Category Archives: Infection

Contribution of medico-administrative databases to health vigilance: example of post-oocyte retrieval infections.

Can we monitor post-oocyte retrieval infections in the French national health data system to complement the French ART vigilance system?Medico-administrative databases provide a more comprehensive view of post-oocyte retrieval infections and can be used to detect abnormal increases in frequency and outlier ART centers as a complementary tool to the ART vigilance system.The various studies […]

Five Stillbirth and Neonatal Deaths This Year Related to Congenital Syphilis

PRESS RELEASE — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is issuing a public health alert following five stillbirths or neonatal deaths in babies with congenital syphilis born between Jan. 1, 2023, and Sept. 1, 2023. This alert follows a provider memo issued last week by NCDHHS asking for health care providers’ help […]

Five stories for the start of flu season

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Impact of vaccinations, boosters and lockdowns on COVID-19 waves in French Polynesia

Abstract Estimating the impact of vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 incidence is complicated by several factors, including successive emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and changing population immunity from vaccination and infection. We develop an age-structured multi-strain COVID-19 transmission model and inference framework to estimate vaccination and non-pharmaceutical intervention impact accounting for these factors. […]

TMP-SMX reduces serious infections ‘by about half’ in patients with GPA using rituximab

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COVID-19 can ruin your sleep in many different ways—here’s why

Six weeks after a mild case of COVID-19 early in the pandemic, Erika Thornes started waking up every night between 2 and 3 a.m. Unable to fall back asleep, she would listen to podcasts, read, and scroll through Twitter before finally dozing off by 4 or 5 a.m. Thornes, the mother of three teenagers in […]

Fatty acid production and its impact on severe and fatal respiratory viral infections

Add to my calendar 16/11/2023 12:00 pm 16/11/2023 1:00 pm Australia/Melbourne Fatty acid production and its impact on severe and fatal respiratory viral infections Doherty Institute Auditorium, 792 Elizabeth Street DD/MM/YYYY At this event Dr Brendan Chua, Research Fellow from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, will present Fatty acid production and its […]