Sökning: "Disease outbreaks"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 77 avhandlingar innehållade orden Disease outbreaks.
16. Detection and epidemiologic subtyping of Legionella pneumophilia using DNA-based molecular methods
Sammanfattning : Legionella pneumophila causes 2 - 6 % of hospitalised pneumonia cases. Several community- and hospital-acquired outbreaks have been reported over the years. Legionnaires' disease (LD) or legionellosis is also a frequent cause of pneumonia amongst travellers. LÄS MER
17. Scan Statistics for Space-Time Cluster Detection
Sammanfattning : Scan statistics are used by public health agencies to detect and localize disease outbreaks. This thesis provides an overview of scan statistics in the context of prospective disease surveillance and outbreak detection, presents a novel scan statistic to deal with the type of zero-abundant data that is often encountered in these settings, and—perhaps most importantly—implements this and other scan statistics in a freely available and open source R package. LÄS MER
18. Rödsot i Sverige 1750-1900: En sjukdoms demografiska och medicinska historia
Sammanfattning : major scourge in developing countries. In Sweden and the rest of the Western world, however, the disease is almost gone. These circumstances were very much different before the decline of infectious diseases among causes of death in the 19th century. Prior to that, dysentery affected Sweden at times with powerful epidemic outbreaks. LÄS MER
19. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in laying hens
Sammanfattning : The bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae can infect a wide range of mammals (including humans) and birds. Disease outbreaks (erysipelas) have been considered unusual in chickens internationally, but outbreaks with high mortality and egg production losses have been diagnosed in Swedish laying hen flocks every year since 1998. LÄS MER
20. Epidemiology, prevention and control of hepatitis A virus infection in the European Union
Sammanfattning : Hepatitis A is an acute liver disease caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV) and transmitted via the faecal-oral route through person-to-person transmission, contaminated food or water. The frequency and severity of symptoms increases with age, with the elderlies and patients with other liver disease at risk of hospitalisation, acute liver failure and death. LÄS MER
