Association of death or illness from COVID-19 among family and friends on vaccine uptake within four months of the Emergency Use Authorization. Findings from a national survey in the United States.

Objective: To examine the relationship between knowing that a friend or family member became ill with, or died from, COVID-19 and receiving a vaccine dose within four months of the FDA's Emergency Use Authorization.

Methods: A national sample of 1,517 respondents were surveyed from April 7 to April 12, 2021, 1,193 of whom were eligible for the vaccine when the data were collected.

Results: Respondents who knew someone who became ill with COVID-19 (AOR = 2.

Risk factors for faecal carriage of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli in a college community: a penalised regression model.

Objectives: Bacterial antimicrobial resistance is a serious global public-health threat. Intestinal commensal drug-resistant bacteria have been suggested as an important reservoir of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs), which may be acquired via food. We aimed to identify risk factors associated with faecal carriage of drug-resistant commensal Escherichia coli among healthy adults focused on their dietary habits.

Chilblain-like lesions with prominent bullae in a patient with COVID-19.

A 27-year-old patient presented with acral chilblain-like lesions atypical of dermatological presentations appearing in current reports of COVID-19. Prominent bullae had formed on the dorsa of her toes and became haemorrhagic 2 days after the initial presentation. The patient had no underlying medical conditions, including any history of collagen vascular disease, Raynaud's phenomenon, chilblains or cold exposure, and was not taking any medications.

Prevalence of β-Lactam Drug-Resistance Genes in Contaminating Ready-to-Eat Lettuce.

Thirty-four isolates from 91 ready-to-eat lettuce packages, obtained from local supermarkets in Northern California, were genotyped by multilocus sequence typing, tested for susceptibility to antimicrobial agents, and screened for β-lactamase genes. We found 15 distinct sequence types (STs). Six of these genotypes (ST1198, ST2625, ST2432, ST2819, ST4600, and ST5143) have been reported as pathogens found in human samples.

Multilocus sequence typing of Escherichia coli isolates from urinary tract infection patients and from fecal samples of healthy subjects in a college community.

Community-acquired urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common bacterial infections worldwide. Escherichia coli is the most common cause of community-acquired UTI. In general, UTI results from E.

Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and Integrons in Commensal Gram-Negative Bacteria in a College Community.

Although the human intestinal microbiome has been shown to harbor antimicrobial drug resistance genes (ARGs), the prevalence of such genes in a healthy population and their impact on extraintestinal infections that occur in that community are not well established. This study sought to identify ARG prevalence and their mobile elements in the intestines of a healthy community population at a California University, and compared these genes to those previously identified among uropathogenic isolated from patients with urinary tract infection from the same community. We isolated Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) from fecal samples of healthy volunteers and screened them by polymerase chain reaction for class 1 integron cassette sequences and ARGs encoding resistance against ampicillin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, gentamicin, and colistin.

A Population-Based Surveillance Study of Shared Genotypes of Escherichia coli Isolates from Retail Meat and Suspected Cases of Urinary Tract Infections.

There is increasing evidence that retail food may serve as a source of that causes community-acquired urinary tract infections, but the impact of this source in a community is not known. We conducted a prospective, population-based study in one community to examine the frequency of recovery of uropathogenic genotypes from retail meat samples. We analyzed isolates from consecutively collected urine samples of patients suspected to have urinary tract infections (UTIs) at a university-affiliated health service and retail meat samples from the same geographic region.

Persistent Pandemic Lineages of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in a College Community from 1999 to 2017.

The incidence of drug-resistant community-acquired urinary tract infections (CA-UTI) continues to increase worldwide. In 1999 to 2000, a single lineage of uropathogenic (UPEC) sequence type 69 (ST69) caused 51% of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-resistant UTI in a Northern California university community. We compared the clonal distributions of UPEC and its impact on antimicrobial resistance prevalence in the same community during two periods separated by 17 years.