FEAD: The Field Epidemiology Abstract Database

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FEAD: The Field Epidemiology Abstract Database

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    Prevalence of Rifampicin Resistant Tuberculosis in four sentinel sites, The Gambia 2018.

    Ceesay Sainey, Mamadou M Jallow, Annah Jammeh, Peter Adewuyi, Sana Sambou, Ignatius Baldeh, Bakary Sanneh, Musa Jallow, Amadou Jallow, Ndey Binta Bah
    Background:
    Multidrug-resistant or Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) remains a threat to TB control and it is be- coming increasingly difficult to treat in some countries. In 2015, WHO...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Anti-microbial resistance
    • Gambia

    Immunization Coverage and Factors Associated with the Non-Vaccination of children aged 12 to 23 months - Goulfey Health district, Far North region Cameroon 2018

    Céline Mairousgou Tchida, Athanase ATEBA ABINA, Ndode Corlins, Armel Evouna, Georges Alain ETOUNDI MBALLA, Dickson SHEY NSAGHA
    Background:
    Cameroon has set targets for immunization coverage for at least 90% for Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). Between 2014 and 2016 only the Goulfey health district (HD) did not meet...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Cameroon

    Early exposure to influenza A(H3N2) viruses and vaccine effectiveness against A(H3N2)-associated illness in U.S. children <18 years, 2016–18

    Chandresh Ladva, Jessie Chung, Dr. Edward Belongia, Dr. Huong McLean, Dr. Arnold Monto, Dr. Emily Martin, Dr. Manjusha Gaglani, Dr. Michael Reis, Dr. Michael Jackson, Dr. Lisa Jackson, Richard Zimmerman, Mary Patricia Nowalk, Manish Patel, Alicia Fry, Brendan Flannery
    Background:
    During 2017–18, influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) against A(H3N2) illness was highest among children <5 years compared to all other ages. The emergence of antigenically distinct...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • United States of America

    Unprecedented Upsurge of Lassa fever cases in Nigeria, January to March 2018: a glimpse of hope

    Chioma Dan- Nwafor, Elsie Ilori, Christina Frank, Oladipupo Ipadeola, Winifred Ukponu, Womi Eteng, Muhammad Shakir Balogun, Patrick Nguku, Chikwe Ihekweazu
    Background:
    Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) endemic in Nigeria. The 2018 massive wave of confirmed cases of Lassa fever in Nigeria raised the important question, whether the...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Water or foodborne
    • Nigeria

    Person-to-person Hantavirus Outbreak – Epuyén, Chubut province, Argentina. 2018.

    Concepcion Esmeralda Barrera, Nadia Competiello, Victor Calvo, Gabriela Larco, Marisa Rodriguez, Paula Leon, Velen Pennini, Sofia Armendariz, Pilar Barcena Barbeira, Camila Dominguez, Emiliano Biondo, Jorge Diaz, Carolina Betancourt, Malen Torres, Vanesa Serrat, Analia Iturra, Julieta Levite, Maria Laura Recoder, Teresa Strella, Patricia Angeleri, Jorge Elías, Pablo Noveau
    Background:
    Between November and first days of December 2018, 5 cases of Andes Hantavirus were reported, one of them deceased. On December 5, an outbreak was declared, when an epidemiological link...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Zoonotic
    • Argentina

    Foodborne Disease of Undetermined Etiology among Patrons of a Local Eatery, Bibiani Township, Western Region of Ghana-2018

    Daniel Agudey, Jacob Mahama, Kofi Asemanyi-Mensah, Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu, Samuel Sackey, Christabel Ayepah, Safiatu Abdullai Tarl. Vida Naana Kwofie, Irene Amedzro, Michael Adjabeng, Edwin Afari
    Background: Foodborne diseases (FBD) remain a major health security threat; particularly in resource-limited settings where capacity to identify their etiology for adequate control is limited. On...
    Conference: FETP International Night (2019, USA)
    • Water or foodborne
    • Ghana

    Epidemiological Characteristics of human sporotrichosis - João Pessoa, Brazil, 2019

