The use of behaviour change theory for infection prevention and control practices in healthcare settings: a scoping review [PDF]
Background Infection prevention and control (IPC) practices performed by healthcare workers are key to the prevention and management of infections.
Greene, Carolynn, Wilson, Jennie
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Stifling silos: The need for a more holistic approach to mixed migration in a warming world [PDF]
A climate-changed world is one of mixed migration taking place across a spectrum of time, space, and agency, with both positive and negative outcomes.
Zickgraf, Caroline
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Urinary tract infections are often polymicrobial and are mainly due to uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC). We previously demonstrated a link among clinical fluoroquinolone susceptible E.
Gabriella Piatti +7 more
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Chicken infectious anemia (CIA) is a vertical transmission infectious chicken disease caused by the chicken infectious anemia virus (CAV). The disease can induce stunting and immunosuppression in chicks by infecting bone marrow-derived stem cells ...
Jing Li +9 more
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Control strategies to prevent total hip replacement-related infections: a systematic review and mixed treatment comparison [PDF]
Objective: To synthesise the available evidence and estimate the comparative efficacy of control strategies to prevent total hip replacement (THR)-related surgical site infections (SSIs) using a mixed treatment comparison.\ud Design: Systematic review ...
Cooper, N +24 more
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Heterogeneous host susceptibility enhances prevalence of mixed-genotype micro-parasite infections [PDF]
Dose response in micro-parasite infections is usually shallower than predicted by the independent action model, which assumes that each infectious unit has a probability of infection that is independent of the presence of other infectious units. Moreover,
Zwart, Mark P. +18 more
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SARS-CoV-2 routes of transmission and recommendations for preventing acquisition: joint British Infection Association (BIA), Healthcare Infection Society (HIS), Infection Prevention Society (IPS) and Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) guidance [PDF]
The pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged amid uncertainty about the dynamics of transmission and the possible management options for COVID-19 patients.
Islam, J. +12 more
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Low incidence of toxoplasma infection during pregnancy and in newborns in Sweden [PDF]
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 +12 more
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Classical swine fever caused by Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is a serious problem for swine industries in developing countries, which successful control of the disease have been relying on vaccination. However, classical swine fever still occurs in
Yi-bao NING +11 more
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Objective: Aerobic vaginitis (AV) is a recently proposed term for genital tract infection in women. The diagnosis of AV is mainly based on descriptive diagnostic criteria proposed by Donders and co-workers.
Zhi-liang Wang +7 more
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