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Background: Owing to the difficulty isolating microorganisms in periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), current guidelines recommend that 3-5 intraoperative samples be cultured and maintained for 3-14 days. We investigated (1) the optimal number of culture samples and growth duration to diagnose PJI and (2) the microbiology profile at our institution.
Conclusion: The optimal number of cultures and growth duration depended on the type of organism. This study provides evidence that 5 samples should be obtained and held for at least 8 days given that the type of organisms is likely to be unknown at the time of surgery.
Design: In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter clinical trial, women with a history of a recent UTI were assigned to consume one 240-mL serving of cranberry beverage/d (n = 185) or a placebo (n = 188) beverage for 24 wk. The primary outcome was the clinical UTI incidence density, which was defined as the total number of clinical UTI events (including multiple events per subject when applicable) per unit of observation time.
Conclusion: The consumption of a cranberry juice beverage lowered the number of clinical UTI episodes in women with a recent history of UTI. This study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01776021.
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Obstetric risk factors for intraamniotic infection at term have been delineated, including low parity, multiple digital examinations, use of internal uterine and fetal monitors, meconium-stained amniotic fluid, and the presence of certain genital tract pathogens (eg, group B streptococcal infection and sexually transmitted infections) 3 18 19 20. It should be recognized that many of these proposed risk factors also are associated with longer duration of labor and membrane rupture, and may not be independently associated with intraamniotic infection. For example, a recent retrospective investigation of more than 2,000 parturients specifically analyzed the number of cervical examinations performed during labor and found that women who developed an intrapartum fever had more digital cervical examinations than women who did not 21. However, this relationship was not significant after adjusting for spontaneous labor, the Bishop score, and rupture of membranes on admission.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics provide guidelines for assessing risk of neonatal infection 7 35 36 37. These guidelines recommend laboratory studies and empiric antibiotic therapy for all newborns delivered from women with a suspected or confirmed intraamniotic infection. Currently such recommendations are being re-evaluated 1 38. Recent data on the development of the neonatal microbiome and the role of early antibiotic exposures suggest that antibiotic therapy may not be entirely benign 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46. Multivariate risk assessment and increased reliance on clinical observation may safely decrease the number of well-appearing term newborns treated empirically with antibiotics 5 12 22. In all cases, isolated maternal fever and suspected or confirmed intraamniotic infection should be communicated to neonatal caregivers at birth. Regardless of evolving national recommendations and local variations in approach, such infants always will require enhanced clinical surveillance for signs of developing infection.
According to the latest World malaria report, there were 247 million cases of malaria in 2021 compared to 245 million cases in 2020. The estimated number of malaria deaths stood at 619 000 in 2021 compared to 625 000 in 2020.
At the time of this investigation, 7 persons exposed to the current H5N1 virus clade had H5N1 virus detected by rRT-PCR. Some of those cases were asymptomatic or mild and could represent contamination of the nasal mucosa instead of infection. Serologic testing of exposed persons in 2 states failed to find A(H5) in nasal mucosa or evidence of asymptomatic infection by antibody detection; however, the number of participants with serologic specimens was small, and a larger sample size is needed to confirm these findings.
One limitation of our study is that the number of persons exposed to H5N1-infected birds was underestimated because of underreporting and noncompliance with monitoring; however, jurisdictions requested employee lists and inquired about additional contacts to expand capture of those exposed. Detailed exposure information was not collected from all exposed persons, so we could not report on the influence of exposure duration or PPE use on infection risk.
In times of outbreaks, an essential requirement for better monitoring is the evaluation of the number of undiagnosed infected individuals. An accurate estimate of this fraction is crucial for the assessment of the situation and the establishment of protective measures. In most current studies using epidemics models, the total number of infected is either approximated by the number of diagnosed individuals or is dependent on the model parameters and assumptions, which are often debated. We here study the relationship between the fraction of diagnosed infected out of all infected, and the fraction of infected with known contaminator out of all diagnosed infected. We show that those two are approximately the same in exponential models and across most models currently used in the study of epidemics, independently of the model parameters. As an application, we compute an estimate of the effective number of infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in various countries.
In the absence of a vaccine or efficient treatment, the control of social contacts through large-scale social distancing measures appears to be the most effective means of mitigation in a pandemic1,2,3,4,5. Determining the extent of those measures and their stringency requires an accurate evaluation of the total number of infected individuals along with the fraction of those individuals that have not yet been identified6,7,8. Many parameters can influence this evaluation. For instance, when a disease or a virus has a short incubation period and a relatively small spreading rate compared to its detection rate, the fraction of undiagnosed infected is relatively small and the outbreak can be stopped or, at the least, contained, by isolating the infected individuals from the population9. In opposite cases, such as in the HIV, SARS, EBOV, or SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks, the fraction of undiagnosed infected can be substantial, and spreading can occur through them10,11,12. Modeling has emerged as an important tool in determining the effectiveness of those measures. It enables to gauge the potential for widespread contagion, cope with associated uncertainty, and inform its mitigation13,14,15.
To estimate the total number of infected from observed infected, one needs to determine the Confirmed Cases Fraction (CCF), defined here as the fraction of confirmed (diagnosed) infected out of all infected (both diagnosed and undiagnosed). The reported number of carriers is heavily influenced by sampling biases. This number is usually incomplete due to the lack of testing capacities, and varying testing protocols16,17. We here propose that CCF can be estimated through the Known Source Fraction (KSF), defined as the fraction of diagnosed individuals with known contaminators. Epidemiological investigations, even on a limited sample of the confirmed infected individuals, can provide the value of KSF and therefore an estimation of CCF. Such a sample would have to be sufficiently diversified to represent the population, and especially the variability in infection probability (e.g., the difference between super-spreaders and regular spreaders). We show that even in a population with diverse infection rates, KSF provides a rather accurate estimation of CCF, for an unbiased sample above a minimal size.
Two main types of predictive models were proposed for epidemics: macroscopic models, using aggregated data at the population scale, and microscopic models, incorporating distributed information at the individual level18,19. Macroscopic models use stochastic processes or ODEs to predict the evolution of the outbreak on a global scale. The simplest and most common model is the SIR model20,21, where the population is divided into three categories: Susceptible (S), Infected (I), and Removed (R) (Fig. 1a). N is the total population. In this model, propagation of the virus depends on the infection rate \(\beta\) or the number of contacts between susceptible and infected individuals, and the detection rate \(\gamma\) that characterizes the time that infected individuals remain contagious. The Removed category can include individuals that survived the virus and are now immune or deceased patients. If stringent confinement is applied, this category can also simply be all diagnosed individuals since they are now removed from the system and can no longer contaminate other individuals. To model KSF, we add a category to a stochastic realization of SIR and other models: Controlled (C) that represents the individuals among the Removed for whom the contaminator is known. In practice, each time a Susceptible gets infected, an Infected is chosen to be the contaminator and its identity is recorded. When an individual gets diagnosed, we check the identity of its contaminator and if this contaminator has already been diagnosed, we consider that the newly diagnosed individual is added to the Controlled category (see Fig. 1c for a description). We ignored false positives (diagnosed that are not infected) in the current analysis, as their number is consistently small in most epidemics22. We further discuss false negatives.
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