Global epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease

RZ Jafri, A Ali, NE Messonnier, C Tevi-Benissan… - Population health …, 2013 - Springer
Neisseria meningitidis is one of the leading causes of bacterial meningitis globally and can
also cause sepsis, pneumonia, and other manifestations. In countries with high endemic …

Epidemic meningitis, meningococcaemia, and Neisseria meningitidis

DS Stephens, B Greenwood, P Brandtzaeg - The Lancet, 2007 - thelancet.com
Meningococcus, an obligate human bacterial pathogen, remains a worldwide and
devastating cause of epidemic meningitis and sepsis. However, advances have been made …

Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis and its aetiologies, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

HY Wunrow, RG Bender, A Vongpradith… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Although meningitis is largely preventable, it still causes hundreds of thousands
of deaths globally each year. WHO set ambitious goals to reduce meningitis cases by 2030 …

The practice of travel medicine: guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

DR Hill, CD Ericsson, RD Pearson… - Clinical Infectious …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
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Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement Oxford Academic …

Climate drives the meningitis epidemics onset in West Africa

B Sultan, K Labadi, JF Guégan, S Janicot - PLoS medicine, 2005 - journals.plos.org
Background Every year West African countries within the Sahelo-Sudanian band are
afflicted with major meningococcal meningitis (MCM) disease outbreaks, which affect up to …

Linguistic diversity and language evolution

H Hammarström - Journal of Language Evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
What would your ideas about language evolution be if there was only one language left on
earth? Fortunately, our investigation need not be that impoverished. In the present article …

Dust storms and their impact on ocean and human health: dust in Earth's atmosphere

DW Griffin, CA Kellogg - EcoHealth, 2004 - Springer
Satellite imagery has greatly influenced our understanding of dust activity on a global scale.
A number of different satellites such as NASA's Earth-Probe Total Ozone Mapping …

An overview of bacterial meningitis epidemics in Africa from 1928 to 2018 with a focus on epidemics “outside-the-belt”

S Mazamay, JF Guégan, N Diallo, D Bompangue… - BMC Infectious …, 2021 - Springer
Background Bacterial meningitis occurs worldwide but Africa remains the most affected
continent, especially in the" Meningitis belt" that extends from Senegal to Ethiopia. Three …

[PDF][PDF] Using climate to predict infectious disease epidemics

K Kuhn, D Campbell-Lendrum, A Haines, J Cox… - Geneva: World Health …, 2005 - Citeseer
This document was written to provide guidance for the Department of Communicable
Diseases Surveillance and Response (CSR), the Department of Protection of the Human …

The role of UV radiation and vitamin D in the seasonality and outcomes of infectious disease

AK Coussens - Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The seasonality of infectious disease outbreaks suggests that environmental conditions
have a significant effect on disease risk. One of the major environmental factors that can …