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An Assessment of Overdose Surveillance at a Local Public Health Department
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Mirroring public health response to infectious disease outbreaks, many public health departments are taking an outbreak management approach to respond to drug overdose surges 1-3. The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) has developed an… read moreAn Assessment of the EMS Drug Overdose to Death Pathway from 2011 to 2017
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Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, with an estimated 60,000 deaths in 2016. Nationally, EMS overdose responses with naloxone administration have nearly doubled from 2012 to 2016 from 573.6 to 1004.4… read moreAnalysis of Emergency Department Visits for Motor Vehicle Injuries in Utah, 2016
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Motor vehicle injury is the leading cause of death in injury category in the United States. In 2016, motor vehicle crashes were one of the main causes of death resulting from injury (8.8 per 100,000 population) in Utah. Motor vehicle crashes can… read moreAnalysis of Three CRISPR Loci Among Yersinia pestis Stains from Georgia and Neighboring Countries
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Particular family of tandem repeats, such as Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) found in a wide range of prokaryotic genomes. CRISPRs consist of highly conserved repeats interspaced with non-repetitive elements or "… read moreAnalytic Fusion for Essential Indicators of the Opioid Epidemic
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Unlike other health threats of recent concern for which widespread mortality was hypothetical, the high fatality burden of opioid overdose crisis is present, steadily growing, and affecting young and old, rural and urban, military and civilian… read moreAnthrax Laboratory Diagnostic Methods at the Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture (LMA)
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Bacillus anthracis, the etiologic agent of anthrax, is a member of a highly diverse group of endospore-forming bacteria. Bacillus anthracis spores are typically found in soil, from which they may spread via contaminated dust, water, and materials of… read moreAnti-microbial Resistance surveillance in typhoidal Salmonella in Ahmedabad
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India carries the highest burden of Enteric Fever in the world. This is further aggravated by the high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in typhoidal Salmonellae. The strategy to combat resistance has been to combine and cycle anti-… read moreApplication Of Intelligent Multiagent Approach To Lyme Disease Simulation
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Climate warming, globalization, social and economic crises lead to the activation of natural foci of vector-borne infections, among which a special place belongs to Lyme disease (Ixodic tick borreliosis â ITB), the vectors of which are the… read more