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Association between phenotypic characteristics of Escherichia coli and UTI recurrence in immunocompromised patients: A case-control study by Reyes-Gualito, Arturo, Macías, Alejandro E, Reyes-Escogido, Lourdes, Mendoza-Macías, Claudia L, Álvarez-Canales, José A

“…Urinary tract infection (UTI) recurrence is important in immunocompromised patients. There is a trend to study genotypically and phenotypically the role of…”
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Quality of life and persistence of COVID-19 symptoms 90 days after hospital discharge by Muñoz-Corona, Carolina, Gutiérrez-Canales, Lizeth Guadalupe, Ortiz-Ledesma, Claudia, Martínez-Navarro, Liz Jovanna, Macías, Alejandro E., Scavo-Montes, David Alejandro, Guaní-Guerra, Eduardo

“…Objective We aimed to describe the persistence of symptoms in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and quality of life (QoL) among patients 90 days after their…”
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Quality of Life and Persistence of Symptoms in Outpatients after Recovery from COVID-19 by Gutiérrez-Canales, Lizeth Guadalupe, Muñoz-Corona, Carolina, Barrera-Chávez, Isaac, Viloria-Álvarez, Carlos, Macías, Alejandro E, Guaní-Guerra, Eduardo

“…Background and Objectives: Patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 can have persistent symptoms after acute illness, which affects their quality of life (QoL)…”
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Fluoroscopy-Guided Percutaneous Transpedicular Biopsy Versus Posterolateral Endoscopy for Infective Spondylodiskitis Diagnosis: A Comparative Study by Mireles-Cano, Nicolás, Álvarez-Canales, José A., Huitrón-García, Mary Jose, Quezada, Marianne, Macías, Alejandro E., Mosqueda-Gómez, Juan L.

“…We sought to determine the concordance in frequency of microbiologic isolation and species identification in specimens obtained by 2 methods. Intervertebral…”
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Persistence of COVID-19 Symptoms and Quality of Life at Three and Twelve Months after Hospital Discharge by Gutiérrez-Canales, Lizeth Guadalupe, Muñoz-Corona, Carolina, Barrera-Chávez, Isaac, Viloria-Álvarez, Carlos, Macías, Alejandro E, Martínez-Navarro, Liz Jovanna, Alvarez, Jose A, Scavo-Montes, David Alejandro, Guaní-Guerra, Eduardo

“…Medical and public recognition of "long-COVID or post-COVID syndrome", as well as its impact on the quality of life (QoL), is required to better address the…”
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REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE OF DENGUE BURDEN ON HOSPITALS IN MEXICO: INSIGHTS FROM THE AUTOMATED SUBSYSTEM OF HOSPITAL DISCHARGES (SAEH) DATABASE by Macías, Alejandro E, Puentes-Rosas, Esteban, Velandia, David, Morley, David, Coudeville, Laurent, Baurin, Nicolas

“…The incidence of dengue in Mexico has increased in recent decades. It has been suggested that dengue outbreaks may compromise treatment quality in hospitals…”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of the RDW for Predicting Death in COVID-19 by Guaní-Guerra, Eduardo, Torres-Murillo, Brenda, Muñoz-Corona, Carolina, Rodríguez-Jiménez, José Carlos, Macías, Alejandro E, Scavo-Montes, David A, Alvarez, Jose A

“…Background and Objectives: An association between high red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and mortality has been found in several diseases, including…”
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Isopropyl alcohol is as efficient as chlorhexidine to prevent contamination of blood cultures by Martínez, Jovanna, MD, Macías, Juan H., MD, Arreguín, Virginia, MD, Álvarez, Jose A., MD, Macías, Alejandro E., MD, Mosqueda-Gómez, Juan L., MD

“…Background False-positive blood cultures can lead to unnecessary risks and misuse of antibiotics; to reduce rates of false-positives, it would be useful to…”
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Decontamination of stethoscope membranes with chlorhexidine: Should it be recommended? by Álvarez, José A., MD, Ruíz, Susana R., MsCR, Mosqueda, Juan L., MD, León, Ximena, MD, Arreguín, Virginia, MD, Macías, Alejandro E., MD, Macias, Juan H., MD

“…Objective To determine differences in the recontamination of stethoscope membranes after cleaning with chlorhexidine, triclosan, or alcohol. Methods…”
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Interim safety and immunogenicity results from an NDV-based COVID-19 vaccine phase I trial in Mexico by Ponce-de-León, Samuel, Torres, Martha, Soto-Ramírez, Luis Enrique, Calva, Juan José, Santillán-Doherty, Patricio, Carranza-Salazar, Dora Eugenia, Carreño, Juan Manuel, Carranza, Claudia, Juárez, Esmeralda, Carreto-Binaghi, Laura E., Ramírez-Martínez, Luis, Paz De la Rosa, Georgina, Vigueras-Moreno, Rosalía, Ortiz-Stern, Alejandro, López-Vidal, Yolanda, Macías, Alejandro E., Torres-Flores, Jesús, Rojas-Martínez, Oscar, Suárez-Martínez, Alejandro, Peralta-Sánchez, Gustavo, Kawabata, Hisaaki, González-Domínguez, Irene, Martínez-Guevara, José Luis, Sun, Weina, Sarfati-Mizrahi, David, Soto-Priante, Ernesto, Chagoya-Cortés, Héctor Elías, López-Macías, Constantino, Castro-Peralta, Felipa, Palese, Peter, García-Sastre, Adolfo, Krammer, Florian, Lozano-Dubernard, Bernardo

