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Estimation Of Infectious Intestinal Disease Burden And Description Of The Infectious Disease Surveillance System In Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, Fatema Hamdan Saif Al Alkeem Al Zaabi

Dissertations

Introduction: Infectious disease (ID) is an ongoing problem worldwide. In order to manage this problem, it is important to have an integrated and effective surveillance system that can be used to estimate the burden of ID. There is a scarcity of studies published on the prevalence of IDs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), both in hospital settings and in the community. Infectious Intestinal Disease (IIDs) have been one of the most commonest IDs that have been studied in the community around the world, there are no studies on the prevalence of IIDs in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK). Furthermore, while …

Explaining Illness With Evil: Pathogen Prevalence Fosters Moral Vitalism, Bastian Brock, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Steve Loughnan, Paul Bain, Ashwini Ashokkumar, Maja Becker, Michal Bilewicz, Emma Collier-Baker, Carla Crespo, Paul W. Eastwick, Ronald Fischer, Jennifer Tong, Jennifer Tong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Pathogens represent a significant threat to human health leading to the emergence of strategies designed to help manage their negative impact. We examined how spiritual beliefs developed to explain and predict the devastating effects of pathogens and spread of infectious disease. Analysis of existing data in studies 1 and 2 suggests that moral vitalism (beliefs about spiritual forces of evil) is higher in geographical regions characterized by historical higher levels of pathogens. Furthermore, drawing on a sample of 3140 participants from 28 countries in study 3, we found that historical higher levels of pathogens were associated with stronger endorsement of …

Noninvasive Ventilation Protocol Development, Janise Pierce Tinsman

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Endotracheal intubation results in many serious complications including regurgitation, vocal cord paralysis, and death. Noninvasive ventilation using bi-level positive airway pressure has been shown to provide the necessary support without intubation and is also associated with better outcomes if trialed prior to endotracheal intubation. A noninvasive ventilation protocol was applied in a rural acute care facility. Results: The average length of stay for acute respiratory failure decreased from 5.32 to 4.44 days, while intubations fell from 41.9% to zero, and mortality fell from 9.7% to zero during the pilot period. Five cases met criteria for noninvasive ventilation, and three received …

Exploring Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students’ Knowledge And Attitudes About Older Adult Sexuality, Lindsey Horta

Doctoral Dissertations

The current study surveyed clinical psychology doctoral students’ (N=291) knowledge and attitudes about older adult sexuality. Knowledge and attitudes were measured using the Facts of Aging Quiz, the Aging Sexuality Knowledge and Attitudes Scale, Attitudes Towards Sexuality Scale, and measures to explore students’ exposure to and interests in the older adult population, as well as academic and clinical exposure (coursework, practicum opportunities and clinical contacts with older adults) to the older adult population and older adult sexuality. Generally, students’ knowledge about aging was associated with their attitudes about older adult sexuality; the more knowledge a student has about older adult …

Learn Model Of Career Trajectories: Application To The Stem Postdoctoral Scholar, Audrey J. Jaeger, Karen J. Haley, Tara D. Hudson

Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Postdoctoral scholars constitute a sizeable population within the academic workforce. Given the intended role of a postdoc position as a time of advanced training and professional development for a future academic career, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, it is important to understand whether and how well the career-related needs of postdocs are being met. The purpose of this research was to understand STEM postdoctoral scholars’ career trajectories, with particular attention to the influences on their career-related decision making, by applying the Life Experiences and Role Negotiations (LEARN) model to qualitative data from interviews with 19 STEM …

Transcriptomics And Proteomics Reveal Two Waves Of Translational Repression During The Maturation Of Malaria Parasite Sporozoites., Scott E Lindner, Kristian E Swearingen, Melanie J Shears, Michael P Walker, Erin N Vrana, Kevin J Hart, Allen M Minns, Photini Sinnis, Robert L Moritz, Stefan H I Kappe

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Plasmodium sporozoites are transmitted from infected mosquitoes to mammals, and must navigate the host skin and vasculature to infect the liver. This journey requires distinct proteomes. Here, we report the dynamic transcriptomes and proteomes of both oocyst sporozoites and salivary gland sporozoites in both rodent-infectious Plasmodium yoelii parasites and human-infectious Plasmodium falciparum parasites. The data robustly define mRNAs and proteins that are upregulated in oocyst sporozoites (UOS) or upregulated in infectious sporozoites (UIS) within the salivary glands, including many that are essential for sporozoite functions in the vector and host. Moreover, we find that malaria parasites use two overlapping, extensive, …

Urban Outbreak 2019 Pre-Analytic “Quick Look”, Benjamin Davies, Heath Brightman, Jacob Brostuen, David Polatty, Brittany Card

Urban Outbreak 2019

From 17-18 September 2019, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) - National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH) and the United States Naval War College (NWC) conducted a game at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab (JHU-APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Titled “Urban Outbreak 2019,” this two-day, three-move analytic game was internally developed by the NWC’s Humanitarian Response Program (HRP) and emerged as an output from their 2018 Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Workshop.

