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Encephalopathic Presentation Of West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease Confounded By Concomitant History Of Acute Alcohol Withdrawal, Alyssa Profita, Kristin Haglund

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

West Nile neuroinvasive disease (WNND) is a rare and severe manifestation of West Nile virus (WNV) infection that occurs in less than 1% of infected persons. It should be considered in patients who present with fever, neurological symptoms, and a history of recent outdoor activity where mosquitoes were active. This article highlights a case of a 55-year-old man whose history and symptoms of WNND were confounded with an alternate diagnosis, acute alcohol withdrawal. An overview of WNV infections, and important historical clues and objective findings characteristic of neuroinvasive disease, is discussed to increase readers' knowledge of WNV and awareness of …

Management Of Large Aspergilloma With Massive Hemoptysis Complicated By Adhesions From A Previous Partial Lobectomy, Johnathon Dallarosa Md, Nathan Brewster Do, Brian J. Holahan Do, Kareem Godil Md, Jaimin Patel Do, Jessica Boehmler Md

Department of Medicine

No abstract provided.

Ethical Approaches To Mandating Influenza Vaccinations For Local Health Department Workforce In Georgia, Melicent R. Miller, Maureen K. Akubu-Odero, Lashauna L. Hunt, Stephanie L. Irvin, Catherine T. Palmer, William A. Mase

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association

Background: The seasonal influenza illness occurs every year in the United States during the cooler months from October to April, sometimes lasting longer. Although certain populations are more susceptible to this condition, data have shown that otherwise healthy individuals have experienced alarming rates of morbidity and mortality associated with these infections. Despite the CDC’s recommendation for influenza vaccination for all HCWs, compliance have been lagging among local health departments’ workforce. This practice arguably exposes a wide cross section of the U.S. population to the flu, while being served in these facilities. The utilitarian approach provides a framework to examine the …

The Impact Of Epidemics On Future Residential Buildings In China, Jinyan Xu

Theses

With global pandemics such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the recent novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), awareness of disease prevention and control is increasing. Concern over the spread of viruses within residential buildings, especially multi-unit apartment and condominium buildings, is growing. The design of residential buildings in China is often focused on comfort, aesthetics, appearance, and lifestyle. This is in contrast to Western countries, where physical and mental health considerations are integrated with the design of residential buildings. Many recent reports and investigations have focused on infection and cross-infection of diseases and viruses occurring in residential buildings, especially in …

Using Risk Perceptions To Develop Effective Great Lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Outreach, Erin L. Pavloski, Heather A. Triezenberg, Bruno Takahashi, William W. Taylor

Journal of Extension

We examined risk perceptions that aquatic-based recreation stakeholders in the Great Lakes region held about fish diseases, using viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) as our case study. Eighty-five percent of study participants knew nothing or very little about VHS. Regarding risks posed by VHS, participants overall were most concerned about risks to the environment and fishing. Additionally, greater than 75% were concerned about fish diseases, in general, affecting the Great Lakes or inland lakes. Outreach efforts can be enhanced by focusing on areas of greatest risk invasion; targeting boaters, paddlers, kayakers, and anglers; increasing awareness of and concern about fish diseases; …

Exploration Of Dairy Calf Management Practices And Educational Needs In Vermont, Mia Cosentino, Julia M. Smith

Journal of Extension

Proper calf care is important on dairy farms as management practices affect animal well-being and productivity as well as farm profitability. This article highlights areas of calf management needing improvement according to the results of a mixed-mode survey intended to provide a snapshot of calf management practices in Vermont. Areas for which improvement is needed aligned with farmers' identification of topics of interest and included calving management, nutrition (particularly neonatal feeding practices), and biosecurity (including vaccination). Extension professionals can draw on information about practices needing improvement and topics of interest to farmers to better position themselves to provide outreach tailored …

Tick Control Methods For Amblyomma Americanum In Virginia: Applications And Modeling, Alexis Lynn White

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Tick-borne diseases continue to increase in the United States, and yet no comprehensive method of tick control currently exists. The lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, is an aggressive human-biting tick and vector of several pathogens which effect both humans and other animals. Standard control methods do not work as well for A. americanum as they do for the more commonly studied blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis. TickBot, a tick-killing robot, is a potential method to control A. americanum that lures ticks to its path with carbon dioxide and the ticks die from contact with a permethrin-treated cloth that is …

Ecological Indicators Of Mammal Exposure To Ebolavirus, John Paul Schmidt, Sean Maher, John M. Drake, Tao Huang, Maxwell J. Farrell, Barbara A. Han

