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Children's Convalescent Home, 1845-1970
… type of health care institution, the children's convalescent home, began to provide care to sick children. Institutional convalescence quickly became an established part of medical orthodoxy, particularly for urban working-class children. Convalescent homes combined simple medical care with the …
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Implementing Augmentative Communication for Aphasic Patients in Convalescent Facilities
<p>A one-hour Blissymbol in-service training program was developed for presentation to staff members of a skilled nursing facility. The purpose was to determine whether the program would produce significant learning to justify its use in similar facilities to bridge the communication gap between …
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A Study of the Effects of Convalescent Home Care on Thirty-Nive Boys
<p>Individual convalescent care in the modern meaning of the word is now in this country. It made is appearance in the beginning of the twentieth century with the establishment of the Winifred Masterson Burke Foundation in 1902. Following the development of convalescent work in America we find …
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The lived experiences of wives of first time myocardial infarction survivors during the convalescent period
… survivors play a crucial role during the convalescent period. A knowledge deficit exists however, regarding the significance of their experiences during this time. The aim of this study therefore, was to investigate and illuminate the lived experiences of wives of first time myocardial …
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Cross-protection from St. Louis encephalitis virus and Usutu virus disease by human West Nile virus convalescent plasma in mice
… by SLEV or USUV. Initially, WNV-specific human convalescent plasma and mouse WNV convalescent serum (as a positive control) neutralized WNV and cross-neutralized USUV and SLEV in vitro in a neutralization test. Subsequently, immunocompetent mice were intraperitoneally injected with human WNV …
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The fundamental structure of posthospital surgical convalescence
… home is arranged to facilitate the work of the convalescent. Much of the work of convalescence takes place in the home. The home is found to be confining when the convalescent is both physically and emotionally ready to leave it. Both physical help and feeling cared about are needed over time. …
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Triumph of the Spirit: Creative Art Therapy and How It Impacts on the Quality of Life of Handicapped Elderly Patients in a Convalescent Home Setting
<p>There is a need for handicapped elders, living in Long term care settings, to enjoy mental stimulation and emotional challenge. Creative Art Therapy, which uses painting or drawing, ceramics, narrative or poetry and encourages exploration of thoughts feelings and life review can provide such a …
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Development, Characterization, and Use of Molecular Tools to Study Immune-Driven Zika Virus Evolution
… evolution system, where we passaged ZIKV in convalescent patient serum to assess the role of cross-reactive immune selection as an evolutionary driver. After passaging, we performed next-generation sequencing to assess the impacts of cross-reactive immune selection on the viral populations …
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Investigation of a Model for the Study of Digital Perfusion in Equine Laminitis Using an Extract of Black Walnut (Juglans Nigra)
… for horses in the acute phase and in the convalescent phase of laminitis induced by an aqueous extract of BW.
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Legionella infections : a review of the literature and a prospective serological study of the incidence of Legionnaires disease at Groote Schuur Hospital
… the incidence of legionella pneumonia. Acute and convalescent serum samples were obtained from 113 patients. Eight patients (7,1%) showed a fourfold rise in antibody titre against Legionella pneumophila group 1 antigen by indirect immunofluorescent test (IFAT). The findings suggest that legionella …
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Optimization of Burkholderia Glycoconjugate Vaccines: A Reverse Vaccinology Approach
… and evaluated for seroreactivity against convalescent human and experimental murine melioidosis sera. All proteins were shown to exhibit varying reactivity with convalescent sera. To evaluate immunogenicity in vivo, a series of vaccination studies were performed in mice. Recombinant …
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Optimization of Burkholderia Glycoconjugate Vaccines: A Reverse Vaccinology Approach
… and evaluated for seroreactivity against convalescent human and experimental murine melioidosis sera. All proteins were shown to exhibit varying reactivity with convalescent sera. To evaluate immunogenicity in vivo, a series of vaccination studies were performed in mice. Recombinant …
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Characterization and differentiation of a soluble lipopolysaccharide type antigen from Treponema hyodysenteriae.
… produced only homologous reaction to the LPSLS. Convalescent-phase swine sera (CSS) against serotype 1 disease showed only homologous reaction to the LPSLS. Convalescent-phase swine sera against serotype 2 produced both homologous and heterologous reaction to the LPSLS. Antigenicity was …
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Studies on the antibody repertoire in a Dengue virus immune subject and isolation of neutralizing antibodies by phage display technology
… to characterize the binding specificity of human convalescent serum from a DENV-2-immune subject, and the potential change in its neutralizing capacity after antibody depletion, to elucidate the role of EDIII in DENV neutralization. In addition, Phage Display Technology was utilized to generate a …
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Unexplained Exercise Intolerance and Dyspnea in Long COVID
… to these symptoms. Thirty COVID-19 convalescent adults (20 with long COVID, 10 controls) underwent respiratory muscle testing, flow-mediated dilation (FMD), heart-rate variability (HRV), and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET). Participants with long COVID exhibited marked …
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Probing the sensitivity of autoantibody production to B cell depletion by Rituximab
… antibody specificities. Paired acute and convalescent sera, from 11 patients treated with Rituximab for Wegener‟s granulomatosis, were then studied. During 5 months after treatment, and following clinical remission, IgG anti-Proteinase 3 autoantibody titres fell gradually. All other …
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Physico-Chemical Characterisation of Disease-Related Protein-Protein Interactions in Solution
… to characterisation of plasma samples from convalescent SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals, revealing that the affinities span more than two orders of magnitude while the concentrations are more constant. The thesis shows how advances physico-chemical technology enable answering emerging …
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What Factors Increase Odds of Long-Stay Delayed Discharge in Alternate Level of Care Patients?
… to through the ED (OR=1.30), currently occupy a convalescent care bed (OR=5.52, [1.66-18.37]) or mental health bed (OR=9.75, [2.36-36.17]) and have a discharge destination of an LTC bed (OR=66.39, [26.22-168.09]). Each present barrier increased the odds of becoming long-stay ALC by 44%. Odds were …
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“WHAT DID THEY DO ALL DAY?” PATIENT WORK, PSYCHIATRY AND SOCIETY IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, c.1918-1939
… remained the preserve of the chronically ill and convalescent patients, and continued to be regarded as an essential means of offsetting institutional running costs, as it had been before World War I. In England, on the other hand, occupational therapy was welcomed as an effective means of …
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