Publications by authors named "T J O'Dempsey"
A combined tropical medicine and psychiatry approach to patients with possible delusional infestation.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- Delusional infestation (DI) is a psychological disorder where individuals have a firm belief that they are infested, requiring an interdisciplinary approach for effective treatment.
- The Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates a specialized clinic for DI, coordinating between dermatology and psychiatry to enhance patient care and management.
- From 2018 to 2023, this clinic assessed 208 patients, with over half diagnosed with DI, indicating the need for targeted strategies in similar medical settings.
Background: In 2018, a large mumps epidemic coincided with an outbreak of diphtheria in refugee camps established in Bangladesh for the Rohingya people. These refugees did not receive a mumps-containing vaccine.
Methods: Cases of mumps were reported to the WHO's Early Warning, Alert and Response System (EWARS) during the Rohingya refugee crisis.
Background: Between December 2013 and June 2016, West Africa experienced the largest Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in history. Understanding EVD in pregnancy is important for EVD clinical screening and infection prevention and control.
Methods: We conducted a review of medical records and EVD investigation reports from three districts in Sierra Leone.
The recent large outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Western Africa resulted in greatly increased accumulation of human genotypic, phenotypic and clinical data, and improved our understanding of the spectrum of clinical manifestations. As a result, the WHO disease classification of EVD underwent major revision.
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