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Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal : WPSAR

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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Haruka Iwasaki, Sharon Salmon, Yukimasa Matsuzawa, Sangnim Lee, Kanae Takagi, Hidetoshi Nomoto, Masahiro Ishikane, Mugen Ujiie, Norio Ohmagari
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38510817/inaugural-meeting-of-global-outbreak-alert-and-response-network-partners-from-australia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cassandra Dearing, Kieh Christopherson, Peta-Anne Zimmerman, Sharon Salmon
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38510816/global-outbreak-alert-and-response-network-deployments-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-who-western-pacific-region
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sharon Salmon, Simon Brinkwirth, Gianluca Loi, Jocelyne M Basseal
PROBLEM: The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) has responded to more than 100 outbreaks during the past 23 years. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic presented unprecedented operational constraints that challenged GOARN's core mission to rapidly deploy technical experts from its partners to support national in-country responses to public health emergencies. This paper describes the type and duration of GOARN deployments to and within the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Western Pacific Region during the COVID-19 pandemic...
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38500777/delays-in-health-seeking-diagnosis-and-treatment-for-tuberculosis-patients-in-mongolia-an-analysis-of-surveillance-data-2018-2021
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Larissa Otero, Tsolmon Boldoo, Anuzaya Purevdagva, Uranchimeg Borgil, Temuulen Enebish, Oyunchimeg Erdenee, Tauhid Islam, Fukushi Morishita
Early diagnosis and treatment of infectious tuberculosis (TB) is essential to the attainment of global targets specified in the End TB Strategy. Using case-based TB surveillance data, we analysed delays in health seeking, diagnosis and treatment among TB patients in Mongolia from 2018 to 2021. We calculated the median and interquartile range (IQR) for "diagnostic delay," defined as the time from symptom onset to diagnosis, subdivided into "health-seeking delay" (time from symptom onset to first visit to a health facility) and "health facility diagnostic delay" (time from first health facility visit to diagnosis), and for "treatment delay," defined as the time from diagnosis to start of treatment...
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38500776/a-test-based-strategy-for-early-return-to-work-for-health-care-workers-with-covid-19-during-the-omicron-wave-brunei-darussalam-2022
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alice Lai, Ashish Trivedi
OBJECTIVE: This paper summarizes and evaluates a test-based strategy for early return to work for health-care workers (HCWs) with mild coronavirus disease in Brunei Darussalam during the Omicron wave in February 2022 and compares the characteristics of HCWs by how long it took them to return to work. METHODS: The early return-to-work strategy involved testing on day 3 of infection with reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and with a rapid antigen test on days 5 and 6 or days 5 and 7...
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38500775/hepatitis-b-virus-infection-on-kwajalein-atoll-marshall-islands-a-seroprevalence-knowledge-and-attitudes-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Melaia Lawanivalu, Anaseini Ratu, Glorine A Jeadrik, Masoud Mohammadnezhad, Aneley Getahun Strobel
OBJECTIVE: A study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection among children and their mothers on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands two decades after routine vaccination was introduced in the 1990s. Mothers' knowledge and attitudes towards HBV disease and vaccination were also assessed. METHODS: Results of a national seroprevalence survey conducted in 2016-2017 and antenatal records were used to determine the prevalence of HBV seropositivity in children aged 6-8 years and their biological mothers...
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38500774/high-sars-cov-2-attack-rates-in-areas-with-low-detection-after-community-transmission-established-in-port-vila-vanuatu-april-2022
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Florita Toa, Wendy Williams, Chaturangi Yapa, Matthew Cornish, Melissa Binihi, Caroline van Gemert
OBJECTIVE: On 4 March 2022, the first community-acquired case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was reported in Vanuatu, with community transmission occurring subsequently. It was expected that the number of notified SARS-CoV-2 cases would be an underestimate of the true infection rate of this outbreak; however, the magnitude of underreporting was unknown. The purpose of this study was to provide a population-based estimate of SARS-CoV-2 infection shortly after the first reports of community transmission, to understand the level of underdetection and undernotification in Vanuatu and thus to inform ongoing prevention and response activities...
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38500773/letter-to-the-editor-pathogens-detected-from-patients-with-acute-respiratory-infections-negative-for-sars-cov-2-saitama-japan-2020
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuzo Arima, Yuuki Tsuchihashi, Osamu Takahara, Reiko Shimbashi, Takeshi Arashiro, Ayu Kasamatsu, Yusuke Kobayashi, Katsuhiro Komase, Takuri Takahashi, Kanako Otani, Fangyu Yan, Taro Kamigaki, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Motoi Suzuki
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38249316/looking-back-looking-forward-lessons-from-covid-19-communication-measurement-evaluation-and-learning-mel
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Oxana Onilov, Dexin Gong, Kimberly Chriscaden, Jargalan Tsogt, Maria Socorro Melic, Rosemarie Urquico, Anna Biernat, Anna Postovoitova, Lieke Visser, Nancy Wong, Rosemarie North, Olivia Lawe-Davies
PROBLEM: Communication is an integral component of an emergency response, including to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Designing effective communication requires systematic measurement, evaluation and learning. CONTEXT: In the Western Pacific Region, the World Health Organization (WHO) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by using the Communication for Health (C4H) approach. This included the development and application of a robust measurement, evaluation and learning (MEL) framework to assess the effectiveness of COVID-19 communication, and to share and apply lessons in real time to continuously strengthen the pandemic response...
