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The Color of COVID-19: Structural Racism and the Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic on Older Black and Latinx Adults.
(The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2021-02)
<h4>Objectives</h4>The aim of this evidence-based theoretically informed article was
to provide an overview of how and why the COVID-19 outbreak is particularly detrimental
for the health of older Black and Latinx ...
Awareness of Cervical Cancer Causes and Predeterminants of Likelihood to Screen Among Women in Haiti.
(Journal of lower genital tract disease, 2017-01)
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Haiti. Given
this high disease burden, we sought to better understand women's knowledge of its
causes and the sociodemographic and health correlates of ...
Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians.
(BMC Fam Pract, 2018-03-01)
BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are a common reason for antibiotic
overuse worldwide. We previously showed that over 80% of outpatients presenting to
a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka ...
Factors affecting pitch discrimination performance in a cohort of extensively phenotyped healthy volunteers.
(Scientific reports, 2017-11-28)
Despite efforts to characterize the different aspects of musical abilities in humans,
many elements of this complex area remain unknown. Musical abilities are known to
be associated with factors like intelligence, training, ...
Loss of PRDM1/BLIMP-1 function contributes to poor prognosis of activated B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
(Leukemia, 2017-03)
PRDM1/BLIMP-1, a master regulator of plasma-cell differentiation, is frequently inactivated
in activated B-cell-like (ABC) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients. Little
is known about its genetic aberrations and ...
The Host Response to Viral Infections Reveals Common and Virus-Specific Signatures in the Peripheral Blood.
(Frontiers in immunology, 2021-01)
Viruses cause a wide spectrum of clinical disease, the majority being acute respiratory
infections (ARI). In most cases, ARI symptoms are similar for different viruses although
severity can be variable. The objective of ...
Host gene expression classifiers diagnose acute respiratory illness etiology.
(Sci Transl Med, 2016-01-20)
Acute respiratory infections caused by bacterial or viral pathogens are among the
most common reasons for seeking medical care. Despite improvements in pathogen-based
diagnostics, most patients receive inappropriate antibiotics. ...
Variation in the type and frequency of postoperative invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections according to type of surgical procedure.
(Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 2010-07)
OBJECTIVE: To determine the epidemiological characteristics of postoperative invasive
Staphylococcus aureus infection following 4 types of major surgical procedures.design.
Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Eleven hospitals ...
Delays in appropriate antibiotic therapy for gram-negative bloodstream infections: a multicenter, community hospital study.
(PLoS One, 2013)
BACKGROUND: Gram-negative bacterial bloodstream infection (BSI) is a serious condition
with estimated 30% mortality. Clinical outcomes for patients with severe infections
improve when antibiotics are appropriately chosen ...
Integrated analysis of CANVAS 1 and 2: phase 3, multicenter, randomized, double-blind studies to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ceftaroline versus vancomycin plus aztreonam in complicated skin and skin-structure infection.
(Clin Infect Dis, 2010-09-15)
BACKGROUND: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a common cause of
complicated skin and skin-structure infection (cSSSI). Increasing antimicrobial resistance
in cSSSI has led to a need for new safe and effective ...