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A method to estimate the serial interval distribution under partially-sampled data 在部分采样数据下估计序列区间分布的方法
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100733
Kurnia Susvitasari, Paul Tupper, Jessica E. Stockdale, Caroline Colijn
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Variation in pneumococcal invasiveness metrics is driven by serotype carriage duration and initial risk of disease 肺炎球菌侵袭性指标的变化是由血清型携带时间和疾病的初始风险驱动的
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100731
Benjamin J. Metcalf , Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft , Bernard W. Beall , Sam P. Brown
{"title":"Variation in pneumococcal invasiveness metrics is driven by serotype carriage duration and initial risk of disease","authors":"Benjamin J. Metcalf ,&nbsp;Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft ,&nbsp;Bernard W. Beall ,&nbsp;Sam P. Brown","doi":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> is an opportunistic pathogen that, while usually carried asymptomatically, can cause severe invasive diseases like meningitis and bacteremic pneumonia. A central goal in <em>S. pneumoniae</em> public health management is to identify which serotypes (immunologically distinct strains) pose the most risk of invasive disease. The most common invasiveness metrics use cross-sectional data (<em>i.e.</em>, invasive odds ratios (IOR)), or longitudinal data (<em>i.e.</em>, attack rates (AR)). To assess the reliability of these metrics we developed an epidemiological model of carriage and invasive disease. Our mathematical analyses illustrate qualitative failures with the IOR metric (<em>e.g.</em>, IOR can decline with increasing invasiveness parameters). Fitting the model to both longitudinal and cross-sectional data, our analysis supports previous work indicating that invasion risk is maximal at or near time of colonization. This pattern of early invasive disease risk leads to substantial (up to 5-fold) biases when estimating underlying differences in invasiveness from IOR metrics, due to the impact of carriage duration on IOR. Together, these results raise serious concerns with the IOR metric as a basis for public health decision-making and lend support for multiple alternate metrics including AR.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49206,"journal":{"name":"Epidemics","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100731"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436523000671/pdfft?md5=30db509b0692cd94b01b5d29e76719cd&pid=1-s2.0-S1755436523000671-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138467683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The variations of SIkJalpha model for COVID-19 forecasting and scenario projections sikalpha模型在COVID-19预测和情景预测中的变化
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100729
Ajitesh Srivastava
{"title":"The variations of SIkJalpha model for COVID-19 forecasting and scenario projections","authors":"Ajitesh Srivastava","doi":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100729","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100729","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We proposed the SIkJalpha model at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (early 2020). Since then, as the pandemic evolved, more complexities were added to capture crucial factors and variables that can assist with projecting desired future scenarios. Throughout the pandemic, multi-model collaborative efforts have been organized to predict short-term outcomes (cases, deaths, and hospitalizations) of COVID-19 and long-term scenario projections. We have been participating in five such efforts. This paper presents the evolution of the SIkJalpha model and its many versions that have been used to submit to these collaborative efforts since the beginning of the pandemic. Specifically, we show that the SIkJalpha model is an approximation of a class of epidemiological models. We demonstrate how the model can be used to incorporate various complexities, including under-reporting, multiple variants, waning of immunity, and contact rates, and to generate probabilistic outputs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49206,"journal":{"name":"Epidemics","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100729"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436523000658/pdfft?md5=929f79386e57f7e3861ecdc50ce83ff4&pid=1-s2.0-S1755436523000658-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138048293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Changing social contact patterns among US workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: April 2020 to December 2021 新冠肺炎大流行期间美国工人社交接触模式的变化:2020年4月至2021年12月。
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100727
Moses C. Kiti , Obianuju G. Aguolu , Alana Zelaya , Holin Y. Chen , Noureen Ahmed , Jonathan Batross , Carol Y. Liu , Kristin N. Nelson , Samuel M. Jenness , Alessia Melegaro , Faruque Ahmed , Fauzia Malik , Saad B. Omer , Ben A. Lopman
