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    Renewed focus on African populations confirms the complexity of skin pigmentation genetics, and suggests future directions for pigmentation research.
    Human genetics
    Genome Biology
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    Isolation
    Patient isolation
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    Patient isolation aims at reducing the risk of infection transmission to other patients and the hospital personnel. Three types of disease-specific isolation procedures and their indications are described: strict isolation, respiratory isolation and enteral isolation. The type of patient isolation to be applied depends on the mode of pathogen transmission and on the severity of the disease it produces.
    Isolation
    Patient isolation
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    Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, confirmed and suspected cases of the disease have been increasing rapidly. The isolation of cases is one of the most effective methods for the control and containment of COVID-19 and has been rapidly popularized. Problems with isolation have gradually emerged, such as the inadequate allocation of isolation resources and the failure to properly resettle many of the suspected cases of the 2019-nCoV infection. In this paper, a self-isolation ecosystem of a rapid-deploying negative-pressurized "private car" is proposed for housing patients with 2019-nCoV infection, which could be lightweight, moderately sized and transparent to enable group supervision and communication. This "private car" isolation method aims to achieve self-isolation of patients and essentially solves the problem of where and how to isolate suspected cases while saving isolation resources and preventing the large-scale transmission of COVID-19.
    Isolation
    2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
    Social Isolation
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