American Journal of Infection Control
January 2016 Volume 44, Issue 1, p1-124, e1-e7
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APIC survey finds U.S. healthcare facilities are more prepared to confront Ebola compared to last year: Staffing and infection control resources remain issues
Published in issue: January 01 2016
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Nine in 10 hospital-based APIC members believe their facilities are better prepared today than a year ago to receive a patient with a highly lethal infectious disease like Ebola, but more than half (55 percent) say their facilities have not provided additional resources to support their infection prevention and control (IPC) programs as a result of the Ebola crisis, according to a recent APIC survey.

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Immunity of nursing students to measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella in Yozgat, Turkey
Çiğdem Kader, Ayse Erbay, Nazan Kılıç Akça, Muhammet Fevzi Polat, Sevinç Polat
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Published online: October 3 2015
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Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) are vaccine-preventable diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the vaccination status of first-year nursing students in Turkey. The sample used was 180 students and immunoglobulin G antibodies against MMRV viruses were determined quantitatively by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Immunity rates to MMRV were 82.8%, 83.3%, 98.3%, and 100%, respectively. The results of this study showed that all of the students were immune to varicella and 32.8% of the students were not immune to at least 1 of the viruses covered by the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.