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Much of the basic ecology of Ebolavirus remains unresolved despite accumulating disease outbreaks, viral strains and evidence of animal hosts. Because human Ebolavirus epidemics have been linked to contact with wild mammals other than bats, traits shared by species that have been infected by Ebolavirus and their phylogenetic distribution could suggest ecological mechanisms contributing to human Ebolavirus spillovers. We compiled data on Ebolavirus exposure in mammals and corresponding data on life-history traits, movement, and diet, and used boosted regression trees (BRT) to identify predictors of exposure and infection for 119 species (hereafter hosts). Mapping the phylogenetic distribution of presumptive Ebolavirus …

What's Happening: September 30, 2019, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Factors Affecting Rapid Decline In Glomerular Filtration Rate In Hiv/Aids Patients Using Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate, Prima Yuriandro, Evy Yunihastuti, Maruhum Bonar H Marbun, Pringgodidgo Nugroho

Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia

Introduction. Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) treatment in HIV/AIDS patient has particular effect to the kidney, which is rapid decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (> 5 cc/min/1.72 m2 one year after using the drug). The incidence rate for rapid decline in GFR and factors affecting it are still contradictive and not assessed completely. This study was done to identify cumulative incidence and factors affecting TDF related nephrotoxicity. Methods. A retrospective cohort study was conducted in HIV/AIDS outpatient clinic Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital Jakarta. We included patients who start taking TDF as their medication from January 2010 until January 2015 with consecutive …

Resolving The Privacy Paradox: Bridging The Behavioral Intention Gap With Risk Communication Theory, Justin Chun Wah Wu

Theses and Dissertations

The advent of the Internet has led to vastly increased levels of data accessibility to both users and would-be attackers. The privacy paradox is an established phenomenon wherein users express concern about resultant security and privacy threats to their data, but nevertheless fail to enact the host of protective measures that have steadily become available. The precise nature of this phenomenon, however, is not a settled matter. Fortunately, risk communication theory, a discipline devoted to understanding the factors involved in risk-oriented decision-making and founded in years of empirical research in public health and disaster awareness domains, presents an opportunity to …

How Health Literate Are The Igeneration Filipinos? Health Literacy Among Filipino Early Adolescents In Middle Schools, Roberto Javier Jr., Marites Tiongco, Melvin Jabar

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

This paper describes the level of health literacy among middle school students in the Philippines. It specifically determines their level of knowledge of health as well as their health-related skills, attitudes, and values. This paper assumes that middle school children, being part of the iGeneration, will have a higher level of health literacy owing to their better access to Internet technology. School-age children in the Philippines who were born in the early years of 2000 have grown up with high technology such that they have at their fingertips all sources of knowledge about health. Aside from the Internet, students are …

Characterization Of Exon And Intron Of Defensin 1 Gene In Apis Cerana And Apis Dorsata, Achmad Alfiyan, Rika Raffiudin, Rika Indri Astuti

Makara Journal of Science

Honey bee defensin 1 gene belongs to the class of immunity genes in this social insect. The peptide acts as a defensive mechanism against infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. The aim of this study was to characterize exon 2, intron 2, and exon 3 of defensin 1 gene in both the Indonesian honey bees Apis cerana and A. dorsata. First, defensin 1 genes of A. cerana and A. dorsata were sequenced, after which a bioinformatic analysis was conducted. The amplified length of these defensin 1 genes of A. cerana and A. dorsata were 479 and 458 bp, respectively, and their …

Analysis Of Electromagnetic Vortex Beams Using Modified Dynamic Mode Decomposition In Spatial Angular Domain, Yanming Zhang, Menglin L.N. Chen, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes of electromagnetic (EM) beams are utilized for multiplexing in communication systems, where each OAM mode is encoded with data. The OAM index, or the so-called topological charge, identifies each OAM mode. Recently, the amplitude of OAM mode has also been used as another modulation format. Therefore, accurate extraction of not only the OAM index but also the corresponding amplitude is required. In this paper, a modified dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) algorithm is proposed to analyze the OAM modes. We show that accurate topological charges and high-resolution amplitude patterns of both single OAM mode and …

Back Matter Vol. 55, No. 3 September (2019), Back Matter

Folia Medica Indonesiana

Plague disease remains a public health problem in the world. According to the International Health Regulations (IHR), an outbreak is an infectious disease that has the potential to cause an outbreak. The purpose of this study was to analyze a significant relationship between human behavior and the environment with the density of the number of rats in the focus, threatened and outbreak-safe areas in Tutur Regency, Pasuruan Regency, in 2016. This was an observational analytic study with cross correlation sectional where the research variables are population behavior, environment, and the number of rat densities observed once at a time. The …

Uncommon Presentation Of A Rare Cases- Incidental Finding In A Tonsillectomy Specimen In Mosul City: Histopathological Study, Zahraa A. Tabou, Eklas A. Ali, Abduljabbar Y.Al-Hubaity

