FEAD: The Field Epidemiology Abstract Database

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Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) around the world are dedicated to training disease detectives to improve public health. Access their work here on FEAD, a trove of global knowledge in field epidemiology.

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Evaluation of the COVID-19 Surveillance System in Harare City, Zimbabwe 2020

Background: Surveillance is key for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 90 confirmed cases reported in Harare City between 1-4 December 2020, 80 (89%) had been detected in previo...

Talent Bvochora

FETP International Night (2021, USA)

Vaccine preventable diseases

Predictors of Viral Load Suppression among HIV Positive Female Sex Workers on Anti-Retroviral Therapy in Harare, Zimbabwe 2019

Background: The estimated viral load suppression among female sex workers (FSWs) in Harare is 63% against 95% target for elimination of HIV. Virological non-suppression among FSWs livi...

Blessing Mushangwe

FETP International Night (2021, USA)

Viral hepatitis and HIV

Occupational and environmental health

Public health surveillance

Risk factors for Community Acquired Urinary Tract Infections by Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Producing Bacteria, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2019

Background: Drug resistance is a major public health concern responsible for morbidity and mortality globally. In Harare, 3rd generation cephalosporins resistant E.coli in urines incre...

Marvellous Mhondoro

FETP International Night (2021, USA)

Anti-microbial resistance

Tuberculosis Screening among Contacts of Bacteriologically Confirmed TB Patients -- Rwanda, June 2016 to July 2019

Background: Although Rwanda has made substantial progress in tuberculosis (TB) control, it remains a major public health challenge. From July 2016 to June 2019, the TB surveillance sys...

FETP International Night (2021, USA)

Public health surveillance

Survey of Accessibility, Availability, Price and Affordability of Essential Medicines and Diagnostic Technologies for the Clinical Measure and treatment of Hypertension on Primary Health Care Units of West Gojjam Zone, Northwest Ethiopia, 2020

Background: Hypertension is a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease and around a third of people with hypertension are undiagnosed, and of those diagnosed, half are not taking ant...

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Cardiovascular Diseases

Evaluation of Community Pharmacists’ Involvement and Barriers to Their Participation in Public Health Activities, Assiut, Egypt, 2019

Background: Community pharmacies can play a major role in public health services owing to their wide geographical distribution and location in the heart of community. Little is known a...

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Health Promotions

Investigation of COVID-19 Deaths among the Staff of a University in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, May 2021

Background: Following multiple casualties at a University in Uttar Pradesh and 18 of the 20 COVID-19 positive samples randomly selected, had B.1.617.2 lineage, a team of two India Epid...

Mukesh Kumar Prasad

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Respiratory Diseases

Sex-Based Variations in Clinical Manifestations, Co-morbidities, and Outcome of COVID-19 Patients in Baghdad, Iraq, 2020

Background: A higher incidence of COVID-19 in males has been widely reported. However, whether clinical manifestations, comorbidities, severity, and outcome differ between males and fe...

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Respiratory Diseases

COVID-19 Mortality, Kerala, India 2020: A Descriptive Study

Background: Kerala, India’s southern state, reported the first case of COVID-19 in India at Thrissur district on 30 January 2020. Till 28 February 2021, Kerala reported 1,059,403 cases...

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Respiratory Diseases

Diseases and Mortality Representation among Children of the Uitoto Indigenous People of the Colombian Amazon, 2019–2020

Background: An indigenous baby born in a developing country is 14 times more likely to die in the first month of life than a baby born in an industrialized country. Infant mortality of...

Marcela Benavides

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Health Promotions

Maternal and child health

Kluang Prison Acute Gastroenteritis Outbreak — February 2020

Background: Prisons or correctional facilities offer fertile settings for the transmission of diseases due to over-crowding, lack of hygienic conditions and poor health care systems. O...

