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Epidemiology, Determinants And Dynamics Of Cholera In Pakistan: Gaps And Prospects For Future Research., Maliha Naseer, Tanzil Jamali
Epidemiology, Determinants And Dynamics Of Cholera In Pakistan: Gaps And Prospects For Future Research., Maliha Naseer, Tanzil Jamali
Community Health Sciences
Cholera is one of the notifiable endemic diseases in Pakistan, but the reporting of cholera cases is still unsatisfactory. Most of the diagnosed cases are never reported to the relevant authorities. In the year 1993 - 2005, the country did not report any single case of cholera to the WHO. The objectives of this review were to understand the epidemiology and to identify the possible determinants of cholera infection in Pakistan. Medscape, Medline, PakMedinet and PubMed, was searched, using key words, epidemiology and determinants of cholera infection in Pakistan during 1995 - 2010. Morbidity and mortality due to cholera infection …
Infectious Diseases, Bert Chapman
Infectious Diseases, Bert Chapman
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Provides information about the role of infectious diseases in the early years of U.S. History, with particular emphasis on how they impacted injuries sustained in military conflict.
Performance Of The Oraquick Hcv Rapid Antibody Test For Screening Exposed Patients In A Hepatitis C Outbreak Investigation, Fengxiang Gao, Elizabeth A. Talbot, Carol H. Loring, Jill J. Power, Jodie Dionne-Odom
Performance Of The Oraquick Hcv Rapid Antibody Test For Screening Exposed Patients In A Hepatitis C Outbreak Investigation, Fengxiang Gao, Elizabeth A. Talbot, Carol H. Loring, Jill J. Power, Jodie Dionne-Odom
Dartmouth Scholarship
During a nosocomial hepatitis C outbreak, emergency public clinics employed the OraQuick HCV rapid antibody test on site, and all results were verified by a standard enzyme immunoassay (EIA). Of 1,157 persons, 1,149 (99.3%) exhibited concordant results between the two tests (16 positive, 1,133 negative). The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were 94.1%, 99.5%, 72.7%, and 99.9%, respectively. OraQuick performed well as a screening test during an outbreak investigation and could be integrated into future hepatitis C virus (HCV) outbreak testing algorithms.