Rosheila Dagina's research while affiliated with National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea and other places

... 18 SMS can be used to contact potential informants. [19][20][21][22][23] These innovations are particularly practical for reducing the burdens of interviewers who otherwise would need to dial manually and record answers by hand and minimising human errors. IATS using these techniques were included in this scoping review (Concept). ...

... Another study reporting the role of Jordan FETP in the national and regional capacity building showed that the program contributed significantly to improvements in surveillance systems, control of infectious diseases, outbreak investigations, and availability of reliable morbidity and mortality data in Jordan (16). A study in Papua New Guinea on the lessons learned from the interventionbased FETP showed the successful public health outcomes with tangible local impacts of this program (17). Also, in the United Kingdom (UK), it was found that FETP highly contributed to the development of a skilled workforce in field epidemiology (13). ...

... The most likely statistically significant cluster (window of highest probability) was estimated for each random permutation by 999 Monte Carlo replications of the simulated data set under the null hypothesis. We set the maximum spatial window to a radius of 125 km after identifying large spatiotemporal clusters containing many statistically significant subclusters in preliminary analyses [27,28]. ...

... Knowing the importance of alerts for quick detection and reporting, this weak event-based surveillance will probably delay the detection of new events and the establishment of response interventions. The implementation of adequate measures to improve this area of surveillance will improve countries ability to contribute to the global health security [25][26][27][28][29]. Data management, analysis and use for decision-making is another area of improvement [29]. ...

... An outbreak of V. cholerae serogroup O1, biotype El Tor, serotype Ogawa began in Morobe Province in 2009 and then spread to nearly half of the provinces of PNG by 2011. Among stool samples and rectal swabs collected during the outbreak between 2009 and 2011, 75.8% (229/302) of V. cholerae isolates were resistant to amoxicillin, and 17.2% (52/302) were intermediately resistant [79]. Chloramphenicol resistance was detected in 3.1% (8/255) of isolates, and 1.6% (4/244) were intermediately resistant. ...

... We implemented a mobile telephone-based syndromic surveillance system to monitor SARS-CoV-2-related symptoms and mortality trends. This system aims to overcome the limitations of traditional surveillance methods, such as under-reporting/ascertainment, lack of timeliness and completeness of data 9 and provide timely and reliable data for decisionmaking. By leveraging mobile phone technology, we sought to reach a large population quickly and efficiently by collecting information on SARS-CoV-2-like/influenza-like symptoms (CLS/ILS), SARS-CoV-2 testing and mortality. ...

... However, recent studies show the geographical distribution of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus is now extensive in all human inhabited continents; Europe and North America [109], South America [110], Oceania [111,112], and Africa [113]. ...

... In healthy donors' serum (used as a negative control), fluorescence intensity increase was notably late during the incubation reactions (Figure 2, cycle 49). However, when using sera from ZIKV-infected patients, the intensity curves peaked at early incubation reaction cycles, indicating efficient virus detection (Figure 2, cycles [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Samples 03 (cycle 10) and 08 (cycle 13) exhibited readily discernible fluorescence intensity, while samples 11, 15 (cycle 16), and 05 (cycle 19) were positive, albeit with reduced intensity. ...

... MLST provides a standardized classification method that is usually based on a collection of six or seven well-defined housekeeping genes (27). MLST was used to study a number of cholera outbreaks and allowed the descriptions of general population structure (28,29). It is reproducible and provides reliable results; however, it is unable to differentiate between closely related strains, which limits its use in outbreak surveillance (30,31). ...

... Of 860 articles identified by the search, 37 reports describing 39 outbreaks met the inclusion criteria (Figure 1). There was seven reported outbreaks in PNG [8,[13][14][15][16][17][18]; six in each of Solomon Islands, [19][20][21][22][23][24][25] French Polynesia, [25][26][27][28][29][30] and FSM [31][32][33][34][35][36]; three in each of American Samoa [37][38][39] and Marshall Island [40][41][42]; two from Fiji [43,44] and Guam [45,46] and one in each of Kiribati, [47] Tuvalu, [48] New Caledonia, [30] and Wallis and Futuna [30]. The aetiological agents responsible for the outbreaks were dengue virus (n = 7), [25,19,23,26,34,39,41] influenza virus (n = 5), [16,30,31] chikungunya virus (n = 3), [17,28,29] Hepatitis A causing Hepatovirus (n = 3), [35,44,40] Shigella spp. ...