Jeyanthini Sathasivam

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Water or foodborne

Norovirus Foodborne Outbreak in a Buffet Restaurant — Yilan, Taiwan, August 2020

Background: During August 2–5, 2020, Taiwan CDC was notified of > 120 travelers with gastroenteritis after dining at a buffet restaurant in Yilan. We investigated to identify implic...

Ching-Hui Huang

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Water or foodborne

An Outbreak of Food Poisoning after Consumption of Chicken Curry Contaminated with E. coli in an Old-Age Home, Kannur District, Kerala, India, 2019

Background: WHO South-East Asia Region reports 150 million cases and 175,000 deaths of foodborne illness a year. Escherichia coli is one among the 31 organisms causing the foodborne di...

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Water or foodborne

Clostridium Perfringens Suspected as Causative Pathogen of Foodborne Outbreak in a Wedding Party-Bantul District, Indonesia, March 2021

Background: Foodborne disease still counts as one of morbidity and mortality in Indonesia. On 30th March 2021, Jetis 2 Public Health Center (PHC) was notified of 3 suspected food poiso...

Fitriana Puspitarani

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Water or foodborne

Nairobi Fly Dermatitis Outbreak — Boditi, Southern Ethiopia, April 2019

Background: Nairobi fly dermatitis is an unusual form of contact dermatitis caused by pederine, a secretion of insects belonging to the genus Paederus, which has higher concentration i...

Mesay Gunta Gutulo

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Dermatological Conditions

Case Series: SARS-CoV-2 and Dengue Virus Coinfection in Mexico

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic represents the greatest public health challenge in the last century. As SARS-CoV-2 spread around the world, its circulation overlapped with that of ot...

Noé Hernández Valdivia

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Respiratory Diseases

Dengue Outbreak — Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay Province, Philippines, 2019: A Case-Control Study

Background: On July 16, 2019, the Department of Health received report on dengue clustering in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. Investigation was done to determine the existence of an outbreak...

Ma. Kasmira Maramag

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Outbreak Investigation of Early Coronavirus Disease Cases — Maharashtra, India, March 2020

Background: By 15 March 2020, India recorded 105 COVID-19 cases and 2 deaths. The first COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra were a couple with history of international travel. As the disease...

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Respiratory Diseases

Comparison of COVID-19 Outbreak Cases in Two Different Call Centers

Background: Call centers are vulnerable settings to spread of COVID-19; due to employees’ main jobs being calling and talking during their whole working hours. However, two call center...

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Republic of Korea

Respiratory Diseases

Descriptive Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India, March–September 2020

Background: Pathanamthitta, a southern district in Kerala, reported 7,834 cases and 46 deaths due to COVID-19 between March and September 2020. To understand the spread and to guide th...

Amjith Rajeevan

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Respiratory Diseases

Assessment of Baseline Knowledge and Attitude of COVID-19 among Hotel Staff in Kigali, Rwanda, 2020

Background: The World Health Organization declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. By 17 July 2020, there were over 13, 616,593 cases and 585,72...

Aphrodis Hagabimana

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Respiratory Diseases

Occupational and environmental health

An Outbreak of Acute Seizure Illness ─ Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India, December 2020

Background: Approximately 300 persons were hospitalized in Eluru city district hospital in West Godavari district with seizures or sudden loss of consciousness (LOC) in early December ...

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Neurologic Diseases

Occupational and environmental health

Emergence of Schistosomiasis in a Previously Non-Endemic Area, Leyte, Philippines, December 2018

Background: Leyte has several schistosomiasis endemic areas. On November 26, 2018, the Epidemiology Bureau received a report of confirmed schistosomiasis cases in a non-endemic area in...

Francis Guimpatan

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Sudden Deaths due to Leakage of Lindane, a Hazardous Chemical, Jalalpur Village, Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2020: A Field Epidemiological Investigation

Background: Accidental chemical leakages cause devastating effects on humans and animals. On February 6, 2020, seven deaths were reported following a hazardous chemical leakage in Jala...

10th TEPHINET Bi-regional (2021, Taiwan)

Occupational and environmental health