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J Manag Care Spec Pharm ; 30(8-a Suppl): S1-S10, 2024 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39088372

RESUMO

AMCP convened a panel of clinical and managed care experts to identify insights regarding the prevalence, clinical manifestations, and management approaches for immunoglobulin E-mediated food allergies. This article aims to summarize expert perspectives on health care system challenges and areas of agreement concerning the management of food allergies, and to advance payers' understanding of their role in supporting health care for patients with food allergies. Food allergy management requires dietary modification and is associated with significant patient and caregiver burdens. Emerging therapies provide hope for those living with food allergies but will likely lead to a rise in health plan pharmacy expenses. In considering the value of new treatments, it is important to consider the total cost of care and the value of preventing anaphylaxis and enhancing the patient's quality of life. Several challenges remain in identifying the appropriate patient population for treatment with newer agents and in optimizing treatment outcomes. Addressing health disparities will require standardized clinical protocols, better access to specialized allergy care, and management of comorbid conditions.


Assuntos
Hipersensibilidade Alimentar , Programas de Assistência Gerenciada , Humanos , Programas de Assistência Gerenciada/economia , Qualidade de Vida , Imunoglobulina E/imunologia
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Appl Opt ; 59(5): A213-A218, 2020 Feb 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32225386

RESUMO

There is increasing interest in the design of films with thicknesses on the order of 10 nm and less for a variety of applications, such as nanoparticles, plasmonics, quantum dots, solar reflectors, black mirrors, etc. The indices of refraction (n and k) for the effective media of such coatings depend on the materials with which such "layers" interface and the specific process parameters used to produce those films. The structures may typically be nucleating island structures and may also be continuous films. A key factor is that the n and k values vary in thickness until some thickness is obtained, usually >20nm. Heretofore, to the best of our knowledge, films have not taken into account thickness index variations during the design process. Software has now been developed where the index at a given thickness is computed at each iteration of the design optimization process. This allows more realistic design results utilizing the full representation of the behavior of the layers in question; the resulting coatings, when produced, are in better agreement with the designs. Including n and k versus wavelength and thickness in the design process is here referred to as double dispersion.

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J Occup Environ Med ; 57(3): 334-43, 2015 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25742539

RESUMO

In recent years, new products have entered the marketplace that complicate decisions about tobacco control policies and prevention in the workplace. These products, called electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) or electronic nicotine delivery systems, most often deliver nicotine as an aerosol for inhalation, without combustion of tobacco. This new mode of nicotine delivery raises several questions about the safety of the product for the user, the effects of secondhand exposure, how the public use of these products should be handled within tobacco-free and smoke-free air policies, and how their use affects tobacco cessation programs, wellness incentives, and other initiatives to prevent and control tobacco use. In this article, we provide a background on e-cigarettes and then outline key policy recommendations for employers on how the use of these new devices should be managed within worksite tobacco prevention programs and control policies.


Assuntos
Sistemas Eletrônicos de Liberação de Nicotina , Saúde Ocupacional , Política Organizacional , Política Antifumo , Adulto , Humanos , Estados Unidos , Local de Trabalho
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Antimicrob Resist Infect Control ; 1(1): 18, 2012 May 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22958346

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: In France, the proportion of MRSA has been over 25% since 2000. Prevention of hospital-acquired (HA) MRSA spread is based on isolation precautions and antibiotic stewardship. At our institution, before 2000, the Infection Disease and the Infection Control teams had failed to reduce HA-MRSA rates. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: We implemented a multifaceted hospital-wide prevention program and measured the effects on HA-MRSA colonization and bacteremia rates between 2000 and 2009. From 2000 to 2003, active screening and decontamination of ICU patients, hospital wide alcohol based hand rubs (ABHR) use, control of specific classes of antibiotics, compliance audits, and feed-backs to the care providers were successively implemented. The efficacy of the program was assessed by HA-MRSA colonized and bacteremic patient rates per 1000 patient-days in patients hospitalized for more than twenty-four hours. RESULTS: Compliance with the isolation practices increased between 2000 and 2009. Consumption of ABHR increased from 6.8 L to 27.5 L per 1000 patient-days. The use of antibiotic Defined Daily Doses (DDD) per 1000 patient-days decreased by 31%. HA-MRSA colonization decreased by 84% from 1.09 to 0.17 per 1000 patient-days and HA-MRSA bacteremia by 93%, from 0.15 to 0.01 per 1000 patient-days (p < 10-7 for each rate). CONCLUSIONS: In an area highly endemic for MRSA, a multifaceted prevention program allows for sustainable reduction in HA-MRSA bacteremia rates.

