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Open AccessInforming the public health response to COVID-19: a systematic review of risk factors for disease, severity, and mortality
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has challenged public health agencies globally. In order to effectively target government responses, it is critical to identify the individuals most...
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Open AccessDeterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape
Land-use change is predicted to act as a driver of zoonotic disease emergence through human exposure to novel microbial diversity, but evidence for the effects of environmental change on microbial communities ...
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Open AccessEfficient national surveillance for health-care-associated infections
Detecting novel healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) as early as possible is an important public health priority. However, there is currently no evidence base to guide the design of efficient and reliable s...
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Open AccessGenome-wide analysis reveals the ancient and recent admixture history of East African Shorthorn Zebu from Western Kenya
The Kenyan East African zebu cattle are valuable and widely used genetic resources. Previous studies using microsatellite loci revealed the complex history of these populations with the presence of taurine and...
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Open AccessHematological profile of East African short-horn zebu calves from birth to 51 weeks of age
This paper is the first attempt to accurately describe the hematological parameters for any African breed of cattle, by capturing the changes in these parameters over the first 12 months of an animal’s life us...
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Low-coverage vaccination strategies for the conservation of endangered species
The Ethiopian wolf Canis simensis is a specialist carnivore found only in seven isolated mountain pockets in Ethiopia, where they prey on rodent communities. They live in family packs with an intricate social org...
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Modelling the spread of scrapie in a sheep flock: evidence for increased transmission during lambing seasons
Presence of scrapie infectivity in the placenta suggests the possibility of increased transmission of scrapie during the lambing season. This hypothesis was explored here using a mathematical model of scrapie ...
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Modelling vaccination strategies against foot-and-mouth disease
Vaccination has proved a powerful defence against a range of infectious diseases of humans and animals. However, its potential to control major epidemics of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in livestock is content...
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Population dynamics of a scrapie outbreak
A detailed analysis of a scrapie outbreak in a flock of Cheviot sheep is described. A total of 33 cases of 1473 sheep born to the flock were reported between 1985 and 1994. The epidemiology of scrapie can onl...
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Seeking the ghost of worms past
The mechanisms of protective immunity to parasite infections in humans are still elusive. Here, Woolhouse and Hagan discuss new evidence suggesting that the extremely slow development of acquired immunity to h...
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Transmission and distribution of African horse sickness virus serotypes in South African zebra
The prevalences of African horse sickness (AHS) virus serotypes in zebra foals from the Kruger National Park, South Africa were examined for possible associations between serotypes. Serotypes known to cross-re...
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Simulation studies of African horse sickness in Spain
Factors affecting epidemics of African horse sickness in Spain were studied using a mathematical model. The model examined the likelihood of an epidemic after the introduction of the virus, and the effectivene...
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Correction: Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle
Nature 382, 779-788 (1996). In Table 2 of this Letter, the reported number of cases saved for policy 9 was erroneously given for 1996 to 2001 rather than for 1997 to 2001. The number should be 584 rather than ...
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Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle
A comprehensive analysis of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic in cattle in Great Britain assesses past, present and future patterns in the incidence of infection and disease, and allows a cr...
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Acquired immunity and epidemiology of Schistosoma haematobium
HUMAN immune responses to schistosome infection have been characterized in detail1–5. But there has been controversy6 over the relative importance of ecological factors (variation in exposure to infection) and im...