    Danielle Lucena, Daniel Batista, Alecsandra Bezerra Monteiro de Oliveira, Martha Helena Cezar
    Background:
    Sporotrichosis is a zoonosis caused by the fungus Sporothrix spp. In Brazil, transmission occurs mainly with felines. The observed complications are frequent in patients infected with...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Zoonotic
    • Brazil

    Assessment of the biorisk management of a Public Health Reference Laboratory, Northern Region, Ghana-2018

    Daron Davies Atsu-Agbo Agboyie, Irene Amedzro, Dr. Donne Ameme, Ms. Delia Bandoh, Dr. David Opare, Dr. Gifty Boateng, Samuel Sackey, Jacob Arthur Quarm, Ernest Kenu, Edwin Afari
    Background:
    Biosafety and biosecurity remain critical in ensuring global health security. Laboratory bio-risk management is key in ensuring biosafety, biosecurity and biocontainment of biological...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Ghana

    Foodborne Outbreaks During Trauma Healing Program for Earthquake Victims in Mapin Rea Village, West Sumbawa Regency, Indonesia 2018

    Debri Rizki Faisa, Syahrizal Syarif, Rusli Rusli
    Background:
    On September 9th 2018, at 3:30 p.m. The police wives association (Bhayangkari) held trauma healing program for children victims of earthquake in Mapin Rea village. 130 packages of rice...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Water or foodborne
    • Indonesia

    An ecological assessment of the impact of funded cocoon and maternal pertussis vaccination strategies on pertussis epidemiology in young infants - Australia, 2000–2017

    Dharshi Thangarajah, Jonathan Malo, Emma Field, Stephen Lambert
    Background:
    Despite the availability of pertussis-containing vaccines and high vaccination rates in children, pertussis (whooping cough) remains one of the most commonly notified vaccine-...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Australia

    Treatment outcomes of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and associated factors among patients at Iganga and Mbale treatment centres - Uganda: A retrospective cohort study

    Diana Zemei, Esther Buregyeya, Stevens Kisaka
    Background:
    In 2018, the Ministry of Health Uganda, reported an increase in MDR-TB patients from 600 in 2015 to 1900 in 2016. The emergence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) threatens...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Anti-microbial resistance
    • Uganda

    Investigation of the public health event in the Cafunfu town, Lunda-norte, Angola in December 2017

    Dilunvuide POde, Regina António, Arieth Cruz, Roygue Alfredo, Maria Nsuka, Maria Pambasange, João Pires
    Background:
    On November 22nd , 2017, the people from Cafunfu municipality in Lunda-Norte Province, alerted through the media, “the occurrence of unidentified disease, manifested mainly by high...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Vector-borne
    • Angola

    Factors associated with neonatal deaths among neonates admitted to the David Bernardino Pediatric Hospital, 2017-2018, Luanda, Angola

    Dora Victorino, Joaquim Dias, Balbina Felix, João Pires
    Background:
    In 2016, WHO estimated that 2.6 million deaths, or roughly 46% of all under-five deaths, occurred during the neona- tal period. UNICEF estimates that 29 neonates die in every 1,000...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Maternal and child health
    • Angola

    Descriptive Study on Suicides in Belize, 2014 – 2018

    Edgar Nah, Lorna Perez, Russell Manzanero
    Background:
    Suicide is preventable with appropriate interventions and there exist many identifiable risk factors, the biggest being a prior suicide attempt. Suicide is the second leading cause of...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Belize

    An Outbreak of Fever and Death in a Training Camp for Young Men – Kohat, Pakistan 2018

    Eisha Mansur, Nalia Azam, Tariq Bashir, Mansoor Tariq, Tahir Butt
    Background:
    On 1st June 2018, an 18-year-old from a males’ training camp in Kohat developed fever which rapidly progressed to coagulopathy, respiratory distress, and death. Three days later,...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Occupational and environmental health
    • Pakistan

    Norovirus GII.P16-GII.4 Sydney outbreak among wildfire evacuation shelter populations — Butte County, California, November 2018

