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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

Patient 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, Catherine M. Reynolds, Rebecca Jones   +2 more
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How to adapt an intestinal microbiota transplantation program to reduce the risk of invasive multidrug-resistant infection [PDF]

, 2021
Background: Vulnerable patients with intestinal colonisation of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are recognised to be at increased risk of invasive MDRO driven infection.
Marchesi, Julian R, Mullish, Benjamin H, Ghani, Rohma, Davies, Frances J, Benjamin H. Mullish, Frances J. Davies, Julian R. Marchesi, Rohma Ghani   +7 more
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Safety Trade-Offs in Home Care During COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Study Capturing the Perspective of Frontline Workers

Patient 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, Ola Szczerepa, Alicia A Potter, M.E. Malone, Barbara A. Fain, Julia C. Prentice   +5 more
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Abstracts from the 2nd Annual MI4 Scientific Symposium on December 4, 2020

McGill 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

GMS 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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Incidence and Impact of Reported Infectious Endophthalmitis Events Following Cataract Surgery in Pennsylvania Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Patient 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, Shawn Kepner, Rebecca Jones   +2 more
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SARS-CoV-2 quasi-species analysis from patients with persistent nasopharyngeal shedding

Scientific 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, Philippe Colson, Sarah Aherfi, Anthony Levasseur, Mamadou Beye, Jeremy Delerce, Emilie Burel, Philippe Lavrard, Wahiba Bader, Jean-Christophe Lagier, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Bernard La Scola, Didier Raoult   +12 more
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Running after ghosts: are dead bacteria the dark matter of the human gut microbiota?

Gut 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, Jean-Christophe Lagier, Matthieu Million, Hussein Anani, Gabriel Haddad, Rania Francis, Edmond Kuete Yimagou, Saber Khelaifia, Anthony Levasseur, Didier Raoult, Jacques Bou Khalil   +10 more
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Influenza A virus infection predisposes hosts to secondary infection with different Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes with similar outcome but serotype-specific manifestation. [PDF]

, 2016
Influenza A virus (IAV) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pn.) are major causes of respiratory tract infections, particularly during co-infection. The synergism between these two pathogens is characterized by a complex network of dysregulated immune ...
Kershaw, Olivia, Volckmar, Julia, Sender, Vicky, Stegemann-Koniszewski, Sabine, Bruder, Dunja, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta, Sharma-Chawla, Niharika, Gruber, Achim D, Sharma-Chawla, N, Kershaw, O, Gruber, AD, Henriques-Normark, B, Bruder, D, Sender, V,, Volckmar, J, Stegemann-Koniszewski, S   +15 more
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Low incidence of toxoplasma infection during pregnancy and in newborns in Sweden [PDF]

, 2001
To estimate the burden of disease due to congenital toxoplasmosis in Sweden the incidence of primary infections during pregnancy and birth prevalence of congenital toxoplasmosis in 40978 children born in two regions in Sweden was determined.
Petersson, K, Wiklund, Sven,, Gilbert, R, Tear-Fahnehjelm, K, Wiklund, S, Evengard, B, Engman, ML, Malm, G, Wiklund, Sven, Forsgren, M, Pettersson, K, Lund University., Ivarsson, SA, Malm, G,   +13 more
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