FOCUS ON INFECTION CONTROL. Infection control in long-term care.The authors discuss evidence showing that half the transfers from long-term care (LTC) facilities to hospitals are due to infections. Several requirements by federal regulations to prevent infections include initiation of an infection ...
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Taenia ovis infection and its control: a Canadian perspectivedoi:info:doi/10.4140/TCP.n.2006.467Wick, JeannetteThe Consultant PharmacistWick JY. Infection control and the long-term care facility. Consult Pharm 2006; 21: 467-480.Wick JY. Infection control and the long-term care facility. Consult...
A review into 53 deaths at Nova Scotia's largest long-term care facility highlights critical staff shortages, problems isolating residents infected with SARS-CoV-2, and difficulty accessing infection control specialists during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Theprovincial governmentreleased an...
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for more than 500 million cases worldwide as of April 2022. Initial estimates in 2020 found that children were less likely to become infecte
This article presents the results of long-term follow-up interim analyses and integrated efficacy analyses of the Sanofi Pasteur dengue vaccine in regions of endemic disease. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Halstead, S. B. & Russell, P. K. Protective and immunological behavior of chimeric ...
Ours is the first study to show such long-term protection after immunization with an experimental SARS-CoV vaccine. In previous studies on vaccination of mice with VSV expressing an influenza hemagglutinin, we found that protective influenza-neutralizing antibody titers were very long-lived, declining...
This process generated a new population of target cells susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, resulting in a cyclic infection pattern in epithelial cultures maintained in the long term26. Other human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV and the common cold coronaviruses HCoV-NL63, -OC43, and -HKU...
Naïve T (Tn) cells require two homeostatic signals for long-term survival: tonic T cell receptor:self-peptide–MHC contact and IL-7 stimulation. However, how microbial exposure impacts Tn homeostasis is still unclear. Here we show that infections can