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Antimicrob Agents Chemother ; 51(7): 2514-22, 2007 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17470657

RESUMO

Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus is primarily mediated by the acquired penicillin-binding protein PBP 2a, which is encoded by mecA. PBP 2a acts together with native PBP 2 to mediate oxacillin resistance by contributing complementary transpeptidase and transglycosylase activities, respectively. In this study, we have investigated a phenotype of beta-lactam dependence in a clinical methicillin-resistant S. aureus strain (strain 2884D) obtained by in vitro selection with ceftobiprole. 28884D, which grew very poorly in blood agar, required the presence of the beta-lactam antibiotics to grow. On the basis of this observation, we hypothesized that a gene or genes essential for growth were dependent on oxacillin induction. Identification and analysis of genes regulated by oxacillin were performed by both real-time reverse transcription-PCR and spotted microarray analysis. We found that mecA was constitutively expressed in strain 2884D and that the constitutive expression resulted from perturbations in the two systems involved in its regulation, i.e., MecI/MecR1 (staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec type I) and BlaI/BlaR1 (nonfunctional penicillinase operon). PBP 2 appeared to be poorly induced by oxacillin in 2884D. Further analysis of the PBP 2 two-component VraSR regulatory system showed that it was nonfunctional, accounting for the lack of response to oxacillin. Together, these results support the notion that limited PBP 2 availability may have led 2884D to become dependent on oxacillin-mediated mecA induction as a required survival mechanism.


Assuntos
Antibacterianos/metabolismo , Resistência a Meticilina/genética , Fenótipo , Staphylococcus aureus/efeitos dos fármacos , beta-Lactamas/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Cefalosporinas/farmacologia , Cromossomos Bacterianos , DNA Bacteriano/análise , DNA Bacteriano/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA , Eletroforese em Gel de Campo Pulsado , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Seleção Genética , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos , Staphylococcus aureus/genética , Transcrição Gênica
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Intensive Care Med ; 30(3): 395-400, 2004 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14673521

RESUMO

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of a continuous quality-improvement program on nosocomial infection rates. DESIGN AND SETTING: Prospective single-center study in the medical-surgical ICU of a tertiary care center. PATIENTS. We admitted 1764 patients during the 5-year study period (1995-2000); 55% were mechanically ventilated and 21% died. Mean SAPS II was 37+/-21 points and mean length of ICU stay was 9.7+/-16.1 days. INTERVENTIONS: Implementation of an infection control program based on international recommendations. The program was updated regularly according to infection and colonization rates and reports in the literature. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Prospective surveillance showed the following rates per 1000 procedure days: ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) 8.7, urinary tract infection (UTI) 17.2, central venous catheter (CVC) colonization 6.1, and CVC-related bacteremia and 2.0; arterial catheter colonization did not occur. In the 5 years following implementation of the infection control program there was a significant decline in the rate per patient days of UTI, CVC colonization, and CVC-related bacteremia but not VAP. Between the first and second 2.5-year periods the time to infection increased significantly for UTI and CVC-related colonization. CONCLUSIONS: A continuous quality-improvement program based on surveillance of nosocomial infections in a nonselected medical-surgical ICU population was associated with sustained decreases in UTI and CVC-related infections.


Assuntos
Infecção Hospitalar/prevenção & controle , Controle de Infecções/normas , Unidades de Terapia Intensiva/normas , Gestão da Qualidade Total/métodos , Infecção Hospitalar/epidemiologia , Fidelidade a Diretrizes , Humanos , Incidência , Unidades de Terapia Intensiva/estatística & dados numéricos , Paris/epidemiologia , Vigilância da População , Modelos de Riscos Proporcionais , Estudos Prospectivos
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J Clin Microbiol ; 41(12): 5813-6, 2003 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14662990

RESUMO

We describe two cases of eumycetoma in the legs. The infections could not be adequately diagnosed by classical mycology, but the causative agents were successfully identified as Madurella mycetomatis by species-specific PCR and DNA sequencing.


Assuntos
Ascomicetos/genética , Ascomicetos/isolamento & purificação , Micoses/diagnóstico , Adulto , Antifúngicos/uso terapêutico , DNA Fúngico/genética , DNA Fúngico/isolamento & purificação , Feminino , Humanos , Itraconazol/uso terapêutico , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Micoses/patologia , Micoses/terapia , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/métodos
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Antimicrob Agents Chemother ; 47(9): 2922-8, 2003 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12936995

