Publications by authors named "B Weikert"
Agriculture is a vital industry in New York State, which ranks among the top-producing states for dairy, fruits, and several other commodities. As agriculture depends on the weather and specific climatic conditions, this sector faces extraordinary challenges as New York's climate changes. This chapter explores the many impacts of a changing climate on agriculture, the ways these impacts interact with other challenges that New York farmers and farmworkers face, and opportunities for the agriculture industry to adapt and build resilience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Patients with haemodialysis catheters are susceptible to dialysis-associated infections, particularly bloodstream infections. There have been few systematic attempts to reduce this burden. Our study aimed to investigate the effect of a multimodal prevention strategy on dialysis-associated infection events (DAIE) among haemodialysis outpatients.
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- - During the COVID-19 pandemic, a study in Berlin identified three outbreaks of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) across five intensive care units, highlighting an increase in multidrug-resistant infections in hospitals.
- - The study employed a case-control design to determine risk factors for acquiring CRAB, analyzing data from August 2020 to March 2021, where cases were patients with hospital-acquired CRAB, and controls were matched patients without CRAB.
- - Two significant risk factors were found: sharing a room with a CRAB patient increased infection risk over tenfold, and bronchoscopy procedures raised the risk by more than six times, emphasizing the need for stringent infection control measures. *
Introduction: Patients receiving maintenance haemodialysis are at risk of catheter-related infections. Up to now, there has been no standardized surveillance tool in Germany to evaluate infection events in haemodialysis outpatients. As such, this study aimed to implement an online-based surveillance tool in outpatient dialysis facilities, and to report the first national surveillance data for haemodialysis patients in Germany from October 2019 until September 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Candida auris a frequently multidrug-resistant yeast species that poses a global health threat due to its high potential for hospital outbreaks. While C. auris has become endemic in parts of Asia and Africa, transmissions have so far rarely been reported in Western Europe except for Great Britain and Spain.
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