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    Adults with symptoms of pneumonia : a prospective comparison of patients with and without infiltrates on chest radiography 
    Rögnvaldsson, Kristján Godsk; Bjarnason, Agnar; Ólafsdóttir, Inga Sif; Helgason, Kristján Orri; Guðmundsson, Aðalsteinn; Gottfreðsson, Magnús (2023-01)
    OBJECTIVE: Most studies on patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) require confirmation of an infiltrate by chest radiography, but in practice admissions are common among patients with symptoms of pneumonia without an infiltrate ...
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    Antibiotic resistance among major pathogens compared to hospital treatment guidelines and antibiotic use in Nordic hospitals 2010–2018 
    Möller, Vidar; Östholm-Balkhed, Åse; Berild, Dag; Fredriksson, Mats; Gottfreðsson, Magnús; Holmbom, Martin; Järvinen, Asko; Kristjánsson, Már; Rydell, Ulf; Sönksen, Ute Wolff; Kolmos, Hans Joern; Hanberger, Håkan (2021-05-10)
    BACKGROUND: The Nordic countries have comparable nationwide antibiotic resistance surveillance systems and individual antibiotic stewardship programmes. The aim of this study was to assess antibiotic resistance among major pathogens in relation to ...
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    Associations between antimicrobial susceptibility/resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in European Union/European Economic Area and patients’ gender, sexual orientation and anatomical site of infection, 2009–2016 
    on behalf of The Euro-GASP Network (2021-03-18)
    BACKGROUND: The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, nationally and internationally, is a serious threat to the management and control of gonorrhoea. Limited and conflicting data regarding the epidemiological ...
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    Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015 : a population-level modelling analysis 
    Burden of AMR Collaborative Group (2019-01)
    Background: Infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria are threatening modern health care. However, estimating their incidence, complications, and attributable mortality is challenging. We aimed to estimate the burden of infections caused by ...
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    Availability and costs of medicines for the treatment of tuberculosis in Europe 
    Tuberculosis Network European Trials group; Karlsdóttir, Kristín; Ægisdóttir, Tinna Rán; Michelsen, Guðrún Svanhvít (2023-01-01)
    OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the access to comprehensive diagnostics and novel antituberculosis medicines in European countries. METHODS: We investigated the access to genotypic and phenotypic Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing and the ...
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    Epidemiology of soil transmitted helminths and risk analysis of hookworm infections in the community : Results from the deworm3 trial in southern india 
    Ajjampur, Sitara S.R.; Kaliappan, Saravanakumar Puthupalayam; Halliday, Katherine E.; Palanisamy, Gokila; Farzana, Jasmine; Manuel, Malathi; Abraham, Dilip; Laxmanan, Selvi; Aruldas, Kumudha; Rose, Anuradha; Kennedy, David S.; Oswald, William E.; Pullan, Rachel L.; Galagan, Sean R.; Ásbjörnsdóttir, Kristjana Hrönn; Anderson, Roy M.; Muliyil, Jayaprakash; Sarkar, Rajiv; Kang, Gagandeep; Walson, Judd L. (2021-04-30)
    Since 2015, India has coordinated the largest school-based deworming program globally, targeting soil-transmitted helminths (STH) in ~250 million children aged 1 to 19 years twice yearly. Despite substantial progress in reduction of morbidity associated ...
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    Epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminths following sustained implementation of routine preventive chemotherapy : Demographics and baseline results of a cluster randomised trial in southern Malawi 
    Witek-McManus, Stefan; Simwanza, James; Chisambi, Alvin B.; Kepha, Stella; Kamwendo, Zachariah; Mbwinja, Alfred; Samikwa, Lyson; Oswald, William E.; Kennedy, David S.; Timothy, Joseph W.S.; Legge, Hugo; Galagan, Sean R.; Emmanuel-Fabula, Mira; Schaer, Fabian; Ásbjörnsdóttir, Kristjana Hrönn; Halliday, Katherine E.; Walson, Judd L.; Juziwelo, Lazarus; Bailey, Robin L.; Kalua, Khumbo; Pullan, Rachel L. (2021-05-12)
    Malawi has successfully leveraged multiple delivery platforms to scale-up and sustain the implementation of preventive chemotherapy (PCT) for the control of morbidity caused by soil-transmitted helminths (STH). Sentinel monitoring demonstrates this ...
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    Europe-wide expansion and eradication of multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages : a genomic surveillance study 
    Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance and the Euro-GASP study group (2022-06-01)
    Background: Genomic surveillance using quality-assured whole-genome sequencing (WGS) together with epidemiological and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data is essential to characterise the circulating Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages and their association ...
