Publications by authors named "Schneider K"

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) bacteria continue to impact the food industry. Environmental sampling of potential sources of contamination is important to aid epidemiologic efforts in tracking foodborne illnesses throughout the United States. Here, the draft genome sequences of 110 STEC isolates from bovine manure collected in Florida and Texas are reported.

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  • * It explores the incidence of dislocation, reasons for implant revision, and other procedures performed on patients, focusing on factors related to both the patients and the surgical process.
  • * Conducted retrospectively at a single academic center from 2010 to 2017, the research included 220 patients, highlighting a significant portion (33%) who required megaprosthetic PFR due to severe femoral bone loss.
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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common diabetic microvascular complication and cause of blindness in adults under the age of 65. Our results suggest that, when comparing transcriptomes of cultures grown in hypoxic conditions versus room-air, cybrids containing mitochondria from African and Asian diabetic subjects ([Afr + Asi]/DM) have some uniquely different transcriptome profiles compared to European/diabetic (Euro/DM) cybrids (e.g.

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Objectives: Unsolicited reporting is the activity of analyzing Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) data and then sending unsolicited reporting notifications (URNs) to prescribers to notify them of their outlier prescribing behavior. We aimed to describe information about prescribers who were issued URNs.

Methods: A retrospective study of Maryland's PDMP data from Jan.

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Objective: Opioids and stimulants are increasingly implicated in overdose deaths, particularly among minoritized groups. We examined daily opioid and cocaine co-use, nonfatal overdoses, and naloxone carrying among minoritized people who inject drugs (PWID).

Methods: The study derived data from 499 PWID in Baltimore City, MD, recruited using street-based outreach between 2016 and 2019.

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Background: Receptive injection equipment sharing (i.e., injecting with syringes, cookers, rinse water previously used by another person) plays a central role in the transmission of infectious diseases (e.

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Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) can be a consequence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. High-grade CIN (CIN2/CIN3) may develop from persistent HPV infection and progress to cervical cancer if left untreated. Management of CIN includes conservative surveillance or ablation and excision by conization.

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  • The study investigates the link between attention problems and hyperactivity—reported by both players and parents—and the occurrence of injuries and concussions in Canadian youth ice hockey players.
  • The research involved analyzing data over four seasons (2011-2016) with 1,709 players aged 11-17, focusing on their preseason self-reported and parent-reported behavior assessments.
  • Results showed that higher levels of attention problems as reported by players and parents correlated with increased concussion rates, while self-reported hyperactivity also indicated a risk, though parent-reported hyperactivity did not have a significant association.
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Objective: To provide preseason reference scores for Canadian youth tackle football players on the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 5 (SCAT5) and to examine whether age, concussion history, and self-reported medical diagnoses are associated with SCAT5 subcomponent performance.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Calgary, Alberta.

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Objective: To evaluate injury incidence rates, types, mechanisms, and potential risk factors in youth volleyball.

Design: Prospective cohort.

Setting: 2018 Canadian Youth National Volleyball Tournament.

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  • A quantum dot film on a flexible substrate undergoes a phase transition from tetragonal to cubic and back to tetragonal as uniaxial strain is applied, which is observed using grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS).
  • Changes in optoelectronic properties, indicated by photoluminescence (PL) measurements, correlate with the phase transitions and involve variations in inter-dot distances.
  • The study highlights the importance of understanding strain effects on quantum dot films for advancing flexible electronics and solar technologies.
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Background: The criminalization of sex work and drug use creates unequal power dynamics easily exploited by police. Women who exchange sex (WES) in settings around the globe have reported coerced sex and sexual assault by police, and some have reported police as paying clients. Little research has examined nuances underlying WES's sexual interactions with police.

