Scrub typhus linked to high disease burden in rural India
1. In this cohort study, scrub typhus was a common cause of febrile illness in rural South India, with an ...
Tag: epidemiology
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality
1. Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) had a higher risk of mortality, particularly due to unnatural cases. Evidence rating level: ...
Candida auris cases increased in the United States from 2019 to 2021
1. This description of national surveillance data demonstrated that Candida auris (C. auris) cases and transmission have increased in the ...
Infant race and ethnicity are commonly misclassified in research studies
1. In this systematic review, discordance in infant race and ethnicity data was found to be commonplace across various data ...
COVID-19 epidemiologic characteristics in Wuhan, China [Classics Series]
This study summary is an excerpt from the book 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark ...
Life expectancy disparities have increased between ethnic groups in certain states
1. Differences in life expectancy (LE) between states are significantly increased when accounting for ethnic subgroups. 2. In seven states ...
United States medical cannabis registration increased significantly between 2016 and 2020
1. Registration for medical cannabis increased 4.5 times from 2016 to 2020 in the United States, with chronic pain and ...
Australian RSV epidemic seasonality – but not severity – altered by COVID-19
1. RSV infections and hospitalizations peaked in December of 2020, a significant change in timing from the usual autumn and winter ...
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 differed among different types of healthcare workers in Italy in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
1. Health care assistants and nurses were at the highest risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 among healthcare professionals early in the ...