Outbreak of < em > Corynebacterium diphtheriae < /em > among asylum seekers in Belgium in 2022: operational challenges and lessons learnt
Euro Surveill. 2023 Nov;28(44):2300130. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.44.2300130.ABSTRACTSince 2022, European countries have been facing an outbreak of mainly cutaneous diphtheria caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae among asylum seekers. In Belgium, between 1 March and 31 December 2022, 25 cases of toxigenic C. diphtheriae infection were confirmed among asylum seekers, mostly among young males from Afghanistan. Multi-locus sequence typing showed that most isolates belonged to sequence types 574 or 377, similar to the majority of cases in other European countries. The investigation and management of the outb...
Source: Euro Surveill - November 2, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: St éphanie Jacquinet Helena Martini Jean-Paul Mangion Sarah Neusy Aur élie Detollenaere Na ïma Hammami Lien Bruggeman Bart Hoorelbeke Denis Pierard Laura Cornelissen Source Type: research
Outbreak of < em > Corynebacterium diphtheriae < /em > among asylum seekers in Belgium in 2022: operational challenges and lessons learnt
Euro Surveill. 2023 Nov;28(44):2300130. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.44.2300130.ABSTRACTSince 2022, European countries have been facing an outbreak of mainly cutaneous diphtheria caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae among asylum seekers. In Belgium, between 1 March and 31 December 2022, 25 cases of toxigenic C. diphtheriae infection were confirmed among asylum seekers, mostly among young males from Afghanistan. Multi-locus sequence typing showed that most isolates belonged to sequence types 574 or 377, similar to the majority of cases in other European countries. The investigation and management of the outb...
Source: Euro Surveill - November 2, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: St éphanie Jacquinet Helena Martini Jean-Paul Mangion Sarah Neusy Aur élie Detollenaere Na ïma Hammami Lien Bruggeman Bart Hoorelbeke Denis Pierard Laura Cornelissen Source Type: research
Outbreak of Corynebacterium diphtheriae among asylum seekers in Belgium in 2022: operational challenges and lessons learnt
Since 2022, European countries have been facing an outbreak of mainly cutaneous diphtheria caused by toxigenicCorynebacterium diphtheriae among asylum seekers. In Belgium, between 1 March and 31 December 2022, 25 cases of toxigenicC. diphtheriae infection were confirmed among asylum seekers, mostly among young males from Afghanistan. Multi-locus sequence typing showed that most isolates belonged to sequence types 574 or 377, similar to the majority of cases in other European countries. The investigation and management of the outbreak, with many asylum seekers without shelter, required adjustments to case finding, contact t...
Source: Eurosurveillance - November 2, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: St éphanie Jacquinet, Helena Martini, Jean-Paul Mangion, Sarah Neusy, Aurélie Detollenaere, Naïma Hammami, Lien Bruggeman, Bart Hoorelbeke, Denis Pierard and Laura Cornelissen Source Type: research
In Service to Their Patients and Their Country
Caring. Effective. Dutiful. Supportive. Serving. Protective. Leading. Responsible. These words easily describe a hospitalist or a soldier—and sometimes both. In honor of Veteran’s Day, we talked with four SHM members, working hospitalists, who also have served, or currently serve, in the military. While their paths differ, their commitment to their patients and their country is the same.
Jon Sweet, MD, FACP (@jonmsweet)
Dr. Sweet
Chair of medicine and senior vice president, Carilion Clinic, professor, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Va., former major, United States Air Force
Dr. Sweet began his ...
Source: The Hospitalist - November 1, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Career People in HM Source Type: research
415 Paediatric and neonatal training in low-resource countries: Italian Resuscitation Council and Emergency NGO together for Afghanistan
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Source: Resuscitation - October 31, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Miriam Tumolo, Claudia Ruffini, Silvia Scelsi, Gabriella Arlotta, Adriana Boccuzzi, Laura Castigliani, Manuela Cormio, Alberto Cucino, Niccol ò Grieco, Roberto Maccaroni, Claudia Pagani, Giuseppe Ristagno, Matteo Rossi, Andrea Scapigliati, Davide Silvagn Tags: Poster presentation Source Type: research
Intussusception risk following oral monovalent rotavirus vaccination in 3 Asian countries: A self-control case series evaluation
Vaccine. 2023 Oct 24:S0264-410X(23)01225-2. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.10.042. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRotavirus vaccines have substantially decreased rotavirus hospitalizations in countries where they have been implemented. In some high- and middle-income countries, a low-level of increased risk of intussusception, a type of acute bowel obstruction, has been detected following rotavirus vaccination. However, no increased risk of intussusception was found in India, South Africa, or a network of 7 other African countries. We assessed the association between a 2-dose monovalent rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix) and intussus...
Source: Vaccine - October 26, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Eleanor Burnett Atif Riaz Palwasha Anwari Theingi Win Myat Tyler P Chavers Nabila Talat Najibullah Safi Nway Nway Thinn Aung Margaret M Cortese Shazia Sultana Akmal Samsor Hlaing Myat Thu Nasir Saleem Saddal Sohrab Safi Htin Lin Saqib Hamid Qazi Helah Saf Source Type: research
Intussusception risk following oral monovalent rotavirus vaccination in 3 Asian countries: A self-control case series evaluation
Vaccine. 2023 Oct 24:S0264-410X(23)01225-2. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.10.042. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRotavirus vaccines have substantially decreased rotavirus hospitalizations in countries where they have been implemented. In some high- and middle-income countries, a low-level of increased risk of intussusception, a type of acute bowel obstruction, has been detected following rotavirus vaccination. However, no increased risk of intussusception was found in India, South Africa, or a network of 7 other African countries. We assessed the association between a 2-dose monovalent rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix) and intussus...
