Management of acute bacterial meningitis in a limited resource setting: an Egyptian consensus model by Samy Zaky, Mohamed Elbadry, Maysaa A. Saeed, Hanaa Fathelbab, Fatma Abdelsalam, Mohammed Gamal Abdel-Hamid, Alshaimaa Eid, Asmaa Bakr, Amira Maher, Mona Mohammed Abdelrahman, Mohamed A. Metwally, Mahmoud Saad Berengy, Enaam Ali AlMowafy, Hassan Goabar, Amin Abdel Baki, Ahmed Corie, Osama Hammad, Entesar Elsharkawy, Ahmed Saad, Fatma Ali-Eldin, Ahmed Mahdy, Ramadan Zaky, Reham Hammad, Gamal Essmat

“…This consensus-based paper is under the supervision of the Egyptian Society of Fever comprising clinicians, microbiologists, epidemiologists, and public health representatives. They convened to assess the current situation and develop a new consensus on the management of ABM, taking into consideration the human and health potential of Egypt. …”
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Standards for the Epidemiological Investigation of Measles and Rubella Foci by O. V. Tsvirkun, N. T. Tikhonova, A. G. Gerasimova, N. V. Turaeva, L. A. Barkinkhoeva, N. I. Briko

“…In practical medicine, standards for the provision of therapeutic and preventive care have been used for a long time, but in epidemiology this concept has not yet been reflected in regulatory documents. Epidemiologists need a standard of epidemiological investigation of cases of measles and rubella infection, which must be eliminated. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of Possible Scenarios for the Development of the Epidemic in Russia by S. V. Borisevich, T. E. Sizikova, V. N. Lebedev

“…To describe the spread of the epidemic, the SIR model (Susceptible Infected Recovered) proposed by Scottish epidemiologists W.O. Kermack and A.G. McKendrick was used. …”
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S-I-R Model and COVID-19 Data-Based Numerical Ro Estimation for Pandemic Modeling by Fayzan Ahmed, Majid Iqbal, Arshad Iqbal, Zaheer Uddin

“…It gives a trend of infectious disease in a large population. The model helps epidemiologists and health policymakers to understand the probable transmission of disease and to take possible and effective measures to control or reduce the spread of the virus. …”
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Clinical profile and short-term outcomes of RT-PCR- positive patients with COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh by Malabika Sarker, Md Zabir Hasan, Shams Shabab Haider, Nirmol Kumar Biswas, Ahmad Monjurul Aziz, Juli Chowdhury

“…Our result will inform the clinicians and epidemiologists of Bangladesh of their COVID-19 mitigation effort.…”
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Challenges in COVID-19 Pandemic Triaging: An Indian and US Perspective by Muralidhar Varma, Robin Sudandiradas, Mauli Mahendra Patel, Trini Ann Mathew, Marcus Zervos, Shashikiran Umakanth, Asha Kamath, Mahadev Rao, Vandana Kalwaje Eshwara, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Vijaya Arun Kumar

“…It is critical for infectious disease doctors, clinical microbiologists, hospital epidemiologists, and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) staff to collaborate with clinicians, nurses, and other ancillary staff in order to successfully implement the triage protocols. …”
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Defining decision thresholds for judgments on health benefits and harms using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Evidence to Decision (Et... by Pablo Alonso-Coello, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Elena Parmelli, Feng Xie, Holger J Schünemann, Antonio Bognanni, Nancy Santesso, Wojtek Wiercioch, Elie A Akl, Thomas Piggott, Uwe Siebert, Ilse M Verstijnen, Andrea J Darzi, Jan L Brozek, Gian Paolo Morgano, Zuleika Saz-Parkinson

“…We will invite clinicians, epidemiologists, decision scientists, health research methodologists, experts in Health Technology Assessment (HTA), members of guideline development groups and the public to participate in the trial. …”
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Causes of Condemnations of Edible Parts of Slaughtered Pigs in Bavaria and Their Economic Implications: A Retrospective Survey (2021–2022) by Sebastian Ciui, Adriana Morar, Viorel Herman, Emil Tîrziu, Mirela Imre, Alexandra Ban-Cucerzan, Sebastian Alexandru Popa, Răzvan-Tudor Pătrînjan, Doru Morar, Kálmán Imre

“…The study results offer useful information for veterinarians, stockowners, and epidemiologists to make and set up policies to increase the efficiency and benefits of the swine production system and protect public health.…”
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The clinical manifestation and diagnostic features of Kawasaki-like phenotypes in pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome: a comparative retrospective study in Ukraine by Nataliia Bodnarchuk-Sokhatska, Halyna Pavlyshyn, Kateryna Kozak, Iryna Avramenko

