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Challenges and Potential Solutions for Patient Safety in an Infectious-Agent-Isolation Environment: A Study of 484 COVID-19-Related Event Reports Across 94 Hospitals

open access: yesPatient Safety, 2021
Previous research has shown that patients in infectious-agent isolation are at greater risk for certain types of safety-related events. We conducted a study to explore the relationship between the various types of events that occur in an isolation ...
Matthew A. Taylor   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Abstracts from the 2nd Annual MI4 Scientific Symposium on December 4, 2020

open access: yesMcGill Journal of Medicine, 2021
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McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4)
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Infection prevention requirements for the medical care of immunosuppressed patients: recommendations of the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO) at the Robert Koch Institute

open access: yesGMS Hygiene and Infection Control, 2022
In Germany, guidelines for hygiene in hospitals are given in form of recommendations by the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (Kommission für Krankenhaushygiene und Infektionsprävention, “KRINKO”). The KRINKO and its voluntary work
Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO)
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Safety Trade-Offs in Home Care During COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Study Capturing the Perspective of Frontline Workers

open access: yesPatient Safety, 2021
Background: Home care workers help older individuals and those with disabilities with a variety of functional tasks. Despite their core role providing essential care to vulnerable populations, home care workers are often an invisible sector of the ...
Godwin K Osei-Poku   +5 more
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Incidence and Impact of Reported Infectious Endophthalmitis Events Following Cataract Surgery in Pennsylvania Ambulatory Surgery Centers

open access: yesPatient Safety, 2019
Infectious endophthalmitis is a severe eye infection that can occur following cataract surgery. In this study, we sought to explore post-cataract infectious endophthalmitis events reported by ambulatory sur-gery centers (ASCs) in Pennsylvania. We queried
Lynette Hathaway   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

SARS-CoV-2 quasi-species analysis from patients with persistent nasopharyngeal shedding

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
At the time of a new and unprecedented viral pandemic, many questions are being asked about the genomic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and the emergence of different variants, leading to therapeutic and immune evasion and survival of this genetically highly ...
Pierre Dudouet   +12 more
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Running after ghosts: are dead bacteria the dark matter of the human gut microbiota?

open access: yesGut Microbes, 2021
The human gut microbiota has been explored by a wide range of culture-dependent and culture-independent methods, revealing that many microbes remain uncharacterized and uncultured. In this work, we aimed to confirm the hypothesis that some of the species
Sara Bellali   +10 more
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Brachybacterium epidermidis Sp. Nov., a Novel Bacterial Species Isolated from the Back of the Right Hand, in a 67-Year-Old Healthy Woman

open access: yesInternational Journal of Microbiology, 2022
Knowledge on human skin microbiota composition has been expanding in recent years. Its role in human health and disease represents an active area of investigation.
Manon Boxberger   +6 more
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Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in Canadian acute care hospitals, 2014–2018

open access: yesCanada Communicable Disease Report, 2020
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pose serious threats to the health of Canadians due to increased morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs.
Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program
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Adapted Protocol for Saccharibacteria Cocultivation: Two New Members Join the Club of Candidate Phyla Radiation

open access: yesMicrobiology Spectrum, 2021
The growing application of metagenomics to different ecological and microbiome niches in recent years has enhanced our knowledge of global microbial biodiversity. Among these abundant and widespread microbes, the candidate phyla radiation (CPR) group has
Ahmad Ibrahim   +7 more
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