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I normally use the next generation matrix to find the basic reproduction number. Is there any other efficient way to find it. Thank you in advance.
03 March 2018 7,402 12 View
I am using Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) guidelines for public health. One journal is asking this " Indicate the guideline(s) used. Checklists for reporting...
03 March 2018 7,381 7 View
Alls, I'm working on the distribution of Yellow fever human cases (ongoing outbreak) in Brazil and expect to use, among other, Ecological Niche Modelling. I'm using a set of "classical"...
03 March 2018 3,926 1 View
Hello! I want to report an epidemiology number, as a descriptive statistic in my paper. I would like to ask you which is the acceptable deviation in reporting such a number? E.g.: I found that...
03 March 2018 10,000 10 View
Dear RG community: I am currently working on an ecological study in order to analyze disease burden from cancer in my country. I am looking for the most suitable indicator of disease burden....
24 January 2018 8,200 11 View
I would strongly appreciate your comments on the legal / medical status of Jehovah´s Witnesses in the process of providing health care in your country. I use Witnesses as an example of patients...
19 January 2018 6,740 4 View
01 January 2018 3,437 12 View
Dear RG users, I am wondering suggestions from colleagues; what is the clear boundary between OR and RR? How can I easily understand and interprate these epidemiological tools? Reflections are...
01 January 2018 9,909 2 View
I’ve performed a study in which 53 subjects each evaluated whether a set of 25 imaging studies was normal or abnormal. I also have the “gold standard” of whether each of the 25 imaging studies was...
20 December 2017 5,163 4 View
I isolated pathogenic bacteria Lactococcus garviae from the hepatopancrease of giant freshwater prawn, it showed alpha heaemolysis, but my problem is how I'm going to increase the pathogenicity of...
20 December 2017 5,668 3 View
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Otitis externa is definitely resistant in diabetes patients, it is not necrotising (malignant) external otitis all the time. It can't be treated as a simple EO as it's pre-MOE. What medications do...
16 December 2017 9,204 2 View
For researchers interested by the study of the evolution of partial differential equations Is there a relationship between the Bresse system and the middle ear? It seems that there are...
15 December 2017 3,213 1 View
Hello! I just came across with an article (Mullan et al., 2006 Arthritis and Rheumatism) where the reseaschers showed expression of VCAM-1 in synovial cells of joints in patients with rheumatoid...
14 December 2017 1,053 3 View
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There are different strains, some are MRSA, others are MSSA, coag positive, coag negative but MRSA. so single step identification for timely epidemiology can be best option to plan preventive...
12 December 2017 7,038 9 View
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Patients with congenital liver fibrosis and recurrent variceal bleeding with good liver function (normal LFT) can be ideal patients to submit to porto-systemic shunt if liver hardness make...
12 December 2017 2,207 20 View
There is a common rule that any significant influenza epidemics (pandemic especially) must have a certain period of the virus preadaptation when the future epidemic/pandemic strain has hidden/slow...
11 November 2017 2,329 2 View
Hi, I have infestation of dynamics of two different groups of hosts. Total of 20 points of measurement per individual, 10 individuals per group. I want to compare the dynamics of the 2 groups over...
11 November 2017 1,985 9 View
There are two distinct ways of attacking complex problems with adverse outcomes. One is top-down or hypothesis driven; in engineering it is called root cause corrective action (RCCA). A second...
11 November 2017 1,514 0 View
I am running a space-time permutation analysis with occurrence data (case notifications - long., lat. & date) for a viral disease of livestock. SatScan detected several significant clusters some...
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