{"title":"Changing social contact patterns among US workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: April 2020 to December 2021","authors":"Moses C. Kiti ,&nbsp;Obianuju G. Aguolu ,&nbsp;Alana Zelaya ,&nbsp;Holin Y. Chen ,&nbsp;Noureen Ahmed ,&nbsp;Jonathan Batross ,&nbsp;Carol Y. Liu ,&nbsp;Kristin N. Nelson ,&nbsp;Samuel M. Jenness ,&nbsp;Alessia Melegaro ,&nbsp;Faruque Ahmed ,&nbsp;Fauzia Malik ,&nbsp;Saad B. Omer ,&nbsp;Ben A. Lopman","doi":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100727","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100727","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Non-pharmaceutical interventions minimize social contacts, hence the spread of respiratory pathogens such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2. Globally, there is a paucity of social contact data from the workforce. In this study, we quantified two-day contact patterns among USA employees. Contacts were defined as face-to-face conversations, involving physical touch or proximity to another individual and were collected using electronic self-kept diaries. Data were collected over 4 rounds from 2020 to 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mean (standard deviation) contacts reported by 1456 participants were 2.5 (2.5), 8.2 (7.1), 9.2 (7.1) and 10.1 (9.5) across round 1 (April–June 2020), 2 (November 2020–January 2021), 3 (June–August 2021), and 4 (November–December 2021), respectively. Between round 1 and 2, we report a 3-fold increase in the mean number of contacts reported per participant with no major increases from round 2–4. We then modeled SARS-CoV-2 transmission at home, work, and community settings. The model revealed reduced relative transmission in all settings in round 1. Subsequently, transmission increased at home and in the community but remained exceptionally low in work settings. To accurately parameterize models of infection transmission and control, we need empirical social contact data that capture human mixing behavior across time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49206,"journal":{"name":"Epidemics","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100727"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436523000634/pdfft?md5=74164db0f3515598af291f136f59e369&pid=1-s2.0-S1755436523000634-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72211560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Assessing the utility of COVID-19 case reports as a leading indicator for hospitalization forecasting in the United States 评估COVID-19病例报告作为美国住院预测领先指标的效用
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100728
Nicholas G. Reich , Yijin Wang , Meagan Burns , Rosa Ergas , Estee Y. Cramer , Evan L. Ray
{"title":"Assessing the utility of COVID-19 case reports as a leading indicator for hospitalization forecasting in the United States","authors":"Nicholas G. Reich ,&nbsp;Yijin Wang ,&nbsp;Meagan Burns ,&nbsp;Rosa Ergas ,&nbsp;Estee Y. Cramer ,&nbsp;Evan L. Ray","doi":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Identifying data streams that can consistently improve the accuracy of epidemiological forecasting models is challenging. Using models designed to predict daily state-level hospital admissions due to COVID-19 in California and Massachusetts, we investigated whether incorporating COVID-19 case data systematically improved forecast accuracy. Additionally, we considered whether using case data aggregated by date of test or by date of report from a surveillance system made a difference to the forecast accuracy. Evaluating forecast accuracy in a test period, after first having selected the best-performing methods in a validation period, we found that overall the difference in accuracy between approaches was small, especially at forecast horizons of less than two weeks. However, forecasts from models using cases aggregated by test date showed lower accuracy at longer horizons and at key moments in the pandemic, such as the peak of the Omicron wave in January 2022. Overall, these results highlight the challenge of finding a modeling approach that can generate accurate forecasts of outbreak trends both during periods of relative stability and during periods that show rapid growth or decay of transmission rates. While COVID-19 case counts seem to be a natural choice to help predict COVID-19 hospitalizations, in practice any benefits we observed were small and inconsistent.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49206,"journal":{"name":"Epidemics","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100728"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436523000646/pdfft?md5=501f8c5a916c41a194955789cddb3e5e&pid=1-s2.0-S1755436523000646-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109127541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Estimation of waning vaccine effectiveness from population-level surveillance data in multi-variant epidemics 从多变异流行病的人群水平监测数据估计疫苗有效性的下降。
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100726
Hiroaki Murayama , Akira Endo , Shouto Yonekura
