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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38505096/clinical-symptoms-pathogenesis-and-postoperative-course-of-non-specific-constrictive-pericarditis-with-dumbbell-shaped-heart
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Feridoun Sabzi, Reza Faraji, Saeed Khoshnood
Non-specific chronic constrictive pericarditis is a rare and debilitating chronic infection in developed countries and its rapid diagnosis and treatment has not affected its outcome and complication. A 15-year-old male, well nourished, negative HIV test, and without a history of previous pulmonary tuberculosis, was admitted to our hospital for exertional dyspnea (New York Heart Association, NYHA, functional class II). Our patient had had no pulmonary tuberculosis during childhood, had received anti-tuberculosis treatment, and was referred to our center for further surgical pericardiectomy...
2024: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38505095/use-of-phthalocyanine-derived-mouthwash-as-a-protective-factor-for-covid-19-a-community-trial
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Verônica Caroline Brito Reia, Fabiano Vieira Vilhena, Heitor Marques Honório, Lucas Marques da Costa Alves, Roosevelt da Silva Bastos, Paulo Sérgio da Silva Santos
AIM: In a population profile corrected for sociodemographic factors, the aim of this study was to examine sociodemographic the protective effect of a phthalocyanine-derived mouthwash (APD) before infection with SARS-CoV-2, in addition to analyzing the survival of the at-risk population and the confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. METHODS: For individuals from the Uru municipality, a structured questionnaire consisting of two parts was completed before the distribution of APD...
2024: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38505094/engineering-feasibility-and-safety-of-force-controlled-oropharyngeal-swabs-with-a-3d-printed-feedback-system-fccss-force-controlled-covid-19-swab-study-a-preliminary-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Peter Melcher, Florian Metzner, Stefan Schleifenbaum, Toni Wendler, Paul Rahden, Corinna Pietsch, Pierre Hepp, Ralf Henkelmann
Errors in laboratory diagnostics of viral infections primarily occur during the preanalytical phase, which is especially observed in sample collection. Hitherto, no efforts have been made to optimize oropharyngeal smears. An accurate method to analyze the necessary conditions for a valid oropharyngeal smear test is required, especially to avoid false negative results, which can lead to promotion of the spread of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2. In this study, a maximum-force failure analysis was performed on a swab, and the highest tolerable force was then measured on 20 healthy volunteers to obtain the dimensions of the possible force to be applied on a swab...
2024: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38505093/can-the-adenosine-triphosphate-atp-bioluminescence-assay-be-used-as-an-indicator-for-hospital-cleaning-a-pilot-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Valerie Niephaus, Nina Parohl, Sabine Heiligtag, Henning Reuter, Reiner Hackler, Walter Popp
BACKGROUND: In hospital cleaning, there is currently no standard for uniform monitoring of surface cleaning, either in Germany or internationally. One possibility for monitoring is the use of so-called objective methods for checking cleaning performance (e.g. fluorescence or adenosine triphosphate (ATP) method). AIM: The aim of the study was to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) bioluminescence assay as a cleaning indicator in everyday hospital cleaning, in order to verify its utility and effectiveness...
2024: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38404412/determining-the-coverage-and-efficacy-of-the-covid-19-vaccination-program-at-the-community-level-in-children-aged-12-to-17-in-tehran
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Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Delara Babaie, Seyedeh Mahsan Hoseini-Alfatemi, Ahmadreza Shamshiri, Abdollah Karimi
BACKGROUND: The vaccination is one of the acceptable and recomended solution to prevent and control of COVID-19. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of sinopharm vaccination in children aged 12-17 in Tehran. METHODS: The case population study was performed from October 2021 to March 2022 among 1,500 children with positive PCR test reffered in Mofid Children's Hospital in Tehran. 64 children aged 12-17 years were included. The data were collected by the hospital information system (HIS), vaccination information registration systems and questionnaire with their families...
2024: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38404411/evaluation-of-a-microscale-quantitative-suspension-test-to-determine-the-bactericidal-and-yeasticidal-activity-of-glutaral-one-step-to-improve-sustainability-in-disinfectant-testing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jürgen Gebel, Marvin Rausch, Katja Bienentreu, Felix Droop, Maren Eggers, Lea Gebel, Stefanie Gemein, Britt Hornei, Carola Ilschner, Anja Jacobshagen, Günter Kampf, Cihan Papan, Kira Roesch, Luisa Schmitz, Miranda Suchomel, Lutz Vossebein, Nico T Mutters, Martin Exner
AIMS: To evaluate a newly developed microscale quantitative suspension test compared to the existing standard suspension test using determination of the bactericidal and yeasticidal activity of glutaral as one step to improve the sustainability of disinfectant testing. METHODS: The testing principles of the quantitative suspension test according to VAH method 9 (comparable to EN 13727) was used as a standard suspension test using 8.0 mL product test solution, 1...
