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The study of the incidence and spread of infectious diseases in populations over time. Host, pathogen and environmental factors are monitored to determine the dynamics of infection, the ultimate ...

Post-travel hospitalization could be due to an acute disease with a potentially severe outcome or to a subacute debilitating condition that could not be resolved in an outpatient setting.

We showed, in multiple population-based birth cohorts, that blood-based DNA methylation partially explains the relationship between childhood adversity and adolescent depressive symptoms.

onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiases, etc.), ectoparasitic diseases (scabies, myiasis), and non-infectious conditions (podoconiosis, snakebites). The article by Ackley et al ...

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All patients with onchocerciasis were immigrants from Ethiopia. The three most common diagnoses in each continent are shown in Figure 1. Most patients returning from Africa had malaria ...

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention publishes articles featuring population-based research on cancer etiology, prevention, surveillance, survivorship, and cancer health disparities—with a ...

“The thing about epidemiology is it’s a career that can go in many different directions,” says Dale Sandler, chief of the epidemiology branch at the National Institute of Environmental ...

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