Publications by authors named "Nisha Manickam"
Purpose: Preventing CLABSI events in the dialysis inpatient population represents significant challenges. Bacteremia associated with lines or grafts are common health-associated infections that lead to adverse patient outcomes. Dialysis patients represent a much higher infection risk due to health frequency needs, more frequent hospitalizations, multiple comorbidity issues, fistula functionality, and multiple attempts for line access leading to additional complications, costs, morbidity, and mortality.
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- Hookworms are parasitic worms that cause anemia primarily in poorer countries, and humans can get infected multiple times without developing full immunity.
- A study on hamsters found that those exposed to a single high dose of hookworm larvae developed resistance, while those exposed to lower doses remained susceptible.
- The findings indicate that the immune response to hookworm depends on how often and how many larvae are introduced, suggesting that low-dose exposure models may better reflect human disease for research purposes.
The classic organisms associated with central nervous system infection in the neonate are herpes simplex, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, and Streptococcus agalactiae; we describe an unusual case of neonatal meningoencephalitis caused by Bacillus cereus.
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