SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) — The weekly count of COVID-19 patients in South Korea fell 2 percent in the third week of November, marking a decline for three consecutive weeks, data showed Thursday. The number of additional patients came to 6,088 last week, compared with 6,216 the previous week, according to the report by the […]
image: The drawing illustrates the delivery of positive and negative ions into a room. Ions generated by the in-duct NPBI device (A) are delivered into the room through diffusers (B) on the supply side of the HVAC system. view more Credit: GPS Air, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Airborne virus infectivity can be reduced by up to […]
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Calgary’s Peter Lougheed Centre is one of the latest hospitals to adopt Alberta Health Service’s mask directive to curb the spread of COVID-19. Masking is now required for Peter Lougheed Centre’s staff, physicians, volunteers, contracted service providers and laboratory workers in patient-facing areas of the hospital. Patients […]
A new type of bacterial infection could be the culprit behind a mysterious canine respiratory illness that has been infecting dogs from coast to coast, New Hampshire researchers say. Genetic sequencing of samples from 70 infected dogs from New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Massachusetts has revealed a previously unknown bacterium, researchers from the New Hampshire […]
The World Health Organization is requesting detailed information from China on an increase in respiratory illnesses and pneumonia among the country’s children, using language similar to a Jan. 5, 2020, missive regarding the pathogen the world would come to know as COVID-19. Officials from China’s National Health Commission reported an increase in respiratory illness at […]
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Abstract The prevalence of Mycobacterium avium complex-pulmonary disease (MAC-PD) has become a growing concern worldwide, and current treatments involving macrolides (clarithromycin [CLR] or azithromycin), ethambutol, and rifampicin have limited success, highlighting the need for better therapeutic strategies. Recently, oxazolidinone drugs have been identified as novel anti-tuberculosis drugs effective against drug-resistant M. tuberculosis. However, the effects […]
Beijing and other parts of China are battling a surge in respiratory infections, with sick children filling some hospitals to capacity and a lack of nucleic acid kits hampering accurate diagnosis and treatment, Caixin has learned. Hospitals in parts of China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Guangzhou, have recorded a surge in mycoplasma pneumoniae infections […]
Abstract Microsporidia are an early-diverging group of fungal pathogens with a wide host range. Several microsporidian species cause opportunistic infections in humans that can be fatal. As obligate intracellular parasites with highly reduced genomes, microsporidia are dependent on host metabolites for successful replication and development. Our knowledge of microsporidian intracellular development remains rudimentary, and our […]
This study assessed IPC measures at facility level to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 nosocomial infection in health care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic [10]. Following the baseline HCF assessments, the IPC median score was 60.2%. However, more than 30% of the HCFs presented an average score of lower than 50%. There was an improvement […]