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  • Concussion is a prevalent injury among children and adolescents, and current guidelines recommend regular follow-up visits for recovery supervision.
  • This study analyzed health data from Alberta, Canada, to identify factors influencing follow-up care after pediatric concussions, focusing on predisposing, enabling, and need-based factors.
  • Key findings revealed that only 13% of concussion episodes led to follow-up care, with higher rates among males, adolescents, and patients from outpatient settings or with prior concussions, while lower socioeconomic status and rural living decreased likelihood of follow-up.
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Background: Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection can cause severe neurological damage, growth retardation, hearing loss, and microcephaly in infants. We aimed at assessing healthcare costs of infants with recorded cCMV diagnosis in an administrative claims database in the first 2 years of life.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective, controlled cohort study using German claims data from the Institute for Applied Health Research Berlin (InGef) database.

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Background: After COVID-19 vaccines received approval, vaccination campaigns were launched worldwide. Initially, these were characterized by a shortage of vaccine supply, and specific risk groups were prioritized. Once supply was guaranteed and vaccination coverage saturated, the focus shifted from risk groups to anti-vaxxers, the under-aged population, and regions of low coverage.

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Background: The recent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Uganda and the Marburg virus disease (MVD) in Ghana reflect a persisting threat of Filoviridae to the global health community. Characteristic of Filoviridae are not just their high case fatality rates, but also that corpses are highly contagious and prone to cause infections in the absence of appropriate precautions. Vaccines against the most virulent Ebolavirus species, the Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) are approved.

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Objective: To examine injury and concussion rates, mechanisms, locations, and types of injury in Canadian high school male rugby.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: High school male rugby.

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When two sufficiently different stimuli are presented to each eye, perception alternates between them. This binocular rivalry is conceived as a competition for representation in the single stream of visual consciousness. The magnocellular (M) and parvocellular (P) pathways, originating in the retina, encode disparate information, but their potentially different contributions to binocular rivalry have not been determined.

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The primary cause for cancer-related death is metastasis, and although this phenomenon is the hallmark of cancer, it remains poorly understood. Since studies on the underlying mechanisms are still demanding by experimental means prognostic tools based on computer models can be of great value, not only for elucidating metastasis formation but also for assessing the prospective benefits as well as risks of a therapy for patients with advanced cancer. Here, we present an agent-based model (ABM), describing the complete process of platelet-assisted extravasation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the chemoattraction of blood platelets by the CTCs up to the embedding of the CTCs in the epithelial tissue by computational means.

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Background: Improved patient and limb survival rates have led to an increased interest in the functional outcome and return to sports of patients undergoing megaprosthetic reconstruction in musculoskeletal oncology. This study evaluates the functional outcome and postoperatively performed level of sports in patients undergoing proximal humeral replacement (PHR) following resection of a primary bone sarcoma and identifies potential beneficial and limiting factors.

Patients And Methods: Between 2007 and 2020, a total of 606 patients underwent resection of a primary bone sarcoma and reconstruction with a single-design modular implant.

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A growing literature uses least-cost diets to evaluate how effectively a food system supports access to nutritious foods. We identify the cost of meeting nutrient requirements for whole households in rural Malawi from and the nutrient-level drivers thereof. From 2013 to 2017, we can identify a household least-cost diet only 60% of the time with an average cost of $2.

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L.'s root extract (REA) has been used as a medicinal plant since ancient times to treat a cough. Applying REA leads to a protective film that induces a faster regeneration of the lesioned laryngopharyngeal mucosa caused by dry coughs.

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Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, overdose rates substantially increased in the United States. One possible contributor to this phenomenon may be solitary drug use resulting from social distancing efforts to prevent COVID-19 transmission.

Methods: We surveyed 458 people who use drugs (PWUD) who were recruited from harm reduction and drug treatment providers located in nine states and the District of Columbia.

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Decision rules (eg, Canadian computed tomography head rule [CCHR] for adults and Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network [PECARN] rule for children/adolescents) are used in emergency settings (emergency room [ER] rules) to assess traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). The rules have a high-sensitivity and near-perfect negative predictive value that help to rule out more severe TBI. Which criteria should be added to the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 5 (SCAT5) to reach the sensitivity of the ER rules and improve the utility of the SCAT5 for screening for higher-severity head and brain injuries? We performed a comparative analysis of the SCAT5 with the CCHR and PECARN rules.

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