Publications by authors named "B Chazan"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the role of Aeromonas spp. in gastroenteritis, noting its controversial status due to differing symptoms and prevalence in symptomatic versus asymptomatic patients.
- Conducted in Northern Israel, it found that 4.24%-4.81% of patients with Aeromonas-associated gastroenteritis (AAG) and 4.9% of asymptomatic individuals had Aeromonas in their stools, raising questions about its pathogenicity.
- Compared to Campylobacter-associated gastroenteritis (CAG) patients, AAG patients experienced significantly less severe symptoms, and certain factors like recent dining out and longer diarrhea were identified as predictors for AAG.
Background: Early reports described an increased risk of herpes zoster following receipt of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. The objective was to assess whether COVID-19 vaccine is associated with varicella-zoster virus-induced neurologic disease (VZV-ND).
Methods: This multicenter retrospective case-control study with a test-negative design was conducted at 12 hospitals in Israel.
Background: The population structure and the correlation between antimicrobial resistance (AMR) phenotypes and genotypes in Aeromonas species isolated from patients with gastroenteritis are not well understood. The aims of the study were to: (1) investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Aeromonas species isolated from patients with gastroenteritis; (2) explore the relationship between AMR genes and resistance phenotypes; and (3) describe the population structure of these isolates and provide evidence of transmission events among them.
Methods: This microbiological survey was performed at the Microbiology Laboratory of the Emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel.
Background: The transition to PCR-based diagnosis of bacterial gastroenteritis (BGE) can increase the sensitivity but might reduce the clinical specificity. The aims of this study were (1) to compare the effect of the change from culture to PCR-based diagnostics on the reported incidence and positivity rates of BGE due to , and species and (2) to compare the demographics, medical background, clinical characteristics and pre-analytic variables between cases with PCR-positive, culture-negative samples to cases with PCR-positive, culture-positive samples.
Methods: The study was performed at the Emek Medical Centre that serves a population of 0.