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Zoonotic disease preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries (2021)
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Thomason, M., Tembo, J., Arruda, L., Ntoumi, F., McHugh, T., Zumla, A., …Kock, R. (2021). Zoonotic disease preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries. One Health Outlook, 3, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-021-00037-8

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>The emergence of high consequence pathogens such as Ebola and SARS-CoV-2, along with the continued burden of neglected diseases such as rabies, has highlighted th... Read More about Zoonotic disease preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries.

World Tuberculosis Day 2021 Theme — ‘The Clock is Ticking’ — and the world is running out of time to deliver the United Nations General Assembly commitments to End TB due to the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
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Gordon, A., Shanmugam, S., Bachmann, N., Lam, C., Sintchenko, V., Rudolf, F., …Haider, N. (2021). World Tuberculosis Day 2021 Theme — ‘The Clock is Ticking’ — and the world is running out of time to deliver the United Nations General Assembly commitments to End TB due to the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 113(S1), S1 - S6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.03.046

Zoonotic Tuberculosis – The Changing Landscape (2021)
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Kock, R., Michel, A., Yeboah-Manu, D., Azhar, E., Torrelles, J., Cadmus, S., …Zumla, A. (2021). Zoonotic Tuberculosis – The Changing Landscape. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 113(S1), S68 - S72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.02.091

Despite slow reductions in the annual burden of active human tuberculosis (TB) cases, zoonotic TB (zTB) remains a poorly monitored and an important unaddressed global problem. There is a higher incidence in some regions and countries, especially wher... Read More about Zoonotic Tuberculosis – The Changing Landscape.

Identification of Risk Factors Associated with Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross Sectional Study (2021)
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Osman, A., Elmi, S., Simons, D., Elton, L., Haider, N., Abdel Hamid, M., …Kock, R. (2021). Identification of Risk Factors Associated with Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross Sectional Study. Antibiotics, 117 - 117. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10020117

<jats:p>Antimicrobial resistance is of concern to global health security worldwide. We aimed to identify the prevalence, resistance patterns, and risk factors associated with Escherichia coli (E. coli) resistance from poultry farms in Kelantan, Teren... Read More about Identification of Risk Factors Associated with Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross Sectional Study.

Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of Dengue fever in Kassala state, eastern Sudan (2020)
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Siam, H., Samy, A., Mohamed, W., Khalid, F., Gumaa, S., Mboera, L., …Ahmed, A. (2020). Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of Dengue fever in Kassala state, eastern Sudan. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, e0008918 - e0008918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008918

<jats:p>Dengue is a rapidly growing public health threat in Kassala state, eastern Sudan. The objective of this study was to determine the seroprevalence, entomological transmission indices, and socioeconomic risk factors associated with dengue in th... Read More about Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of Dengue fever in Kassala state, eastern Sudan.

Epidemiology of COVID-19 infection in young children under five years: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020)
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Bhuiyan, M., Stiboy, E., Hassan, M., Chan, M., Islam, M., Haider, N., …Homaira, N. (2021). Epidemiology of COVID-19 infection in young children under five years: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Vaccine, 39(4), 667 - 677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.11.078

Introduction
Emerging evidence suggests young children are at greater risk of COVID-19 infection than initially predicted. However, a comprehensive understanding of epidemiology of COVID-19 infection in young children under five years, the most at-r... Read More about Epidemiology of COVID-19 infection in young children under five years: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

COVID-19—Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease? (2020)
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Haider, N., Rothman-Ostrow, R., Osman, A., Arruda, L., Macfarlane-Berry, L., Elton, L., …Kock, R. (2020). COVID-19—Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease?. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.596944

<jats:p>The World Health Organization defines a zoonosis as any infection naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. The pandemic of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been classified as a zoonotic disease, howeve... Read More about COVID-19—Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease?.

Human exposures to by-products from animals suspected to have died of anthrax in Bangladesh: An exploratory study (2020)
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Islam, M., Haider, N., Hossain, M., Hasan, S., Salzer, J., Kadzik, M., …Gurley, E. (2021). Human exposures to by-products from animals suspected to have died of anthrax in Bangladesh: An exploratory study. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 68(4), 2514-2520. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13921

Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis that is considered endemic in Bangladesh, where cases among animals and people have been reported almost annually since 2009. Contaminated by-products from animals are suspected... Read More about Human exposures to by-products from animals suspected to have died of anthrax in Bangladesh: An exploratory study.

Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries (2020)
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Haider, N., Osman, A. Y., Gadzekpo, A., Akipede, G. O., Asogun, D., Ansumana, R., …McCoy, D. (2020). Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries. BMJ Global Health, 5(10), e003319 - e003319. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003319

<jats:p>Lockdown measures have been introduced worldwide to contain the transmission of COVID-19. However, the term ‘lockdown’ is not well-defined. Indeed, WHO’s reference to ‘so-called lockdown measures’ indicates the absence of a clear and universa... Read More about Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries.

Basic Reproduction Number of Chikungunya Virus Transmitted by Aedes Mosquitoes (2020)
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Haider, N., Vairo, F., Ippolito, G., Zumla, A., & Kock, R. (2020). Basic Reproduction Number of Chikungunya Virus Transmitted by Aedes Mosquitoes. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2429 - 2431. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2610.190957

We estimated the weighted mean basic reproduction number (R0) of chikungunya virus based on outbreak size. R0 was 3.4 (95% CI 2.4–4.2) and varied for 2 primary chikungunya mosquito vectors: 4.1 (95% CI 1.5–6.6) for Aedes aegypti and 2.8 (95% CI 1.8–3... Read More about Basic Reproduction Number of Chikungunya Virus Transmitted by Aedes Mosquitoes.

Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation (2020)
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Vairo, F., Aimè Coussoud-Mavoungou, M., Ntoumi, F., Castilletti, C., Kitembo, L., Haider, N., …Ippolito, G. (2020). Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation. Viruses, 1020 - 1020. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12091020

<jats:p>The Republic of Congo (RoC) declared a chikungunya (CHIK) outbreak on 9 February 2019. We conducted a ONE-Human-Animal HEALTH epidemiological, virological and entomological investigation. Methods: We collected national surveillance and epidem... Read More about Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation.

The Global Health Security index and Joint External Evaluation score for health preparedness are not correlated with countries' COVID-19 detection response time and mortality outcome (2020)
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Haider, N., Yavlinsky, A., Chang, Y., Hasan, M. N., Benfield, C., Osman, A. Y., …Kock, R. (2020). The Global Health Security index and Joint External Evaluation score for health preparedness are not correlated with countries' COVID-19 detection response time and mortality outcome. Epidemiology and Infection, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268820002046

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Global Health Security Index (GHSI) and Joint External Evaluation (JEE) are two well-known health security and related capability indices. We hypothesised that countries with higher GHSI or JEE scores would h... Read More about The Global Health Security index and Joint External Evaluation score for health preparedness are not correlated with countries' COVID-19 detection response time and mortality outcome.

Antimicrobial resistance preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries (2020)
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Abdel Hamid, M., Haider, N., Kock, R., Ippolito, G., Zumla, A., McHugh, T., …Ntoumi, F. (2020). Antimicrobial resistance preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 9, Article 145. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00800-y

Background
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of growing concern globally and AMR status in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is undefined due to a lack of real-time data recording, surveillance and regulation. World Health Organization (WHO) Joint External E... Read More about Antimicrobial resistance preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries.

Possible Drivers of the 2019 Dengue Outbreak in Bangladesh: The Need for a Robust Community-Level Surveillance System (2020)
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Haider, N., Kock, R., Benfield, C., & Ahsan, A. (2021). Possible Drivers of the 2019 Dengue Outbreak in Bangladesh: The Need for a Robust Community-Level Surveillance System. Journal of Medical Entomology, 58(1), 37-39. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa150

Bangladesh experienced its largest dengue virus (DENV) outbreak in 2019, with 101,354 patients admitted to hospital with either laboratory-confirmed or clinical diagnosis. By contrast, the cumulative number of dengue patients admitted to hospitals in... Read More about Possible Drivers of the 2019 Dengue Outbreak in Bangladesh: The Need for a Robust Community-Level Surveillance System.

Response to ‘Evaluation of modelling study shows limits of COVID-19 importing risk simulations in sub-Saharan Africa’ (Epidemiology and Infection – HYG-LE-10513-May-20) (2020)
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Yavlinsky, A., Haider, N., & Kock, R. (2020). Response to ‘Evaluation of modelling study shows limits of COVID-19 importing risk simulations in sub-Saharan Africa’ (Epidemiology and Infection – HYG-LE-10513-May-20). Epidemiology and Infection, 148, Article e112. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268820001211

Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future (2020)
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Kapata, N., Ihekweazu, C., Ntoumi, F., Raji, T., Chanda-Kapata, P., Mwaba, P., …Zumla, A. (2020). Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 93, 233 - 236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.049

Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America (2020)
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Haider, N., Yavlinsky, A., Simons, D., Yusuf Osman, A., Ntoumi, F., Zumla, A., & Kock, R. (2020). Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America. Epidemiology and Infection, 148, Article e41. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268820000424

Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV [SARS-COV-2]) was detected in humans during the last week of December 2019 at Wuhan city in China, and caused 24 554 cases in 27 countries and territories as of 5 February 2020. The objective of this study was to estimate... Read More about Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America.

Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018 (2020)
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Ghosh, S., Rana, M. S., Islam, M. K., Chowdhury, S., Haider, N., Kafi, M. A. H., …Jhora, S. T. (2020). Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article ARTN 2410. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59109-w

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Vaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006–2018 to quantify the im... Read More about Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018.

Epidemiology and genotypes of group A rotaviruses in cattle and goats of Bangladesh, 2009-2010 (2020)
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Hossain, M., Rahman, M., Watson, O., Islam, A., Rahman, S., Hasan, R., …Haider, N. (2020). Epidemiology and genotypes of group A rotaviruses in cattle and goats of Bangladesh, 2009-2010. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 79, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104170

Group A rotavirus (RVA) is recognized as a major cause of severe gastroenteritis in newborn calves and goat kids. We estimated the proportion of ruminants infected with rotavirus and identified the circulating genotypes in cattle and goats in Banglad... Read More about Epidemiology and genotypes of group A rotaviruses in cattle and goats of Bangladesh, 2009-2010.

Molecular characterization of group A rotavirus from rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at human-wildlife interfaces in Bangladesh (2019)
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Islam, A., Rahman, M. Z., Miah, M., Hossain, M. E., Haider, N., Rostal, M. K., …Epstein, J. H. (2020). Molecular characterization of group A rotavirus from rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at human-wildlife interfaces in Bangladesh. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 67(2), 956-966. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13431

Group A rotavirus (RVA) is an important cause of diarrhoea in people, especially children, and animals globally. Due to the segmented nature of the RVA genome, animal RVA strains have the potential to adapt to the human host through reassortment with... Read More about Molecular characterization of group A rotavirus from rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at human-wildlife interfaces in Bangladesh.