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**guang Chen
Medicine & Public Health
English
Public Health
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Open AccessPhylodynamics unveils invading and diffusing patterns of dengue virus serotype-1 in Guangdong, China from 1990 to 2019 under a global genoty** framework
The strong invasiveness and rapid expansion of dengue virus (DENV) pose a great challenge to global public health. However, dengue epidemic patterns and mechanisms at a genetic scale, particularly in term of c...
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Open AccessApplicability of risk compensation to the relationship between health behaviors and COVID-19 vaccination among inpatients in Taizhou, China
Based on the risk compensation theory, this study was designed to investigate the relationship between health behaviors of inpatients and COVID-19 vaccination during the epidemic with regard to the Omicron var...
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Open AccessMosquito densovirus significantly reduces the vector susceptibility to dengue virus serotype 2 in Aedes albopictus mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
Dengue virus (DENV) is a major public health threat, with Aedes albopictus being the confirmed vector responsible for dengue epidemics in Guangzhou, China. Mosquito densoviruses (MDVs) are pathogenic mosquito-spe...
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Open AccessA unified global genoty** framework of dengue virus serotype-1 for a stratified coordinated surveillance strategy of dengue epidemics
Dengue is the fastest spreading arboviral disease, posing great challenges on global public health. A reproduceable and comparable global genoty** framework for contextualizing spatiotemporal epidemiological...
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Perception of Peer Condom Use Buffers the Associations Between HIV Knowledge, Self-efficacy, and Condom-Use Intention Among Adolescents: a Moderated Mediation Model
A better understanding of the complex relationships between HIV knowledge, self-efficacy, perception of peer condom use, and condom-use intention is needed for improving HIV prevention among adolescents. The s...
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Open AccessArmigeres subalbatus is a potential vector for Zika virus but not dengue virus
Zika virus (ZIKV) and dengue virus (DENV) are closely related flaviviruses primarily transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. Armigeres subalbatus is an emerging and widely distributed mosquito, and ZIKV has been detecte...
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Open AccessHistorical trends in breast Cancer among women in China from age-period-cohort modeling of the 1990–2015 breast Cancer mortality data
Evidence on historical trends extracted embedded in recent data can advance our understanding of the epidemiology of breast cancer for Chinese women. China is a country with significant political, socioeconomi...
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Open AccessFactors associated with diagnostic delay in recurrent TB
Recurrent tuberculosis (TB) contributes to the burden of TB. The study was designed to explore the time of diagnostic delay and risk of delay in patients with recurrent TB in China.
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Open AccessReconstructing and forecasting the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States using a 5-parameter logistic growth model
Many studies have modeled and predicted the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) in the U.S. using data that begins with the first reported cases. However, the shortage of testing services to detect i...
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Open AccessWhat is global health? Key concepts and clarification of misperceptions
The call for “Working Together to Build a Community of Shared Future for Mankind” requires us to improve people’s health across the globe, while global health development entails a satisfactory answer to a fundam...
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Open AccessThe novel coronavirus outbreak: what can be learned from China in public reporting?
The new coronavirus outbreak gets everyone’s attention. China’s national actions against the outbreak have contributed great contributions to the world. China has been learning from practice for better reporti...
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Open AccessDefervescent dengue patients might be a potential source of infection for vector mosquitoes
Dengue is a re-emerging public health problem and mosquito-borne infectious disease that is transmitted mainly by Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus. Early diagnosis, isolation, and treatment of patients are critic...
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Open AccessFirst two months of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic in China: real-time surveillance and evaluation with a second derivative model
Similar to outbreaks of many other infectious diseases, success in controlling the novel 2019 coronavirus infection requires a timely and accurate monitoring of the epidemic, particularly during its early peri...
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Open AccessMarijuana legalization and historical trends in marijuana use among US residents aged 12–25: results from the 1979–2016 National Survey on drug use and health
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States. More and more states legalized medical and recreational marijuana use. Adolescents and emerging adults are at high risk for marijuana use....
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Interpreting stimulated plasma renin and aldosterone to select physiologically individualized therapy for resistant hypertension: importance of the class of stimulating drugs
In the treatment of resistant hypertension, physiologically individualized therapy based on phenoty** with plasma renin activity (PRA) and plasma aldosterone significantly improves blood pressure control. Pa...
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Open AccessPhotoperiodic diapause in a subtropical population of Aedes albopictus in Guangzhou, China: optimized field-laboratory-based study and statistical models for comprehensive characterization
Aedes albopictus is among the 100 most invasive species worldwide and poses a major risk to public health. Photoperiodic diapause provides a crucial ecological basis for the adaptation of this species to adverse ...
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Open AccessCross-country Association of Press Freedom and LGBT freedom with prevalence of persons living with HIV: implication for global strategy against HIV/AIDS
Human behaviors are affected by attitudes and beliefs, which in turn are shaped by higher-level values to which we have ascribed. In this study, we explore the relationship between two higher-level values, pre...
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Open AccessPhylodynamic applications in 21st century global infectious disease research
Phylodynamics, the study of the interaction between epidemiological and pathogen evolutionary processes within and among populations, was originally defined in the context of rapidly evolving viruses and used ...
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Trajectories of Marijuana Use among HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative MSM in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), 1984–2013
To construct longitudinal trajectories of marijuana use in a sample of men who have sex with men living with or at-risk for HIV infection. We determined factors associated with distinct trajectories of use as ...
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Open AccessShifts in endocrine homeostasis and preventive hormone replacement therapy: extending the Women’s Health Initiative globally
Reducing disease risk for women after menopause is global health issue. A major portion of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) consisted of two clinical trials involving 161,809 post-menopausal women aged 50–7...
