Disparities in the incidence of community-acquired Clostridioides difficile infection: An area-based assessment of the role of social determinants in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

Background: Community-associated Clostridioides difficile infections (CA-CDIs) share many risk factors with health care-associated cases, although the role of socioeconomic factors is poorly understood. This study estimates the influence of several census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status on CA-CDI incidence rates.

Methods: CA-CDI case data from the New Mexico Emerging Infections Program were analyzed using quasi-Poisson regression modeling.

EEG power and coherence in autistic spectrum disorder.

Objective: Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) has been defined as a neurodevelopmental disorder with associated deficits in executive function, language, emotional, and social function. ASD has been associated with pathophysiology in cerebral organization. The current study investigated quantitative EEG findings in twenty children diagnosed with autistic disorders as compared to 20 controls matched for gender, age and IQ.

Neuroelectric concepts: form-color classification.

Visual event-related potentials (VEPs) were recorded from the scalp of human observers who viewed an orthogonal stimulus set, consisting of four stimuli, each of which had two attributes: a form (circle or triangle) and a color (green or red). The stimulus set was represented by an a priori stimulus classification model, defined by positions (i.e.

Psychophysiological indices of cerebral maturation.

Maturation (1-21 yr) trajectories for quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) frequency spectra are presented for four regions of the human brain. The results show that all four regions exhibited discontinuous maturation rates: five stages were identified. The stages were synchronous across regions during the first 10 1/2 years of life.