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    Factors associated with soil-transmitted helminths infection in Benin : Findings from the deworm3 study 
    Avokpaho, Euripide F.G.A.; Houngbégnon, Parfait; Accrombessi, Manfred; Atindégla, Eloïc; Yard, Elodie; Means, Arianna Rubin; Kennedy, David S.; Littlewood, D. Timothy J.; Garcia, André; Massougbodji, Achille; Galagan, Sean R.; Walson, Judd L.; Cottrell, Gilles; Ibikounlé, Moudachirou; Ásbjörnsdóttir, Kristjana Hrönn; Luty, Adrian J.F. (2021-08-17)
    Background Despite several years of school-based MDA implementation, STH infections remain an important public health problem in Benin, with a country-wide prevalence of 20% in 2015. The DeWorm3 study is designed to assess the feasibility of using ...
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    Febrile Children with Pneumonia Have Higher Nasopharyngeal Bacterial Load Than Other Children with Fever 
    Björnsdóttir, Bryndís; Hernandez, Ubaldo Benitez; Haraldsson, Ásgeir; Thors, Valtýr Stefánsson (2023-04)
    Febrile episodes are common in children and the most frequent reason for attending emergency services. Although most infections have a benign and self-limiting course, severe and sometimes life-threatening infections occur. This prospective study ...
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    Flying, phones and flu: Anonymized call records suggest that Keflavik International Airport introduced pandemic H1N1 into Iceland in 2009 
    Kishore, Nishant; Mitchell, Rebecca; Lash, Timothy L.; Reed, Carrie; Danon, Leon; Sigmundsdóttir, Guðrún; Vigfusson, Ymir (Wiley, 2019-11-09)
    Background Data collected by mobile devices can augment surveillance of epidemics in real time. However, methods and evidence for the integration of these data into modern surveillance systems are sparse. We linked call detail records (CDR) with an ...
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    Focus of infection and microbiological etiology in community-acquired infections in hospitalized adult patients in the Faroe Islands 
    Todorovic Markovic, Marija; Pedersen, Court; Gottfredsson, Magnus; Todorović, Mirjana; Gaini, Shahin (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-01-07)
    Background: The aim of the present study was to gain national data on the clinical and microbiological characteristics of community-acquired infections in the Faroe Islands and to compare these data with data from other geographical areas. Methods: A ...
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    Forecasting the effectiveness of the DeWorm3 trial in interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths in three study sites in Benin, India and Malawi 
    Truscott, James E.; Hardwick, Robert J.; Werkman, Marleen; Saravanakumar, Puthupalayam Kaliappan; Manuel, Malathi; Ajjampur, Sitara S.R.; Ásbjörnsdóttir, Kristjana Hrönn; Khumbo, Kalua; Witek-McManus, Stefan; Simwanza, James; Cottrell, Gilles; Houngbégnon, Parfait; Ibikounlé, Moudachirou; Walson, Judd L.; Anderson, Roy M. (2021-01-20)
    BACKGROUND: The DeWorm3 project is an ongoing cluster-randomised trial assessing the feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths (STH) through mass drug administration (MDA) using study sites in India, Malawi and Benin. ...
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    High Rate of Hepatitis C Virus Reinfection Among Recently Injecting Drug Users: : Results From the TraP Hep C Program-A Prospective Nationwide, Population-Based Study 
    TraP Hep C group (2022-04-19)
    BACKGROUND: The Treatment as Prevention for Hepatitis C program started in 2016 in Iceland, offering treatment with direct-acting antivirals to hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected individuals. Reinfections through injection drug use (IDU) can hamper ...
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    Iceland as Stepping Stone for Spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus between Europe and North America 
    Günther, Anne; Krone, Oliver; Svansson, Vilhjalmur; Pohlmann, Anne; King, Jacqueline; Hallgrimsson, Gunnar Thor; Skarphéðinsson, Kristinn Haukur; Sigurðardóttir, Heiða; Jónsson, Stefán Ragnar; Beer, Martin; Brugger, Brigitte; Harder, Timm (2022-12-01)
    Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) of hemagglutinin type H5 and clade 2.3.4.4b have widely spread within the northern hemisphere since 2020 and threaten wild bird populations, as well as poultry production. We present phylogeographic ...
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    Impact of the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on antimicrobial prescriptions in young children: a whole population study 
    Eyþórsson, Elías; Sigurdsson, Samuel; Hrafnkelsson, Birgir; Erlendsdóttir, Helga; Haraldsson, Ásgeir; Kristinsson, Karl G. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018-10-04)
    Background: Antimicrobial resistance is a public-health threat and antimicrobial consumption is the main contributor. The ten-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV10) was introduced into the Icelandic vaccination program in 2011. The aim ...
