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Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the classical etiological agent of diphtheria and the type strain of the genus Corynebacterium. While diphtheria of the respiratory tract became rare with the introduction of vaccination programs in industrialized countries, even today several thousand cases per year are reported to the World Health Organization. This shows that diphtheria is not completely eradicated and that reservoirs exist. The book summarizes the latest advances made in understanding C. diphtheriae and the closely related species Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. Topics addressed are genomics of toxigenic corynebacteria, host-pathogen-interaction, detection, surveillance and treatment as well as application aspects.
Corynebacterium diphtheriae. --- Diphtheria toxin. --- Bacillus diphtheriae --- Klebs-Loeffler bacillus --- Medicine. --- Medical microbiology. --- Parasitology. --- Epidemiology. --- Bacteriology. --- Microbial genetics. --- Microbial genomics. --- Biomedicine. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Microbial Genetics and Genomics. --- Bacterial toxins --- Corynebacterium --- Microbiology. --- Medical parasitology. --- Genomics --- Microbial genetics --- Microorganisms --- Genetics --- Microbiology --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Medical sciences --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Diseases --- Public health --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Parasites
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Government spending in developing countries typically account for between 15 and 30 percent of GDP. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on GDP and on the attainment of the government ' s objectives. The first challenge that stakeholders face is measuring efficiency. This paper attempts such quantification and has two major parts. The first part estimates efficiency as the distance between observed input-output combinations and an efficiency frontier (defined as the maximum attainable output for a given level of inputs). This frontier is estimated for several health and education output indicators by means of the Free Disposable Hull (FDH) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) techniques. Both input-inefficiency (excess input consumption to achieve a level of output) and output-inefficiency (output shortfall for a given level of inputs) are scored in a sample of 140 countries using data from 1996 to 2002. The second part of the paper seeks to verify empirical regularities of the cross-country variation in efficiency. Results show that countries with higher expenditure levels register lower efficiency scores, as well as countries where the wage bill is a larger share of the government ' s budget. Similarly, countries with higher ratios of public to private financing of the service provision score lower efficiency, as do countries plagued by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and those with higher income inequality. Countries with higher aid-dependency ratios also tend to score lower in efficiency, probably due to the volatility of this type of funding that impedes medium term planning and budgeting. Though no causality may be inferred from this exercise, it points at different factors to understand why some countries might need more resources than others to achieve similar educational and health outcomes.
Children --- Decision Making --- Diphtheria --- Environment --- Environmental Economics and Policies --- Health --- Health Care --- Health Care Professionals --- Health Indicators --- Health Monitoring and Evaluation --- Health Outcomes --- Health Services --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Hospitals --- Immunization --- Implementation --- International Comparisons --- Knowledge --- Life Expectancy --- Lifestyle --- Measurement --- Mortality --- Observation --- Patient
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