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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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Spectrum of Isolates and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern from Blood Cultures in Tertiary Care Hospital, Riyadh

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology
Clinical presentation of bloodstream infection ranges from transitory bacteremia to fulminant septic shock with substantial mortality. Regular monitoring of bacteremia etiology helps rationalize therapy, revealing the spectrum of bacterial infections and
Fizza Khalid, Christy Poulose, Azza Elsheikh, Abid Mahmood, Osamah T. Khojah   +4 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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Capillary blood cultures [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1974
The need for frequent blood cultures from small babies for the early detection of bacteraemia associated with internal prosthesis colonization led to the development of a method for capillary blood collection. Fingers, toes, or heels were sterilized as well as possible, the surface was coated with sterile petroleum jelly, and sufficient blood was ...
R J, Holt, C H, Frankcombe, R L, Newman
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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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Salmonella infection among the pediatric population at a tertiary care children’s hospital in central Nepal: a retrospective study

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
BackgroundTyphoid fever, an infective bacterial disease, is capable of causing fatal systemic infection in humans, and in an era of antimicrobial resistance, it has become of public health importance.
Nayanum Pokhrel, Ramhari Chapagain, Chandan Kumar Thakur, Ajaya Basnet, Isha Amatya, Rajan Singh, Raghav Ghimire   +6 more
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