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Convalescent human plasma candidate reference materials protect against Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) challenge in an A129 mouse model

Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) is spread by infected ticks or direct contact with blood, tissues and fluids from infected patients or livestock. Infection with CCHFV causes severe haemorrhagic fever in humans which is fatal in up to 83 % of ...

Elsevier2024

Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data

Florent Gérard Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborová, Maria Refinetti, Indaco Biazzo, Giovanni Catania

Contact tracing is an essential tool to mitigate the impact of a pandemic, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to achieve efficient and scalable contact tracing in real time, digital devices can play an important role. While a lot of attention has been ...

2021

Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology. Addressing Security and Resilience Issues

Synthetic biology is a field of biotechnology that is rapidly growing in various applications, such as in medicine, environmental sustainability, and energy production. However these technologies also have unforeseen risks and applications to humans and th ...

Springer2021

Données médicales et génétiques géoréférencées au lieu de résidence pour un service de santé publique de précision

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous

A l’heure actuelle, les politiques de santé publique consistent en des approches globales dont les buts sont de déterminer les besoins actuels et d’anticiper les besoins futurs sur la base d’information sanitaire. Cette information sanitaire caractérise de ...

2017

Spatially explicit modeling of cholera epidemics

Flavio Finger

Understanding the epidemiology of cholera, when and where it occurs and how it spreads, is key to its prevention and control. Models can help to apprehend cholera outbreaks by providing insight into critical epidemiological processes, and may be used to ev ...

EPFL2017

New antimicrobial surfaces and intravascular catheters for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections

Myriam Koumba Sarah Ballo

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are an important health issue around the world. The consequences of HAIs incidence include prolonged hospital stays, increased resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobials, higher costs for health systems and for t ...

EPFL2017

Hydrological, Anthropogenic and Ecological Processes in Cholera Dynamics

Lorenzo Righetto

The present Thesis deals with understanding, measuring and modelling epidemic cholera. The relevance of the endeavour stems from the fact that mathematical epidemiology, properly guided by model-guided field validation, is a reliable and powerful tool to m ...

EPFL2013

The role of aquatic reservoir fluctuations in long-term cholera patterns

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Lorenzo Righetto, Marino Gatto

We propose and analyze an important extension of standard cholera epidemiological models, explicitly accounting for fluctuations of water availability to the human community under study. The seasonality of water input in the reservoir drives the variation ...

2012

Etat du Valais : Système d’Information sanitaire unique et intégré

Philippe Wieser

Chaque canton suisse (26 cantons) définit sa politique et sa planification sanitaire. La complexité actuelle des systèmes de santé ainsi que la multitude de systèmes d'information contribuent à l'augmentation continue des coûts de la santé et peuvent condu ...

2003

Impact sanitaire de l'utilisation d'eaux polluées en agriculture urbaine. Cas du maraîchage à Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Gueladio Cissé

In Ouagadougou and in many similar Sahelian cities, urban agriculture uses very often polluted water for irrigation of vegetables, including those that are likely to be eaten uncooked. As the pathogenic germs can survive long enough in water, soil and plan ...

EPFL1997

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