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Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis and its aetiologies, 1990 2...
Wunrow, Han Yong; Bender, Rose G; Vongpradith, Avina; Sirota, Sarah Brooke; Swetschinski, Lucien R; Novotney, Amanda; Gray, Authia P; Perdigão, JoãoBackground Although meningitis is largely preventable, it still causes hundreds of thousands of deaths globally each year. WHO set ambitious goals to reduce meningitis cases by 2030, and assessing trends in the global meningitis burden can help track progress and identify gaps in achieving these goals. Using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019, we aimed to assess...
The burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in the WHO European region in ...
Mestrovic, Tomislav; Robles Aguilar, Gisela; Swetschinski, Lucien R; Ikuta, Kevin S; Gray, Authia P; Davis Weaver, Nicole; Han, Chieh; Wool, Eve EBackground Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents one of the most crucial threats to public health and modern health care. Previous studies have identified challenges with estimating the magnitude of the problem and its downstream effect on human health and mortality. To our knowledge, this study presents the most comprehensive set of regional and country-level estimates of AMR burden in the WHO European reg...