Bonati, Maurizio Campi, Rita Zanetti, Michele Cartabia, Massimo Scarpellini, Francesca Clavenna, Antonio Segre, Giulia
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundQuarantine as a preventive action to reduce people’s exposure to a contagious disease has substantial psychological impact. We aimed to collect information on psychologically distressing experiences of Italians living in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsFrom 6 to 20 April 2020 participants filled out an online questionnaire....
Liu, Xingchun Zhang, Meng Cheng, Qu Zhang, Yingtao Ye, Guoqiang Huang, Xiqing Zhao, Zeyu Rui, Jia Hu, Qingqing Frutos, Roger
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundDue to an increase in mosquito habitats and the lack facilities to carry out basic mosquito control, construction sites in China are more likely to experience secondary dengue fever infection after importation of an initial infection, which may then increase the number of infections in the neighboring communities and the chance of communi...
Du, Mingmei Song, Linjian Wang, Yan Suo, Jijiang Bai, Yanling Xing, Yubin Xie, Lijun Liu, Bowei Li, Lu Luo, Yanping
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
BackgroundThis report describes an outbreak of 71 patients developed B. cepacia urinary tract infection (UTI) by contaminated single-use anesthetic gel.MethodsEpidemiological investigation of patients with B. cepacia-positive urine or blood samples between March 19, 2018 and Novemeber 15, 2018 was conducted to identify the source of infection. Micr...
Najafi, Mahdi
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Patient Safety in Surgery
Sunagawa, Satoko Iha, Yoshikazu Kinjo, Takeshi Nakamura, Katsunori Fujita, Jiro
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Respiratory investigation
Since the Okinawan islands are located in the southernmost part of Japan, where the climate is subtropical, several episodes of influenza epidemics occur during the summer season. More recently, we have demonstrated that summer influenza epidemics occur every year. After the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) b...
Hashemi, Seyyed Alireza Golab Behbahan, Nader Ghaleh Bahrani, Sonia Mousavi, Seyyed Mojtaba Gholami, Ahmad Ramakrishna, Seeram Firoozsani, Mohammad Moghadami, Mohsen Lankarani, Kamran Bagheri Omidifar, Navid
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Biosensors & bioelectronics
Rapid person-to-person transfer of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and their occasional mutations owing to the human activity and climate/ecological changes by the mankind led to creation of wrecking worldwide challenges. Such fast transferable pathogens requiring practical diagnostic setups to control their transfer chain and stop sever outbreaks in ea...
Kahil, Karine Cheaito, Mohamad Ali El Hayek, Rawad Nofal, Marwa El Halabi, Sarah Kudva, Kundadak Ganesh Pereira-Sanchez, Victor El Hayek, Samer
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Asian journal of psychiatry
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was recently declared a pandemic by the WHO. This outbreak threatens not only physical health but also has significant repercussions on mental health. In recent world history, major infectious outbreaks were associated with severe mental health sequelae, including suicide. In this study, we systematically review ...
Gomes, Elainne Christine de Souza Cruz, Derciliano Lopes da Santos, Maria Alice Varjal Melo Souza, Renata Maria Costa Oliveira, Cláudia Maria Fontes de Ayres, Constância Flávia Junqueira Domingos, Renata Martins Pedro, Maria das Graça da Silva Paiva, Marcelo Henrique Santos Pimentel, Lílian Maria Lapa Montenegro
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundBrazil has the fourth highest prevalence of malaria of all countries in the Americas, with an estimated 42 million people at risk of contracting this disease. Although most cases occur in the Amazon region, cases of an autochthonous nature have also been registered in the extra-Amazonian region where Anopheles aquasalis and An. albitarsis...
Heiden, Stefan E. Hübner, Nils-Olaf Bohnert, Jürgen A. Heidecke, Claus-Dieter Kramer, Axel Balau, Veronika Gierer, Wolfgang Schaefer, Stephan Eckmanns, Tim Gatermann, Sören
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Genome Medicine
BackgroundAntibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae are a major cause of hospital- and community-acquired infections, including sepsis, liver abscess, and pneumonia, driven mainly by the emergence of successful high-risk clonal lineages. The K. pneumoniae sequence type (ST) 307 lineage has appeared in several different parts of the world after fir...
Hughes, Helen E. Edeghere, Obaghe O’Brien, Sarah J. Vivancos, Roberto Elliot, Alex J.
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundSyndromic surveillance provides public health intelligence to aid in early warning and monitoring of public health impacts (e.g. seasonal influenza), or reassurance when an impact has not occurred. Using information collected during routine patient care, syndromic surveillance can be based on signs/symptoms/preliminary diagnoses. This app...