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Public Library Science2024Numerical simulation of the fate, transport and public health risks of enteric viruses in Lake Geneva
Lakes are a fundamental feature of nature with brilliance, profoundness and complexity. Various of physical, chemical and biological changes take place three dimensionally in deep lakes, regulated by complicated boundary conditions. To understand and predi ...
EPFL2023Inactivation mechanisms of influenza A virus under pH conditions encountered in aerosol particles as revealed by whole-virus HDX-MS
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Multiple respiratory viruses, including influenza A virus (IAV), can be transmitted via expiratory aerosol particles, and aerosol pH was recently identified as a major factor influencing airborne virus infectivity. Indoors, small exhaled aerosols undergo r ...
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Using intelligent virtual assistants for controlling employee population in workspaces is a research area that remains unexplored. This paper presents a novel application of virtual humans to enforce Covid-19 safety measures in a corporate workplace. For t ...
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022Using Open-Access Data to Explore Relations between Urban Landscapes and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Côte d’Ivoire
Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Martí Bosch Padrós, Jürg Utzinger
Unlike water and sanitation infrastructures or socio-economic indicators, landscape features are seldomly considered as predictors of diarrhoea. In contexts of rapid urbanisation and changes in the physical environment, urban planners and public health man ...
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The widespread use of antibiotics and antifungal drugs has provoked an increasing numberof multi-resistant bacteria and fungi. The emergence of multiresistance to antibiotics hasbeen now recognized as a very serious public health issue. In order to target ...
EPFL2021A scenario modeling pipeline for COVID-19 emergency planning
Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused strain on health systems worldwide due to its high mortality rate and the large portion of cases requiring critical care and mechanical ventilation. During these uncertain times, public health decision makers, ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2021Modeling infectious disease dynamics towards informed public health interventions, with applications on COVID-19 and cholera
Emerging and existing infectious diseases pose a constant threat to individuals and communities across the world. In many cases, the burden of these diseases is preventable through public health interventions. However, taking the right decisions and design ...
EPFL2021Using open-access data to explore the relationship between urban morphology and diarrhoeal diseases in Côte d’Ivoire
Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Jürg Utzinger
Little is known about the impacts of morphological indicators that can be derived from the physical environment on the risk of diarrhoeal diseases. Given Africa’s recent explosive urbanisation rates and rapid changes in landscape, coupled with a high burde ...
2021How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19
In response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, public health scientists have produced a large and rapidly expanding body of literature that aims to answer critical questions, such as the proportion of the population in a geographic area that h ...
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