This survey examined rate, type, and extent of injuries in centers and the infection control practices employed by staff. Participants included 131 children aged six weeks to seven years, enrolled in two childcare programs in an urban setting. Eight hundred ninety-seven injury reports with 1,023...
We were also interested in comparing characteristics of index cases by age group, exploring the direction of transmission by age, and assessing whether factors such as symptoms, school/childcare reopening, or school/childcare outbreaks were associated with differences in the odds of transmission from ...
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Accordingly, a solid basis for the implementation of far-reaching measures, such as closures of elementary schools and childcare facilities, for transmission control of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to still be missing. The pandemic has severe and multifaceted consequences for young children, including...
RSV infection rates were lower during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may be attributable to the widespread preventive measures against COVID-19, such as social distancing and lockdown measures, and the lower probability of disease spread in the community owing to children not attending childcare ...
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Children attending preschools or schools had more contacts than children at childcare out- side home and young children who were kept at home (P<0.001, Kruskal-Wallis test). It is also observed that there was no difference in the number of school con- tacts among different class sizes (P...
infection control and protection throughout thousands of hospitals, medical, and healthcare facilities (helathcare) and clinics across the US and worldwide. Air purification designed in every configuration, air pressure monitoring and creation of isolation rooms and enclosures are just some of the prod...
Childcare might also be considered a risk factor for H. pylori infection [134]. Moreover, mother-to-child and grandmother-to-child transmission represent an important mechanism in H. pylori spread [155]. Iron deficiency and small height for age might be associated with H. pylori infection [...