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Assessing the filtration efficiency and regulatory status of N95s and nontraditional filtering face-piece respirators available during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted supply chains for many types of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), particularly surgical N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs; “masks”). As a consequence, an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)
Deborah Plana, Enze Tian, Avilash K. Cramer, Helen Yang, Mary M. Carmack, Michael S. Sinha, Florence T. Bourgeois, Sherry H. Yu, Peter Masse, Jon Boyer, Minjune Kim, Jinhan Mo, Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Ju Li, Peter K. Sorger   +14 more
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Reference Standards for Cardiorespiratory Fitness by Cardiovascular Disease Category and Testing Modality: Data From FRIEND

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background The importance of cardiorespiratory fitness for stratifying risk and guiding clinical decisions in patients with cardiovascular disease is well‐established.
James E. Peterman, Ross Arena, Jonathan Myers, Susan Marzolini, Philip A. Ades, Patrick D. Savage, Carl J. Lavie, Leonard A. Kaminsky   +7 more
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War and the Coronavirus pandemic [PDF]

, 2020
Catherine Connolly reflects on the use of war metaphors in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, the violence of ongoing sanctions, and the need for solidarity in the face of ...
Connolly, Catherine
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Beyond resistance: social factors in the general public response to pandemic influenza [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Influencing the general public response to pandemics is a public health priority. There is a prevailing view, however, that the general public is resistant to communications on pandemic influenza and that behavioural responses to the 2009/10 ...
Davis, Mark, Flowers, Paul, Lohm, Davina, Stephenson, Niamh, Waller, Emily   +4 more
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Influenza and the implications of a pandemic for Malta [PDF]

, 2005
An influenza pandemic is inevitable and recent reports from Southeast Asia on avian influenza viruses infecting humans have served to fuel worries that a new pandemic is near.
Farrugia, Ryan, Melillo Fenech, Tanya, Spiteri, Gianfranco   +2 more
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Yersinia pestis DNA from Skeletal Remains from the 6(th) Century AD Reveals Insights into Justinianic Plague. [PDF]

, 2013
Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of the disease plague, has been implicated in three historical pandemics. These include the third pandemic of the 19(th) and 20(th) centuries, during which plague was spread around the world, and the second pandemic ...
Birdsell, Dawn, Bramanti, Barbara, Grupe, Gisela, Harbeck, Michaela, Hänsch, Stephanie, Keim, Paul, Parise, Katy L., Riehm, Julia M., Scholz, Holger C., Seifert, Lisa, Thomas, Astrid, Wagner, David M., Wiechmann, Ingrid, Zöller, Lothar   +13 more
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Infection Control Practices for Vascular Access Management in Hemodialysis: Results From a Nationwide Survey of Japanese National University Hospitals

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Bloodstream infections due to repeated vascular access (VA) puncture and circuit connections remain major concerns in hemodialysis. Therefore, we examined current practices for glove, disinfectant, and personal protective equipment (PPE) use according to VA type in national university hospitals in Japan.
Aiko Yamada, Makoto Harada, Tadahiko Kikugawa, Takeshi Nakata, Koji Hashimoto, Tsuneo Konta, Yuji Kamijo   +6 more
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Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis. [PDF]

, 2012
Most pandemics--eg, HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, pandemic influenza--originate in animals, are caused by viruses, and are driven to emerge by ecological, behavioural, or socioeconomic changes.
Carroll, Dennis, Daszak, Peter, Karesh, William B, Lipkin, W Ian, Mazet, Jonna AK, Morse, Stephen S, Parrish, Colin R, Woolhouse, Mark, Zambrana-Torrelio, Carlos   +8 more
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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
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Ebola disease stigma: mixed methods insights from the 2022 Sudan ebolavirus outbreak

BMJ Open
Objectives Ebola disease stigma hinders outbreak control and recovery by deterring care-seeking and driving social exclusion. Although this phenomenon is well recognised, gaps remain in understanding how stigma emerges and operates in outbreak settings ...
Piero Olliaro, Olive Kabajaasi, Nathan Kenya-Mugisha, Amanda Rojek, Amy Paterson, Mary Gouws, Kkunsa Hadson Dimitrios, Ashleigh Cheyne   +7 more
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