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Filter by:This study aims to investigate the acceptability and feasibility of deploying air purifiers equipped with HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filters in classrooms, to study air purifiers as an infection control measure. It will also evaluate the direct effect of air purifiers on air quality, comparing ceiling-mounted purifiers, portable purifiers and no purifier.
Biodiversity is essential for nature and human well-being. Land use has reduced biodiversity in cities, which weakens the functionality of the urban ecosystems and the well-being of citizens. This may also increase the risk of immune-mediated disorders among urban dwellers. In Biodiversity interventions for well-being (BIWE), microbial biodiversity interventions are performed to increase biodiversity in urban built areas. Results from the intervention trials are combined with publicly available land cover and ecological data. These are analyzed from the viewpoint of shifts in ecosystems and human well-being and immune regulation, ecological quality, and urban planning. The investigators set up an intervention study in which urban private yards are rewilded with diverse vegetation and decaying deadwood and plant residuals. The investigators aim to evaluate the effect of rewilding, and yard management practices on commensal microbiome, cortisol levels and well-being and salivary cytokine levels, and gene pathways.
The goals of this observational study are: i) investigate the natural history of non-primary (i.e. reactivation and reinfection) HCMV infection in HCMV-seropositive Italian women and the relevant humoral and cell-mediated immune response; ii) reliably distinguish between reactivation and reinfection. Prerequisite of the study is the availability of a maternal HCMV strain at baseline (original strain) to which subsequent strains detected during follow-up are compared in order to distinguish between reactivation (original strain) or reinfection (new strain). To increase the likelihood of exposure to different HCMV strains, the study population is restricted to mothers of children attending day care centers.
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of continuous 24-hour intravenous infusion of lidocaine on the incidence of PPCs in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy for intra-abdominal infection (IAI).The secondary objectives of this study are to assess the impact of continuous 24-hour intravenous lidocaine infusion on the proportion of patients requiring mechanical ventilation, protection of important organ function during the perioperative period, length of hospital stay, and outcomes within 30 days postoperatively.
The aim of the study is to evaluate simultaneously the immunological and clinical efficacy and tolerability of an influenza vaccine, inactivated, quadrivalent, with cleaved virus, in patients at risk for severe and complicated influenza routinely vaccinated against influenza in family medicine clinics or specialty clinics (pediatric, internal medicine, cardiology, gynecological diabetes, pregnant women, transplant).
The study will collect the information on clinical effects and safety of the basic therapy of acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI) + Cycloferone® and basic therapy of ARVI1 + Arbidol® in real-life clinical settings.
In July 2020, a bundle (Appendix C) was implemented at Methodist Dallas Medical Center where all patients with SAB were reviewed by the antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist (Monday - Friday from 0700 to 1500), a note outlining optimal interventions was written in the electronic medical record (EMR), and the recommendations were communicated to the primary team via secure messaging or telephone
While surgery with anatomic reconstruction of prosthetic aortic infections and native infectious aortitis has become established over time, the ideal substitute is not clearly defined. The cryopreserved arterial allograft (AAC) recognized as resistant to infections not only presents availability problems making its use complicated, particularly in emergencies, with a certain number of long-term aneurysmal developments. The tubulized pericardium patch (PP), available in all cases, seems to give promising results in recent literature. The investigators propose a comparative study of these two substitutes in this indication. We carried out a two-center observational study including retrospectively from January 2010 to July 2023 all patients operated on for aortic prosthesis infection and native infectious aortitis with AAC reconstruction and prospectively PP patch reconstructions from July 2018 to July 2023. The diagnosis of infection was established according to the MAGIC criteria. The patients' preoperative comorbidities were collected to compare the groups. Postoperative morbidity and mortality was then compared. The medium-term evaluation consisted of comparing according to the Kaplan Meier method: postoperative mortality, permeability, reinfection rate, reoperation rate.
This study is a double-blind randomized controlled superiority trial aiming at providing evidence on the efficacy and safety of co-administered moxidectin and albendazole compared to albendazole monotherapy in school-aged children (SAC; aged 6-12 years) infected with whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) on Pemba Island, Tanzania. Additionally, evidence on the safety profile of moxidectin-albendazole combination in this age group will be substantiated using a placebo (and albendazole) only arm. To date, this has only been established in adolescents (aged 16-18 years), who might present different symptoms or symptom severity compared with SAC. As measure of efficacy of the treatment the cure rate (percentage of eggpositive subjects at baseline who become egg-negative after treatment) will be determined 14-21 days post-treatment.
Infections following postmastectomy breast reconstruction can compromise surgical outcomes and lead to significant morbidity. The aim of this study was to determine factors associated with infection following two-stage implant-based reconstruction.