Publications by authors named "L Orosz"
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- Intravascular catheter-associated infections are a serious health risk due to biofilm formation, necessitating effective and affordable solutions to enhance patient safety.
- The study developed an antimicrobial polymeric gel coating using chitosan and chlorhexidine on urinary catheters, using a quality-focused approach to optimize coating application.
- In vitro tests showed that the coating effectively released chlorhexidine and adhered well to the catheter, highlighting its potential to improve catheter safety and reduce infection risks.
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- Phage therapy is a new way to fight germs that are super tough against antibiotics, especially in hospitals.
- Scientists are figuring out how to create special mixes of viruses called phages that can target specific strains of a dangerous germ called Acinetobacter baumannii.
- By studying where these germs are found in the world, researchers can prepare special phage treatments for different regions, which has been shown to work well in tests and with animals.
The hepatitis E virus (HEV), a member of the family, is a small, non-enveloped icosahedral virus divided into eight distinct genotypes (HEV-1 to HEV-8). Only genotypes 1 to 4 are known to cause diseases in humans. Genotypes 1 and 2 commonly spread fecal-oral transmission, often through the consumption of contaminated water.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Traditional surgical treatment for symptomatic cervical degenerative disc disease is anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), yet the increased risk of adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) requiring additional surgery exists and may result in limiting long-term surgical success when it occurs. Disc arthroplasty can preserve or restore physiologic range of motion (ROM), decreasing adjacent level stress and subsequent surgery. For patients with multilevel pathology requiring at least a 1-level fusion, interest is growing in anterior cervical hybrid (ACH) surgery as a partial motion-preserving procedure to decrease the adjacent level burden.
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