Impact of a University-Led COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Program.

Context: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic devastated societies and economies worldwide. Given the major disruptions to higher education, reflection on university responses to the COVID-19 pandemic may provide insights for future outbreaks.

Objective: Here, we describe the epidemiology of COVID-19 on the Emory University campus during the 2020-2021 academic year and provide an evaluation of the performance of a university-led program with the purpose of describing the effectiveness of efforts to augment the public health authority's case investigation and contact tracing efforts during a public health emergency.

Protein dose requirements to maximize skeletal muscle protein synthesis after repeated bouts of resistance exercise in young trained women.

Studies examining the effect of protein (PRO) feeding on post resistance exercise (RE) muscle protein synthesis (MPS) have primarily been performed in men, and little evidence is available regarding the quantity of PRO required to maximally stimulate MPS in trained women following repeated bouts of RE. We therefore quantified acute (4 h and 8 h) and extended (24 h) effects of two bouts of resistance exercise, alongside protein-feeding, in women, and the PRO requirement to maximize MPS. Twenty-four RE trained women (26.

Exploring the variability of sarcopenia prevalence in a research population using different disease definitions.

Background: Sarcopenia is the progressive loss of muscle mass and function with age. A number of different sarcopenia definitions have been proposed and utilised in research. This study aimed to investigate how the prevalence of sarcopenia in a research cohort of older adults is influenced by the use of independent aspects of these different definitions.

Quantification of multidrug-resistant bacilli in sputum during the first 8 weeks of treatment.

Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. To quantify in sputum during the first 8 weeks of pulmonary multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) treatment. We enrolled consecutive adults with pulmonary MDR-TB treated according to national guidelines.