{"title":"Estimation of waning vaccine effectiveness from population-level surveillance data in multi-variant epidemics","authors":"Hiroaki Murayama ,&nbsp;Akira Endo ,&nbsp;Shouto Yonekura","doi":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100726","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Monitoring time-varying vaccine effectiveness (e.g., due to waning of immunity and the emergence of novel variants) provides crucial information for outbreak control. Existing studies of time-varying vaccine effectiveness have used individual-level data, most importantly dates of vaccination and variant classification, which are often not available in a timely manner or from a wide range of population groups. We present a novel Bayesian framework for estimating the waning of variant-specific vaccine effectiveness in the presence of multi-variant circulation from population-level surveillance data. Applications to simulated outbreaks and the COVID-19 epidemic in Japan are also presented. Our results show that variant-specific waning vaccine effectiveness estimated from population-level surveillance data could approximately reproduce the estimates from previous test-negative design studies, allowing for rapid, if crude, assessment of the epidemic situation before fine-scale studies are made available.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49206,"journal":{"name":"Epidemics","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100726"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436523000622/pdfft?md5=ea726add6890caef681ab98cd068361d&pid=1-s2.0-S1755436523000622-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71523072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Modelling flock heterogeneity in the transmission of peste des petits ruminants virus and its impact on the effectiveness of vaccination for eradication 小反刍兽疫病毒传播中的群体异质性建模及其对疫苗接种根除效果的影响。
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100725
Bethan Savagar , Bryony A. Jones , Mark Arnold , Martin Walker , Guillaume Fournié
{"title":"Modelling flock heterogeneity in the transmission of peste des petits ruminants virus and its impact on the effectiveness of vaccination for eradication","authors":"Bethan Savagar ,&nbsp;Bryony A. Jones ,&nbsp;Mark Arnold ,&nbsp;Martin Walker ,&nbsp;Guillaume Fournié","doi":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100725","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100725","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute infectious disease of small ruminants targeted for global eradication by 2030. The Global Strategy for Control and Eradication (GSCE) recommends mass vaccination targeting 70% coverage of small ruminant populations in PPR-endemic regions. These small ruminant populations are diverse with heterogeneous mixing patterns that may influence PPR virus (PPRV) transmission dynamics. This paper evaluates the impact of heterogeneous mixing on (i) PPRV transmission and (ii) the likelihood of different vaccination strategies achieving PPRV elimination, including the GSCE recommended strategy. We develop models simulating heterogeneous transmission between hosts, including a metapopulation model of PPRV transmission between villages in lowland Ethiopia fitted to serological data. Our results demonstrate that although heterogeneous mixing of small ruminant populations increases the instability of PPRV transmission—increasing the chance of fadeout in the absence of intervention—a vaccination coverage of 70% may be insufficient to achieve elimination if high-risk populations are not targeted. Transmission may persist despite very high vaccination coverage (&gt;90% small ruminants) if vaccination is biased towards more accessible but lower-risk populations such as sedentary small ruminant flocks. These results highlight the importance of characterizing small ruminant mobility patterns and identifying high-risk populations for vaccination and support a move towards targeted, risk-based vaccination programmes in the next phase of the PPRV eradication programme. Our modelling approach also illustrates a general framework for incorporating heterogeneous mixing patterns into models of directly transmitted infectious diseases where detailed contact data are limited. This study improves understanding of PPRV transmission and elimination in heterogeneous small ruminant populations and should be used to inform and optimize the design of PPRV vaccination programmes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49206,"journal":{"name":"Epidemics","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100725"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436523000610/pdfft?md5=5095bc68ce3f1a1597706b90994e1832&pid=1-s2.0-S1755436523000610-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71487939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mathematical methods for scaling from within-host to population-scale in infectious disease systems 传染病系统中从宿主内尺度到种群尺度的数学方法
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100724
James W.G. Doran , Robin N. Thompson , Christian A. Yates , Ruth Bowness
