An analysis of coronavirus disease 2019 with spline regression at province level during first-level response to major public health emergency out of Hubei, China [0.03%]
中国大陆湖北省外新冠疫情分省样条回归分析（突发公共卫生事件一级响应期间）
Chen Liang,Li Shen
Chen Liang
This study aims to locate the knots of cumulative coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case number during the first-level response to public health emergency in the provinces of China except Hubei. The provinces were grouped into three regio...
The influence of pre-existing hypertension on coronavirus disease 2019 patients [0.03%]
慢性高血压对新型冠状病毒肺炎患者的临床特征的影响分析
Zhi-Yao Wei,Rui Qiao,Jian Chen et al.
Zhi-Yao Wei et al.
Hypertension represents one of the most common pre-existing conditions and comorbidities in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. To explore whether hypertension serves as a risk factor for disease severity, a multi-centre, retrospe...
Multicenter Study
Epidemiology and infection. 2021 Jan 5:149:e4. DOI:10.1017/S0950268820003118 2021
Forecasting the final disease size: comparing calibrations of Bertalanffy-Pütter models [0.03%]
预测最终疾病规模：比较Bertalanffy-Pütter模型的校准方法
Norbert Brunner,Manfred Kühleitner
Norbert Brunner
Using monthly data from the Ebola-outbreak 2013-2016 in West Africa, we compared two calibrations for data fitting, least-squares (SSE) and weighted least-squares (SWSE) with weights reciprocal to the number of new infections. To compare (i...
Jiao Yang,ZhiYing Ma,YanChang Lei
Jiao Yang
Owing to limited data, we conducted a meta-analysis to re-evaluate the relationship between obesity and coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19). Literature published between 1 January 2020 and 22 August 2020 was comprehensively analysed, and RevMan3.5 ...
Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae urinary tract infections [0.03%]
产超广谱β内酰胺酶的大肠埃希菌和肺炎克雷伯菌尿路感染
P Vachvanichsanong,E B McNeil,P Dissaneewate
P Vachvanichsanong
The prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae urinary tract infections (UTIs) is increasing worldwide. We investigated the prevalence, clinical findings, impact and risk facto...
Prioritisation of areas for early detection of southward movement of arctic fox rabies based on historical surveillance data in Quebec, Canada [0.03%]
基于加拿大魁北克省历史监测数据的早期发现北极狐向南移动狂犬病区域优先级划分
C Aenishaenslin,D Page,M Gagnier et al.
C Aenishaenslin et al.
Arctic rabies virus variant (ARVV) is enzootic in Quebec (Canada) north of the 55th parallel. With climate change, increased risk of re-incursion of ARVV in more densely populated southern regions raises public and animal health concerns. T...
Update on the campylobacter epidemic from chicken meat in New Zealand: The urgent need for an upgraded regulatory response [0.03%]
新西兰由鸡肉引起的空肠弯曲杆菌爆发的更新：亟需升级监管反应
M G Baker,L Grout,N Wilson
M G Baker
New Zealand has a long-running campylobacter infection (campylobacteriosis) epidemic with contaminated fresh chicken meat as the major source. This is both the highest impact zoonosis and the largest food safety problem in the country. Addi...
J Arino,N Bajeux,S Portet et al.
J Arino et al.
Using a stochastic model, we assess the risk of importation-induced local transmission chains in locations seeing few or no local transmissions and evaluate the role of quarantine in the mitigation of this risk. We find that the rate of imp...
C F Yung,E Saffari,C Liew
C F Yung
The epidemiological target of lockdowns is to drive down the effective reproduction number (Rt) to less than 1. A key unknown is the duration that lockdowns need to be in place to achieve this and which lockdown measures are effective. Dail...
'Evidence for waterborne origin of an extended mixed gastroenteritis outbreak in a town in Northern Greece, 2019' [0.03%]
“希腊北部某城镇一起2019年暴发的混合胃肠炎疫情由水传播引起的确证”
M Tzani,K Mellou,M Kyritsi et al.
M Tzani et al.
We investigated a large gastroenteritis outbreak that occurred in Northern Greece in 2019. A case was defined as anyone presenting with diarrhoea and/or vomiting from 24 January 2019 to 04 February 2019. We conducted a case-control study (C...