Impact of active surveillance and decolonization strategies for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Objective: To assess the impact of active surveillance and decolonization strategies on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rates in a NICU.

Study Design: MRSA infection rates were compared before (2014-2016) and during (2017-2022) an active surveillance program. Eligible infants were decolonized with chlorohexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing and/or topical mupirocin.

Assessment of self-report response bias in high functioning autistic people.

The study aimed to establish a normative data set for the Paulhus Deception Scales (PDS) and Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomology (SIMS) in a community adult sample of high functioning autistic (HFA) people. Assessments were administered anonymously online. Seventy surveys were completed, with respondents contributing from 16 countries.

Irrational rationalities and governmentality-effected neglect in immigration practice: Legal migrants' entitlements to services and benefits in the United Kingdom.

Governments' attempts to manage immigration increasingly restrict immigrants' eligibility to healthcare, education, and welfare benefits. This article examines the operation of these restrictions in the United Kingdom. It draws on qualitative research with civil servants and NGO expert advisors, and applies sociological theories on bureaucracy as a lens to interpret these data.

In vivo neutralization of anti-A and successful transfusion of A antigen-incompatible red blood cells in an animal model.

Background: Our aim was to determine if the historical principle of Lewis glycolipid neutralization of antibody and subsequent Lewis-incompatible transfusion could be extended and applied to the ABO blood group system using synthetic glycolipid-like constructs.

Study Design And Methods: In vitro experiments with human blood and blood group A function-spacer-lipid constructs (FSL-A) were used to determine rates and concentrations that caused antigen transformation and anti-A neutralization. FSL-A constructs were intravenously infused into naive and anti-A-immunized mice to determine in vivo antigen transformation, anti-A inhibition, and tolerance to A antigen-incompatible transfusions (A+biotin kodecytes).

Modeling transfusion reactions and predicting in vivo cell survival with kodecytes.

Background: The availability of suitable animal models is a limitation in research on transfusion reactions. KODE technology allows for the artificial attachment of incompatible blood group antigens, plus visualization and recovery constructs onto red blood cells (RBCs), making them potentially suitable to study both transfusion reactions and determine in vivo cell survival.

Study Design And Methods: Function-spacer-lipid (FSL) constructs representing blood group A antigen (FSL-A) and biotin (FSL-biotin) together with FSL-GB3 as a benign antigen were used to create a range of murine kodecytes.

The effect of sexual priming cues on emotional recognition in nonviolent child sexual abusers: a preliminary study.

This article describes a study that used a computer-based task to investigate the emotional recognition skills of child sexual abusers. The experiment consisted of two phases (prime and probe) and measured both response time and error rates to facial expressions. The priming phase of the experiment consisted of the presentation of short phrases via computer of either sexual or neutral content.

A comparison of rapists and sexual murderers on demographic and selected psychometric measures.

This study compared 58 sexual murderers and 112 rapists who were about to undergo treatment in prison for their sexual offending behavior. The two groups were compared on background, personality, offense, and victim characteristics. The sexual murderer group were less likely to have been involved in a relationship at the time of their index offense, generally attacked older victims, and had higher self-esteem.

Who cares? The views of sexual offenders about the group treatment they receive.

This paper describes one of the first systematic focused attempts to elicit the views of sexual offenders about the treatment that they have received. The paucity of previous research in this area is suggested to be the result of negative societal attitudes towards sexual offenders, as exemplified by recent tabloid newspaper coverage of this population. It is suggested that these attitudes may have a negative impact upon the attitudes of clinicians and researchers, and thus upon the treatment offered to this client group.