2024: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38404410/oral-foci-of-infection-in-pediatric-population-during-covid-19-omicron-pandemic-era
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manikandan Gunasekaran, Karthik Shunmugavelu, Kavitha Ponnusamy, Aditya Shinde, Selvam Azhagarsamy, Shobana Murali
Caries is a multifactorial disease that involves a majority of the pediatric population. If not diagnosed and treated, it can lead to severe consequences affecting the permanent dentition. The objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of oral foci of infection in a multispeciality hospital during pandemic in Chennai, South India. Majority of the patients examined had caries.
2024: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38404409/outbreak-of-sars-cov-2-in-a-geriatric-acute-care-ward-during-summer-2023-current-aspects-of-infection-control-in-the-postpandemic-period
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bettina Lange, Gracinda Mesquita, Heinrich Burkhardt, Marlis Gerigk, Alexandra Heininger
AIM: Management of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in geriatric patients, taking into account the transition to the post-pandemic period. METHODS: PCR tests were conducted to identify the scale of infection during the outbreak; no new patients were admitted to the ward until the availability of the PCR results. Based on the results and individual risk assessment, three cohorts were formed and treated as recommended by the RKI. After terminating the admissions stop, new admissions received PCR screening...
2024: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38111600/deployment-of-dentists-in-covid-19-case-investigation-and-contact-tracing-an-example-from-turkey
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ozlem Ozkan, Neslihan Sevim, Zeliha Ocek
AIM: In Turkey, dentists working in public dental care centers were deployed in COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing (CICT) teams during the pandemic. This study aims to explore the experiences of the dentists assigned to teams undertaking COVID-19 CICT practices to determine how healthcare workers should be supported when working in pandemic response and other crises. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The sample of this qualitative, phenomenological study consisted of thirty four public dentists assigned to COVID-19 CICT practices in four metropolitan areas of Turkey...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38111599/using-patients-observations-to-evaluate-healthcare-workers-alcohol-based-hand-rub-with-pulpe-friction-audits-a-promising-approach
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fanny Velardo, Muriel Péfau, Raymond Nasso, Pierre Parneix, Anne-Gaëlle Venier
BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene plays an important role in the transmission of nosocomial infections from healthcare workers (HCW) to patients. Patients could play a key role in improving hand hygiene by sharing their experience of the HCW's practices. Already in 2019, the French national mission of transversal support for actions to prevent healthcare-associated infections proposed the national "Pulpe'friction" audit, to assess HCW's reported practices, social representations, and barriers to using alcohol-based hand rubs (ABHR)...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38111598/surveillance-of-health-care-associated-infections-in-an-intensive-care-unit-at-a-tertiary-care-hospital-in-central-india
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ruchita Lohiya, Vijayshri Deotale
INTRODUCTION: Because the risk of health-care associated infections (HAIs) is high in intensive care units, and HAIs are one of the causes of morbidity and mortality and affects the overall quality of health care, the continuous monitoring of HAIs in intensive care patients is essential. AIM AND OBJECTIVES: This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out over a period of five years in a tertiary-care teaching hospital. The aim of the study was to investigate the main and specific types of health-care associated Infections and determine the microbiological profile and antimicrobial susceptibility rates of isolates in patients with HAI...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38025892/risk-of-tuberculosis-transmission-by-healthcare-workers-to-children-a-comprehensive-review
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REVIEW
Roland Diel, Albert Nienhaus
BACKGROUND: Children <15 years are at elevated risk of becoming infected with M. tuberculosis co mplex (Mtbc). OBJECTIVE: To assess the magnitude of Mtbc transmission by healthcare workers (HCW) to children. METHODS: Medline, Google Scholar and Cochrane library were searched to select primary studies in which HCW was the presumed index case and exposed infants and children aged below 15 years were screened for latent TB infection (LTBI)...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38025891/attitudes-of-primary-care-physicians-towards-antimicrobial-stewardship-and-the-impact-of-a-multi-part-training-course-a-pilot-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katharina Last, Arne Simon, Barbara C Gärtner, Sören L Becker, Cihan Papan
