Publications by authors named "D C Birdsell"
Key Points: For AKI prevention trial recruitment, patients prioritized technology enabled prescreening and involvement of family members in the consent process. For trial intervention delivery, participants prioritized measures to facilitate ease of trial intervention administration and return visits. For AKI prevention trial outcomes, patient participants identified effects on kidney-related and other clinical outcomes as top priorities.
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- Pneumonic plague (PP) is highly infectious and spreads quickly from person to person, with a significant outbreak occurring in two urban areas of Madagascar (Antananarivo and Toamasina) in 2017.
- The research utilized epidemiological data and genomic analysis of Yersinia pestis to trace the sources of this epidemic, noting that human plague cases emerged from environmental reservoirs more than 20 times between August and November 2017.
- The study revealed that multiple strains of Y. pestis were introduced to urban areas through infected individuals traveling from rural regions, leading to sustained PP transmission, especially in Antananarivo.
Background: The risk of breast cancer may be decreased in women who undergo reduction mammoplasty. The purpose of this study was to describe the incidence and treatment of breast cancer after reduction mammoplasty and to better understand the use of breast cancer screening modalities in these patients.
Methods: This population-based retrospective analysis utilized the Discharge Abstract Database held by the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System to identify all women aged 20 years or older who underwent reduction mammoplasty in Alberta, Canada.
Francisella tularensis, the bacterium that causes the zoonosis tularemia, and its genetic near neighbor species, can be difficult or impossible to cultivate from complex samples. Thus, there is a lack of genomic information for these species that has, among other things, limited the development of robust detection assays for F. tularensis that are both specific and sensitive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe migratory behavior of wild birds contributes to the geographical spread of ticks and their microorganisms. In this study, we aimed to investigate the dispersal and co-occurrence of and spotted fever group (SFGR) in ticks infesting birds migrating northward in the African-Western Palaearctic region (AWPR). Birds were trapped with mist nests across the Mediterranean basin during the 2014 and 2015 spring migration.
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