Publications by authors named "Martin Plymoth"
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- The scoping review aimed to explore outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) among healthcare workers, highlighting their significant impacts on health systems and patient care.
- The review analyzed 216 articles from various databases, focusing on outbreaks related to six VPDs, primarily occurring in hospitals and long-term care facilities, with most studies originating from higher-income countries.
- Findings stress the importance of understanding outbreak factors and advocate for increased vaccination rates among healthcare workers to prevent future VPD outbreaks.
Background: Tularemia is an important reemerging disease with a multimodal transmission pattern. Treatment outcomes of current recommended antibiotic regimens (including ciprofloxacin and doxycycline) remain unclear. In this retrospective cohort study, we report clinical, laboratory, geographical, and treatment outcomes of laboratory-confirmed tularemia cases over an 11-year period in Northern Sweden.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPt based organometallic photosensitizers (PSs) have emerged as novel potent photodynamic inactivation (PDI) reagents through their enhanced intersystem crossing (ISC) processes. Currently, few Pt PSs have been investigated as antibacterial materials, with relatively poor performances reported and with structure-activity relationships not well described. Herein, a pair of configurational isomers are reported of Bis-BODIPY (4,4-difluoro-boradizaindacene) embedded Pt PSs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConflict, community, and COVID-19: response and implications in Ethiopia.
J Public Health Afr
September 2022
Community transmission of COVID-19 is currently on the rise in Ethiopia, while availability of diagnostic and treatment services remains limited. Impaired access to essential services is affected by the pandemic's strain on the health system, and as a consequence of the country's public health response. The ongoing conflict in the Tigray Region provides another obstacle to accessing and providing care for the local population; and has displaced large numbers of people both within and outside the country.
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- The study investigates how socio-economic factors affect virological suppression in Ethiopian patients undergoing antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV, focusing on individuals with detectable versus undetectable viral loads.
- A case-control approach was used, comparing 307 ART recipients, revealing that younger age, lower wealth, increased work mobility, and poor self-perceived wellbeing are linked to higher viral loads.
- The findings suggest that socio-economic conditions significantly influence treatment outcomes, while risky behaviors like high-risk sexual practices and substance use did not correlate with virological suppression.
Background: How best to target intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) to minimise both Early-Onset Group B Streptococcus (EOGBS) neonatal infection and maternal/fetal antibiotic exposure is uncertain, with both routine-screening and risk-factor approaches available.
Aims: This retrospective cohort study was undertaken to examine the outcomes of a hybrid risk-and-screen approach to EOGBS prevention using GBS polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The target population was women with term prelabour rupture of membranes (TermPROM) having the risk factor of prolonged rupture of membranes (ROM) ≥18 h.