Public Health

Arden Syntax MLM Building Blocks for Microbiological Concepts and Their Application in Infection Surveillance.

BACKGROUND: The diagnosis - and hence definitions - of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) rely on microbiological laboratory test results in specific constellations.

Prevalence and risk factors of chronic kidney disease in an african semi-urban area: Results from a cross-sectional survey in Gueoul, Senegal.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health priority worldwide; however, its prevalence and incidence are difficult to assess. In Africa, few studies have been conducted on the prevalence of CKD. This study sought to describe the epidemiological characteristics and profile of CKD, as well as the related risk factors in Guéoul, a semi-urban zone in Senegal. An observational, cross-sectional, an...

Automatically Identifying Topics of Consumer Health Questions in Chinese.

In health question answering (QA) system development, question topic identification is crucial to understand users' information needs and further faci...

Comparing the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Opinions Trends from Different Twitter User Groups with a Machine Learning Based System and Semiparametric Nonlinear Regression.

HPV vaccination refusal is a serious public health issue. Opinions on Twitter have are influential to potential consumers on vaccination behaviours. P...

Active Surveillance Use Among a Low-risk Prostate Cancer Population in a Large US Payer System: 17-Gene Genomic Prostate Score Versus Other Risk Stratification Methods.

Many men with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa) receive definitive treatment despite recommendations that have been informed by two large, randomized tri...

[Development, identification and application of 33 monoclonal antibodies against cardiac troponin T].

The aim of this study is to prepare and characterize cardiac troponin T (cTnT) monoclonal antibodies (mAb), and further develop a chemiluminescence qu...

Digital Pharmacovigilance and Disease Surveillance: Combining Traditional and Big-Data Systems for Better Public Health.

The digital revolution has contributed to very large data sets (ie, big data) relevant for public health. The two major data sources are electronic he...

Unsupervised selection of RV144 HIV vaccine-induced antibody features correlated to natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxic reactions.

HIV-1 vaccine injection has been shown less effective due to the diversity of antigens. Increasing the knowledge of the associations between immune sy...

Objective Assessment of Physical Activity: Classifiers for Public Health.

PURPOSE: Walking for health is recommended by health agencies, partly based on epidemiological studies of self-reported behaviors. Accelerometers are ...

Towards a HPV Vaccine Knowledgebase for Patient Education Content.

Human papillomavirus is a widespread sexually transmitted infection that can be prevented with vaccination. However, HPV vaccination rates in the Unit...

Immune Response And Anamnestic Immune Response In Children After A 3-Dose Primary Hepatitis B Vaccination.

BACKGROUND: Diseases caused by Hepatitis B virus (HBV) have a worldwide distribution. Pakistan adopted the recommendations of World Health Organizatio...

A Supervised Learning Process to Validate Online Disease Reports for Use in Predictive Models.

Pathogen distribution models that predict spatial variation in disease occurrence require data from a large number of geographic locations to generate...

A new approach for cleansing geographical dataset using Levenshtein distance, prior knowledge and contextual information.

Epidemiological studies are necessary to take public health decisions. Their relevance depends on the quality of data. Doctors in continuous care coll...

Fool-proofing design and crisis management for customized intelligent physical fitness and healthcare system.

In recent years, it is quite important to develop a customized system which can enhance physical fitness and health for people. And the system reliabi...

Etiology and pathology of epidemic outbreaks of avian influenza H5N1 infection in Egyptian chicken farms.

Epidemic outbreaks of avian influenza (AI) virus H5N1 have been frequently reported in Egypt during the last nine years. Here we investigate the invol...

[A case report of hepatitis B virus reactivation in a hepatitis B core antibody-positive, hepatitis B surface antigen-negative hemodialysis patient].

Reactivation of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been reported in patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy or chemotherapy. We report a case of HBV...

Establishment of hepatitis A vaccine (inactivated, non-adsorbed) BRP batches 2 and 3.

The current hepatitis A vaccine (HAV), inactivated, non-adsorbed, European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Biological Reference Preparation (BRP) is used for...