Source: Vaccine - October 26, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Eleanor Burnett Atif Riaz Palwasha Anwari Theingi Win Myat Tyler P Chavers Nabila Talat Najibullah Safi Nway Nway Thinn Aung Margaret M Cortese Shazia Sultana Akmal Samsor Hlaing Myat Thu Nasir Saleem Saddal Sohrab Safi Htin Lin Saqib Hamid Qazi Helah Saf Source Type: research
Survey-based Women Empowerment Index for Afghanistan (SWEI-A): An Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses
This study aimed to develop a country-specific index to measure women empowerment among married women aged 15 –49 years in Afghanistan. The data from the 2015 Afghanistan demographic health survey (ADHS) was used to develop the index. The data on 26 variables across eight hypothesized domains related to women empowerment were used in EFA to probe the underlying domains in the data. CFA examined the struct ural validity of hypothesized factors in EFA. Four indicators were dropped during the analysis either due to the low and significantly different loading on one factor as compared to other indicators or due to overlap wi...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Spatiotemporal multi ‐graph convolutional network‐based provincial‐day‐level terrorism risk prediction
This study proposed a novel spatiotemporal graph convolutional network (STGCN)-based extension method to capture the complex and multidimensional non-Euclidean relationships between different provinces and forecast the daily risks. Specifically, three graph structures were constructed to represent the contagious process between provinces: the distance graph, the province-level root cause similarity graph, and the self-excited graph. The long short-term memory and self-attention layers were extended to STGCN for capturing context-dependent temporal characters. At the same time, the one-dimensional convolutional neural netwo...
Source: Risk Analysis - October 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lanjun Luo,
Boxiao Li,
Chao Qi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The association of the quality of life with Afghan households ’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis
The overreaching objective of the current study is to investigate the association of quality of life with Afghan households ’ food insecurity. The data was collected immediately after the Taliban took control o... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - October 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jumakhan Saif-Nijat, Mohammad Reza Pakravan-Charvadeh, Saeed Gholamrezai, Mehdi Rahimian, Ginny Lane, Daniel B éland, Mustafa Koc, Nancy Clark, Nasrin Omidvar, Rasoul Sadeghi and Hassan Vatanparast Tags: Research Source Type: research
High risk of intestinal colonization with ESBL-producing Escherichia coli among soldiers of military contingents in specific geographic regions
AbstractOne-hundred Polish soldiers of a contingent in Afghanistan in 2019 were screened forEnterobacterales resistant to newer-generationβ-lactams at their departure and return. Seventeen percent were colonized in the gut at the departure, whereas 70% acquired carriage in Afghanistan. The commonest organisms were extended-spectrumβ-lactamase (ESBL)-producingEscherichia coli (ESBL-Ec; 96.6%). All isolates were sequenced and were clonally diverse overall, even within the same sequence type, indicating that independent acquisitions mainly. ESBL-Ec were often multi-drug-resistant. Soldiers stationing in certain regions are ...
Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - October 19, 2023 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research
Prevalence of pediatric sepsis in hospitalized children of Maiwand Teaching Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan
Sepsis is a clinical syndrome associated with a systemic reaction to infection that is seen as a bacteremia with systemic symptoms. Sepsis is one of the most important problems in children and is associated wi... (Source: BMC Pediatrics)
Source: BMC Pediatrics - October 16, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Mohammad Sharif Sediqi, Abdulwali Wali and Mohammad Akbar Ibrahimi Tags: Research Source Type: research
Two-Stage Endovascular Treatment of a Traumatic Pseudoaneurysm of Superior Mesenteric Artery Branch in a Soldier After a Military Combat Mission
This article presents a case of a 50-year-old former active duty soldier and veteran of a military combat mission in Afghanistan, during which he sustained a traumatic injury resulting from a mine explosion under a vehicle. After completing the mission and returning home, the patient developed abdominal pain. The diagnosis made in the general surgery department of the district hospital was upper gastrointestinal obstruction and aneurysmal rupture of the superior mesenteric branch with inflammatory infiltration of the pancreatic-intestinal area. The patient underwent emergency gastrointestinal anastomosis and Braun enteroen...
Source: Military Medicine - October 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nowakowski Przemys ław Wojciech Uchto Rafa ł Maciąg Jaros ław Stoliński Eugeniusz Hrycek Source Type: research
Epidemiological features of tuberculosis in the Middle East and North Africa from 1990 to 2019: results from the global burden of disease Study 2019
Conclusion: TB has continued to decrease in prevalence, incidence, death, and DALYs rates in the MENA region, although, nowadays with the COVID-19 pandemic, societies may face more challenges for TB prevention, detection, treatment, and rehabilitation.Keywords: Tuberculosis; disability; burden of disease; DALY; MENA. (Source: African Health Sciences)
Source: African Health Sciences - October 11, 2023 Category: African Health Authors: Mehdi Moradinazar, Zienab Mohseni Afshar, Uosef Ramazani, Mohammad Shakiba, Maria Shirvani, Sara Darvishi Source Type: research