“…All cases met the MIS-C diagnostic criteria established by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (2022) and were classified according to the American Heart Association Kawasaki disease criteria (2017). …”
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What has changed in the attitude of health workers towards vaccination after the pandemic COVID-19 by S. M. Kharit, L. V. Romanov, Yu. E. Konstantinova, S. A. Bogdan

“…By profession, out of 1033 respondents there were: 525 nurses (50.8%),156 therapists (15.1%), pediatricians – 115 (11.1%), surgeons 96 (9.3%), epidemiologists 41 (4.0%),. The questionnaire included 50 questions with 5­13 possible answers. …”
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Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Outbreak—Oregon, United States, 2024 by Rosalie T. Trevejo, Matthew Hunter, Terran Gilbreath, Madison Walton, June E. Bancroft, Emilio E. DeBess, Dat Tran, Paul R. Cieslak

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Strengthening local capacity for mathematical modelling in low- and middle-income countries: the process and lessons learnt in implementing the first cohort of Nigeria malaria mode... by Chijioke Kaduru, Uche Ibe, Shina Aladeshawe, Adaeze Eche-George, Ganiyat Eshikhena, Dumale Aadum, Bassey Okon, Emmanuel D. Iorkase, Kesiye Leghemo, Oladipo Ogunbode, Chukwu Okoronkwo, Onyebuchi Okoro, Ehimario U. Igumbor, Abisoye Oyeyemi, Perpetua Uhomoibhi, Seye Babatunde

“…Conclusion MMF demonstrates a collaborative effort to build modelling capacity among epidemiologists and healthcare professionals in LMICs, particularly for malaria. …”
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Homecare of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria: Current situation, challenges in implementation, and strategies for improvement by Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Aanuoluwapo Adeyimika Afolabi

“…The study population were the COVID19 positives undergoing HBC. Epidemiologists, who had been deployed into the COVID-19 outbreak rapid response team, provided information on the study population. …”
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595 Is PHASTR faster? A target trial emulation case study in the N3C by Steve Johnson, Carolyn Bramante, Til Stürmer, John Buse, Talia Wiggen, Jared Huling, Andrew Toler

“…Discussion/Significance of Impact: The analysis was productive because the environment made reuse easy and supported rich collaborations among clinicians, informaticists, epidemiologists, statisticians, and data developers. Advice from PHASTR advisors (Axel) and N3C diabetes domain team members was also key to a faster completion.…”
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Association Between Social Distancing Compliance and Public Place Crowding During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Observational Study Using Computer Vision to Analyze Survei... by Lasse Suonperä Liebst, Wim Bernasco, Peter Ejbye-Ernst, Nigel van Herwijnen, Thomas van der Veen, Dennis Koelma, Cees G M Snoek, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard

“…Our findings thus provide a reliable and scalable proxy measure of distancing noncompliance that offers epidemiologists a tool to easily incorporate real-life behavior into predictive models of airborne contagious diseases. …”
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Large diversity in the O-chain biosynthetic cluster within populations of Pelagibacterales by Jose M. Haro-Moreno, Mario López-Pérez, Carmen Molina-Pardines, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera

“…This has been long known by epidemiologists. However, it is unknown what gene pool is present in a single set of environmental conditions, i.e., the same time and place in free-living bacteria. …”
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A protocol for a discrete choice experiment: understanding patient medicine preferences for managing chronic non-cancer pain by Marian Shanahan, Suzanne Nielsen, Briony Larance, Milton Cohen, Maria Schaffer, Gabrielle Campbell

“…Following a review by study investigators including pain and addiction specialists, pharmacists and epidemiologists, the final list of attributes was selected (number of medications, risk of addiction, side effects, pain interference, activity goals, source of information on pain, provider of pain care and out-of-pocket costs). …”
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Surveillance and Prevention of Fungal Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Prof Batyrbek Aslanov, Dr Larisa Ermakova, Dr Anna Nabieva

“…The IPC algorithm includes notification of epidemiologists and clinical pharmacologists and barrier precautions. …”
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Core outcome set for studies on pregnant women with vasa previa (COVasP): a study protocol by Rohan D’Souza, Linda Villani, Chelsea Hall, Meron Seyoum, John Kingdom, Michael Krznaric, Natasha Donnolley, Nasrin Javid

“…This will be followed by a two-round Delphi survey, which will aim to narrow down the long list of outcomes into those considered important by four groups of ‘stakeholders’: (1) patients, family members and patient advocates/representatives, (2) healthcare providers, (3) researchers, epidemiologists and methodologists and (4) other stakeholders directly or indirectly involved in the management of these pregnancies such as administrators, guideline developers and policymakers. …”
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Advancing Public Health in Rwanda through the Field Epidemiology Training Program by Mutabazi Vincent, Sinayobye Jean d’Amour

“…Established in 2009, RFETP has so far graduated six advanced cohorts and 76 field Epidemiologists. The program also currently runs the intermediate and basic FETP training models at sub national levels. …”
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