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1. Plague take it! What's new in viral infectious diseases?

Author

Pifer, Linda L. Williford

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Avian influenza, Communicable diseases, Avian influenza viruses, Stem cells, Business, Health care industry, World Health Organization, Synagis (Medication)
Abstract

'Plague take it!' was an expression employed by 19th and early 20th century Christians to convey anger, disgust, or frustration in a manner that would circumvent profanity. (1) It simultaneously [...]

Published
2023

2. Highlighting the hematology in immunohematology

Author

Hicks, Wyenona and Pifer, Linda L. Williford

Subjects
Blood group antigens -- Research, Hematology -- Research, Blood diseases -- Risk factors -- Research -- Diagnosis, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

Immunohematology is a division of hematology related to antigen-antibody reactions and accompanying changes in our blood. Moreover, the study of immunohematology amalgamates all five of the major disciplines in medical [...]

Published
2018

3. HPV: A major etiologic agent of head and neck cancer

Author

Burnett, Keisha and Pifer, Linda L. Williford

Subjects
Papillomavirus infections, Cancer, Actors, Pharyngeal cancer, Head and neck cancer, Shock, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

When American actor and producer Michael Douglas publicly announced in 2010 that his 'throat' cancer was 'probably' the result of having engaged in oral sex, his family and fans reeled [...]

Published
2019

4. The shifting spectrum of emerging infectious diseases

Author

Ross, Linda L. and Pifer, Linda L. Williford

Subjects
World War I, 1914-1918, Antibiotics -- Usage, Communicable diseases -- Prevention, Vaccines -- Usage, Death, Typhoid fever, Poliomyelitis, Microbial drug resistance, Diphtheria, Influenza, Nobel laureates, Microorganisms, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

In 1962 Nobel laureate (Medicine/Virology) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet remarkably stated that, 'To write about infectious disease is to almost write of something that has passed into history.' (1) Fifty-seven [...]

Published
2019

5. Emerging viruses of North America: are labs ready?

Author

Pifer, Linda L. Williford and Hicks, Wyenona

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- International economic relations, Laboratories -- Health aspects, Ebola virus -- Health aspects, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

During the past 30 years, newly emergent viruses have swept out of Africa and the East with stunning regularity. HIV-1 has invaded every continent since its official recognition in the [...]

Published
2015

6. Post-analytical Error in Fatal Post-Cesarean Necrotizing Fasciitis and Sepsis: A Case Study

Author

Kathleen Kenwright, Linda L. Williford Pifer, and Thomas Wesley Williamson

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.diagnostic_test, Obstetrics, business.industry, Complete blood count, Nucleated Red Blood Cell, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Intensive care unit, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Hemolysis, law.invention, Sepsis, Obstetrics and gynaecology, law, medicine, Gestation, business, Fasciitis
Abstract

This is a case study of a 28 year old morbidly obese pregnant female with severe pre-eclampsia. She delivered at 32 weeks gestation by emergency cesarean section, and was discharged at three days post-surgery. The patient developed sepsis secondary to necrotizing fasciitis. She had been released from the hospital without her final complete blood count (CBC) having been reviewed by the attending physician, although it had been available for approximately 24 hours prior to her departure. The final CBC contained persuasive data suggesting that an adverse outcome could be highly probable. Discussion as to how this ultimately lethal post-analytic error might have been avoided, and perhaps prevented in the future is undertaken. ABBREVIATIONS:CBC - Complete Blood Count, C-section- Cesarean section, HELLP- Hemolysis Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelet count, NICU- Newborn Intensive Care Unit, NRBC nucleated red blood cells, Ob/Gyn - Obstetrician/Gynecologist,, TJC - The Joint Commission, WBC - White Blood Cells

Published
2016

7. A laboratory perspective on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in North America

Author

Pifer, Linda L. Williford and Hicks, Wyenona

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Communicable diseases -- Health aspects, Food contamination -- Health aspects, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

In the world of infectious diseases, recently there have been some new factors and some that are 'deja vu all over again,' as Yogi Berra might have put it. Weather, [...]

Published
2018

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