Global wastewater surveillance for pathogens with pandemic potential: opportunities and challenges

NC Grassly, AG Shaw, M Owusu - The Lancet Microbe, 2024 - thelancet.com
Wastewater surveillance holds great promise as a sensitive method to detect spillover of
zoonotic infections and early pandemic emergence, thereby informing risk mitigation and …

[HTML][HTML] Outbreak science: recent progress in the detection and response to outbreaks of infectious diseases

CF Houlihan, JAG Whitworth - Clinical Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The frequency of reported outbreaks of infectious diseases has increased over the past 3
decades, with predictions that this rise will continue. Outbreak response continues to follow …

Pregnancy and breastfeeding in the context of Ebola: A systematic review

ME Foeller, CCR do Valle, TM Foeller… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
The outbreaks of Ebola virus between 2014 and 2020 have drawn attention to knowledge
gaps related to Ebola virus disease in pregnant women. The aim of this study was to …

Differential symptomology of possible and confirmed Ebola virus disease infection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective cohort study

J Nsio, DL Ardiet, RM Coulborn, E Grellety… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background In its earliest phases, Ebola virus disease's rapid-onset, high fever, and
gastrointestinal symptoms are largely indistinguishable from other infectious illnesses. We …

Clinical and epidemiological performance of WHO Ebola case definitions: a systematic review and meta-analysis

G Caleo, F Theocharaki, K Lokuge… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Ebola virus disease case definition is a crucial surveillance tool to detect
suspected cases for referral and as a screening tool for clinicians to support admission and …

Comparative performance study of three Ebola rapid diagnostic tests in Guinea

Z Moran, W Rodriguez, D Ahmadou, B Soropogui… - BMC Infectious …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The 2014/15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa resulted in 11,000 deaths
and massive strain on local health systems, and the ongoing outbreak in Democratic …

[HTML][HTML] Propiedades diagnósticas de las definiciones de caso sospechoso de COVID-19 en Chile, 2020

J Aubert, D Durán, MJ Monsalves… - … de Salud Pública, 2021 - SciELO Public Health
Objetivo. Comparar las propiedades diagnósticas de cinco definiciones de caso
sospechoso de COVID-19 utilizadas o propuestas en Chile durante los primeros ocho …

Protecting children against Japanese encephalitis in Bali, Indonesia

J Im, R Balasubramanian, NW Yastini, IGN Suwarba… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Japanese encephalitis is a zoonosis and a mosquitoborne flaviviral disease. Culex species
mosquitoes thrive in rice fields and transmit the virus from their natural hosts, primarily pigs …

Lessons learned from reinforcing epidemiologic surveillance during the 2017 Ebola outbreak in the Likati district, Democratic Republic of the Congo

JJ Hemingway-Foday, BF Ngoyi, C Tunda… - Health …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
On May 12, 2017, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) publicly declared an outbreak
of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Likati District of the Bas-Uélé Province, 46 days after the …

Ebola virus causes intestinal tract architectural disruption and bacterial invasion in non-human primates

RB Reisler, X Zeng, CW Schellhase, JJ Bearss… - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
In the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola Virus (EBOV) outbreak, there was a significant concern
raised about the potential for secondary bacterial infection originating from the …