Rabies Surveillance Identifies Potential Risk Corridors And Enables Management Evaluation, Amy J. Davis, Kathleen M. Nelson, Jordana D. Kirby, Ryan M. Wallace, Xiaoyue Ma, Kim M. Pepin, Richard B. Chipman, Amy Gilbert

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Intensive efforts are being made to eliminate the raccoon variant of rabies virus (RABV) from the eastern United States and Canada. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wildlife Services National Rabies Management Program has implemented enhanced rabies surveillance (ERS) to improve case detection across the extent of the raccoon oral rabies vaccination (ORV) management area. We evaluated ERS and public health surveillance data from 2006 to 2017 in three northeastern USA states using a dynamic occupancy modeling approach. Our objectives were to examine potential risk corridors for RABV incursion from the U.S. into Canada, evaluate the effectiveness of ORV …

Evaluating The Effect Of Temperature On A Human Parasite And Its Intermediate Snail Host: Implications For A Changing Climate, Karena H. Nguyen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Global climate change is impacting the emergence, re-emergence, prevalence, and incidence of infectious diseases worldwide, including parasitic diseases of humans (Blum and Hotez 2018). Neglected tropical diseases, defined as a group of parasitic diseases affecting developing countries in the tropics (Hotez et al. 2007), are of particular concern because these diseases occur in areas that are also expected to experience rapid population growth and agricultural development in the coming decades. As human population and food demand increase, the greater the likelihood of humans encountering intermediate hosts that either inhabit agricultural areas or are impacted by agricultural development, which will influence …

Preparedness To Identify And Care For Trafficked Persons In South Carolina Hospitals: A State-Wide Exploration, Stephanie C. Armstrong, V. Jordan Greenbaum, Cristina M. Lopez, Julie Barroso

Biennial Convention (CONV)

A qualitative, descriptive study utilizing stratified purposive sampling to investigate how prepared hospitals throughout the state of South Carolina were to identify and care for individuals experiencing human trafficking.

Relationships Between Social Determinants Of Health And Patient Readmissions To An Acute Care Hospital Within 30 Days Of Discharge, Wren Mosee Lester

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Background: The Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) is a part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which addresses the cost and quality of health care. The HRRP and policy penalizes hospitals for excessive readmission rates. The overall purpose of the program is to improve the quality of care, reduce costs and improve operational efficiency in hospitals. (Zhang, 2014).

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and examine what social determinants of health, at an individual level and community level, were associated with the likelihood of being readmitted into the hospital, within 30 days of discharge, for patients …

Prevalence Of Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus Over Time In Resident Physicians, Lexus Dickson, Morgan Smith Md, Scott Gutovitz, Danielle Kocsis, Jean B. Wiggins, Steve Warrington Md, Stephen Thacker Md, Nayda Parisio Poldiak

Emergency Medicine

No abstract provided.

The American Academy Of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholar Program, Sarah E. Oerther, Deborah Gross

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The American Academy of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholars Program is an innovative and forward thinking model that has enhanced the leadership skills of doctoral and post-doctoral nursing students in shaping the United States healthcare system through policy development.

Case-Based Asynchronous Interactive Modules In Undergraduate Medical Education., Tatiana Villatoro, Katherine Lackritz, Joanna S Y Chan

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Undergraduate medical education traditionally consists of 2 years of lecture-based courses followed by 2 years of clinical clerkships. However, over the past couple decades, undergraduate medical education has been evolving toward non-lecture-based integrated curriculums, requiring a collaborative curriculum. Additionally, e-learning platforms have become efficacious and essential to delivering education asynchronously to students. At Thomas Jefferson University, the Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology departments collaborated to create a pilot series of case-based asynchronous interactive modules to teach gynecologic pathology in a clinical context, while interweaving other educational components, such as evidence-based medicine, clinical skills, and basic sciences. The case-based asynchronous interactive …

Educational Program For Parents On Sexual Communication In Vulnerable Population, Marãƒâ­A Aracely Mãƒâ¡Rquez-Vega

Biennial Convention (CONV)

To know about effective interventions aimed at improving communication about sex issues between father and adolescent children in order to prevent sexual risk behaviors. The results of these interventions have shown greater communication in general and about sex, as well as greater self-efficacy to communicate with them about sexual issues.