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    Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Influenza Circulation During the 2020/21 and 2021/22 Seasons, in Europe 
    Sinnathamby, Mary A; Meslé, Margaux M  I; Mook, Piers; Pebody, Richard; Bino, Silvia; Hasibra, Iris; Bakunts, Nune; Abovyan, Romella; Khachtryan, Evgenia; Redlberger-Fritz, Monika; Mursalova, Nazifa; Aliyeva, Firuza; Vysotskaya, Veronika; Shmialiova, Natallia; Karaban, Inna; Bossuyt, Nathalie; Barbezange, Cyril; Musa, Sanja; Vukmir, Nina Rodić; Ljubović, Amela Dedeić; Baštinac, Dijana; Vladimirov, Nadezhda; Korsun, Neli; Trifonova, Ivelina; Tabain, Irena; Petrović, Goranka; Karagiannis, Christos; Haralambous, Christos; Jirincova, Helena; Kyncl, Jan; Trebbien, Ramona; Vestergaard, Lasse Skafte; Sadikova, Olga; Eero, Irina; Metsoja, Eliisa; Ikonen, Niina; Lyytikäinen, Outi; Nohynek, Hanna; Fournier, Lucie; Guerrisi, Caroline; Valette, Martine; Machablishvili, Ani; Buda, Silke; Dürrwald, Ralf; Gioula, Georgia; Mary, Emmanouil; Mellou, Kassiani; Rózsa, Mónika; Molnár, Zsuzsanna; Ármannsdóttir, Brynja; Aspelund, Guðrún; O’Donnell, Joan; Domegan, Lisa; Connell, Jeff; Mandelboim, Michal; Glatman-Freedman, Aharona; Puzelli, Simona; Palamara, Anna Teresa; Maraglino, Francesco; Smagulova, Smagulova Meiramgul Kanapiyanovna; Userbayev, Aidar Sharipkhanuly; Kalaveshi, Ariana; Jakupi, Xhevat; Gunga, Zana Kaçaniku; Otorbaeva, D. S.; Abdyldaeva, S. Zh; Esengeldiev, G. M.; Vasiļevska, Darja; Tomašūna, Kate Karolīna; Savicka, Oksana; Gargasiene, Greta; Muralyte, Svajune; Nguyen, Trung Nguyen; Mossong, Joel; Abdelrahman, Tamir T.; Melillo, Tanya; Zahra, Graziella; Melillo, Jackie; Rakocevic, Bozidarka; Zekovic, Zeljka; Medenica, Sanja; de Lange, Marit; Meijer, Adam; Kochinski, Dragan; Boshevska, Golubinka; Paulsen, Trinehessevik; Bragstad, Karoline; Brydak, Lidia B.; Hallmann, Ewelina; Szymański, Karol; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Verdasca, Nuno; Guiomar, Raquel; Druc, Alina; Apostol, Mariana; Popescu, Rodica; Popovici, Odette; Lazar, Mihaela; Komissarov, Andrey B.; Fadeev, Artem (2024-05)
    Background: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019 saw the implementation of public health and social measures (PHSM) by countries across Europe to reduce its transmission and impact on populations. Consequently, countries reported changes in influenza ...
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    International circumpolar surveillance : update on the interlaboratory quality control program for Streptococcus pneumoniae, 2009 to 2020 
    Golden, Alyssa R; Griffith, Averil; Simons, Brenna C; Reasonover, Alisa; Slotved, Hans-Christian; Lefebvre, Brigitte; Kristinsson, Karl Gústaf; Hurteau, Donna; Tyrrell, Gregory J; Bruce, Michael G; Martin, Irene (2024-06-04)
    UNLABELLED: The International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) program is a population-based surveillance network for invasive bacterial diseases throughout Arctic countries and territories. The ICS quality control program for Streptococcus pneumoniae ...
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    Maternal and paternal tuberculosis is associated with increased asthma and respiratory symptoms in their offspring : a study from Northern Europe 
    Gyawali, Sanjay; López-Cervantes, Juan Pablo; Johannessen, Ane; Gíslason, Þórarinn; Holm, Mathias; Janson, Christer; Jögi, Rain; Modig, Lars; Schlünssen, Vivi; Mustafa, Tehmina; Svanes, Cecilie (2023-06-08)
    BACKGROUND: Given the profound impact of tuberculosis (TB) on immunity and given murine studies suggesting that infections may influence immunity across generations, we hypothesize that parental TB might impact health and disease in future offspring. ...
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    Overestimation of school-based deworming coverage resulting from school-based reporting 
    Sheahan, William; Anderson, Roy; Aruldas, Kumudha; Avokpaho, Euripide; Galagan, Sean; Goodman, Jeanne; Houngbegnon, Parfait; Israel, Gideon John; Janagaraj, Venkateshprabhu; Kaliappan, Saravanakumar Puthupalayam; Means, Arianna Rubin; Morozoff, Chloe; Pearman, Emily; Ramesh, Rohan Michael; Roll, Amy; Schaefer, Alexandra; Simwanza, James; Witek-Mcmanus, Stefan; Ajjampur, Sitara S.R.; Bailey, Robin; Ibikounlé, Moudachirou; Kalua, Khumbo; Luty, Adrian J.F.; Pullan, Rachel; Walson, Judd L.; Ásbjörnsdóttir, Kristjana Hrönn (2023-04-10)
    BACKGROUND: Soil Transmitted Helminths (STH) infect over 1.5 billion people globally and are associated with anemia and stunting, resulting in an annual toll of 1.9 million Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). School-based deworming (SBD), via mass ...