    Ellora Karmarkar, Seema Jain, Jeffrey Higa, Jazmin Fontenot, Regina Gallick Bertolucci, Thalia Huynh, Gwendolyn Hammer, Alice Brodkin, May Thao, Blake Brousseau, Danielle Hopkins, Emily Kelly, Madison Jablonski-Sheffield, Sandy Henley, Holly Whittaker, Chao-Yang Pan, Alice Chen, Janice Kim, Lori Schaumleffel, Erin Epson, Shua Chai, Debra Wadford, Duc Vugia, Linda Schultz-Lewis
    Background:
    On November 8, 2018, Camp Fire, California’s largest wildfire to date, displaced ~52,000 persons, with >1,100 evacuated to 9 shelters in Butte and surrounding counties. Before the...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Water or foodborne
    • United States of America

    Investigation of maternal death, Manhyia North Sub Metropolis, Ashanti Region, Ghana - 2019

    Elsie Kissi-Appiah, Magdalene Akos Odikro, Delia Bandoh, Joseph Asamoah Frimpong, Lenox Goulbourne, Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu
    Background:
    Maternal mortality remains unacceptably high as a major public health problem globally. Approximately 830 women die daily from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth....
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Maternal and child health
    • Ghana

    Loss to Follow Up and Associated Factors among Women Enrolled in PMTCT Program in Mbeya Region, Tanzania, 2017

    Emmanuel Mwakapasa, Ahmed Abade, Elia Mmbaga
    Background:
    More than half of people living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa are women. Approximately 1.4 million become pregnant each year; effective implementation of Prevention of Mother to Child...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Viral hepatitis and HIV
    • Maternal and child health
    • Republic of Tanzania

    Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 outbreak in a correctional facility, Central Region, Ghana, July-August, 2018

    Ernest Akyereko, Franklin Asiedu-Bokoe, Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu, Adwin Afari
    Background: Influenza, a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses, usually leads to outbreaks among unvaccinated populations and in confined settings. On July, 30 2018 the Central...
    Conference: FETP International Night (2019, USA)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Ghana

    Risk Factors Associated with Stillbirths in Kibogora District Hospital, Rwanda, 2015

    Esperance Niragire, Laurence Rugema, Ladislas Nshimiyamana, Jared Omolo, Joseph Ntaganira
    Background:
    Stillbirths remain a major challenge in Kibogora district hospital (DH) catchment area, a largely rural setting of 240,000 people. Among 124 perinatal deaths reported in 2014-2015 in...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Maternal and child health
    • Rwanda

    Occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Escherichia coli isolates from raw meat in Ghana-2019

    Esther Dsani, Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu, Dr. Samuel Sackey, Beverly Egyir, Edwin Afari
    Background:
    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to public health and more critical in zoonosis. Food producing animals (FPA) are major reservoirs for food-borne pathogens which may be...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Anti-microbial resistance
    • Ghana

    Outbreak of Human Anthrax Associated with Handling and Eating Meat from a Cow that Died from Unknown Causes: Kween District, Uganda, April 2018

    Esther Kisaakye, Kenneth Bainomugisha, Lilian Bulage, Musa Sekamatte, Bernard Lubwama, Dan Tumusiime, Alex Riolexus Ario, Bao-Ping Zhu
    Background: On 20 April 2018, District health officials in Kween District, Uganda reported to the Ministry of Health 7 suspected cases of cutaneous anthrax among persons who had handled and eaten...
    Conference: FETP International Night (2019, USA)
    • Animal health
    • Zoonotic
    • Uganda

    Trends of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis at Oshakati Namibia 2012-2016

    Esther Mukete-Hilundutah, Kofi Nyarko
    Background:
    Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) poses serious challenges for tuberculosis control. Worldwide, about 3% of all newly diagnosed patients have DR-TB. Namibia reported an increase in...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Anti-microbial resistance
    • Namibia

    Cholera Outbreak in Sinapangan Village, Libungan, North Cotabato, Philippines, July 17-20, 2018

    Eugenia Mercedes Cañal, Ivy Rozeth Saavedra-Iturralde, Alethea De Guzman, Nemia Sucaldito, Ferchito Avelino
    Background:
    On July 2018, we received a report on increasing diarrhea cases in Sinapangan Village, Libungan, North Cotabato. An FETP team was sent to determine existence of an outbreak, source and...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Water or foodborne
    • Philippines

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