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Implementation of blood culture stewardship during a blood culture bottle shortage: a multicenter assessment [PDF]

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Objective: Assess clinical outcomes, knowledge, and attitudes about shortage mitigation interventions during a nationwide blood culture bottle shortage.
Kristen Sevilla, Orest Konyk, Jon C. Rittenberger, Karen S. Williams   +3 more
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Antiphospholipid antibodies and COVID-19 mortality and thrombotic events; A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

Reviews in Clinical Medicine, 2022
Introduction:Among various proposed pathologic mechanisms during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, overproduction of autoantibodies is not widely studied.
Reza Jafarzadeh Esfehani, Mohammad ali khalilifar, Hadi Esmaeili Gouvarchinghaleh, Gholam Hossein Alishiri, Alireza Shahriary   +4 more
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Rate of occult hepatitis B virus infection among individuals with tuberculosis in northeastern Iran: A molecular epidemiological study

Journal of Virus Eradication, 2023
One third of the world population has a history of exposure to the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and two billion people are infected with latent tuberculosis (TB).
Sanaz Ahmadi Ghezeldasht, Saman Soleimanpour, Mohammad Reza Hedayati-Moghaddam, Moein Farshchian, Seyed Abdolrahim Rezaee, Arman Mosavat   +5 more
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Updates on the Epidemiology of the Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Infection in the Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization with Special Emphasis on the Situation in Iran

Viruses, 2022
Background: The epidemiology and prevalence of the Human T-cell leukemia virus type-1 (HTLV-1) infection represent a recommended priority by global health agencies.
Mohammad Reza Hedayati-Moghaddam, Reza Jafarzadeh Esfehani, Hiba El Hajj, Ali Bazarbachi   +3 more
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Influence of sexually transmitted infections on the cervical cytological abnormalities among Iranian women: A cross-sectional study

International Journal of Reproductive BioMedicine, 2023
Background: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are one of the world's most severe health challenges. The existence of STIs such as human papillomavirus (HPV) might cause cervical cell changes leading to cervical cancer.
Azam Shafaei, Seyyed Ali Akbar Shamsian, Mohammad Ghodsi, Fatemeh Sadabadi, Maryam Shahi   +4 more
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Prevalence, genotypes and phylogenetic analysis of human papillomaviruses (HPV) in northeast Iran

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Objectives: Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are the main etiology of invasive cervical cancer. Together HPV and viral hepatitis account for the cause of 25% of cancers in developing countries. To evaluate the association between population movements and the
Faezeh Sabet, PhD candidate, Arman Mosavat, PhD, Sanaz Ahmadi Ghezeldasht, PhD candidate, Samira Basharkhah, MSc, Seyed Ali Akbar Shamsian, Shadi Abbasnia, MSc, Khosrow Shamsian, DDS, Seyed Abdolrahim Rezaee, PhD   +7 more
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Role of Procalcitonin and C-Reactive Protein in the Early Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis [PDF]

Indian Journal of Neonatal Medicine and Research, 2021
Introduction: Neonatal Sepsis (NS) is responsible for 30-50% of total neonatal deaths in developing countries. Blood culture is gold standard diagnostic test but has a low yield and is the time consuming.
Sumedha Yadav, Mumtaz Sharif, Amit Saxena, Shital Kolhe, Divyani Dhole   +4 more
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Analysis of contamination of blood cultures in a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
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K. D. Namalie, W. H. S. De Silva, F. S. Makeen, N. Senevirathna, A. N. Pallegoda   +4 more
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Pilot Testing of the “Turbidimeter”, a Simple, Universal Reader Intended to Complement and Enhance Bacterial Growth Detection in Manual Blood Culture Systems in Low-Resource Settings

Diagnostics, 2022
Bloodstream infections and antimicrobial resistance are an increasing problem in low-income countries. There is a clear need for adapted diagnostic tools.
Barbara Barbé, Ellen Corsmit, Jasper Jans, Kamalpreet Kaur, Roel Baets, Jan Jacobs, Liselotte Hardy   +6 more
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PCR for the detection of pathogens in neonatal early onset sepsis. [PDF]

, 2020
BACKGROUND: A large proportion of neonates are treated for presumed bacterial sepsis with broad spectrum antibiotics even though their blood cultures subsequently show no growth. This study aimed to investigate PCR-based methods to identify pathogens not
Bedford Russell, A, Butcher, P, Harris, K, Heath, PT, Henneke, P, Laing, K, Oeser, C, Planche, T, Pond, M   +8 more
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