Schistosomiasis control strategies in highly endemic areas are mostly based on preventive chemotherapy through mass drug administration (MDA) with 40 mg/kg praziquantel (PZQ) for school aged children [14]. In contrast, the recent World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines suggest treatment for all ...
According to the WHO, dengue control is technically feasible with coordinated international technical and financial support for national programmes. This Primer provides a general overview on dengue, covering epidemiology, control, disease mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and research priorities. This is a...
The operationalization chosen in this study is in line with the official guide given to general practitioners in April 2021 and in accordance with the WHO definition of the post-COVID condition. We found similar results in our sensitivity analysis where inclusion was started in January 2021, with...
Control biological indicator a biological indicator from the same lot as a test indicator that is left unexposed to the sterilization cycle and then incubated to verify the viability of the test indicator. The control indicator should yield positive results for bacterial growth. ...
The American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) is a professional, peer-reviewed journal and the official scientific publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. AJIC welcomes original articles in English pertaining to the prevention, surveillance, and con...
The presently lower proportions of ASB may be related to the stringent definition, i.e. including only Enterobacterales as significant organisms, whereas in most other studies with higher ASB proportions, Staphylococci represented a substantial number of cases [17, 22,23,24]. AMR rates among the ...
Studies with fewer than 5 stars were considered low quality; 5 to 7 stars, moderate quality; and more than 7 stars, high quality.Definition of Short-term, Intermediate-term, and Long-term PASC The primary outcome was the frequency of PASC, which was defined as the presence of at least 1...
Reliable estimates are difficult to obtain, because, by definition, the virus is not detectable during that time. Efforts to close this knowledge gap have revealed important insights into the relative time period between the eclipse periods of different HIV tests (Fiebig et al., 2003), which ...
to H7N9-negative control cohorts (Fig.2a). Similarly, some individuals who died during the course of H7N9 infection presented elevated estradiol levels compared to those who survived (Fig.2b). In H7N9-infected women, estradiol levels were elevated in those above 50 years of age compared to ...
The bottom plot depicts the multiplicative rate by which the COVID-19 case incidence changed from week to week (see “Variables” section for definition). Figure 1 Top: 7-day-incidence/100,000 over the course of 2020. Bottom: Growth Multiplier for 2020. Full size image Out of home ...