Evaluating The Hiv Acquisition Risk Screening Tool In An Outpatient Substance Use Treatment Clinic, Katherine C. Mcnabb, Nancy S. Goldstein

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This project assesses the need for pre-exposure prophylaxis among patients in an outpatient substance use disorder treatment clinic and evaluates the usefulness of the HIV Acquisition Risk Screening (HIVARS) for identification of patients who are at high-risk for contracting Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Impaired Tumor-Necrosis-Factor-Alpha-Driven Dendritic Cell Activation Limits Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Protection From Allergic Inflammation In Infants, Brit Blalock

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

A Case Of Transient Complete Av Block Caused By Infective Endocarditis With Abiotrophiadefectiva, Jung Yoon Do, Wilco Civil Sr, Urvish Patel, Jermaine Ekobena, Arun Abraham, Michael Strobbe

Internal Medicine

No abstract provided.

Data Of Soil, Vegetation And Bird Species Found On Double-Crested Cormorant Colonies In The Southeastern United States, Leah Moran Veum, Brian S. Dorr, Katie Hanson-Dorr, R. J. Moore, Scott A. Rush

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

This data article provides the methods and procedures followed to collect and analyse soil, vegetation and bird data on three different treatment islands in Guntersville Reservoir, Alabama. Samples were collected from randomly selected plot points from islands that were placed into three different treatment types: Colony (currently occupied by Double-crested Cormorants) (Phalacrocorax auritus; n 1⁄4 5), Historic (historically occupied by cormorants and currently abandoned; n 1⁄4 3) and Reference (never occupied by cormorants; n 1⁄4 4). We compared vegetation and tree metrics such as structure and diversity, as well as soil chemistry and bird diversity and communities among islands within …

Sundaas Story: A Mixed-Methods Study Of Household Sanitation Provisioning In Urban Informal Housing In India, Sarita Vijay Panchang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The aims of this research were to examine sanitation insecurity in urban informal housing through the lens of the built environment, social disparities, and health implications. While the Millennium Development Goals for halving the global proportion of people without access to safe drinking water were met ahead of schedule, progress fell short for sanitation, creating new objectives for the Sustainable Development Goals to be met in 2030. Much research in the Global South is dedicated to community-level sanitation promotion, but often presumes a rural rather than urban setting. Urban informal housing settings constitute a unique challenge due to the range …

Establishment Of Multiplex Real-Time Pcr Assays Based On Hand System For The Preliminary Screening Of Five Diarrheagenic Escherichia Coli, Zhong Yike, Wang Yongxia, Zhao Tong, He Xiaoming, Guo Jianshu, Liu Wei, Zou Dayang

Food and Machinery

The specificity of this method was evaluated by testing 17 species closely related bacteria in the laboratory, and the amplification product was analyzed by the Tm value of the dissolution curve, which had good specificity and could detect five different virulence genes: aggR for EAEC, eae for EHEC and EPEC, LT for ETEC, ipaH for EIEC in the same reaction tube. The fecal simulated samples showed that the sensitivity reached 10⁴~10⁶ CFU/mL. The multiplex real-time PCR detection method established in this experiment is suitable for the preliminary screening of five kinds of Escherichia coli.

Progress On Main Virulence Factors And Pathogenic Mechanism Of Cronobacter Spp., Fei Peng, Yang Tongxiang, Chen Xi, Xiang Jinle, Zhao Shengjuan, Xu Yunfeng, Zhou Lianxin, Guo Ling, Kang Huaibin

Food and Machinery

In this study, the role of major virulence factors in the pathogenic process of Cronobacter, including enterotoxin, outer membrane protein, gene Inv, and key enzyme RpfF were reviewed. Furthermore, the pathogenic mechanism was summarized from the following aspects, i. e. the adhesion of bacterial hair, the absorption ability of iron by Cronobacter, the utilization of sialic acid, the effects of biofilm on the protection, and the adhesion of Cronobacter, the effect of efflux system on the viability of Cronobacter in host gastrointestinal tract and desiccation resistance.

Aerobic Acclimation Of Bifidobacterium Adolescentis And The Effect On Its Proliferation Of Different Oligosaccharides, Li Yanze, Chen Xiajing, Zhang Shiang, Jin Xin, Xu Lei, Yao Di

Food and Machinery

In order to improve the situation on low number of living bacterium and the weak strain effect on Bifidobacterium adolescentis in fermented products, the anaerobic B. adolescentis was oxygen-resistant domesticated, by using anaerobic and aerobic alternating domesticated method, and the partial pressure of oxygen in the culture medium of B. adolescentis was gradually increased in the process of acclimation. The physiological characteristics before and after the domestication of B. adolescentis was determinated and the effects on its proliferation of the soybean oligosaccharides, xylooligosaccharide and oligomeric maltose were compared. The results showed that the sensitive degree to oxygen in B. adolescentis …

Doxycycline-Induced Acute Pancreatitis: A Likely Source Rarely Seen, Paul Hoffman Do, Wilco Civil Sr, Jung Yoon Do, Gurjeet Kang Do, Christopher Lozano Orpiano Do, Michael Quinn Do, Joseph Staffetti Md, Dilip Ghanekar Md, Lakshminarasimhan Venu Md, Lily N. Jones Do, Ji Kwon Do, Shaival Thakore Md

Gastroenterology

No abstract provided.

