Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Slovenia: Key Public Health Tool in Endemic Time of COVID-19.

With the reclassification of COVID-19 as an endemic disease and the relaxation of measures, Slovenia needed a complementary system for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 infections. This article provides an overview of the epidemiological situation of SARS-CoV-2 in Slovenia using a wastewater surveillance system, demonstrating its usefulness as a complementary tool in epidemiological surveillance. This study found that estimated SARS-CoV-2 infections in Slovenia peaked in September 2022 and showed a declining trend with subsequent lower peaks in March-April and December 2023, mirroring the trends observed from clinical data.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Community Consumption of Antibiotics for Systemic Use and Resistance of Invasive in Slovenia.

The present study aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community antibiotic consumption and the resistance of invasive (2015-2022) to penicillin in Slovenia. During the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the total use of antibiotics for systemic use decreased by 23.5% and 24.

Correlation between Antibiotic Consumption and Resistance of Invasive .

There is a lack of long-term studies that correlate different metrics of antibiotic consumption and resistance of invasive The present study aims to investigate the correlation between national outpatients total antibiotic, penicillin and broad spectrum penicillins consumption expressed in daily doses per 1000 inhabitants per day (DID) with the ATC/DDDs, WHO version of 2019 (new version) and 2018 (old version), number of prescriptions per 1000 inhabitants per year (RxIDs) and number of packages per 1000 inhabitant per day (PIDs) with the resistance of invasive in Slovenia in the period from 2000 to 2018. The prevalence of penicillin resistance of invasive decreased by 47.13%, from 19.

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in hospital wastewater from a low COVID-19 disease prevalence area.

Previous studies on SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV reported the detection of viral RNA in the stool of both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. These clinical observations suggest that municipal and hospital wastewater from affected communities may contain SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Recent studies have also reported the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in human feces.

Nasopharyngeal Carriage of and Serotypes Indentified among Nursing Home Residents in Comparison to the Elderly and Patients Younger than 65 Years Living in Domestic Environment.

Introduction: In Slovenia, there is little data available on pneumococcal vaccination rates and no data on asymptomatic NPCR and serotypes in the population of nursing home residents in comparison to the elderly living in domestic environment, therefore the goal was to gain these data.

Methods: A cross sectional epidemiological study was performed. Nasopharyngeal swabs from 151 nursing home residents, 150 elderly living in domestic environment, and 38 adults less than 65 years old were collected twice (in two consecutive years).