Jackson-Thompson, Belinda M. Goguet, Emilie Laing, Eric D. Olsen, Cara H. Pollett, Simon Hollis-Perry, K. Monique Maiolatesi, Santina E. Illinik, Luca Ramsey, Kathleen F. Reyes, Anatalio E.
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundSARS-CoV-2 is a recently emerged pandemic coronavirus (CoV) capable of causing severe respiratory illness. However, a significant number of infected people present as asymptomatic or pauci-symptomatic. In this prospective assessment of at-risk healthcare workers (HCWs) we seek to determine whether pre-existing antibody or T cell responses...
Voigt, André Martyushenko, Nikolay Karlsen, Emil Hall, Martina Nyhamar, Kristen Omholt, Stig William Almaas, Eivind
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundWhile invasive social distancing measures have proven efficient to control the spread of pandemics failing wide-scale deployment of vaccines, they carry vast societal costs. The development of a diagnostic methodology for identifying COVID-19 infection through simple testing was a reality only a few weeks after the novel virus was officia...
Zhang, Zhujiazi Suo, Luodan Pan, Jingbin Zhao, Dan Lu, Li
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BackgroundThe objectives of this review were to evaluate the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of the two-dose varicella vaccine for healthy children in China and explore the application of the approach of Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) in observational studies on VE.MethodsWe searched for observational studies o...
Atencio, Patricia Cabello, Alfonso Conesa-Buendía, Francisco M. Pérez-Tanoira, Ramón Prieto-Pérez, Laura Carrillo, Irene Álvarez, Beatriz Arboiro-Pinel, Rosa Díaz-Curiel, Manuel Herrero-Beaumont, Gabriel
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BackgroundLow BMD (bone mineral density) has been described as a non–AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)-related event in HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)-patients but it is poorly studied in young HIV-infected men who have received no previous antiretroviral therapy.MethodsA cross-sectional study of 245 naïve-HIV-infected men over 21 and ...
Qureshi, Sonia Maria, Noshi Zeeshan, Mohammad Irfan, Seema Qamar, Farah Naz
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BackgroundThe rise of Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) poses a considerable burden on the healthcare systems, particularly in low-middle income countries like Pakistan. There is a scarcity of data on the carriage of MDRO particularly in the pediatrics population therefore, we aimed to determine MDRO carriage in pediatric patients at the time o...
Savoldi, Alessia Carrara, Elena Piddock, Laura J. V. Franceschi, Francois Ellis, Sally Chiamenti, Margherita Bragantini, Damiano Righi, Elda Tacconelli, Evelina
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BackgroundEffective treatment of sepsis due to carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (CR-GNB) remains a challenge for clinicians worldwide. In recent years, the combination of antibiotics has become the preferred treatment strategy for CR-GNB infection. However, robust evidence to support this approach is lacking. This systematic review aimed...
Manandhar, Sulochana Amatya, Puja Ansari, Imran Joshi, Niva Maharjan, Nhukesh Dongol, Sabina Basnyat, Buddha Dixit, Sameer M. Baker, Stephen Karkey, Abhilasha
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BackgroundSepsis is an overwhelming and life-threatening response to bacteria in bloodstream and a major cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Understanding the etiology and potential risk factors for neonatal sepsis is urgently required, particularly in low-income countries where burden of infection is high and its epidemiology is poorly unde...
Møller, Dina Leth Sørensen, Søren Schwartz Wareham, Neval Ete Rezahosseini, Omid Knudsen, Andreas Dehlbæk Knudsen, Jenny Dahl Rasmussen, Allan Nielsen, Susanne Dam
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BackgroundBacterial and fungal bloodstream infections (BSI) are common after pediatric liver and kidney transplantations and associated with morbidity and mortality. However, knowledge about incidence rates, pathogen composition, and resistance patterns is limited. We aimed to describe the pattern of bacterial and fungal BSI in a cohort of pediatri...
Alinia, Cyrus Yaghmaei, Safura Abdullah, Farman Zahir Ahmadi, Asad Samadi, Nasrin Pourteimour, Sima Safari, Hossein Mahmoodi, Hassan Moradi, Ghobad Piroozi, Bakhtiar
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Louis, Guillaume Belveyre, Thibaut Jacquot, Audrey Hochard, Hélène Aissa, Nejla Kimmoun, Antoine Goetz, Christophe Levy, Bruno Novy, Emmanuel
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BackgroundProne positioning (PP) is a standard of care for patients with moderate–severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). While adverse events associated with PP are well-documented in the literature, research examining the effect of PP on the risk of infectious complications of intravascular catheters is lacking.MethodAll consecutive AR...
