Publications by authors named "Ariella Perry Dale"
Introduction: Increased use of telemedicine could potentially streamline influenza diagnosis and reduce transmission. However, telemedicine diagnoses are dependent on accurate symptom reporting by patients. If patients disagree with clinicians on symptoms, previously derived diagnostic rules may be inaccurate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssociations Between Relative Viral Load at Diagnosis and Influenza A Symptoms and Recovery.
Open Forum Infect Dis
November 2020
Background: Rapid point-of-care polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic tests generally provide a qualitative result of positive or negative only. Additional information about the relative viral load could be calculated. Such quantitative information might be useful for making treatment decisions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCommunicable diseases are often virulent, i.e. they cause morbidity symptoms in those infected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Rapid influenza diagnostic tests that detect the presence of viral antigens are currently used throughout the United States but have poor sensitivity. The objective of this study was to identify if the use of a new highly accurate rapid point of care test would significantly increase the likelihood of guideline consistent care.
Methods: We prospectively recruited 300 students at a university health clinic who presented with cough and 1 influenza-like illness symptom between December 2016 and February 2017 to receive care guided by a rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.
The presence of antibodies to Zika virus (ZIKV) and dengue virus (DENV) can be detected in blood donations. Donation-based surveillance provides an alternative strategy to estimate population prevalence by detecting antibodies that are circulating. To estimate population prevalence, we conducted a systematic review of literature on the seroprevalence of ZIKV and DENV antibodies in blood donations.
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- - The study aimed to investigate the prevalence of atypical pathogens causing community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), acute cough, bronchitis, and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in outpatients, as this information was not previously summarized in existing literature.
- - A systematic review of 50 prospective studies showed that the overall prevalence of certain pathogens in CAP patients was 10.1% for one pathogen and 3.5% for another, with higher rates of atypical bacteria found in specific groups like children with prolonged cough.
- - The findings suggest that atypical bacterial pathogens are common contributors to lower respiratory diseases, highlighting a potential issue of underreporting, underdiagnosis, and undertreatment in healthcare settings.