Insurance Status, Comorbidity Diagnosis, and Hepatitis C Diagnosis Among Antibody-Positive Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Autor: Sara H. Goodman, Matthew Zahn, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Cynthia M. Lakon

Publikováno v: Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, Vol 10 (2023)

Background In California, laboratories report all hepatitis C (HCV)-positive antibody tests to the state; however, that does not accurately reflect active infection among those patients without a viral load test confirming a patient's HCV diagnosis.

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/1ab5eb7c66a440cd957a2114712d3ef7

Multicenter evaluation of contamination of the healthcare environment near patients with Candida auris skin colonization

Autor: Sarah Sansom, Gabrielle M. Gussin, Raveena D Singh, Pamela B Bell, Ellen Benson Jinal, Makhija, Raheeb Froilan, Raheeb Saavedra, Robert Pedroza, Christine Thotapalli, Christine Fukuda, Ellen Gough, Stefania Marron, Maria Del Mar Villanueva Guzman, Julie A. Shimabukuro, Lydia Mikhail, Stephanie Black, Massimo Pacilli, Hira Adil, Cassiana E. Bittencourt, Matthew Zahn, Nicholas Moore, D. Joseph Sexton, Judith Noble-Wang, Meghan Lyman, Michael Lin, Susan Huang, Mary Hayden

Publikováno v: Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, Vol 2, Pp s78-s79 (2022)

Background: Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast that is transmitted in healthcare facilities and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Environmental contamination is suspected to play an important role in transmis

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/817bec00ea39480e8bf72943c5fd8f8c

Measuring Hazards of Undetectable Viral Load among Hepatitis C Antibody Positive Residents of a Large Southern California County

Autor: Sara Goodman, Matthew Zahn, Tim Bruckner, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Cynthia M. Lakon

Publikováno v: Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, Vol 8 (2021)

Abstract Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common bloodborne infection in the U.S. However, only a small proportion of persons are treated and cured. Previous research has not characterized sociodemographic characteristics of w

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Enhanced contact investigations for nine early travel-related cases of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States.

Autor: Rachel M Burke, Sharon Balter, Emily Barnes, Vaughn Barry, Karri Bartlett, Karlyn D Beer, Isaac Benowitz, Holly M Biggs, Hollianne Bruce, Jonathan Bryant-Genevier, Jordan Cates, Kevin Chatham-Stephens, Nora Chea, Howard Chiou, Demian Christiansen, Victoria T Chu, Shauna Clark, Sara H Cody, Max Cohen, Erin E Conners, Vishal Dasari, Patrick Dawson, Traci DeSalvo, Matthew Donahue, Alissa Dratch, Lindsey Duca, Jeffrey Duchin, Jonathan W Dyal, Leora R Feldstein, Marty Fenstersheib, Marc Fischer, Rebecca Fisher, Chelsea Foo, Brandi Freeman-Ponder, Alicia M Fry, Jessica Gant, Romesh Gautom, Isaac Ghinai, Prabhu Gounder, Cheri T Grigg, Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, Aron J Hall, George S Han, Thomas Haupt, Michelle Holshue, Jennifer Hunter, Mireille B Ibrahim, Max W Jacobs, M Claire Jarashow, Kiran Joshi, Talar Kamali, Vance Kawakami, Moon Kim, Hannah L Kirking, Amanda Kita-Yarbro, Rachel Klos, Miwako Kobayashi, Anna Kocharian, Misty Lang, Jennifer Layden, Eva Leidman, Scott Lindquist, Stephen Lindstrom, Ruth Link-Gelles, Mariel Marlow, Claire P Mattison, Nancy McClung, Tristan D McPherson, Lynn Mello, Claire M Midgley, Shannon Novosad, Megan T Patel, Kristen Pettrone, Satish K Pillai, Ian W Pray, Heather E Reese, Heather Rhodes, Susan Robinson, Melissa Rolfes, Janell Routh, Rachel Rubin, Sarah L Rudman, Denny Russell, Sarah Scott, Varun Shetty, Sarah E Smith-Jeffcoat, Elizabeth A Soda, Christopher Spitters, Bryan Stierman, Rebecca Sunenshine, Dawn Terashita, Elizabeth Traub, Grace M Vahey, Jennifer R Verani, Megan Wallace, Matthew Westercamp, Jonathan Wortham, Amy Xie, Anna Yousaf, Matthew Zahn

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 9, p e0238342 (2020)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first identified in Wuhan, China and has since become pandemic. In response to the first cases identified in the

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/2703c8011f4143ec83d0dd77d95f6626

Rapid Assessment and Containment of Candida auris Transmission in Postacute Care Settings—Orange County, California, 2019

Autor: Sam Horwich-Scholefield, Lydia Mikhail, Elizabeth L. Berkow, Christopher Prestel, Ellora Karmarkar, Maroya Spalding Walters, Kara Jacobs-Slifka, Douglas K Schan, Sopheay Hun, Nimalie D. Stone, Nicole Gualandi, Jennifer L. Dale, Darby S McDermott, Snigdha Vallabhaneni, Matthew Zahn, Tyler Maruca, Sudha Chaturvedi, Teresa Nelson, Nancy A. Chow, Mitsuru Toda, Janet Glowicz, Hosniyeh Bagheri, Zenith Khwaja, Kathleen O’Donnell, Paula Snippes Vagnone, John Rossow, Annastasia Gross, Josh Jacobs, Ryan Ruiz, Emily Schneider, Liore Klein, Kaitlin Forsberg, Michele Cheung, Seema Jain, Brendan R Jackson, Lalitha Gade, Richard Brooks, Erin Epson

Publikováno v: Annals of Internal Medicine. 174:1554-1562

BACKGROUND Candida auris, a multidrug-resistant yeast, can spread rapidly in ventilator-capable skilled-nursing facilities (vSNFs) and long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs). In 2018, a laboratory serving LTACHs in southern California began identify

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https://doi.org/10.7326/m21-2013