Nanopore adaptive sampling of a metagenomic sample derived from a human monkeypox case.

In 2022, a series of human monkeypox cases in multiple countries led to the largest and most widespread outbreak outside the known endemic areas. Setup of proper genomic surveillance is of utmost importance to control such outbreaks. To this end, we performed Nanopore (PromethION P24) and Illumina (NextSeq.

Containment of a Large SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Among Healthcare Workers in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are particularly exposed SARS-CoV-2 because they are critical in preventing viral transmission and treating COVID-19 patients. Within HCWs, personnel of intensive care units (ICUs) are at the forefront of treating patients with a severe course of COVID-19 infection and therefore represent an extremely vulnerable group. Thus, our objective is to contribute to establish means of infection control protecting HCWs in the frontline of the current pandemic.

Air quality in the operating room: Surgical site infections, HVAC systems and discipline - position paper of the German Society of Hospital Hygiene (DGKH).

In recent years, there has been an ongoing discussion about the value of laminar airflow (LAF=low turbulence displacement ventilation) in the operating room for prevention of surgical site infections (SSI). Some publications, e.g.

Interesting identities involving weighted representations of integers as sums of arbitrarily many squares.

We consider the number of ways to write an integer as a sum of squares, a problem with a long history going back at least to Fermat. The previous studies in this area generally fix the number of squares which may occur and then either use algebraic techniques or connect these to coefficients of certain complex analytic functions with many symmetries known as modular forms, from which one may use techniques in complex and real analysis to study these numbers. In this paper, we consider sums with arbitrarily many squares, but give a certain natural weighting to each representation.