BACKGROUND: A plethora of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs has been initiated during the past years, focusing on hospital settings. Primary-care physicians have seldom been addressed, although the majority of antibiotic prescriptions are issued for outpatients. We sought to investigate attitudes of primary-care physicians and the impact of a customized training course. METHODS: Primary-care physicians in southwest Germany were invited to a multi-part training course on AMS in the primary-care setting...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38025890/risk-factor-for-children-in-the-pandemic-the-use-of-cleaning-products-at-home
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emine Güdek Seferoglu, Ümran Çevik Güner
BACKGROUND: Intensified cleaning protocols to maintain a safe environment during the pandemic caused an increase in the use of disinfectants. The use of cleaning products in safer conditions by mothers is one of the important practices that will reduce the risk of household accidents. OBJECTIVE: The aim of research was determine the practices of mothers about the safe use of cleaning and disinfectant products in the COVID-19. METHODS: Data were collected by online survey among 255 mothers of the children 0-6 age from April and July 2021...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37829254/covid-19-research-in-south-asia-a-bibliometric-analysis-of-the-100-most-cited-articles
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REVIEW
Bisal Naseer, Mohsan Ali, Neha Azhar
BACKGROUND: With the surge in the number of infected individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was also a surge observed in the number of publications discussing its epidemiology, characteristics, path-o-phys-i-ol-o-gy, diagnosis, prevention and treatment. This bibliometric analysis focuses on the papers published on COVID-19 in South Asia. METHODS: We searched articles in the Scopus database from December 2019 to October, 2022. After manual screening, a list of the 100 most-cited articles was obtained, which was analyzed for various factors, including the type of article, citation count, author's affiliation, country of origin, funding bodies, etc...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37829253/evaluation-of-covid-19-anti-spike-igg-antibody-five-months-after-the-second-covid-19-vaccination
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Reyhaneh Alipoor Rafie, Leila Azimi, Shahnaz Armin, Amirali Aghamohammadi, Abdollah Karimi, Fatemeh Fallah, Hannan Khodaei, Roxana Mansour Ghanaie, Masoud Alebouyeh
BACKGROUND: Studies in different communities have shown significant differences in IgG antibody titers in the time period after the first and second doses of the vaccines. This study aimed to serologically evaluate the IgG anti-spike antibody titer five months after injection of the second COVID-19 vaccine in healthcare workers. MATERIALS AND METHOD: This study was performed in healthcare personnel for whom five months had passed since their second anti-Covid-19 vaccination...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37829252/cutaneous-leishmaniasis-lowers-the-quality-of-life-a-neglected-truth
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nader Aghakhani, Mehdi Azami, Mohammad Ali Mohaghegh
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37829251/in-vitro-anti-biofilm-properties-of-the-peel-of-fruite-wall-of-acorn-against-streptococcus-mutans
#18
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zahra Chavak, Nahid Mahdian, Iraj Pakzad, Mohammad Reza Soltani, Behzad Badakhsh, Sobhan Ghafourian
Dental caries is a multi-factorial infectious disease. The primary cause is dental plaque, a complex of biofilm. It was postulated that the ethanolic extract of fruite wall of acorn may represent a new substance to prevent caries. Hence, the study was performed to evaluate the effect of ethanolic extract of fruite wall of acorn against biofilm formation by Streptococcus mutans , which is associated with dental plaque. The cytotoxicity of the ethanolic extract was determined against Vero cells resulting in an inhibitory concentration of 50 (IC50 ) of 55 µg/ml...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37829250/sequence-type-diversity-of-invasive-streptococcus-pneumoniae-isolates-in-iran-among-children-under-15-years-of-age
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Marjan Tariverdi, Abdollah Karimi, Ali Nazari-Alam, Hannan Khodaei, Leila Azimi
BACKGROUND: Infection with viruses, bacteria, or other pathogens can lead to inflammation of the meninges. Finding the pathogen and identifying the most common type is necessary for each country. Using multi-locus sequence typing (MLST), the aim of this study was to determine the genetic relationship among S. pneumoniae isolated from CSF in children with bacterial meningitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: : Fourteen isolates of S. pneumoniae from CSF in children with bacterial meningitis were included in this study...
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37693851/acute-care-surgery-model-in-the-covid-19-pandemic-era
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nader Aghakhani, Bahman Alinezhad, Mehdi Azami, Saied Amini Rarani
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2023: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
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