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Histopathological examination in a patient who did tonsillectomy due to various indications reveals some of a rare but important incidental pathological finding as choriostomatic tissue (cartilage and fat) and an unusual bacterial colonization (actinomycosis) in tonsillar specimen. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to represent of an unusual finding of choriostomatic tissue in resected tonsils, and to evaluate the incidence of Actinomyces colonization with disclose their relation to tonsillar diseases. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A case series study design is adopted. The sample of the present study included 100 patients who have done tonsillectomy are carried out in the …

Primary Health Care Physicians' Knowledge And Attitude Towards Elderly In Baghdad/Al-Karkh-2018, Waleed Arif Al-Ani, Noor Hassan Abdul-Wahab

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: It is important for primary health care (PHC) physicians to possess adequate knowledge and attitude towards geriatrics to cope with the increasing number of elderly patients care during their daily practice. OBJECTIVE: To assess the knowledge and attitude of PHC physicians towards elderly and to study the relation between some factors with physicians’ knowledge and attitude. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted in 31 PHC centers in Baghdad/Al-Karkh for a period of 3 months from 1st of March to the end of May 2018. A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection which covered some physicians' …

2019 Student Center For Science Engagement Research Symposium Program, Student Center For Science Engagement

Student Center for Science Engagement Research Symposium

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the 11th Annual SCSE Research Symposium. In just over a decade, undergraduate summer research in the sciences at Northeastern Illinois University has grown from a few groups of students working with faculty mentors within their departments, to a robust, structured summer research program with dozens of students working with faculty across the STEM disciplines at NEIU. The presentations at the symposium today will give you all an appreciation of the breadth and depth of the scientific questions that our students have been investigating all summer. To our students presenting their work …

Age At Menarche, Measures Of The Midlife Gut Microbiome, And Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Yan Wang

Theses and Dissertations

Introduction Early menarche has been associated with greater risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CVD-related mortality but the mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesized that early menarche and CVD may share as a common cause, changes in the natural history of the gut microbiome. Methods We obtained data on 2,400 adult female twins from the TwinsUK registry. Participants reported their age at menarche retrospectively and underwent anthropometric and clinical laboratory measures in 1992-2014. They provided fecal samples in 2007-2012. Microbial DNA sequences represent the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene. OTU-picking was done using open-reference strategy in QIIME and the …

Unexpected Diagnosis, Gauravpal S Gill, Rukma R Govindu, Ragai Fouda, Hussam M Ammar

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

A 74-year-old man presented to the ER with an eight-month history of shortness of breath, cough, anorexia, and weight loss. He had emigrated from sub-Saharan African to the USA, where he was diagnosed and treated for coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke; was hospitalized several times; and underwent hernia surgery. Despite the complex care that he received in the USA for many years, the diagnosis of AIDS was continually missed for years, and the patient was eventually diagnosed at the age of 74.

Inactivated Rabies Virus-Based Ebola Vaccine Preserved By Vaporization Is Heat-Stable And Immunogenic Against Ebola And Protects Against Rabies Challenge., Drishya Kurup, Christine R. Fisher, Todd G. Smith, Tiago Abreu-Mota, Yong Yang, Felix R. Jackson, Nadia Gallardo-Romero, Richard Franka, Victor Bronshtein, Matthias J. Schnell

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Ebola virus (EBOV) is a highly lethal member of the Filoviridae family associated with human hemorrhagic disease. Despite being a sporadic disease, it caused a large outbreak in 2014-2016 in West Africa and another outbreak recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Several vaccine candidates are currently in preclinical and clinical studies but none are stable without cold chain storage.

METHODS: We used preservation by vaporization (PBV), a novel processing technology to heat-stabilize FiloRab1 (inactivated rabies-based Ebola vaccine), a candidate Ebola vaccine, and stored the vials at temperatures ranging from 4°C to 50°C for 10 days to 12 months. …

Occurrence Of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcal Mastitis In Dairy Cows, Mohamed El-Diasty, Hager Talaat, Samar Atwa, Elzahraa Elbaz, Mohamed Eissa

Mansoura Veterinary Medical Journal

Objective: To study the prevalence of Coagulase-negative Staphylococci in clinical and subclinical mastitis in dairy cows. Design: Case-control study. Animals: 415 lactating Holstein cows. Procedures: A total of 896 quarter milk samples were collected aseptically from 415 dairy cows for bacteriological examination (mastitic cows, n=50; healthy cows, n=174). Identification of different bacterial isolates followed by antibiotic sensitivity test for Coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS) was carried out, using disc-diffusion method against 13 different antibiotics . Results: 224 out of 415 cows (54%) were proven to be mastitic (12% clinical mastitis, 42 % subclinical mastitis). Coagulase-negative Staphylococci were the prevalent isolate (32%). CNS …

