Aim: The aim of the study was to determine burden and epidemiology rubella infection in Lesotho before introduction a rubella-containing vaccine. It also assess performance measles case-based surveillance system Lesotho.
 Study Design: Retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study.
 Place Duration Study: done from February March 2019 based on 2012 2016 data.
 Methods: There rev...

ABSTRACT COVID-19 is an acute respiratory disease that spreads rapidly throughout the world caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Published research on levels of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in hospitalized patients still limited. Research sero-epidemiology and its correlation with clinical severity needed as a database for pandemic governance, especially neutralizing...

A retrospective cross‐sectional study was conducted to investigate the seroprevalence of paratuberculosis in small ruminants in the Arusha Municipality. A total of 383 samples comprising of 192 goat‐ and 191 sheep‐sera from Arusha Municipality collected in the late 2010 and early 2011 by Tanzania Veterinary Investigation Agency – Arusha for surveillance on peste des petits ruminants were tested...

A population-based study of the sero-epidemiology of chlamydia was performed among a nationally representative sample of 760 Costa Rican women aged 25 to 59 years. Interviews and sera collection were completed between September 1984 and February 1985. The overall seroprevalence of chlamydial antibodies among these women was 56.1%. Women 25 to 39 years of age had a seroprevalence of 51.1%, while...

OBJECTIVES To review Campylobacter cases in England and Wales over 2 decades and examine the main factors/mechanisms driving the changing epidemiology. DESIGN A descriptive study of Campylobacter patients between 1989 and 2011. Cases over 3 years were linked anonymously to postcode, population density, deprivation indices and census data. Cases over 5 years were anonymously linked to local we...

BACKGROUND Local HIV epidemiology data are critical in determining the suitability of a population for HIV vaccine efficacy trials. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence and incidence of, and determine risk factors for HIV transmission in a rural community-based HIV vaccine preparedness cohort in Masaka, Uganda. METHODS Between February and July 2004, we conducted a house...

BACKGROUND Childhood rubella infection is a mild, self-limiting illness. Rubella infection among pregnant women however, is a major public health concern. Depending on gestation age, it may result in fetal death, stillbirth or a new-born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Maternal antibodies protect young infants from rubella infection and lifelong immunity is acquired by vaccination or po...

PURPOSE Cryptogenic epilepsy, defines a group of epilepsy syndromes for which an aetiology is unknown but an underlying brain disease is suspected. We selected patients in this subgroup of epilepsy and investigated the sero-positivity rate for anti-Toxoplasma IgG antibodies by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). We investigated the probable relationship between Toxoplasma gondii and cryp...