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Eurosurveillance Arthropod-borne diseases among travellers …

WebBackground Travellers are generally considered good sentinels for infectious disease surveillance. Aim To investigate whether health data from travellers arriving from Africa to Europe could provide evidence to support surveillance systems in Africa. Methods We examined disease occurrence and estimated risk of infection among travellers arriving …

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Eurosurveillance Real-time monitoring shows substantial excess …

WebThe European monitoring of excess mortality for public health action (EuroMOMO) network monitors weekly excess all-cause mortality in 27 European countries or subnational areas. During the first wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Europe in spring 2020, several countries experienced extraordinarily high levels of excess mortality.

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Eurosurveillance Attitudes of healthcare workers towards COVID …

WebIn October and November 2020, we conducted a survey of 2,678 healthcare workers (HCWs) involved in general population immunisation in France, French-speaking Belgium and Quebec, Canada to assess acceptance of future COVID-19 vaccines (i.e. willingness to receive or recommend these) and its determinants. Of the HCWs, 48.6% (n = 1,302) …

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Eurosurveillance The World Health Organization’s public health

WebThe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) presented a unique opportunity for the World Health Organization (WHO) to utilise public health intelligence (PHI) for pandemic response. WHO systematically captured mainly unstructured information (e.g. media articles, listservs, community-based reporting) for public health intelligence purposes. WHO used the …

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Eurosurveillance Healthcare-associated infections in home …

WebIntroduction The number of patients and clinical conditions treated in home healthcare (HHC) is increasing. Care in home settings presents many challenges, including healthcare-associated infections (HAI). Currently, in Belgium, data and guidelines on the topic are lacking. Aim To develop a definition of HAI in HHC and investigate associated risk …

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Eurosurveillance Neurological sequelae of healthcare-associated

WebSepsis is a frequent cause of death in very-low-birthweight infants and often results in neurological impairment. Its attributable risk of sequelae has not been systematically assessed. To establish an outcome tree for mapping the burden of neonatal sepsis, we performed systematic literature searches to identify systematic reviews addressing …

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Face masks and COVID-19: don’t let perfect be the enemy of good

WebBundgaard H, Bundgaard JS, Raaschou-Pedersen DET, von Buchwald C, Todsen T, Norsk JB, et al. Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers : A Randomized Controlled Trial.

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Eurosurveillance Toward reaching hepatitis B goals: hepatitis B

WebBackground Georgia has adopted the World Health Organization European Region’s and global goals to eliminate viral hepatitis. A nationwide serosurvey among adults in 2015 showed 2.9% prevalence for hepatitis B virus (HBV) surface antigen (HBsAg) and 25.9% for antibodies against HBV core antigen (anti-HBc). HBV infection prevalence among …

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Eurosurveillance Increase of respiratory illnesses among children …

WebIn 2023, through an ongoing respiratory pathogen surveillance system, we observed from mid-September onwards, an increase of respiratory illness among children aged ≤ 15 years presenting at hospital outpatient clinics in Beijing, China. Data indicated that illness was caused by multiple pathogens, predominantly Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

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Eurosurveillance Development of a public health emergency

WebIn 2017, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) developed a competency model for individuals who work in public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) in European Union (EU) countries. The model serves as the basis for developing competency-based training programmes to support professionals in PHEP efforts at the …

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Eurosurveillance The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of

WebBackground : The foreign-born population make up an increasing and large proportion of tuberculosis (TB) cases in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) low-incidence countries and challenge TB elimination efforts. Methods: We conducted a systematic review to determine effectiveness (yield and performance of chest …

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Eurosurveillance Antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhoea: the national

WebNeisseria gonorrhoeae has developed resistance to all antimicrobials used to treat gonorrhoea, and the emergence of ceftriaxone-resistant strains threatens the last-line option for empirical treatment. The 2013 Gonococcal Resistance to Antimicrobials Surveillance Programme (GRASP) Action Plan recommended measures to delay the spread of …

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Eurosurveillance Geographical and temporal distribution of SARS …

WebWe show the distribution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic clades over time and between countries and outline potential genomic surveillance objectives. We applied three genomic nomenclature systems to all sequence data from the World Health Organization European Region available until 10 July 2020. We highlight …

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Eurosurveillance Decline of influenza and respiratory syncytial …

WebBackground In South Africa, COVID-19 control measures to prevent SARS-CoV-2 spread were initiated on 16 March 2020. Such measures may also impact the spread of other pathogens, including influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) with implications for future annual epidemics and expectations for the subsequent northern hemisphere …

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Eurosurveillance Haemagglutinin mutations and glycosylation …

WebWhile the early start and higher intensity of the 2012/13 influenza A virus (IAV) epidemic was not unprecedented, it was the first IAV epidemic season since the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic where the H3N2 subtype predominated. We directly sequenced the genomes of 154 H3N2 clinical specimens collected throughout the epidemic to better understand the …

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Eurosurveillance The health and economic burden of …

WebWe performed a multicentre retrospective cohort study including 606,649 acute inpatient episodes at 10 European hospitals in 2010 and 2011 to estimate the impact of antimicrobial resistance on hospital mortality, excess length of stay (LOS) and cost. Bloodstream infections (BSI) caused by third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae …

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Perspectives Public health crises: the development of a …

Webwww.eurosurveillance.org 1 Perspectives Public health crises: the development of a consensus document on their management in Spain T Rodrigo ([email protected]) 1, J A Caylà , the Working Group of the Network of Public Health Research Centres (RCESP)2 1.

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Eurosurveillance Computer-assisted, high-frequency, hospital …

WebBackground Surveillance of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) often relies on point prevalence surveys (PPS) to detect major deviations in the occurrence of HAI, supplemented with incidence measurements when more detailed information is needed. In a 1,320-bed university medical centre in the Netherlands, we evaluated an electronically …

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Eurosurveillance Insights from a national survey in 2021 and from

WebBackground Between May 2015 and February 2022, 77,168 hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected people in Georgia have been treated through an HCV elimination programme. To project the programme’s long-term impacts, an HCV infection model was initially developed, based on data from surveys among people who inject drugs and a national serosurvey in 2015.

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Eurosurveillance PRECEPT: an evidence assessment framework for

WebDecisions in public health should be based on the best available evidence, reviewed and appraised using a rigorous and transparent methodology. The Project on a Framework for Rating Evidence in Public Health (PRECEPT) defined a methodology for evaluating and grading evidence in infectious disease epidemiology, prevention and control that takes …

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Eurosurveillance Preventing sepsis in healthcare – 200 years after

WebPreventing sepsis in healthcare – 200 years after the birth of Ignaz Semmelweis. The full text of this article is not currently available. eurosurveillance.org is the online home of Eurosurveillance, Europe's journal on infectious disease surveillance, epidemiology, prevention and control.

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Eurosurveillance Interconnected clusters of invasive …

WebIn 2015 an increased incidence of invasive meningococcal disease due to serogroup-C (MenC) occurred in Tuscany, Italy. This led the Regional Health Authority of Tuscany to implement a reactive immunisation campaign and to launch an epidemiological field investigation aiming to address targeted immunisation interventions. In 2011–14, 10 …

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