Ozone disinfection of community pharmacies during the COVID-19 pandemic as a possible preventive measure for infection spread.

The COVID-19 pandemic is currently one of the major global health and economic challenges. An efficient method for reducing the transmission of the virus is a still unmet medical need. Existing experimental data have shown that coronavirus survival is negatively impacted by ozone, high temperature, and low humidity.

Readiness and Willingness to Provide Immunization Services after Pilot Vaccination Training: A Survey among Community Pharmacists Trained and Not Trained in Immunization during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland.

Background: Immunization rates among the adult population in Poland are below desired targets, urging the need to expand this service in the community. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the ultimate goals for limiting the spread of the infection are vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. Pharmaceutical companies are in a race for the fastest possible way to deliver vaccines.

The legal extension of the role of pharmacists in light of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 epidemic has affected every area of life. The greatest challenge has been to adapt the functioning of the health service to prevent the spread of the epidemic and to help infected patients. This has required the involvement of not only doctors and nurses, but also pharmacists.

Community pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has proved that community pharmacies play a pivotal role in providing medicines, information and safety measures to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

Purpose: The study aimed to get to know opinions of pharmacy staff and owners on the functioning of the community pharmacy during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Materials And Methods: To collect opinions about functioning of the community pharmacy during the pandemic, we conducted cross-sectional study among pharmacy staff and owners of pharmacies.

[Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pre-XDR strains belonging to the Beijing family].

Unlabelled: Tracking transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in a population of humans and animals is the basis of modern epidemiology of tuberculosis. Molecular methods are used for the analysis of small patient population, as well as a global studies, which monitor the variation and geographic distribution of mycobacteria. A special role is played by genotyping methods that allow to control the spread of drug-resistant-TB and Beijing-TB.

Novel insight into qualitative standardization of Polygoni avicularis herba (Ph. Eur.).

Polygonum aviculare L. (Common Knotrgrass) (Polygonaceae Juss.) is an annual from which pharmacopoeial (Ph.