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Record W2141399465 · doi:10.1086/598219

High Burden of Staphylococcal Disease in Indigenous Communities

2009· letter· en· W2141399465 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John Turnidge

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2009
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicDermatological diseases and infestations
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousDiseaseMedicineMicrobiologyBiologyEnvironmental healthImmunologyEcologyPathology

Abstract

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Numerous studies in the past 2 decades have recorded an apparently high rate of Staphylococcus aureus infection in so-called indigenous populations—in particular, a high rate of infection caused by methicillin-resistant strains of S. aureus (MRSA) [1]. Such problems have been documented among Native Americans [2], Pacific Islanders in Hawaii [3], Alaskan Natives [4, 5], aboriginal Canadians (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) [6, 7], Western Samoans and other Pacific Islanders living in Auckland, New Zealand [8, 9], and Australian Aboriginals [10] In this context, the concept of indigenous populations stems from the modern histories of the United States, Canada, and Australia. These histories have many parallels, one of which is the displacement and resettlement of indigenous populations that had occupied these countries for the previous tens of thousands of years. These populations became the “Fourth World,” that is, the “Third World inside the First,” because their well being and health status have suffered as a result of their resettlement, often to remote communities and reservations. Notably, the infectious diseases burden in these communities has remained high or even increased, compared with that of the nonindigenous population, and it has contributed to a significantly shorter life expectancy. As a result, staphylococcal infections, both minor and serious, are a prominent part of the infectious disease burden in indigenous populations

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations9
Published2009
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