Bijie Hu

TL;DR: The clearance time and factors influencing 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) RNA in different samples from patients with COVID-19 were analyzed, providing further evidence to improve the management of patients during convalescence and showed that the CD4+ T lymphocyte count may help predict the duration of viral RNA detection in patients’ stools.

TL;DR: D-dimer levels correlate with disease severity and are a reliable prognostic marker for in-hospital mortality in patients admitted for COVID-19.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the sensitivity and specificity of mNGS and culture for diagnosing infectious disease and found that mNGs yielded a higher sensitivity for pathogen identification and is less affected by prior antibiotic exposure.

TL;DR: The results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2007-December 2012 in 503 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe were reported in this paper.

TL;DR: Although DA-HAIs in INICC ICU patients continue to be higher than the rates reported in CDC-NSHN ICUs representing the developed world, a significant trend toward the reduction ofDA-HAI rates is observed as shown in each international report.