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Home / Archives for Anne-Mieke Vandamme

Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–1960

  • Autores: João Dinis Sousa, Philip J Havik, Anne-Mieke Vandamme
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Medical History, 65(2), pp 178 - 196
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.11

ABSTRACT During the colonial period sexually transmitted infections (STIs) came to be recognised as a major public health problem in African cities. Thus, STI control and urban modernisation became deeply entangled as authorities redrew spatial and social boundaries to manage populations and their cross-cultural interaction. Public health measures, urban planning and policing were part of […]
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Newly Discovered Archival Data Show Coincidence of a Peak of Sexually Transmitted Diseases with the Early Epicenter of Pandemic HIV-1

  • Autores: João Dinis Sousa, Philip J Havik, Viktor Müller, Anne-Mieke Vandamme
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Viruses, 13(9), art 1701
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/v13091701

ABSTRACT To which extent STDs facilitated HIV-1 adaptation to humans, sparking the pandemic, is still unknown. We searched colonial medical records from 1906–1958 for Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, which was the initial epicenter of pandemic HIV-1, compiling counts of treated STD cases in both Africans and Europeans. Almost all Europeans were being treated, while for Africans, […]
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Comparison of two simulators for individual based models in HIV epidemiology in a population with HSV 2 in Yaoundé (Cameroon)

  • Autores: Diana M Hendrickx, João Dinis Sousa, Pieter J K Libin, Wim Delva, Jori Liesenborgs, Niel Hens, Viktor Müller, Anne-Mieke Vandamme
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Scientific Reports, 11, art 14696
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94289-z

ABSTRACT Model comparisons have been widely used to guide intervention strategies to control infectious diseases. Agreement between different models is crucial for providing robust evidence for policy-makers because differences in model properties can influence their predictions. In this study, we compared models implemented by two individual-based model simulators for HIV epidemiology in a heterosexual population […]
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Changes to virus taxonomy and to the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

  • Autores: Peter J Walker, Stuart G Siddell, Elliot J Lefkowitz, Arcady R Mushegian, Evelien M Adriaenssens, Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini, Andrew J Davison, Donald M Dempsey, Bas E Dutilh, María Laura García, Balázs Harrach, Robert L Harrison, R Curtis Hendrickson, Sandra Junglen, Nick J Knowles, Mart Krupovic, Jens H Kuhn, Amy J Lambert, Małgorzata Łobocka, Max L Nibert, Hanna M Oksanen, Richard J Orton, David L Robertson, Luisa Rubino, Sead Sabanadzovic, Peter Simmonds, Donald B Smith, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Koenraad Van Dooerslaer, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Arvind Varsani, Francisco Murilo Zerbini
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Archives of Virology, 166(9), pp 2633–2648
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-05156-1

ABSTRACT This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2021. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 290 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTV Executive Committee at its meeting in October 2020, as well as on the proposed revision of […]
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Behavioral changes before lockdown and decreased retail and recreation mobility during lockdown contributed most to controlling COVID-19 in Western countries

  • Autores: Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Jurgen Vercauteren, Koen Deforche, Viktor Müller
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: BMC Public Health, 21, art 654
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10676-1

ABSTRACT ‘Background:’ The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a lockdown in many countries to control the exponential spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, hereby reducing the time-varying basic reproduction number (Rt) to below one. Governments are looking for evidence to balance the demand of their citizens to ease some of the restriction, against the fear of a […]
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