The global burden of cholera

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the global burden of cholera using population-based incidence data and reports.METHODS: Countries with a recent history of cholera were classified as endemic or non-endemic, depending on whether they had reported cholera cases in at least three of the five most recent years.The percentages of the population in each country th

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Detection of Zoonotic Antibiotic Resistant Salmonella spp. Carrying Virulence Genes in Rural Mus musculus, Golestan Province, North of Iran

Background and aims: Salmonella spp.infect cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals and may cause a worldwide zoonotic disease, salmonellosis, in infected animals.Rodents can be Salmonella carriers without any signs of salmonellosis.The frequency of salmonella contamination, the presence of virulence genes (SpvR and SpvB) and antibiotic resistance pat

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Probabilistic programming in Python using PyMC3

Probabilistic programming allows for automatic Bayesian inference on user-defined probabilistic models.Recent advances in Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling allow inference on increasingly complex models.This class of MCMC, BELT known as Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, requires gradient information which is often not readily available.PyMC3 is a new

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