Vaccination is the main strategy to control outbreaks of epidemic-prone and pandemic-prone infectious respiratory diseases.
The combination of inadequacies in the surveillance of communicable diseases and limited diagnostic capacity at the public health care facilities presents challenges in early detection and control of outbreak-prone infectious diseases in this area [ 2].
Based on the results obtained in this study we are confident that we have achieved a strategic and critical step towards optimizing management of droplet-spread epidemic-prone infectious diseases in the form of a detailed real-time characterization of the cough aerosol regarding the size and, more importantly, the number of droplets expelled when coughing.
Therefore, we strongly recommend the implementation of an integral strategy such as the Edmonton Platform, which has a potential to become the gold standard in droplet-spread IRD studies, and a Canadian contribution to the world for droplet-spread epidemic-prone, pandemic-prone infectious respiratory disease control.
Recently, we have focused on this latter feature and we have shown that although scale-free networks are more prone to infectious agent spread, the accumulation of deleterious mutations in asexual infectious agent with high mutation rates can also be accelerated in this kind of networks in comparison to random graphs [ 30].
Many mechanisms that occur after CA make cardiopulmonary resuscitation survivors prone to infectious complications.
After out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and successful resuscitation, a post-cardiac arrest syndrome occurs and makes patients prone to infectious complications [1, 2].
In mammals, lung comprises an enormous epithelial surface area prone to infectious diseases.
End-stage renal disease is a state of severe immunodeficiency and dialysis patients are prone to infectious complications.
Work immigrants were less prone to infectious diseases, probably an effect of the healthy migrant or healthy worker effect.
Persons with anemia are more prone to infectious diseases [ 9] and have a lower capacity to perform physical work [ 10].