RESUMO

The two genetic groups (oxy-1 and oxy-2) previously identified in the Klebsiella oxytoca taxon are recognizable by four independent molecular markers: (i). ERIC-1R profiles, (ii). 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) signature sequences, (iii). singular nucleotides in a defined fragment of the rpoB gene, and (iv) the type of the strain's bla(OXY) gene (i.e., bla(OXY-1) or bla(OXY-2)). K. oxytoca strains SG266 and SG271 could not be classified into these genetic groups based on their ERIC-1R profile and bla(OXY) gene sequence. With regard to the gene identity percentages between the bla(OXY-1) and bla(OXY-2) gene groups (86.8% +/- 0.4%) and within a bla(OXY) gene group (>99%), it was concluded that the bla(OXY) gene of strain SG271 was representative of a new bla(OXY) gene group (bla(OXY-3)), since the mean identity percentages between it and the two bla(OXY) gene groups were 85.5% +/- 0.2% and 84.4% +/- 0.4%, respectively. Since the corresponding percentages were 95.0% +/- 0.4% and 86.2% +/- 0.3% for strain SG266, it was impossible to classify its bla(OXY) gene, which was therefore named bla(OXY-4). The 16S rDNA signature sequences of the two strains could be determined only after cloning experiments. The SG266 clones displayed the same signature sequence as that of the genetic group oxy-1, whereas the SG271 clones displayed three different 16S rDNA signature sequences that also differed from those of the two genetic groups. Singular nucleotides were found within the rpoB sequence of the two strains, allowing for their distinction from the two genetic groups. All of these results, combined with those previously obtained by the ERIC-1R PCR method, indicate that strain SG271 is representative of a new K. oxytoca genetic group (oxy-3), whereas strain SG266 could not be classified.


Assuntos
Klebsiella oxytoca/enzimologia , Klebsiella oxytoca/genética , beta-Lactamases/genética , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Sequência de Bases , DNA Ribossômico/biossíntese , DNA Ribossômico/genética , RNA Polimerases Dirigidas por DNA/genética , Focalização Isoelétrica , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Filogenia , Plasmídeos/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , beta-Lactamas
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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol ; 53(Pt 3): 661-668, 2003 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12807183

RESUMO

Whilst searching for a molecular method to identify the different species of Raoultella and Klebsiella oxytoca, it was observed that the OXY-1 and OXY-2 beta-lactamase-producing K. oxytoca isolates displayed two distinguishable enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-1R profiles. It was hypothesized that the two groups of chromosomal beta-lactamases might correspond to two groups of strains in the K. oxytoca taxon. To confirm this hypothesis, clinical isolates and reference strains of K. oxytoca were studied by determination of the sequence of their bla(OXY) genes, and of a partial fragment of their 16S rRNA (387 bp) and rpoB (512 bp) genes. The sequence data were phylogenetically analysed by using the parsimony method. Four clinical isolates possessed a bla(OXY-1) gene and nine possessed a bla(OXY-2) gene. The mean percentage of rpoB and 16S rRNA gene identity was > 99% within each group of strains, whereas it was 96.56 +/- 0.24% for rpoB genes and 97.80 +/- 0.22% for 16S rRNA genes between the group of strains harbouring the bla(OXY-1) gene and the group harbouring the bla(OXY-2) gene. The phylogenetic tree resulting from combined analysis of the 16S rRNA and rpoB datasets showed that the K. oxytoca isolates were monophyletic and separated into two clades; these clades included strains with either the bla(OXY-1) gene or the bla(OXY-2) gene. This result was supported with high bootstrap values of 97 and 99%, respectively. Moreover, the two groups of strains displayed distinct ERIC-1R profiles, with bands characteristic of each profile. Thus, the chromosomal bla(OXY) gene sequence is able to delineate not only two groups of beta-lactamases in K. oxytoca, but also two clades in the K. oxytoca taxon, in a manner similar to the sequence of housekeeping genes. These results suggest that K. oxytoca should be divided into two genetic groups, group OXY-1 represented by K. oxytoca strain SL781 (=CIP 104963) and group OXY-2 by K. oxytoca strain SL91l (= CIP 106098).


Assuntos
RNA Polimerases Dirigidas por DNA/genética , Klebsiella oxytoca/classificação , Klebsiella oxytoca/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/métodos , RNA Ribossômico 16S/genética , beta-Lactamases/genética , Técnicas de Tipagem Bacteriana , Cromossomos Bacterianos/genética , DNA Intergênico/análise , DNA Ribossômico/análise , Genes de RNAr , Humanos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Filogenia , Sequências Repetitivas de Ácido Nucleico , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Especificidade da Espécie
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J Clin Microbiol ; 41(4): 1740-2, 2003 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12682174

RESUMO

The enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus 1R PCR method, which provided recognizable profiles for reference strains of the three species of Raoultella and the two genetic groups of Klebsiella oxytoca, was applied to 19 clinical isolates identified as K. oxytoca. By this method, as confirmed by species-specific gene sequencing, two Raoultella ornithinolytica and two unclassifiable K. oxytoca isolates were identified.


Assuntos
DNA Intergênico/análise , Infecções por Enterobacteriaceae/microbiologia , Enterobacteriaceae/classificação , Klebsiella oxytoca/classificação , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/métodos , Sequências Repetitivas de Ácido Nucleico/genética , Técnicas de Tipagem Bacteriana , Enterobacteriaceae/genética , Enterobacteriaceae/isolamento & purificação , Humanos , Infecções por Klebsiella/microbiologia , Klebsiella oxytoca/genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Especificidade da Espécie
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