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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2023.03.029 | DOI Listing |
Jamba
June 2025
Amrita School for Sustainable Futures, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, India.
Unlabelled: Saudi citizens' perceptions of community stakeholders involved with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were assessed using the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) model. Responses of 329 employees and students of King Abdulaziz University were analysed for their perceptions and protective actions taken in response to the risk of contracted COVID-19. Respondents rated the effectiveness in protecting themselves from COVID-19 by implementing six protective actions: staying home, physical distancing, cleaning surfaces, washing hands, using hand sanitiser and wearing a mask.
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March 2025
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
is a quaternary ammonium compound-based hand sanitiser. Its efficacy against planktonic bacteria is well established, but efficacy against biofilms has not been tested. We investigated the antibiofilm efficacy of hand sanitiser and a modified formulation against biofilms of ATCC 6538 and ATCC 27853 grown using the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) biofilm reactor and 96-pin lids.
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April 2025
Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
It was early 2020, a week or two into Hilary Term, what everyone else calls Spring Term, but we at Oxford love our arcane traditions. I recall one of my graduate students, from China, coming to me ashen-faced at the end one of my lectures on the effects of bilingualism on the linguistic and cognitive development of young learners. "Please be careful," she said.
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January 2025
Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Background: Human milk banks (HMBs) offer the best feed for neonates after mother's own milk (MOM), especially when MOM is insufficient. Although HMBs are founded on standard protocols, contamination and wastage of milk due to positive milk cultures remain a problem. Present study was planned as a quality improvement (QI) initiative to reduce culture rates at the HMB.
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January 2024
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic has changed human lifestyle to follow COVID-19 Appropriate Behaviours (CAB) and that includes social distancing, and the use of masks and sanitiser for hand hygiene. With increased use of sanitiser; the incidence of burns due to sanitiser has been reportedly on the rise. The study analysed the reported burn incidences due to sanitiser, found the relation between sanitiser and the aetiology of burn and formulated guidelines for its safe use.
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