Laura López

Hepatitis A in Central Argentina: Anti-HAV prevalence in adults living in a region of low endemicity 17 years after the official introduction of the vaccine

Gonzalo Castro, Vanesa Mamani, Jorge Mariojoules Bringas, Pablo Chumacero et autres

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) has a low endemic circulation pattern in Argentina. Clinical cases mainly occurred in susceptible young adults, with recent outbreaks reported. The aim of this study was to provide updated information on the HAV immune status of the adult …

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Circulación del SARS-CoV-2 en embarazadas del centro de Argentina

Leticia D ́Augero, Gonzalo Castro, Paola Sicilia, Eugenio Cecchetto et autres

Introduction: SARS-CoV-2 can lead to a more severe infection during pregnancy. However, population-level data on COVID-19 disease and vaccine uptake in this population group are lacking, especially in South America. Objective: We aimed to describe SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women from a …

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Diagnostic challenges in pediatric Cushing’s disease associated with chronic renal failure: a report of three patients

Mariana Aziz, Isabel Di Palma, Laura López, Alicia Chaparro et autres

OBJECTIVES: Cushing's disease (CD) in the context of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is very rare. CKD causes physiological hypercortisolism making the diagnosis of CD extremely difficult. To report 3 females with CKD and CD and to outline the principles that may guide …

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Applying causal inference and Bayesian statistics to understanding vaccine safety signals using a simulation study

Evelyn Tay, Michael Dymock, Laura López, Catherine Glover et autres

Community perception of vaccine safety influences vaccine uptake. Our objective was to assess current vaccine safety monitoring by examining factors that may influence the availability of post-vaccination survey data, and thereby the specificity and sensitivity of existing signal detection methods. We used …

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Short-Term Active Safety Surveillance of the Spikevax and Nuvaxovid Priming Doses in Australia

Renee Reynolds, Evelyn Tay, Michael Dymock, Lucy Deng et autres

Australia commenced administration of the Spikevax (Moderna mRNA-1273) COVID-19 vaccine in August 2021 and Nuvaxovid (Novavax NVX-CoV2373) in January 2022. This study describes the short-term safety profile of priming doses of the Spikevax and Nuvaxovid vaccines given between September 2021 and September …

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Hepatitis A in central Argentina: anti-HAV prevalence in adults living in a region of low endemicity after 17 years of the official introduction of the vaccine.

Gonzalo Castro, Vanesa Mamani, Jorge Mariojoules Bringas, Pablo Chumacero et autres

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) has a low endemic circulation pattern in Argentina. Notifications of clinical cases occur especially in susceptible young adults in whom outbreaks have recently been reported. The aim of this study was to provide updated information on HAV immune …

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Surgical treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in children with chronic kidney disease. Experience in 19 patients

Mariana Aziz, Valeria De Dona, Laura López, Maria Florencia Soto et autres

Abstract Objectives Secondary hyperparathyroidism (sHPT) is an important contributor to bone disease and cardiovascular calcifications in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD). When conservative measures are ineffective, parathyroidectomy is indicated. The aim of our study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety …

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Bacteremia associated with non-tunneled central venous catheters in children undergoing chronic hemodialysis

Diana Di Pinto, Marta Adragna, Jorge Mamani, Laura Mendoza de Arbo et autres

Introduction. Central venous catheter (CVC)-related infection is the main complication observed in patients undergoing hemodialysis with this type of venous access. Objective. To estimate the incidence of non-tunneled CVC-related bacteremia, analyze the frequency of causative agents, and explore associated risk factors in …

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Applying causal inference and Bayesian statistics to understanding vaccine safety signals — a simulation study

Evelyn Tay, Michael Dymock, Laura López, Catherine Glover et autres

Abstract Community perception of the safety of vaccines in the interest of public health influences vaccine uptake. Challenges for active vaccine safety monitoring include survey response rates, unbiased reporting and the balance between specificity and sensitivity of signal detection methods. To address …

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Predicting Freshmen Engineering Students Success Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Based Emotional Intelligence (EI) Model

Robert McLauchlan, Ranjeet Agarwala, Laura López, Kenneth Nix et autres

Emotional skills are key to personal happiness, healthy relationships, and personally meaningful careers.This paper investigates sensitivity analysis of key Emotional Intelligence (EI) indicators used in an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for predicting freshmen students' success in Engineering.In this paper three different ANN …

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Corrigendum to “Lower risk of multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) with the Omicron variant” [The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 27 (2022) 100604]

Laura López, David Burgner, Catherine Glover, Jeremy Carr et autres

The authors regret the re-categorisation of 2 MIS-C cases such that the total reported case count is reduced in the pre-Delta period, and is increased in the Omicron period from one jurisdiction (NSW) only. In Table 1 of the paper, NSW reported …

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Hepatitis A virus monitoring in wastewater: A complementary tool to clinical surveillance

Anabella Fantilli, Guadalupe Di Cola, Gonzalo Castro, Paola Sicilia et autres

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