Zhiyan Peng, Hongyun Zeng, Zhifang Zhao, Wei Jin, Wenyu Shen, Wei Liu
Summary: This study analyzed changes in nighttime lighting along the Sino-Burma border and developed an epidemic pressure input index (PII) model to identify areas at risk for imported COVID-19 cases. The results provide valuable insights for public health officials and decision makers.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION
(2022)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Bayissa Chala, Feyissa Hamde
Summary: Vector-borne emerging and re-emerging diseases pose significant public health challenges globally. Interactions among pathogens, hosts, environment, and social demographic factors are key to the emergence and re-emergence of these diseases. Ongoing evolution of pathogens, population growth, urbanization, and climate change are among the factors linked with the appearance and resurgence of vector-borne infectious diseases.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Sara Di Marco, Valentina Sulpizio, Martina Bellagamba, Patrizia Fattori, Gaspare Galati, Claudio Galletti, Markus Lappe, Teresa Maltempo, Sabrina Pitzalis
Summary: This study used fMRI to investigate the integration of egomotion-related visual signals with somatomotor inputs from leg movements during heading changes. The results showed that certain regions were sensitive to congruent or incongruent stimuli, suggesting their involvement in multisensory integration processes for guiding or adjusting leg movements.
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Environmental Sciences
Gabriel K. Innes, Keeve E. Nachman, Alison G. Abraham, Joan A. Casey, Andrew N. Patton, Lance B. Price, Sara Y. Tartof, Meghan F. Davis
Summary: The study found that organically produced and processed meat samples had a significantly lower prevalence of MDRO compared to conventionally produced and processed samples, while meat from split processors had a lower prevalence of any contamination than samples from conventional processors. Additional studies are needed to confirm these findings and identify specific production and processing practices that may explain them.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Analytical
Tanu Bhardwaj, Lakshmi Narashimhan Ramana, Tarun Kumar Sharma
Summary: Better diagnostics are crucial for the treatment and prevention of diseases. The current diagnostic technologies do not meet the World Health Organization's standards, highlighting the need for more accurate, sensitive, and rapid diagnostic technologies. Microfluidics-based biosensors are gaining interest in the diagnostics industry due to their size reduction, quick response time, and ability for parallel analysis.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Tobias Chilla, Tim Grosse, Stefan Hippe, Blake Byron Walker
Summary: This study presents empirical results on the spatial and temporal dynamics of COVID-19 incidence in 10 European border regions. The findings suggest geographical differences in incidence between border regions and inland regions, and provide a heuristic method to characterize spillover effects. The study also identifies both symmetry and asymmetry of incidence rates within border pairs, and proposes a typology to categorize different types of border pairs. The study concludes that border control measures may only be effective if implemented at the right timing and in combination with other non-pharmaceutical measures.
Article
Biology
Daniel B. Larremore, Bailey K. Fosdick, Kate M. Bubar, Sam Zhang, Stephen M. Kissler, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Caroline O. Buckee, Yonatan H. Grad
Summary: This study developed a flexible framework to compare the accuracy and robustness of different sampling schemes by integrating various factors. The results showed that sampling schemes informed by demographics and contact networks outperform uniform sampling.
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Virology
Min Du, Ruitong Wang, Jie Yuan, Xuan Lv, Wenxin Yan, Qiao Liu, Chenyuan Qin, Nijuan Xiang, Lin Zhu, Wannian Liang, Min Liu, Jue Liu
Summary: This study examined the changing trends and disparities of national notifiable infectious diseases in China from 2010 to 2019. The overall incidence rate of infectious diseases remained stable, but there was an increase in mortality for sexually transmitted, blood-borne, and mother-to-child-borne diseases. The implementation of new healthcare reform in 2009 led to a decrease in incidence rates for Class-A and Class-B diseases, but age, gender, regional, and economic disparities still exist. Concerted efforts are needed to reduce the impact of seasonal influenza and AIDS-related mortality, particularly among specific age groups.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2023)
Review
Cell Biology
Rupal Ojha, Vijay Kumar Prajapati
Summary: Vaccination is essential for controlling the spread of diseases, and post-translational modifications of proteins need to be considered for enhancing vaccine efficacy and immune responses.
JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Wen Zhou, Leshui He, Xuanhua Nie, Taoketaohu Wuri, Jinhai Piao, Dunshan Chen, Hui Gao, Jianmin Liu, Kyedrub Tubden, Ming He, Jun He
Summary: The Chinese government implemented special public policies to accurately and timely disseminate information during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study found that people in remote regions of China obtained accurate information about COVID-19 and were able to protect themselves. However, older, less educated, and rural respondents experienced delays in receiving information, highlighting the need for improvement in timely information dissemination for disadvantaged individuals in remote regions.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Xiao Chen, Ziyue Huang, Jingxuan Wang, Shi Zhao, Martin Chi-Sang Wong, Ka Chun Chong, Daihai He, Jinhui Li
Summary: By conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis, it was found that approximately 23.6% of COVID-19 infections are asymptomatic, with variations in different population groups. Subgroup analysis revealed that pregnant women, children, and screening programmes conducted after 1 March 2020 had higher rates of asymptomatic infections.
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Mathematics, Applied
Jorge P. Rodriguez, Victor M. Eguiluz
Summary: Interactions between different diseases can alter their dynamics, posing uncertainty in modeling empirical data when the symptoms of both infections are indistinguishable. By extending previously proposed models to non-symmetric scenarios, we demonstrate that both cooperative and competitive interactions lead to synchronization of the maximum fraction of infected individuals. Using a model that combines the dynamics of COVID-19 and seasonal influenza, we show that the coupling synchronizes both infections, with a stronger influence on influenza dynamics.
Article
Nursing
Diana J. Mason, Jane Salvage
Summary: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic led to the redesign of the GNLI, transitioning it to an online format. While virtual programs cannot fully replace in-person experiences, they have provided new networking and collaboration opportunities aligned with WHO regions for ICN, national nursing associations, and nurse leaders.
INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW
(2021)