Gene Expression Pattern Of Acetyl-Coa Carboxylase Alpha, Fatty Acid Synthase, And Stearoyl-Coa Desaturase In Pregnant Barki Sheep Under Complete Feed Deprivation, Ahmed A. El-Sayed, Ahmed I. Ateya, Mohamed F. Hamed, Sherif M. Shoieb, Hussam M. M. Ibrahim, Maged R. El-Ashker, Mohamed A. Youssef, Fathy Ibrahim

Mansoura Veterinary Medical Journal

Objective: To assess the mRNA level of acetyl CoA carboxylase alpha (ACACA), fatty acid synthase (FASN), and stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) by means of real-time PCR in Barki sheep subjected to complete feed deprivation. Design: Controlled study. Animals: Seven healthy pregnant ewes. Procedures: Ewes were subjected to complete feed deprivation with ad libitum water for five consecutive days. Venous blood samples were collected from each ewe before (zero time) and on the fifth day post-deprivation of feed for measurement of the mRNA level of ACACA, FASN, and SCD and assessment of serum metabolic profile parameters. Results: On the fifth day post-fasting, …

Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine, And Patients: Writings On Infectious Disease During The Debate Between Chinese And Western Medicine, Xiaoyan Deng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Modern epidemiology led to a comprehensive change in social concepts. As a result, the fear of bacteria became a psychological basis of social mobilization in modern countries. In China, the fear of bacteria and the fear of Western forces were ingeniously combined, thus becoming the emotional motivation for New Culture intellectuals who fervently criticized traditional Chinese medicine under the slogan of scientism. In the context of the debate between Chinese and Western medicine, this article focuses on the writings of infectious diseases in modern Chinese literature. By analyzing the texts and events related to Chen Dabei, Sun Fuyuan, Lu Xun, …

The Global Crisis Of Antibiotic Resistance, Cindy Hou, Do, Mba

Sepsis Symposium

No abstract provided.

Tracking Progress On Preventing And Treating Sepsis: Cdc's Adult Sepsis Event Surveillance Strategy, Chanu Rhee, Md

Sepsis Symposium

This presentation will discuss the differences between diagnostic and surveillance definitions of sepsis and the use and value of each in clinical settings. Specifically, Dr. Rhee will discuss the CDC’s new ‘Adult Sepsis Event’ surveillance tool to help healthcare facilities assess adult sepsis incidence within their facilities.

A Modern View Of The Pathogenesis And Treatment Of Hdv Infection, L.N. Tuychiyev, T.K. Dolimov

Central Asian Journal of Medicine

Hepatitis Delta is severe and rapidly progressing form of viral hepatitis which leading to the liver cirrhosis and this infection is still an unresolved global health problem. The treatment of delta-virus infection is an unresolved problem. The application of the interferon preparations in case of delta-infection does not guarantee the efficacy of the treatment in the majority of patients, does not provide the stability of the elimination of the virus and gives a set of side-effects. New preparations with other mechanisms of the actions are now developing. These are nucleosides analogues and preparations with the specific mechanisms of action like …

The Interdependence Of Fetal And Maternal Extracellular Dna In Pregnant Women With Fetal Malformations, F.M. Ayupova, D.D. Saidjalilova, Z.A. Muminova, D.N. Hodjaeva

Central Asian Journal of Medicine

One of the promising and quite new directions of non-invasive prenatal diagnostics can be the analysis of extracellular fetal DNA in the blood of pregnant women. Objective: determination of prognostic significance of fetal DNA level in prognosis of fetal pathology. Material and Methods: seventeen pregnant women with fetal pathology in the second trimester were examined in the dynamics of gestation in obstetric complex No. 9 in Tashkent. Control group included 29 pregnant women with physiological course of gestation and without pathology. Results: the concentration of fetal DNA in plasma of pregnant women with fetal malformations in the second trimester exceeds …

Treatment Of Podoconiosis With Complicating Polyinfections Within Rural African Villages: A Case Study, Amanda R. Beering, Abigail R. Florence, Soon Bahrami Md

Journal of Refugee & Global Health

This case study aims to provide a treatment plan for the treatment of podoconiosis with complicating polyinfections in a resource poor setting. A second objective is to help healthcare providers teach preventive measures to villagers in affected regions.

A Celebration Of Faculty Scholarship - 2019, Dean's Office, College Of The Holy Cross

Annual Bibliography of Faculty Publications

A listing of the scholarly and creative work produced by the faculty of the College of the Holy Cross. It includes articles, book chapters, productions, exhibitions, grants, reviews and other forms of scholarship reported for the 2018-2019 academic year.