Breakthrough cases of mpox: One-dose vaccination is associated with milder clinical manifestations.

Background: Very few studies have investigated the effectiveness of vaccination in decreasing the severity of breakthrough mpox. Our goal was to estimate the strength of the associations between recent mpox vaccination with MVA-BN and various clinical manifestations of the disease.

Methods: Telephone interviews using standardized questionnaires, upon notification and 28 days later, of the 403 persons with mpox reported to Montreal Public Health in 2022.

Monkeypox in Montréal: Epidemiology, Phylogenomics, and Public Health Response to a Large North American Outbreak.

Background: Monkeypox, a viral zoonotic disease, is causing a global outbreak outside of endemic areas.

Objective: To characterize the outbreak of monkeypox in Montréal, the first large outbreak in North America.

Design: Epidemiologic and laboratory surveillance data and a phylogenomic analysis were used to describe and place the outbreak in a global context.

Colonization After Discharge to a Community Setting: New York City, 2017-2019.

Background: Patients colonized with multidrug-resistant and discharged to a community setting can subsequently seek care in a different healthcare facility and might be a source of nosocomial transmission of .

Methods: We designed a case management pilot program for a cohort of New York City residents who had a history of positive culture identified during clinical or screening activities in healthcare settings and discharged to a community setting during 2017-2019. Approximately every 3 months, case managers coordinated colonization assessments, which included swabs of groin, axilla, and body sites yielding previously.

Association between racial discrimination and health-related quality of life and the impact of social relationships.

Purpose: Interpersonal racial discrimination is associated with poor health. Social relationships may moderate the impact of discrimination and represent modifiable behaviors that can be targeted by public health interventions. We described citywide associations between self-reported racial discrimination and health-related quality of life among the overall New York City (NYC) adult residential population and by four main race/ethnicity groups and explored whether social relationships moderated health effects of discrimination.

Neonatal Conjunctivitis Caused by Neisseria meningitidis US Urethritis Clade, New York, USA, August 2017.

We characterized a case of neonatal conjunctivitis in New York, USA, caused by Neisseria meningitidis by using whole-genome sequencing. The case was a rare occurrence, and the isolate obtained belonged to an emerging clade (N. meningitidis US nongroupable urethritis) associated with an increase in cases of urethritis since 2015.

Training in office-based opioid treatment with buprenorphine in US residency programs: A national survey of residency program directors.

Background: The prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD) has increased sharply. Office-based opioid treatment with buprenorphine (OBOT) is effective but often underutilized because of physicians' lack of experience prescribing this therapy. Little is known about US residency training programs' provision of OBOT and addiction medicine training.