Publications by authors named "Jakub Sekula"
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- A study examined psychiatric disorders in 172 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, finding a high prevalence of mental disorders, especially those linked to known physiological conditions (62.9%).
- Other common issues included anxiety (20.4%) and dementia (12.6%), with mixed anxiety-depressive symptoms noted in 23.8% of patients, particularly among younger individuals.
- The research indicated that older, agitated patients had a higher mortality risk, although no clear relationship was found between agitation and specific oxygen treatments or ventilation.
Objective: Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an endemic zoonotic viral disease in many European countries and in the central and eastern parts of Asia. Slovakia reports the highest occurrence of alimentary tick-borne encephalitis in Europe, after the consumption of unpasteurized milk and cheese from domestic ruminants. In May 2016, an outbreak of tick-borne encephalitis that emerged after the consumption of sheep cheese occurred in eastern Slovakia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Hepatitis E infection is one of the most frequent acute hepatitis in the world. Currently five human genotypes with different geographical distributions and distinct epidemiologic patterns are identified. In Slovakia, only rare cases of hepatitis E have been reported in recent years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is a lack of information in the literature about the course and risk of vertical transmission of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) during pregnancy. Presented is a case report of a female patient in the 37th week of pregnancy infected by foodborne transmission. She developed meningitis with no neurological damage.
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