{"title":"Mathematical methods for scaling from within-host to population-scale in infectious disease systems","authors":"James W.G. Doran ,&nbsp;Robin N. Thompson ,&nbsp;Christian A. Yates ,&nbsp;Ruth Bowness","doi":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100724","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mathematical modellers model infectious disease dynamics at different scales. Within-host models represent the spread of pathogens inside an individual, whilst between-host models track transmission between individuals. However, pathogen dynamics at one scale affect those at another. This has led to the development of multiscale models that connect within-host and between-host dynamics. In this article, we systematically review the literature on multiscale infectious disease modelling according to PRISMA guidelines, dividing previously published models into five categories governing their methodological approaches (Garira (2017)), explaining their benefits and limitations. We provide a primer on developing multiscale models of infectious diseases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49206,"journal":{"name":"Epidemics","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100724"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436523000609/pdfft?md5=42f11d0050552382ff9757df7e1a40db&pid=1-s2.0-S1755436523000609-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134654324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Modelling outbreak response impact in human vaccine-preventable diseases: A systematic review of differences in practices between collaboration types before COVID-19 人类疫苗可预防疾病的疫情应对影响建模:新冠肺炎前合作类型之间实践差异的系统回顾。
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100720
James M. Azam , Xiaoxi Pang , Elisha B. Are , Juliet R.C. Pulliam , Matthew J. Ferrari
{"title":"Modelling outbreak response impact in human vaccine-preventable diseases: A systematic review of differences in practices between collaboration types before COVID-19","authors":"James M. Azam ,&nbsp;Xiaoxi Pang ,&nbsp;Elisha B. Are ,&nbsp;Juliet R.C. Pulliam ,&nbsp;Matthew J. Ferrari","doi":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100720","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100720","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background:</h3><p>Outbreak response modelling often involves collaboration among academics, and experts from governmental and non-governmental organizations. We conducted a systematic review of modelling studies on human vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) outbreaks to identify patterns in modelling practices between two collaboration types. We complemented this with a mini comparison of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a veterinary disease that is controllable by vaccination.</p></div><div><h3>Methods:</h3><p>We searched three databases for modelling studies that assessed the impact of an outbreak response. We extracted data on author affiliation type (academic institution, governmental, and non-governmental organizations), location studied, and whether at least one author was affiliated to the studied location. We also extracted the outcomes and interventions studied, and model characteristics. Included studies were grouped into two collaboration types: purely academic (papers with only academic affiliations), and mixed (all other combinations) to help investigate differences in modelling patterns between collaboration types in the human disease literature and overall differences with FMD collaboration practices.</p></div><div><h3>Results:</h3><p>Human VPDs formed 227 of 252 included studies. Purely academic collaborations dominated the human disease studies (56%). Notably, mixed collaborations increased in the last seven years (2013–2019). Most studies had an author affiliated to an institution in the country studied (75.2%) but this was more likely among the mixed collaborations. Contrasted to the human VPDs, mixed collaborations dominated the FMD literature (56%). Furthermore, FMD studies more often had an author with an affiliation to the country studied (92%) and used complex model design, including stochasticity, and model parametrization and validation.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion:</h3><p>The increase in mixed collaboration studies over the past seven years could suggest an increase in the uptake of modelling for outbreak response decision-making. We encourage more mixed collaborations between academic and non-academic institutions and the involvement of locally affiliated authors to help ensure that the studies suit local contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49206,"journal":{"name":"Epidemics","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100720"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436523000567/pdfft?md5=3026204558e1fdbce504ec75af88ca46&pid=1-s2.0-S1755436523000567-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72015916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Trypanosoma cruzi infection in dogs along the US-Mexico border: R0 changes with vector species composition 沿美墨边境犬科氏锥虫感染:R0随媒介物种组成变化
IF 3.8 3区 医学
Epidemics Pub Date : 2023-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100723
Luis Fernando Chaves , Alyssa C. Meyers , Carolyn L. Hodo , John P. Sanders , Rachel Curtis-Robles , Gabriel L. Hamer , Sarah A. Hamer
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