Optimal control strategies for toxoplasmosis disease transmission dynamics via harmonic mean-type incident rate by Usman Khan, Farhad Ali, Ohud A. Alqasem, Maysaa E. A. Elwahab, Ilyas Khan, Ariana Abdul Rahimzai

“…Toxoplasma infection (an endemic disease) has the potential to affect various organs and systems (brain, eyes, heart, lungs, liver, and lymph nodes). …”
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Acute Febrile Illness Accompanied by 7th and 12th Cranial Nerve Palsy Due to Lyme Disease Following Travel to Rural Ecuador: A Case Report and Mini-Review by Teslin S. Sandstrom, Kumudhavalli Kavanoor Sridhar, Judith Joshi, Ali Aunas, Sheliza Halani, Andrea K. Boggild

“…The causative agent of Lyme disease, <i>Borrelia burgdorferi</i>, is endemic to Canada, the northeastern United States, northern California, and temperate European regions. …”
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Laboratory Comparison of Rapid Antigen Diagnostic Tests for Lymphatic Filariasis: STANDARD Q Filariasis Antigen Test (QFAT) Versus Bioline Filariasis Test Strip (FTS) by Patricia M. Graves, Jessica L. Scott, Alvaro Berg Soto, Antin Y. N. Widi, Maxine Whittaker, Colleen L. Lau, Kimberly Y. Won

“…The prior Ag status of endemic samples (54.9% Ag-positive) was determined by rapid test (ICT or FTS) or Og4C3 ELISA. …”
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TRENCH FEVER AS WAR INFECTION by Nataliya Vynograd, Zoriana Vasylyshyn, Lyudmyla Kozak, Ihor Chaklosh, Iryna Baidalka, Uliana Shul, Iryna Chaplyk-Chyzho

“…Conclusions. Ukraine is endemic of trench fever. During war, active epidemiological surveillance should be conducted to promptly identify cases, with control of pediculosis infestation in the general population.…”
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Locke’s Diagnosis of Akrasia by Matthew A. Leisinger

“…On this interpretation, akrasia occurs on Locke’s account because certain cognitive biases endemic to the human mind dispose us to privilege present over future happiness. …”
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Dynamical Behavior of a Rumor Transmission Model with Psychological Effect in Emergency Event by Liang'an Huo, Tingting Lin, Peiqing Huang

“…By carrying out a global analysis of the model and studying the stability of the rumor-free equilibrium and the rumor-endemic equilibrium, we showed that either the number of infective individuals tends to zero as time evolves or the rumor persists. …”
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Dypsis decaryi, Triangle Palm by Heather V. Quintana, Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Mary McKenzie

“…Friedman, and Mary McKenzie, describes this palm with a distinctive triangular shape to its trunk, which is endemic to the southeasternmost part of Madagascar and thrives in poor, dry soils—scientific and common names, description, allergen, and applications. …”
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Lyapunov Functions for a Class of Discrete SIRS Epidemic Models with Nonlinear Incidence Rate and Varying Population Sizes by Ying Wang, Zhidong Teng, Mehbuba Rehim

“…Furthermore, by constructing new discrete type Lyapunov functions, the sufficient and necessary conditions on the global asymptotic stability of the disease-free equilibrium and endemic equilibrium are established.…”
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Two new species of Malthinus Latreille, 1805 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from Georgia by S.V. Kazantsev

“…The total number of Malthinus species registered in Georgia is thus raised to ten, three of them being endemic to the country. Malthinus turcicus Pic, 1899 is for the first time recorded from Georgia, with its aedeagus illustrated by photographs for the first time. …”
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Stability Analysis of a Multigroup SEIR Epidemic Model with General Latency Distributions by Nan Wang, Jingmei Pang, Jinliang Wang

“…Under the given assumptions, the basic reproduction number ℜ0 is defined and proved as the role of a threshold; that is, the disease-free equilibrium P0 is globally asymptotically stable if ℜ0≤1, while an endemic equilibrium P* exists uniquely and is globally asymptotically stable if ℜ0>1. …”
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PLAGUE THE HIDDEN OLD NEMESIS by Syed Nauman Raza et al

“…It should be considered in the differential diagnosis in patients who lives in the endemic area or have exposure to animals known to harbor the vector. …”
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Global stability for an SEI epidemiological model with continuous age-structure in the exposed and infectious classes by C. Connell McCluskey

“…For $\mathcal{R}_{0}1$, a Lyapunov functionalis used to show that the endemic equilibrium is globally stable amongst solutions forwhich the disease is present. …”
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An SIR Epidemic Model with Time Delay and General Nonlinear Incidence Rate by Mingming Li, Xianning Liu

“…By constructing Lyapunov functionals and using the Lyapunov-LaSalle invariance principle, the global asymptotic stability of the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium is obtained. It is shown that the global properties of the system depend on both the properties of these general functions and the basic reproductive number R0.…”
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Hyophorbe verschaffeltii, Spindle Palm by Melissa H. Friedman, Michael G. Andreu, Heather V. Quintana, Mary McKenzie

“…Quintana, and Mary McKenzie, describes this palm with a spindly stem, which is endemic to the Mascarene Islands east of Madagascar, and which in the U.S. grows in south Florida, southern California, and the Hawaiian Islands – scientific and common names, description, and applications. …”
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Global stability in a tuberculosis model of imperfect treatment with age-dependent latency and relapse by Shanjing Ren

“…If $R_{0} \lt 1$, the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable, whereas if $R_{0} \gt 1$, a Lyapunov functional is used to show that the endemic equilibrium is globally stable amongst solutions for which the disease is present.…”
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Fundamentals of Citrus Canker Management by Lavern W. Timmer, James H. Graham, Holly L. Chamberlain

“…It includes information about protecting canker-free areas through decontamination and inoculum suppression, and for areas where canker is endemic it describes the use of windbreaks, copper sprays, leafminer control, and canker-resistant varieties. …”
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Dypsis decaryi, Triangle Palm by Heather V. Quintana, Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Mary McKenzie

“…Friedman, and Mary McKenzie, describes this palm with a distinctive triangular shape to its trunk, which is endemic to the southeasternmost part of Madagascar and thrives in poor, dry soils—scientific and common names, description, allergen, and applications. …”
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Fundamentals of Citrus Canker Management by Lavern W. Timmer, James H. Graham, Holly L. Chamberlain

“…It includes information about protecting canker-free areas through decontamination and inoculum suppression, and for areas where canker is endemic it describes the use of windbreaks, copper sprays, leafminer control, and canker-resistant varieties. …”
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Des lémuriens et des hommes : mythes, représentations et pratiques à Madagascar by Claire Harpet

“…Myths and related practices reflect the richness of relationships that people have had since the beginning with lemurs, animals endemic to the island of Madagascar. Depending on the species and the ethnic group involved, the representations of lemurs differ throughout the territory: founder ancestors, benefactors, taboo, sacred, feared or evil omen, lemurs occupy many status in the heart of Madagascan bestiary.  …”
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Understanding the oscillations of an epidemic due to vaccine hesitancy by Anthony Morciglio, R. K. P. Zia, James M. Hyman, Yi Jiang

“…With increasing fear of infection, stable endemic states become periodic oscillations. Our results suggest that managing fear of infection relative to vaccination is vital to successful mass vaccinations.…”
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