Publications by authors named "Sowmya Adibhatla"
Background: To characterize neurodevelopmental abnormalities in children up to 36 months of age with congenital Zika virus exposure.
Methods: From the U.S.
Zika-Associated Birth Defects Reported in Pregnancies with Laboratory Evidence of Confirmed or Possible Zika Virus Infection - U.S. Zika Pregnancy and Infant Registry, December 1, 2015-March 31, 2018.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
January 2022
Article Synopsis
- * Among 6,799 live-born infants studied from December 2015 to March 2018, 4.6% had Zika-related birth defects, with a higher rate of 6.1% in those with confirmed infection.
- * Common defects included microcephaly and other brain abnormalities, with many infants showing multiple defects, highlighting the need for targeted surveillance during potential Zika outbreaks.
Background: Measuring the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in nursing homes remains a challenge. The revised McGeer criteria, which are widely used to conduct infection surveillance in nursing homes, were not designed to assess antibiotic appropriateness. The Loeb criteria were explicitly designed for this purpose but are infrequently used outside investigational studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCategorization and Analysis of Disaster Health Publications: An Inventory.
Prehosp Disaster Med
October 2017
Disaster Medicine is a relatively new discipline. Understanding of the current status of its science is needed in order to develop a roadmap for the direction and structure of future studies that will contribute to building the science of the health aspects of disasters (HADs). The objective of this study was to examine the existing, peer-reviewed literature relevant to the HADs to determine the status of the currently available literature underlying the science of the HADs.
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