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P-427. Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections: 2023 Point Prevalence Survey in 218 U.S. Acute Care Hospitals Open

Nora Chea, Taniece Eure, Rebecca Alkis Ramirez, Joelle Nadle, Jane E. Lee , et al. · 2025

Background The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted point prevalence surveys in U.S. acute care hospitals in 2011 and 2015 to determine the prevalence and distribution of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and co…

Characteristics of healthcare personnel with SARS-CoV-2 infection: 10 emerging infections program sites in the United States, April 2020–December 2021 Open

Nora Chea, Taniece Eure, Rebecca Alkis Ramirez, María Zlotorzynska, Gregory Blazek , et al. · 2024

Background: Understanding characteristics of healthcare personnel (HCP) with SARS-CoV-2 infection supports the development and prioritization of interventions to protect this important workforce. We report detailed characteristics of HCP w…

ICE volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Front matter Open

Deborah S. Yokoe, Patricia Jackson, David C. Classen, Chanu Rhee, Raymund Dantes , et al. · 2024

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Effectiveness of a bivalent mRNA vaccine dose against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection among U.S. Healthcare personnel, September 2022–May 2023 Open

Ian D. Plumb, Melissa Briggs Hagen, Ryan E. Wiegand, Ghinwa Dumyati, Christopher G. Myers , et al. · 2023

Effectiveness of a Messenger RNA Vaccine Booster Dose Against Coronavirus Disease 2019 Among US Healthcare Personnel, October 2021–July 2022 Open

Ian D. Plumb, Nicholas M. Mohr, Melissa Hagen, Ryan E. Wiegand, Ghinwa Dumyati , et al. · 2023

Background Protection against symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) can limit transmission and the risk of post-COVID conditions, and is particularly import…

Residential social vulnerability among healthcare personnel with and without severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Five US states, May–December 2020 Open

María Zlotorzynska, Nora Chea, Taniece Eure, Rebecca Alkis Ramirez, Gregory Blazek , et al. · 2023

Objective: To characterize residential social vulnerability among healthcare personnel (HCP) and evaluate its association with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Design: Case–control study. Setting: This s…

Characteristics of healthcare personnel who reported concerns related to PPE use during care of COVID-19 patients Open

Nora Chea, Stephanie Tavitian, Cedric C. Brown, Taniece Eure, Rebecca Alkis , et al. · 2022

Background: Healthcare facilities have experienced many challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, including limited personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies. Healthcare personnel (HCP) rely on PPE, vaccines, and other infection control …

Occupational risk factors for severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among healthcare personnel: A 6-month prospective analysis of the COVID-19 Prevention in Emory Healthcare Personnel (COPE) Study Open

Jessica Howard‐Anderson, Carly Adams, William Dube, Teresa Smith, Amy C Sherman , et al. · 2022

Objectives: To determine the incidence of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among healthcare personnel (HCP) and to assess occupational risks for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Design: Prospective cohort of healthc…

Risk Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Healthcare Personnel, May–December 2020 Open

Nora Chea, Cedric Brown, Taniece Eure, Rebecca Alkis Ramirez, Gregory Blazek , et al. · 2021

To determine risk factors for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) among US healthcare personnel (HCP), we conducted a case-control analysis. We collected data about activities outside the workplace and COVID-19 patient care activities from HCP …

Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in Thailand, 2016–2018 Open

Wantana Paveenkittiporn, Meghan Lyman, Caitlin Biedron, Nora Chea, Charatdao Bunthi , et al. · 2021

Practices and activities among healthcare personnel with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection working in different healthcare settings—ten Emerging Infections Program sites, April–November 2020 Open

Nora Chea, Taniece Eure, Austin Penna, Cedric Brown, Joelle Nadle , et al. · 2021

Healthcare personnel with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection were interviewed to describe activities and practices in and outside the workplace. Among 2,625 healthcare personnel, workplace-related factors t…

Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Among Health Care Personnel — 33 U.S. Sites, January–March 2021 Open

Tamara Pilishvili, Katherine E. Fleming-Dutra, Jennifer L. Farrar, Ryan Gierke, Nicholas M. Mohr , et al. · 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, health care personnel (HCP) have been at high risk for exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, through patient interactions and community exposure (1). The Advisory Committee on Immunizatio…

Assessment of the Appropriateness of Antimicrobial Use in US Hospitals Open

Shelley S. Magill, Erin O’Leary, Susan M. Ray, Marion Kainer, Christopher Evans , et al. · 2021

Importance Hospital antimicrobial consumption data are widely available; however, large-scale assessments of the quality of antimicrobial use in US hospitals are limited. Objective To evaluate the appropriateness of antimicrobial use for h…

Rates and causative pathogens of surgical site infections attributed to liver transplant procedures and other hepatic, biliary, or pancreatic procedures, 2015‐2018 Open

Nora Chea, Mathew R. P. Sapiano, Liang Zhou, Lauren Epstein, Alice Guh , et al. · 2021

Liver transplant recipients are at high risk for surgical site infections (SSIs). Limited data are available on SSI epidemiology following liver transplant procedures (LTPs). We analyzed data on SSIs from 2015 to 2018 reported to CDC's Nat…

Occupational risk factors for severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among healthcare personnel: A cross-sectional analysis of subjects enrolled in the COVID-19 Prevention in Emory Healthcare Personnel (COPE) study Open

Jessica Howard‐Anderson, Carly Adams, Amy C Sherman, William Dube, Teresa Smith , et al. · 2021

Among 353 healthcare personnel in a longitudinal cohort in 4 hospitals in Atlanta, Georgia (May–June 2020), 23 (6.5%) had severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies. Spending >50% of a typical shift at the bedside…

COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations Among Health Care Personnel — COVID-NET, 13 States, March 1–May 31, 2020 Open

Anita Kambhampati, Alissa O’Halloran, Michael Whitaker, Shelley S. Magill, Nora Chea , et al. · 2020

Health care personnel (HCP) can be exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), both within and outside the workplace, increasing their risk for infection. Among 6,760 adults hospitalized during March 1…

Incidence of Mucosal Barrier Injury Bloodstream Infections Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network Open

Prachi Patel, Margaret A. Dudeck, Shelley S. Magill, Nora Chea, Nicola D. Thompson , et al. · 2020

Background: The NHSN collects data on mucosal barrier injury, laboratory-confirmed, bloodstream infections (MBI-LCBIs) as part of bloodstream infection (BSI) surveillance. Specialty care areas (SCAs), which include oncology patient care lo…

909. Reassessing Pathogens Eligible for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) “Mucosal Barrier Injury-Laboratory Confirmed Bloodstream Infection” Criteria Open

Nora Chea, Shelley S. Magill, Andrea L. Benin, Katherine Allen‐Bridson, Margaret A. Dudeck , et al. · 2020

Background NHSN Mucosal Barrier Injury-Laboratory Confirmed Bloodstream Infection (MBI-LCBI) includes pathogens likely to cause bloodstream infections (BSI) in some oncology patients. MBI-LCBIs are excluded from central line-associated BSI…

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

Rachel M. Burke, Sharon Balter, Emily Barnes, Vaughn Barry, Karri Bartlett , et al. · 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 identif…

Enhanced Contact Investigations for Nine Early Travel-Related Cases of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States Open

Rachel M. Burke, Sharon Balter, Emily Barnes, Vaughn Barry, Karri Bartlett , et al. · 2020

Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the respiratory disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first identified in Wuhan, China and has since become pandemic. As part of initial resp…

First 12 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States Open

Stephanie Kujawski, Karen K. Wong, Jennifer P. Collins, Lauren Epstein, Marie E. Killerby , et al. · 2020

