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Rapid virtual training and field deployment for COVID-19 surveillance officers: experiences from Ethiopia.
Wang SH , Yimer G , Bisesi M , Lisawork L , Sugerman D , Alayu M , Wossen M , Abayneh SA , Endashaw T , Kubinson H , Kanter T , Gallagher K , Gebreyes W . Pan Afr Med J 2022 43 23 Rapid scale-up of surveillance activities is the key to successful coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic prevention and mitigation. Ethiopia did not have a sufficient number of active surveillance officers for the public health COVID-19 response. Training of surveillance officers was needed urgently to fill the gap in the workforce needed. Subject-matter experts from the United States and Ethiopia developed applicable training modules including background on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), contact investigation, and communications. The training modules were delivered live in real-time via web-based virtual presentation. Seventy-seven health surveillance officers were hired, trained, and deployed in two weeks to assist with surveillance activities in Ethiopia. Electronic capacity building is needed in order to improve Web-based training in resource-limited settings where internet access is limited or unreliable. Web-based synchronously delivered course was an effective platform for COVID-19 surveillance training. However, strengthening public and private information technology capacity, literacy, and internet availability will improve Web-based education platforms in resource-limited countries. Copyright © 2022, African Field Epidemiology Network. All rights reserved. |
Candida auris colonization after discharge to a community setting: New York City, 2017-2019
Bergeron G , Bloch D , Murray K , Kratz M , Parton H , Ackelsberg J , Antwi M , Del Rosso P , Dorsinville M , Kubinson H , Lash M , Rand S , Adams E , Zhu Y , Erazo R , Chaturvedi S , Weiss D . Open Forum Infect Dis 2021 8 (1) ofaa620 BACKGROUND: Patients colonized with multidrug-resistant Candida auris and discharged to a community setting can subsequently seek care in a different healthcare facility and might be a source of nosocomial transmission of C auris. METHODS: We designed a case management pilot program for a cohort of New York City residents who had a history of positive C auris culture identified during clinical or screening activities in healthcare settings and discharged to a community setting during 2017-2019. Approximately every 3 months, case managers coordinated C auris colonization assessments, which included swabs of groin, axilla, and body sites yielding C auris previously. Patients eligible to become serially negative were those with ≥2 C auris colonization assessments after initial C auris identification. Clinical characteristics of serially negative and positive patients were compared. RESULTS: The cohort included 75 patients. Overall, 45 patients were eligible to become serially negative and had 552 person-months of follow-up. Of these 45 patients, 28 patients were serially negative (62%; rate 5.1/100 person-months), 8 were serially positive, and 9 could not be classified as either. There were no clinical characteristics that were significantly different between serially negative and positive patients. The median time from initial C auris identification to being serially negative at assessments was 8.6 months (interquartile range, 5.7-10.8 months). CONCLUSIONS: A majority of patients, assessed at least twice after C auris identification, no longer had C auris detectable on serial colonization assessments. |
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