“…There is still a need for safe, efficient, and low-cost coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines that can stop transmission of severe acute respiratory…”
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Antimicrobial activity of copper against organisms in aqueous solution: A case for copper-based water pipelines in hospitals? by Cervantes, Hilda I., MD, Álvarez, Jose A., MD, Muñoz, Juan M., MD, Arreguín, Virginia, MD, Mosqueda, Juan L., MD, Macías, Alejandro E., MD

“…Background An association exists between water of poor quality and health care-associated infections. Copper shows microbiocidal action on dry surfaces; it is…”
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Impact of infections and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae on graft and patient survival in a kidney transplantation program in Mexico by Pérez-Granados, Emmanuel E, Díaz-Chávez, Ernesto, Álvarez, José A, Macías, Alejandro E, Arreguín, Virginia, Gutiérrez-Canales, Lizeth G, Gutiérrez-Aguirre, Karen I, Mosiño-Salas, Valeria E, Méndez-Gómez-Humaran, Ignacio, Guaní-Guerra, Eduardo

“…Immunosuppressive treatments have improved graft and patient survival rates, but can increase the incidence of post-transplant infections. To analyze data from…”
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Hospital admissions with influenza and impact of age and comorbidities on severe clinical outcomes in Brazil and Mexico by El Guerche-Séblain, Clotilde, Etcheto, Adrien, Parmentier, Frédéric, Afshar, Mohammad, E. Macias, Alejandro, Puentes, Esteban, Gresset-Bourgeois, Viviane, Akcay, Meral, Petitjean, Audrey, Coudeville, Laurent

“…Background The risk of hospitalization or death after influenza infection is higher at the extremes of age and in individuals with comorbidities. We estimated…”
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Report of a Multimodal Strategy for Improvement of Hand Hygiene Compliance in a Latin American Hospital. How Far From Excellence? by González-González, Ricardo, Huertas-Jiménez, Martha Asunción, Ochoa-Hein, Eric, Galindo-Fraga, Arturo, Macías-Hernández, Alejandro E., De la Torre-Rosas, Alethse

“…OBJECTIVEThe aim of the study was to report the results of a multimodal strategy for improvement of hand hygiene (HH) compliance in a third-level hospital in…”
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Detection of Severe Respiratory Disease Epidemic Outbreaks by CUSUM-Based Overcrowd-Severe-Respiratory-Disease-Index Model by Macías, Alejandro E., Polanco, Carlos, Villanueva-Martínez, Sebastián, Buhse, Thomas, Samaniego, José Lino, Castañón-González, Jorge Alberto

“…A severe respiratory disease epidemic outbreak correlates with a high demand of specific supplies and specialized personnel to hold it back in a wide region or…”
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Weight gain and metabolic complications in preterm infants with nutritional support by Monroy-Torres, Rebeca, Macías, Alejandro E, Ponce-de-León, Samuel, Barbosa-Sabanero, Gloria

“…To analyze the weight gain and to describe the metabolic complications in preterm newborns with nutritional support (NS) and to describe nutritional practices…”
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Asymptomatic bacteriuria in preadolescent girls by Macías, Alejandro E, Trujillo, Gloria P, Dubey, Luis A, Ramírez, Omar A, Arreguín, Virginia, Muñoz, Juan M, Macías, Juan H, Mosqueda, Juan L

“…The detection of asymptomatic bacteriuria in preadolescent girls may be important due to its effects on subsequent pregnancies. To describe the prevalence of…”
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Comorbidities increase in-hospital mortality in dengue patients in Brazil by Werneck, Guilherme L, Macias, Alejandro E, Mascarenas, Cesar, Coudeville, Laurent, Morley, David, Recamier, Vincent, Guergova-Kuras, Mariana, Puentes-Rosas, Esteban, Baurin, Nicolas, Toh, Myew-Ling

“…Dengue remains an unmet public health burden. We determined risk factors for dengue in-hospital mortality in Brazil. Of 326,380 hospitalised dengue cases in…”
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Oral colonization by gram-negative bacilli in patients with hematologic malignancies and solid tumors compared with healthy controls by Santibañez-Bedolla, Karla E, Orozco-Uriarte, Maria J, Alvarez-Canales, Jose A, Macias, Alejandro E, Amador-Medina, Lauro F

“…Colonization of the oropharynx with gram-negative bacilli (GNB) is considered a negative prognostic factor in immunocompromised individuals. Hemato-oncologic…”
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Stethoscopes as potential intrahospital carriers of pathogenic microorganisms by Campos-Murguía, Alejandro, MD, León-Lara, Ximena, MD, Muñoz, Juan M., MD, Macías, Alejandro E., MD, Álvarez, José A., MD

“…Stethoscopes can take part in the transmission of health care-associated infections. We cultured 112 stethoscopes by direct imprint on blood agar to estimate…”
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