Introduction More than 93,000 cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been reported worldwide. We describe the epidemiology, clinical course, and virologic characteristics of the first 12 U.S. patients with COVID-19. Methods We collec…

Initial Public Health Response and Interim Clinical Guidance for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak — United States, December 31, 2019–February 4, 2020 Open

Anita Patel, Daniel B. Jernigan, Fatuma Abdirizak, Glen R. Abedi, Sharad Aggarwal , et al. · 2020

On December 31, 2019, Chinese health officials reported a cluster of cases of acute respiratory illness in persons associated with the Hunan seafood and animal market in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, in central China. On January 7, 20…

1179. Rates and Causative Pathogens of Device-Associated Bloodstream and Urinary Tract Infections Attributed to Solid-Organ Transplant Units, 2015–2017 Open

Nora Chea, Liang Zhou, Shelley S. Magill, Alice Guh, Jonathan R. Edwards , et al. · 2019

Background Due to complex invasive medical procedures and compromised immunity, solid-organ transplant (SOT) patients are at high risk for infections. However, whether SOT patients are at higher risk than other hospitalized patients for se…

1009. Measuring the quality of fluoroquinolone prescribing in hospitals: results from the Emerging Infections Program Hospital Prevalence Survey Antimicrobial Quality Assessment Open

Shelley S. Magill, Erin O’Leary, Joelle Nadle, Helen Johnston, Sarah J. Janelle , et al. · 2019

Background Improving antimicrobial use is a key component of controlling antimicrobial resistance. Multiple factors influence inpatient provider antimicrobial prescribing decisions, making it challenging to develop standard methods to eval…

Infection prevention and control training and capacity building during the Ebola epidemic in Guinea Open

Heidi M. Soeters, Lamine Koivogui, Lindsey de Beer, Candice Y. Johnson, Dianka Diaby , et al. · 2018

IPC training resulted in clear improvements in knowledge and was feasible in a public health emergency setting. This method of IPC training addressed a high demand among HCW. Valuable lessons were learned to facilitate expansion of IPC tra…

Infection Prevention and Control for Ebola in Health Care Settings — West Africa and United States Open

Jeffrey Hageman, Carmen Hazim, Katie Wilson, Paul Malpiedi, Neil Gupta , et al. · 2016

The 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease (Ebola) epidemic in West Africa underscores the need for health care infection prevention and control (IPC) practices to be implemented properly and consistently to interrupt transmission of pathogens in h…

Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis DNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Eosinophilic Meningitis Open

Yvonne Qvarnström, Maniphet Xayavong, Ana Cristina Arámburu da Silva, Sarah Y. Park, A. Christian Whelen , et al. · 2015

Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the most common infectious cause of eosinophilic meningitis. Timely diagnosis of these infections is difficult, partly because reliable laboratory diagnostic methods are unavailable. The aim of this study was…

Improved Phenotype-Based Definition for Identifying Carbapenemase Producers among Carbapenem-Resistant<i>Enterobacteriaceae</i> Open

Nora Chea, Sandra N. Bulens, Thiphasone Kongphet-Tran, Ruth Lynfield, Kristin M. Shaw , et al. · 2015

Preventing transmission of carbapenemase-producing, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CP-CRE) is a public health priority. A phenotype-based definition that reliably identifies CP-CRE while minimizing misclassification of non–CP-CRE…

Lack of Transmission among Close Contacts of Patient with Case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Imported into the United States, 2014 Open

Lucy Breakwell, Kimberly Pringle, Nora Chea, Donna Allen, Steve Allen , et al. · 2015

In May 2014, a traveler from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was the first person identified with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in the United States. To evaluate transmission risk, we determined the type, du…

Lack of Transmission among Close Contacts of Patient with Imported Case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome into the United States, 2014 Open

Lucy Breakwell, Kimberly Pringle, Nora Chea, Donna Allen, Steve Allen , et al. · 2015

In May 2014, a traveler from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was the first person identified with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in the United States. To evaluate transmission risk, we determined the type, du…

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