The Membrane Filter: A Teaching Aid to Supplement the Filmstrip

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Pictorial keys, arthropods, reptiles, birds, and mammals of public health significance

Introduction -- General -- Crustacea -- Centipedes -- Millipedes -- Arachnida -- Spiders -- Scorpions -- Acarina -- Ticks -- Mites -- Silverfish -- Collembola -- Cockroaches -- Termites -- Earwigs -- Psocids -- Lice (Anoplura) -- Lice (Mallophaga) -- Bugs -- Lepidoptera -- Beetles -- Hymenoptera -- Flies -- Mosquitoes -- Fleas -- Snakes -- Birds -- Rodents -- Lagomorphs -- Bats -- Selected referencesU.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Communicable Disease Center.Cover title: Pictorial keys, arthropods, reptiles, birds and mammals of public health significance.Also available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file.Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192)

Pictorial keys, arthropods, reptiles, birds, and mammals of public health significance

Introduction -- General -- Crustacea -- Centipedes -- Millipedes -- Arachnida -- Spiders -- Scorpions -- Acarina -- Ticks -- Mites -- Silverfish -- Collembola -- Cockroaches -- Termites -- Earwigs -- Psocids -- Lice (Anoplura) -- Lice (Mallophaga) -- Bugs -- Lepidoptera -- Beetles -- Hymenoptera -- Flies -- Mosquitoes -- Fleas -- Snakes -- Birds -- Rodents -- Lagomorphs -- Bats -- Selected referencesU.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Communicable Disease Center.Cover title: Pictorial keys, arthropods, reptiles, birds and mammals of public health significance.Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192)

Key to Anoplura of North America

Key to families of Anoplura \ue2\u20ac\u201c Key to families of Echinophthiriidae \ue2\u20ac\u201c Key to families of Antarctophthirus \ue2\u20ac\u201c Key to genera of Haemotopinidae \ue2\u20ac\u201c Guide to species of Haematopinus -- Key to genera of Hoplopleuridae \ue2\u20ac\u201c Key to species of Enderleinellus -- Key to species of Fahrenholzia -- Key to species of Hoplopleura -- Key to species of Haemodipsus -- Key to species of Neohaematopinus -- Key to species of Polyplax -- Key to genera of Linognathidae -- Key to species of Linognathus -- Key to species of Solenopotes -- Key to genera of PediculidaeChester J. Stojanovich and Harry D. Pratt."4 October 1965."Selected references (p. 24)

Operational research in Malawi: making a difference with cotrimoxazole preventive therapy in patients with tuberculosis and HIV.

BACKGROUND: In Malawi, high case fatality rates in patients with tuberculosis, who were also co-infected with HIV, and high early death rates in people living with HIV during the initiation of antiretroviral treatment (ART) adversely impacted on treatment outcomes for the national tuberculosis and ART programmes respectively. This article i) discusses the operational research that was conducted in the country on cotrimoxazole preventive therapy, ii) outlines the steps that were taken to translate these findings into national policy and practice, iii) shows how the implementation of cotrimoxazole preventive therapy for both TB patients and HIV-infected patients starting ART was associated with reduced death rates, and iv) highlights lessons that can be learnt for other settings and interventions. DISCUSSION: District and facility-based operational research was undertaken between 1999 and 2005 to assess the effectiveness of cotrimoxazole preventive therapy in reducing death rates in TB patients and subsequently in patients starting ART under routine programme conditions. Studies demonstrated significant reductions in case fatality in HIV-infected TB patients receiving cotrimoxazole and in HIV-infected patients about to start ART. Following the completion of research, the findings were rapidly disseminated nationally at stakeholder meetings convened by the Ministry of Health and internationally through conferences and peer-reviewed scientific publications. The Ministry of Health made policy changes based on the available evidence, following which there was countrywide distribution of the updated policy and guidelines. Policy was rapidly moved to practice with the development of monitoring tools, drug procurement and training packages. National programme performance improved which showed a significant decrease in case fatality rates in TB patients as well as a reduction in early death in people with HIV starting ART. SUMMARY: Key lessons for moving this research endeavour through to policy and practice were the importance of placing operational research within the programme, defining relevant questions, obtaining "buy-in" from national programme staff at the beginning of projects and having key actors or "policy entrepreneurs" to push forward the policy-making process. Ultimately, any change in policy and practice has to benefit patients, and the ultimate judge of success is whether treatment outcomes improve or not

Isolation techniques for use in hospitals

Five colored signs (inserted) indicating categories of isolation for posting in hospital areas.Bibliography: p. viii

The unfinished agenda of communicable diseases among children and adolescents before the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990–2019 : a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Funding The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence for Driving Investment in Global Adolescent Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Correspondence to: Prof Peter Azzopardi, Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia [email protected] reviewedPublisher PD

Concepts of excess mortality

"During the past influenza season, pertinent summaries and epidemiological data were published regularly in the C. D. C. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports. It was felt that the currentness and expanded distribution of information achieved in this manner outweighed the possibly more detailed coverage but retrospective character of standard Influenza Surveillance Summaries. The present report includes: 1) a review of the 1964-65 influenza experience in the United States; 2) an international summary; 3) laboratory discussion; and 4) a collection of pertinent special reports. Interpretations and analysis in the present report are based on data received from official health and research agencies in States and Cities of the U.S. and material, largely that published by the World Health Organization and its sister organizations, dealing with international influenza surveillance. Where direct quotations or Daraphrased reports have been printed, full credits are given; otherwise, data have been assimilated into discussion of broader topics without specific references." - p. [1]I. United States summary -- Summer-Fall 1964 -- Winter 1965 -- -- II. United States divisional notes -- -- III. International summary -- -- IV. Laboratory report ---- V. Special reports -- Epidemic investigations -- Equine influenza -- Concepts of excess mortality / Robert E. SerflingJune 7, 1965.Produced by the Communicable Disease Center, Epidemiology Branch, Statistics Section, Surveillance Section, Influenza Surveillance Unit; and Respirovirus Unit, Laboratory Branch."New Name - The reader's attention is directed to an intended expansion of content in future Influenza Surveillance Summaries suggested by the more inclusive title first being published in this issue. As the epidemiology of multitudinous respiratory viruses becomes better documented, there is growing importance in fitting them into meaningful patterns for investigation and control. While these summaries cannot presume a major role in this regard, there will undoubtedly be times and reasons for comparative discussions and specific reports of general interest to our readers."Last page consists of a listing by state of state epidemiologists."Summarized in this report is information received from State Health Departments, university investigators, virology laboratories and other pertinent sources, domestic and foreign. Much of the information is preliminary. It is intended primarily for the use of those with responsibility for disease control activities. Anyone desiring to quote this report should contact the original investigator for confirmation and interpretation." - prefac

Epi notes

The South Carolina Bureau of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control publishes Epi Notes, with articles on epidemiology of reportable conditions; surveillance and reporting of diseases/conditions, outbreaks, and events of public health significance; prevention and treatment of disease; and other topics of interest to DHEC’s disease reporting partners