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38249315/tuberculosis-in-elderly-australians-a-10-year-retrospective-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yasmin Lisson, Aparna Lal, Ben J Marais, Anna Glynn-Robinson
OBJECTIVE: This report describes the epidemiology of active tuberculosis (TB) in elderly Australians (≥ 65 years) with analysis of the factors associated with TB disease and successful treatment outcomes. METHODS: A retrospective study of TB cases reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System over a 10-year period from 2011 to 2020 was conducted. Cases were stratified by sex, age, risk factors, drug resistance, treatment type and outcome...
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38450059/maintaining-health-system-functionality-in-response-to-the-surge-of-covid-19-cases-due-to-the-omicron-variant-japan
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuki Moriyama, Saho Takaya, Takeshi Nishijima, Howard L Sobel, Norio Ohmagari
PROBLEM: The Omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 caused the largest surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Japan starting in the summer of 2022. We describe the mechanisms introduced to provide appropriate health care to all Omicron cases, provide appropriate health care to all non-COVID-19 patients, and protect health-care workers (HCWs) while providing necessary health services. Optimization of care for elderly patients was particularly important...
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38298251/tailoring-a-national-emergency-medical-team-training-package-for-pacific-island-countries-and-areas
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Erin Elizabeth Noste, Anthony T Cook, Jan-Erik Larsen, Simon Cowie, Sean T Casey
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38298250/developing-and-maintaining-health-emergency-response-capacity-palau-s-national-emergency-medical-team
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
May Morag Ferguson, Sean T Casey, Wally Omengkar, Gaafar J Uherbelau, Terepkul Ngiraingas, Belinda Eungel
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38298249/developing-the-disaster-medical-responder-s-course-in-singapore
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jen Heng Pek, Li Juan Joy Quah, Kuan Peng David Teng, Yi Wen Mathew Yeo, Chan Yu Jimmy Lee
PROBLEM: Emergency medical teams (EMTs) deployed to mass casualty incidents (MCIs) are required to work outside their usual settings and according to different principles, which may affect their performance and the survival of casualties. Prior to 2013, training offered to domestic EMTs was limited to ad hoc and infrequent simulation exercises. CONTEXT: Domestic EMTs are activated from public tertiary hospitals to provide pre-hospital medical support to the Singapore Civil Defence Force and establish a first-aid post (FAP) for triaging, stabilizing and treating casualties...
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38230257/pathogens-detected-from-patients-with-acute-respiratory-infections-negative-for-sars-cov-2-saitama-japan-2020
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kodai Miyashita, Hayato Ehara, Kyoko Tomioka, Kazue Uchida, Hirokazu Fukushima, Tsuyoshi Kishimoto, Asao Honda
OBJECTIVE: During the coronavirus disease pandemic in Japan, all patients with respiratory symptoms were initially tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This study describes the respiratory pathogens detected from patients who tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 at the Saitama Institute of Public Health from January to December 2020. METHODS: We performed pathogen retrieval using multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction on samples from patients with acute respiratory diseases who tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 in Saitama in 2020 and analysed the results by age and symptoms...
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38230256/use-of-a-catch-up-programme-to-improve-routine-immunization-in-13-provinces-of-papua-new-guinea-2020-2022
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Dessie Ayalew Mekonnen, Mathias Bauri, Martha Pogo, Mei Shang, Deborah Bettels, Shaikh Humayun Kabir, Waramin Edward, Bieb Sibauk, Milena Dalton, Geoff Miller, Ananda Amarasinghe, Yoshihiro Takashima, Dapeng Luo, Sevil Huseynova
OBJECTIVE: Routine immunization coverage in Papua New Guinea has decreased in the past 5 years. This persistently low routine immunization coverage has resulted in low population immunity and frequent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease across the country. We describe the use of a catch-up programme to improve routine immunization during the coronavirus disease pandemic in Papua New Guinea during 2020-2022. METHODS: In June 2020, 13 provinces of Papua New Guinea were selected to undergo a vaccination catch-up programme, with technical support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund...
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38230255/epidemiology-of-latent-tuberculosis-infection-in-japan-born-and-foreign-born-children-in-japan
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Saori Kasuya, Akiko Imai, Kazuhiro Uchimura, Akihiro Ohkado, Lisa Kawatsu
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to compare the epidemiology of notifications of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among Japan-born and foreign-born children in Japan between 2010 and 2020, and to assess the language used during LTBI case interviews with parents or caregivers of foreign-born children with LTBI during 2019. METHODS: Our study consisted of two parts: (1) an analysis of national data from the Japan Tuberculosis Surveillance (JTBS) system on the epidemiology of LTBI among Japan-born and foreign-born children in Japan, and (2) a survey of staff at public health centres that had registered at least one foreign-born child aged ≤ 14 years with LTBI...
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38230254/population-compliance-with-covid-19-directions-in-december-2021-queensland-australia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marguerite Dalmau, Ramim Sourjah, Ross Andrews, Emma Field, Stephen Lambert
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38230253/covid-19-clusters-in-malaysia-characteristics-detection-methods-and-modes-of-early-transmission
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zen Yang Ang, Nur Zahirah Balqis-Ali, Anis-Syakira Jailani, Yuke-Lin Kong, Shakirah Md Sharif, Weng Hong Fun
OBJECTIVE: Effective prevention and control measures are essential to contain outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Understanding the characteristics of case clusters can contribute to determining which prevention and control measures are needed. This study describes the characteristics of COVID-19 case clusters in Malaysia, the method used to detect a cluster's index case and the mode of early transmission, using the seven cluster categories applied in Malaysia...
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38230252/wpsar-after-14-volumes-achievements-and-future-directions
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EDITORIAL
Ashley Arashiro, Michelle McPherson, Roxanne Andaya, Don Rivada, Babatunde Olowokure
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2023: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
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