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JAMA Netw Open
January 2025
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Importance: Blood culture (BC) use benchmarks in US hospitals have not been defined.
Objective: To characterize BC use in adult intensive care units (ICUs) and wards in US hospitals.
Design, Setting, And Participants: A retrospective cross-sectional study of BC use in adult medical ICUs, medical-surgical ICUs, medical wards, and medical-surgical wards from acute care hospitals from the 4 US geographic regions was conducted.
J Med Virol
January 2025
Microbiology Service, Clinic University Hospital, INCLIVA Health Research Institute, Valencia, Spain.
We investigated whether antibody concentrations measured in plasma using the Roche Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S assay (targeting the receptor binding domain, RBD) could estimate levels of Wuhan-Hu-1 and Omicron XBB.1.5 spike-directed antibodies with neutralizing ability (NtAb) or those mediating NK-cell activity.
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January 2025
Laboratory of viruses, vectors and hosts: LR20IPT10, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, 13, Place Pasteur, 1002 Tunis Belvédère, Tunisia.
Since the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as an international concern of public health emergency in the early 2020, several strategies have been initiated in many countries to prevent healthcare services breakdown and collapse of healthcare structures. The most important strategy was the increased testing, diagnosis, isolation, contact tracing to identify, quarantine and test close contacts. In this context, finding a rapid, reliable and affordable tool for COVID-19 screening was the main challenge to address the pandemic.
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January 2025
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ziekenhuis aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium.
Three hospitals implemented molecular point-of-care tests (POCTs) to screen patients for SARS-CoV-2 infection upon admission during the 2021/2022 influenza season, which in Belgium lasted from January to April 2022. The samples were simultaneously tested for influenza A/B. Influenza positivity at admission was examined in relation to patient characteristics and symptomatology.
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December 2024
Maja Valentić, Tijardovićeva 8, 10104 Zagreb,
Aim: To determine age and gender patterns of alcohol use among Croatian pupils and assess whether alcohol use was associated with factors related to school, peers, family, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Data were collected from the 2022 Health Behavior in School-aged Children cross-sectional study conducted in Croatia involving 5338 pupils. Pearson χ2 test and multivariate logistic regression were performed.
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