Cercarial Parasitism Of Freshwater Snails In Sandhills Ponds Versus Streams, Caroline Emily Spethman

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Parasite prevalence was calculated for all aquatic snails collected from four freshwater localities in Western Nebraska from Summer 2016 to 2019: Dunwoody Pond, Haythorn Ranch, Neven’s Restoration, and Breen’s Flyaway. With data of increasing trematode cercarial infection specifically at Dunwoody Pond, this community was further studied. In Summer 2019, a total of 217 freshwater snails representing species of Physa sp., Stagnicola elodes (Say,1821), and Helisoma anceps (Menke,1830) were collected from Dunwoody Pond and Dunwoody stream, near Ogallala, Nebraska. Eighty-one snails were collected from Dunwoody Pond, 76 snails were collected 31 meters upstream, and 60 snails were collected 61 meters upstream …

Oral Fungal Microbiota: To Thrush And Beyond, Dennis J. Baumgardner

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

The oral microbiota is complex, multikingdom, interactive, and involves extensive biofilm formation. While dominated by bacteria, Candida is a frequent member of this microbiota; however, several other potentially pathogenic fungi (among around 100 identified species) appear to reside in some individuals, including Cryptococcus, Aspergillus, and Fusarium. Oral candidiasis may manifest as a variety of disease entities in normal hosts and in the immunocompromised. These include pseudomembranous candidiasis (thrush), hyperplastic or atrophic (denture) candidiasis, linear gingival erythema, median rhomboid glossitis, and angular cheilitis. The purpose of this review is to describe the oral fungal microbiota (ie, oral mycobiota), …

Degree Centrality And The Probability Of An Infectious Disease Outbreak In Towns Within A Region, Elizabeth Hunter, Brian Mac Namee, John D. Kelleher

Conference papers

Agent-based models can be used to help study the spread of infectious diseases within a population. As no individual town is in isolation, commuting patterns into and out of a town or city are a vital part of understanding the course of an outbreak within a town. Thus the centrality of a town in a network of towns, such as a county or an entire country, should be an important influence on an outbreak. We propose looking at the probability that an outbreak enters a given town in a region and comparing that probability to the centrality of the town. …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - October 27, 2019, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the October 27, 2019 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's Newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

Simulations transport medical students inside human organs

Department of Surgery to host Frazer/Leigh Memorial Lecture

Macaluso examines federal efforts on tick-borne diseases

Spontaneous Fungal Peritonitis: A Rare Complication Of Ascites Secondary To Right Heart Failure: A Case Report, Saaah Siddiqui Md, Dharti R. Patel Md, Arshad M. Iqbal Md, Ateeq Mubarik Md, Salman Muddassir Md, Fahad Zafar Md

Internal Medicine

•Spontaneous fungal peritonitis (SFP) is an infection defined as a neutrophil count (> 250 cells/mL) in the ascitic fluid with the evidence of positive fungal culture (1) while excluding other intra-abdominal infections. SFP is not as common as spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and has higher mortality rates due to late recognition and difficulty in differentiation between SFP and SBP. (1,2). The common risk factors that have shown to increase the mortality for SFP include hepatorenal syndrome, patient on SBP prophylaxis, elevated APACHE II scores on admission, and elevated lactate levels (2,3). Candida albicans and Candida glabrata are the two …

Determination Of Total Bacteria Count, Somatic Cells And Physico - Chemical Parameters Of Raw Milk In Peja, Gjakova And Prizreni Region, Arianeta Nura, Hyzer Rizani, Shkurta Bajraktari, Luljeta Rukolli

UBT International Conference

The aim of our research was to determine the quality of raw cow’s milk in three regions of Kosova through total bacteria count (TBC), somatic cell count (SCC) and physico-chemical parameters. A total of 120 samples were collected from farms during the period January – June 2019. Microbiological evaluation was conducted based on the definition of total bacterial count (TBC) and somatic cell count (SCC). Also, physico-chemical parameters tested include fat, protein, lactose, Solid Non Fat (SNF), total solids content (TS), freezing point depression (FPD), density and acidity ^oSH. The obtained results showed that TBC count was: in Peja …