Genetic diversity atlas of Brucella melitensis strains from Sichuan Province, China by Wenbo Li, Linzi Zeng, Rongmei Yuan, Teng Qi, Hongyu Liao, Yuhangxi Cao, Shu Huang, Zhiguo Liu, Zhenjun Li

“…The findings imply that infected animals were introduced from outside the province. The surveillance and control of the disease have become public health challenges. …”
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Application Effect of the 6S Care Model in Sterilization in the Department of Stomatology and Its Impact on the Incidence of Nosocomial Infection by Jing Lou, Guiqin Wang, Man Jiang, Guochao Xu

“…Methods. The infection surveillance indicators of the department of stomatology implementing the routine sterilization care model in 2019 were selected as the general group (including 140 patients and 140 cases of oral instrument kits for unpacking), and the infection surveillance indicators of the department of stomatology implementing the 6S care model in 2020 were selected as the 6S group (including 140 patients and 140 cases of oral instrument kits for unpacking). …”
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Primary HIV Drug Resistance among Recently Infected Cases of HIV in North-West India by C. K. Chauhan, P. V. M. Lakshmi, V. Sagar, A. Sharma, S. K. Arora, R. Kumar

“…The fact that both Y181C isolates are IDUs is important and represents 2/21 (~10%) NNRTI drug resistance. Surveillance for primary drug resistance (PDR) needs to be integrated into next generation of HIV surveillance as access to ART is increasing due to introduction of test and treat policy.…”
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Sequencing Analysis of Invasive Carbapenem-Resistant <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> Isolates Secondary to Gastrointestinal Colonization by Gaetano Maugeri, Maddalena Calvo, Dafne Bongiorno, Dalida Bivona, Giuseppe Migliorisi, Grete Francesca Privitera, Guido Scalia, Stefania Stefani

“…In conclusion, active surveillance through sequencing is essential to enhance awareness of local epidemiology within high-risk multi-drug resistance areas. …”
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Species classification of Tabanus (Diptera: Tabanidae) in Western Thailand: Integrating DNA barcoding and modern morphometrics by Tanasak Changbunjong, Thekhawet Weluwanarak, Sedthapong Laojun, Tanawat Chaiphongpachara

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Neonatal BCG vaccination and child survival in TB-exposed and TB-unexposed children: a prospective cohort study by Peter Aaby, Per Kallestrup, Christine Stabell Benn, Sanne M Thysen, Ane Fisker, Victor Francisco Gomes, Frauke Rudolf, Christian Wejse, Adam Roth

“…Objectives To assess the association between neonatal BCG vaccination and mortality between 28 days and 3 years of age among tuberculosis (TB)-exposed and TB-unexposed children.Design Prospective cohort study.Setting Bandim Health Project runs an urban Health and Demographic Surveillance site in Guinea-Bissau with registration of mortality, vaccination status and TB cases.Participants Children entered the analysis when their vaccination card was inspected after 28 days of age and remained under surveillance to 3 years of age. …”
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A descriptive analysis of a medical humanitarian aid initiative for quality perinatal management in war-torn Ukraine by Iryna Mogilevkina, Dmytro Dobryanskyy, Rhona MacDonald, Diane Watson, David Southall

“…After informed consent, mothers (n = 13735) who agreed to use in labour fetal self-monitoring in addition to standard intrapartum fetal health surveillance, monitored and recorded fetal heart rate changes on a “contraction-by-contraction” basis into a special form. …”
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Role of spindle assembly checkpoint proteins in gametogenesis and embryogenesis by Renju Pun, Brian J. North

“…The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) is a surveillance mechanism that prevents uneven segregation of sister chromatids between daughter cells during anaphase. …”
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a Probable Cause of Antibiotic-Associated Enterocolitis by Alison B. Lane, Nathanial K. Copeland, Fatma Onmus-Leone, James V. Lawler

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Implementation of Missing Data Imputation Schemes in Face Recognition Algorithm under Partial Occlusion by Justice Kwame Appati, Kofi Sarpong Adu-Manu, Ebenezer Owusu

“…However, this is not always the case, especially in crowd control under surveillance or footage from a crime scene, where partial occlusions are unavoidable. …”
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Frontera política, resistencias y solidaridades: el caso de los refugiados de la Guerra Civil Española en Barrancos (1936) by Dulce Simões

“…The Spanish-Portuguese border was an instrument of protection and resistance, which demarcated the lives and deaths of thousands of people during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), despite Salazar having strengthened his control and surveillance. In the Portuguese village of Barrancos (Baixo Alentejo) two of the largest flows of Spanish refugees into Portuguese territory took place, made up of politically distinct groups. …”
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Growing Teratoma Syndrome: A Rare Outcome by João Rebelo, Francisco Moreira, Margarida Morgado, Ana Sofia Preto, António Madureira

“…We present a case of a 26-year-old male with known mixed germ cell tumor which exhibited new and progressive secondary lesions during imaging surveillance, later to be histologically characterized as teratomas.…”
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Feasibility of a Provincial Voluntary Reporting System for Work-Related Asthma in Ontario by Teresa To, Susan M Tarlo, Susan McLimont, Ted Haines, D Linn Holness, M Diane Lougheed, Gary M Liss, Lisa Cicutto

“…OBJECTIVE The Ontario Work-Related Asthma Surveillance System: Physician Reporting (OWRAS) Network was established in 2007 to estimate the prevalence of work-related asthma (WRA) in Ontario, and to test the feasibility of collecting data for cases of WRA from physicians voluntarily.…”
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Chikungunya Virus Infection and Acute Elevation of Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen by William Derval Aiken, Joshua J. Anzinger

“…A man with prostate cancer on a regime of active surveillance had a laboratory-confirmed acute Chikungunya virus infection. …”
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Assignment Computations Based on Cexp Average in Various Ladder Graphs by A.Rajesh Kannan, P. Manivannan, K. Loganathan, K. Prabu, Sonam Gyeltshen

“…Ladder networks are increasingly being used in everyday life for monitoring and environmental applications such as domestic, military, surveillance, industrial, medical applications, and traffic management. …”
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Bagrada Bug, Painted Bug, Bagrada Hilaris (Burmeister) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Eric LeVeen, Amanda C. Hodges

“…Therefore, monitoring, surveillance, and educational efforts have begun in Florida to facilitate early detection and rapid response as the spread of the bagrada bug continues to other areas. …”
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Mitigation Measures for Windfarm Effects on Radar Systems by Omar Abu Ella, Khawla A. Alnajjar

“…Windfarms can have a significant impact on radar systems, especially air surveillance radar. This is because it is usually designed to show only moving targets and cancel out stationary objects. …”
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Carcinosarcoma of the Bladder: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Doğan Atılgan, Yusuf Gençten

“…A series of 221 cases using the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program database has been reported recently. …”
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Psychological fitness for work: do we still have a long way to go? by Giuseppe Ferrari

“…In Italy, the absence of adequate regulatory instruments and guidelines for the proper classification of psychiatric disorders in occupational medicine denies occupational physicians the opportunity to adequately evaluate employees’ psycho-physical fitness for work through health surveillance. This applies particularly to the categories of workers who could potentially ‘endanger’ the health and safety of third parties in the workplace. …”
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Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System by Falin Wu, Hengyang Zhao, Yan Zhao, Haibo Zhong

“…Fall detection is a major challenge in the public healthcare domain, especially for the elderly as the decline of their physical fitness, and timely and reliable surveillance is necessary to mitigate the negative effects of falls. …”
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