Publications by authors named "Martha Salyers"
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- * The COVID-19 Self-Checker tool engaged nearly 6,500 residents, with 1,755 completing it; most reported symptoms were found in women, young adults, and those with preexisting health conditions.
- * The platform proved to be a cost-effective way to gather useful health data, allowing local health officials to better understand and respond to COVID-19 trends in their community.
Background: Detection of foodborne disease outbreaks relies on health care practitioners (HCPs), infection control practitioners (ICPs), and clinical laboratorians to report notifiable diseases to state or local health departments.
Methods: To examine knowledge and practices about notifiable foodborne disease reporting among HCPs and ICPs in western North Carolina and among clinical laboratorians statewide, participants responded to a self-administered questionnaire about foodborne pathogen testing and reporting, referencing Campylobacter, shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli, and other organisms.
Results: Three hundred seventy-two of 1442 health care providers participated in this survey.
Objectives: To describe foodborne disease surveillance in North Carolina, particularly diagnosis, counseling, and reporting of diagnoses from health-care practitioners (HCPs) and reporting of positive laboratory results from clinical diagnostic laboratories.
Materials: A survey was administered on knowledge of diagnostic testing and reporting practices for foodborne disease among HCPs in western North Carolina. We also queried laboratories statewide about foodborne disease testing and reporting practices.
Background: A long-term care facility (LTCF) reported an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (LD) in September 2004.
Methods: We conducted case finding through enhanced surveillance, medical record review (n = 131), and community surveys (n = 258). We cultured water samples from the LTCF and assayed their outdoor air-intake filters for Legionella DNA.
La Crosse encephalitis (LACE), a human illness caused by a mosquito-transmitted virus, is endemic in western North Carolina. To assess the economic and social impacts of the illness, 25 serologically confirmed LACE case patients and/or families were interviewed to obtain information on the economic costs and social burden of the disease. The total direct and indirect medical costs associated with LACE over 89.
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