Policy Parents of children enrolling in Kindergarten present to the school an Immunisation Certificate. Children who have not been immunised may be required to remain at home during an outbreak of an infectious disease such as whooping cough or measles. Health regulations state that students suffering certain infectious diseases will be excluded from school for a period of time. Parents notify ...

Infectious disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal foal with approximately 8% of foals affected by some form of infectious complication in the first 30 days of life in one recent study. Early recognition and treatment of infectious complications in the neonatal period is important to maximise outcome. The purposes of this article are to review antimicrobial sele...

Methods A prospective, descriptive study for 4 months (period: Oct 2014 Jan 2015) in pts. admitted to our ICU. We included adults undergoing emergent, elective or semiurgent heart valve replacement, coronary artery bypass grafting or aortic aneurysm surgery. Perioperative and outcome data were collected daily for 5 days. The pts. were subdivided in 3 groups: uncomplicated CS group, infectious c...

In order to investigate the transmission mechanism of the infectious individual with Ebola virus, we establish an SEIT (susceptible, exposed in the latent period, infectious, and treated/recovery) epidemic model. The basic reproduction number is defined. The mathematical analysis on the existence and stability of the disease-free equilibrium and endemic equilibrium is given. As the applications...

For a recently derived pairwise model of network epidemics with non-Markovian recovery, we prove that under some mild technical conditions on the distribution of the infectious periods, smaller variance in the recovery time leads to higher reproduction number, and consequently to a larger epidemic outbreak, when the mean infectious period is fixed. We discuss how this result is related to vario...

BACKGROUND The proportion of occupational infectious diseases (ID) in the total number of occupational diseases reported in the Slovak Republic (SR) and the Czech Republic (CR) was decreasing from 1973 to 2010. Our study presents a longitudinal analysis of the occurrence of occupational infectious diseases in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic in the period from 1973-2010 with special f...

We present a two delays SEIR epidemic model with a saturation incidence rate. One delay is the time taken by the infected individuals to become infectious (i.e. capable to infect a susceptible individual), the second delay is the time taken by an infectious individual to be removed from the infection. By iterative schemes and the comparison principle, we provide global attractivity results for ...