Outbreak Prevention & Control Gateway

Welcome to the Outbreak Prevention and Control Gateway. This gateway highlights the latest articles on outbreak prevention and control that is published by BioMed Central journals.

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    Rethinking weight-loss strategies

    Many weight-loss interventions based on a simple model of energy balance fail to achieve long-term results; Stephen R Zubrick and colleagues recommend that multiple factors affecting energy regulation should be considered in order to tackle obesity.

    BMC Medicine 2013, 11:41
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    Improving arthroplasty outcomes

    Fares Haddad and colleagues review peri-operative interventions for improved patient outcomes after total knee and hip replacements, which aim to improve patient quality of life and lessen the economic burden by reducing length of hospital stay.

    BMC Medicine 2013, 11:37
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    The spread of influenza in schools

    A low-cost ranking method for modeling the spread of influenza in schools identifies subpopulations at higher risk of early infection than randomly selected communities, which could be effective for predicting and preventing epidemics.

    BMC Medicine 2013, 11:35
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    Modeling infection transmission

    Gerardo Chowell and Cécile Viboud comment on a novel method that identifies risk of influenza transmission and allows early detection of infection in schools, but caution that this promising method needs testing on outbreaks in different settings.

    BMC Medicine 2013, 11:36
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    Glycoproteins as tumor markers

    As there has been limited success in the development of glycoprotein tumor markers, Eleftherios Diamandis and colleagues review the challenges, and discuss how new technology will facilitate quantification of these biomarkers for clinical use.

    BMC Medicine 2013, 11:31
  • Stabilizing synthetic mRNA expression

    The small molecule BAY-11 suppresses the innate immune response and enhances the expression of synthetic OCT4 mRNA after transfection into adult human skin cells, with multiple potential research and therapeutic applications.

    Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013, 4:15
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    Swine virus protects from human influenza

    A swine influenza virus that grows to high titres and exhibits cross-reactivity was identified and used as an inactivated vaccine to protect mice from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain.

    Virology Journal 2013, 10:47
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    Minimizing particle-induced organ dysfunction

    In-line filtration for complete infusion therapy in critically ill children decreases the incidence rates of respiratory, renal, and hematologic dysfunction, suggesting that filtration may prevent organ damage caused by infused particles.

    BMC Pediatrics 2013, 13:21
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    Typing tuberculosis

    Both restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and 24 loci variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotypes show high discrimination, indicating that the faster VNTR method is suitable for investigation of transmission of these strains.

    BMC Infectious Diseases 2013, 13:63
  • Viremia absent in children with rotavirus

    Rotavirus (RVA) viremia was not found in children with rotavirus diarrhea, and could not be identified via the presence of antigenemia in the patients’ serum.

    Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2013, 12:5
  • HIV/AIDS

    How has the era of genomics advanced our understanding of HIV/AIDS epidemiology and pathogenesis?

    Genome Biology 2013, 14:201
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    HPV vaccination economics in LMICs

    An expert group from the World Health Organization provides advice on economic issues associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), recommending that analyses are thorough, but not overly complex.

    BMC Medicine 2013, 11:23
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    Hepatitis C: lessons from a meta-analysis

    Kazuaki Chayama and Nelson Hayes discuss a recent study in BMC Medicine assessing the extent of effects of IL28B polymorphisms in spontaneous and therapy-induced hepatitis C virus clearance.

    Genome Medicine 2013, 5:6
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    Antivirals against Enterovirus 71

    A timely review of small molecules that may be effective against the emerging pathogen, Enterovirus 71, cause of hand, foot and mouth disease, including known drug resistance and animal models for evaluating efficacy

    Virology Journal 2013, 10:28
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    Bacterial meningitis diagnostics

    Real-time PCR and Gram stain display relative accuracy in diagnosing meningitis when compared with cerebrospinal fluid culture and are less affected by antibiotic presence suggesting that these methods may be useful when antibiotics have been previously administered.

    BMC Infectious Diseases 2013, 13:26

News and events

Just published in BMC Public Health: Learning from large scale prevention efforts: findings from Avahan

Launched in 2003 with financial backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Avahan is the world's largest HIV prevention programme. This special supplement documents the role of the initiative in the fight against HIV/AIDS in India.

Edited by Lalit Dandona and Eric Benotsch