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Infectious Diseases Q3 2021
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How to help populations remain healthy
Close collaboration between industry, governments and healthcare is crucial to fight back against the threat deadly infectious diseases are posing to the global population. Infectious diseases are a clear threat to mankind as they evolve, spread and disproportionately affect the most vulnerable. Of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, 30% are infectious diseases. That...
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Rapid diagnostic testing could help winter virus fight
Rapid testing at the point of care could speed up identification of COVID-19 or other respiratory conditions this winter and help in slowing infectious disease spread. Clinicians and public health officials are braced for an increase in a range of respiratory conditions – as well as the ongoing COVID-19 threat – as winter approaches. Social...
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The future for precision medicine and clinical microbiology
By translating basic biological knowledge to medical insights, precision medicine aims to treat each patient as a single entity. Precision medicine enters into a close union with personalised medicine to identify a patient’s biological alteration. Recent evidence show that precision medicine and personalised medicine may be applied to clinical microbiology. A breakthrough advancement in molecular diagnostics...
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Concern is growing over similar trends of COVID-19 and TB
Those of us working to end tuberculosis—like COVID-19, an airborne, primarily respiratory illness—know too well how disadvantaged and vulnerable communities are more severely affected by infectious diseases. Vulnerable and disadvantages communities suffer more of the direct effects of ill-health and premature death. They’re also face more indirect effects, including catastrophic costs of receiving healthcare and...
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Building a better European response system – lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic
In our globalised society, serious infectious health threats will eventually make their way across national borders. This underlines the importance of strong international cooperation with partners at EU and global level. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has constantly assessed the evolving risk and advised EU/EEA member States...
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Antimicrobial resistance is making our response to COVID-19 even harder
As infectious diseases specialists we have seen first-hand the devasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are also witnesses to the frightening by-products of this insidious virus. If nothing else the pandemic has shown the importance of investments in prevention, public health and biomedical research and plainly demonstrated the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Reducing...
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Setting HIV testing targets to eliminate new diagnosis by 2030
Effective HIV treatment means people living with HIV have a normal life expectancy and can enjoy a healthy sex life knowing there is zero risk of passing HIV on to their partners. About 6,000 people in England are unaware that they are living with HIV. Undiagnosed HIV drives onward transmission and late diagnosis, associated with...
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How do we better prepare for future pandemics?
With the world’s gaze focused on ramping up production and delivery of 11 billion safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine doses within a year, it is important that we turn an eye to the future. As we need to make provisions for adequate contact tracing and access to diagnosis and treatment all around the world, disease surveillance and health system strengthening are key....