First sequence of influenza D virus identified in poultry farm bioaerosols in Sarawak, MalaysiaTropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines - Tập 6 - Trang 1-4 - 2020
Emily S. Bailey, Jane K. Fieldhouse, Natalie A. Alarja, David D. Chen, Maria E. Kovalik, Juliana N. Zemke, Jessica Y. Choi, Laura K. Borkenhagen, Teck-Hock Toh, Jeffrey Soon Yit Lee, Kuek-Sen Chong, Gregory C. Gray
In 2018, our team collected aerosols samples from five poultry farms in Malaysia. Influenza D virus was detected in 14% of samples. One sample had an 86.3% identity score similar to NCBI accession number MH785020.1. This is the first molecular sequence of influenza D virus detected in Southeast Asia from a bioaerosol sample. Our findings indicate that further study of role of IDV in poultry is nec...... hiện toàn bộ
Anopheles stephensi: a guest to watch in urban AfricaTropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines - Tập 8 Số 1 - 2022
Eliningaya J. Kweka
AbstractMalaria vector control programs in Sub-Saharan Africa have invested many efforts and resources in the control of eight-sibling species of Anopheles gambiae complex and An. funestus group. The behaviour of sibling species of these vectors is well known and used for implementing the current intervention to...... hiện toàn bộ
Arboviruses and pregnancy: are the threats visible or hidden?Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines - Tập 10 - Trang 1-14 - 2024
Najeh Hcini, Véronique Lambert, Olivier Picone, Jean-Francois Carod, Gabriel Carles, Léo Pomar, Loïc Epelboin, Mathieu Nacher
Mosquito-borne arboviral diseases are a global concern and can have severe consequences on maternal, neonatal, and child health. Their impact on pregnancy tends to be neglected in developing countries. Despite hundreds of millions of infections, 90% pregnancies being exposed, scientific data on pregnant women is poor and sometimes non-existent. Recently and since the 2016 Zika virus outbreak, ther...... hiện toàn bộ
Healthy, safe and effective international medical student electives: a systematic review and recommendations for program coordinatorsTropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines - Tập 5 - Trang 1-14 - 2019
D. Ashley Watson, Nicholas Cooling, Ian J. Woolley
Thousands of medical students undertake international medical electives each year. These students face potentially substantial health and safety risks as well as educational and ethical challenges and therefore should undertake their electives within well-structured and coordinated programs. We conducted a qualitative systematic review based on a pre-determined protocol. Relevant publications and ...... hiện toàn bộ
Sun, sea and sex: a review of the sex tourism literatureTropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines - Tập 6 - Trang 1-10 - 2020
Timothy Siliang Lu, Andrea Holmes, Chris Noone, Gerard Thomas Flaherty
Sex tourism is defined as travel planned specifically for the purpose of sex, generally to a country where prostitution is legal. While much of the literature on sex tourism relates to the commercial sex worker industry, sex tourism also finds expression in non-transactional sexual encounters. This narrative review explores current concepts related to travel and sex, with a focus on trans-national...... hiện toàn bộ
Estimating social contacts in mass gatherings for disease outbreak prevention and management: case of Hajj pilgrimageTropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines - Tập 8 - Trang 1-11 - 2022
Mohammadali Tofighi, Ali Asgary, Ghassem Tofighi, Mahdi M. Najafabadi, Julien Arino, Amine Amiche, Ashrafur Rahman, Zachary McCarthy, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Edward Thommes, Laurent Coudeville, Martin David Grunnill, Lydia Bourouiba, Jianhong Wu
Most mass gathering events have been suspended due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. However, with vaccination rollout, whether and how to organize some of these mass gathering events arises as part of the pandemic recovery discussions, and this calls for decision support tools. The Hajj, one of the world's largest religious gatherings, was substantively scaled down in 2020 and 2021 and it is still uncl...... hiện toàn bộ