Womens Health Rep (New Rochelle)
December 2024
Purpose: Many reproductive age women, cared for routinely by primary care providers (PCPs), would benefit from interconception care, yet a minority of primary care visits include interconception care. This study assessed barriers to providing interconception care from the perspective of primary care clinicians, staff, and patients.
Materials And Methods: Clinicians ( = 11), staff ( = 14), and patients eligible for interconception care ( = 6) from three primary care clinics in Chicago, Illinois participated in focus groups or interviews.
Microbiol Resour Announc
December 2024
We report the complete genome sequence of strain AEG42_29, a representative of the genus isolated from a temperate grassland soil. Its genome codes for several genes involved in stress response, defense, and virulence, which may help this bacterium cope with fluctuating conditions in the soil environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHypothesis: The shape of the wetted region after a droplet impact can vary significantly even in the early phase of the process. How much of the early spreading process occurs within the structures versus above the structures, flow regimes and local wetting at groove intersections can have effects on the sizes and shapes of the final wetted regions. Experiments and simulations: We experimentally study droplet impacts onto cubic pillars with , and side length, height and separation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed Klin Intensivmed Notfmed
November 2024
Previous mass spectrometry (MS)-based global proteomics studies have detected a combined total of 86% of all proteins under infection conditions (in vivo-grown ). Recently, a method was developed for the long-term culture of under in vitro conditions (in vitro-cultured ). Herein, we used our previously reported optimized MS-based proteomics approach to characterize the global protein expression profile under in vitro culture conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfections of the lung cause observable sickness thought to be secondary to inflammation. Signs of sickness are crucial to alert others via behavioral-immune responses to limit contact with contagious individuals. Gram-negative bacteria produce exopolysaccharide (EPS) that provides microbial protection; however, the impact of EPS on sickness remains uncertain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContemporary medical practices allow complete percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a considerable number of patients who previously would have been considered too 'high-risk' for such procedures. The use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices during these high-risk PCIs (HR-PCIs) is thought to reduce the potential risk for major adverse events during and after revascularization. The intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-A ECMO), and the Impella are the most common MCS devices in use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe experimentally observe a new phenomenon, the formation of a toroidal region of lower film thickness in the center of the lamella formed during high Weber number water droplet impacts onto smooth heated walls. This region forms around the air bubble, which is entrapped during the initial impact phase at the impact center. Our study encompasses a variation of the droplet size, impact velocity, surface wettability and temperature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF16S rRNA sequence types associated with the candidate family env.OPS 17 have been reported from various environments, but no representatives have been characterized and validly named. Bacteria of env.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComprehensive proteome-wide analysis of the syphilis spirochete, Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum, is technically challenging due to high sample complexity, difficulties with obtaining sufficient quantities of bacteria for analysis, and the inherent fragility of the T. pallidum cell envelope which further complicates proteomic identification of rare T.
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August 2023
Unlabelled: Participation in sports is identified in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a fundamental right and is facilitated by the use of specialized Assistive Products (AP). However, little is known about the role everyday AP plays in promoting sport participation.
Purpose: This study explores how the 50 priority APs on the World Health Organization's Assistive Products List can promote participation in sports.
Microbiological and biomolecular approaches to cultural heritage research have expanded the established research horizon from the prevalent focus on the cultural objects' conservation and human health protection to the relatively recent applications to provenance inquiry and assessment of environmental impacts in a global context of a changing climate. Standard microbiology and molecular biology methods developed for other materials, specimens, and contexts could, in principle, be applied to cultural heritage research. However, given certain characteristics common to several heritage objects-such as uniqueness, fragility, high value, and restricted access, tailored approaches are required.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStrain 0141_2 was isolated from a temperate grassland soil in Germany and was found to be affiliated with the order . It is most closely related to BR7-21, with 98.1 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is a highly prevalent issue, both in North America and globally, with well-recognized adverse impact on survivors' physical, emotional, and economic well-being. The objective of this systematic review is to collect and synthesize empirical work on the effects of SGBV victimization on educational trajectories, goals, attainment, and outcomes. The review summarizes what is known about factors associated with victimization that affect survivors' educational trajectories and highlights gaps in the literature pertaining to the effects of victimization on education.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Aims: The CFTR-modulating therapy Elexaftor - Tezacaftor - Ivacaftor (ETI) has been widely prescribed since its approval in 2020 in the European Union. The aim of this study was to methodically evaluate the effects of an ETI treatment on clinical, biochemical data and Pseudomonas colonization in order to demonstrate its efficacy.
Methods: This prospective monocentric study comprised 69 patients diagnosed with cystic fibrosis aged at least 12 years and treated with ETI between September 2020 and November 2021.
Background: Novel cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator therapies (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor-ETI) promise clinically significant and sustained improvements for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). In this study, we investigated the impact of ETI therapy on liver stiffness and bile acid metabolism in a cohort of children and young adults with CF.
Methods: A prospective observational study (NCT05576324) was conducted from September 2020 to November 2021 enrolling CF patients naive to ETI.
The order is a deep-branching lineage within the phylum . Most representatives have been isolated from terrestrial environments. A strain isolated from a grassland soil was found to be affiliated with this order and therefore characterized by a polyphasic approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe study the vertical impact of a droplet onto a cubic pillar of comparable size placed on a flat surface, by means of numerical simulations and experiments. Strikingly, during the impact a large volume of air is trapped around the pillar side faces. Impingement upon different positions of the pillar top surface strongly influences the size and the position of the entrapped air.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is an increasing amount of evidence suggesting multiple fatal complications in takotsubo syndrome; however, findings on the long-term outcome are scarce and show inconsistent evidence.
Methods: This is a single center study of long-term prognosis in takotsubo patients admitted to the Klinik Ottakring, Vienna, Austria, from September 2006 to August 2019. We investigated the clinical features, prognostic factors and outcome of patients with takotsubo syndrome.
Background: The second edition of the German-Austrian S3 guideline contains updated evidence-based recommendations for the treatment of patients with infarction-related cardiogenic shock (ICS), whose mortality is several times higher than that of patients with a hemodynamically stable myocardial infarction (1).
Methods: In five consensus conferences, the experts developed 95 recommendations-including two statements-and seven algorithms with concrete instructions.
Results: Recanalization of the coronary vessel whose occlusion led to the infarction is crucial for the survival of patients with ICS.
This position statement is an update to the 2011 consensus statement of the Austrian Society of Cardiology (ÖKG) and the Austrian Society of Cardiac Surgery (ÖGTHG) for transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation.Due to a number of recently published studies, broadening of indications and recommendations of medical societies and our own national developments, the ÖKG and the ÖGHTG wish to combine the 2017 ESC/EACTS guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease with a national position paper and to focus on certain details for the application in Austria. Thus, this position statement serves as a supplement and further interpretation of the international guidelines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Syst Evol Microbiol
February 2021
Members of the metabolically diverse order inhabit a wide range of environments. Two strains affiliated with this order were isolated from soils in Germany and characterized by a polyphasic approach. Cells of strains 0125_3 and Swamp67 are Gram-negative rods, non-motile, non-spore-forming, non-capsulated and divide by binary fission.
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