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Record W2794588361 · doi:10.2196/10626

Outbreak Investigation of Measles in Farash Town, Islamabad, April 2017

2018· article· en· W2794588361 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Nadia Noreen

Bibliographic record

VenueIproceedings · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicVirology and Viral Diseases
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOutbreakMeaslesGeographyVirologyMedicineVaccination

Abstract

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Background: On April 14, 2017, two measles cases were reported by local health practitioner from Farash Town. A team of FELTP fellows were deputed to investigate the outbreak. Objective: On the request of district health authorities an outbreak investigation was conducted to assess magnitude, identify risk factors and recommend control measures. Methods: Outbreak investigation was carried out from April 18 to May 05, 2017. Active case finding was conducted through a house-to-house survey. A case was defined as onset of maculopapular rash with fever and presence of any of the sign/symptoms like coryza, conjunctivitis and cough in a resident of Farash Town from March 25, 2017 to April 30, 2017. Community-based age and sex-matched controls were selected. Vaccine coverage survey was conducted in a cluster of 245 houses. Frequencies were calculated, attack rates computed, and vaccine efficacy was determined. Blood samples of 03 suspected cases were sent to Public Health Laboratories at NIH Islamabad for confirmation. Results: A total of 15 cases were identified; 13 through active case finding. Mean age was 44.5 months (range 05-120 months). The cases were predominantly male n=9(60%). Overall attack rate was 1.15% and most severely affected age group was 24-36 months (n=4, AR=10.81%) followed by 12-24 months (n=3, AR=8.10%). Diarrhea developed in n=12 (80%) and pneumonia developed in n=2 (13.3%). Immunization coverage survey showed that AR in unvaccinated was 25% and AR in vaccinated was 10%, hence the vaccine efficacy was calculated to be 60%. The most significant reason for non-vaccination was misconception about vaccination (OR: 24.0, CI: 4.9-116.1). All blood samples were positive for measles-specific IgM on ELISA. Conclusions: Low immunization status was the most probable cause of outbreak. The results were communicated to district health authorities for mass vaccination. Health awareness session was conducted for all households. No new case was reported during the two weeks follow-up.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.123
Threshold uncertainty score0.351

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.034
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.261 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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

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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