Background: Staphylococcus aureus, particularly methicillin resistant (MRSA), is a common pathogen among patients receiving hemodialysis. To understand MRSA carriage rate among these patients in different hospital levels, we conducted this study. Materials and Methods: From January 2011 to June 2011, two nasal samplings with a 3-month interval were obtained from 161 patients (totally 265 sampli...

The concept of “decolonization” has been widely and erroneously used to the point that it lost its meaning. Whenever decolonization is invoked, there seems be disagreement between universalist relativist camps. While debate continues, one can barely imagine a middle position where both camps could find synthesis. So question resonates from this is, does logic involves having relativistic approa...

This paper analyzes the reception of decolonial and neo-Marxist thought in a jihadist critique modern state. The author argues that study Abū Qatāda al-Filisṭīnī, prominent theorist Jihadism Salafism, reveals his nuanced interaction with theories hegemony, ideology, decolonization. An examination Qatāda’s state institutions ideology shows he engages philosophical critiques sovereignty, capitali...

Decolonization is presented in dominant accounts as an orderly transition and not the culmination of anticolonial resistance movements. This turn contributes to what Paul Gilroy terms endemic “post-imperial melancholia” across contemporary European nations removal empire its demise from understandings history. Drawing on Bill Schwarz’s reconceptualization a Fanonian commitment disorder, this ar...

Address correspondence to: Luisa M. Morales-Torres, DrPH, Ponce Health Sciences University, Public Health Program, P.O. Box 7004 388, Ponce, PR 00732-7004. Email: [email protected] Objective: Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (Mrsa) is a resistant bacteria responsible for hard-to-treat infections. to understand the primary impact of this infection in healthcare settings, a retrospectiv...

Objective To evaluate studies assessing the effectiveness of a bundle of nasal decolonization and glycopeptide prophylaxis for preventing surgical site infections caused by Gram positive bacteria among patients undergoing cardiac operations or total joint replacement procedures. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources PubMed (1995 to 2011), the Cochrane database of systematic r...

2170. Association of Active Surveillance and Decolonization Program on Incidence of Clinical Cultures Growing Staphylococcus aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Annie Voskertchian, MPH1; Ibukunoluwa Akinboyo, MD2; Anna Sick, MPH3; Susan W. Aucott, MD4 and Aaron M. Milstone, MD, MHS, FIDSA, FSHEA; Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, Pediatric Infectiou...

This text addresses the decolonization of Afro-Brazilian domestic oratories and its implications as a magic device European-based religion that finds subsidies in African-based religions over centuries, assumes an acculturation allows it to result symbiosis rites, where Catholic was imbued with particular religiosity. In this way, we seek understand decoloniality imposed on use creation these o...

Highlighting the rural district of Nyanza in Rwanda, this article examines community relations to heritage resources. It investigates possibilities for more ethical, engaged models management which can better deliver on agendas decolonization and development. Our research finds that Nyanza’s stakeholders highly value heritage’s social economic roles, but communities are also significantly alien...

If decolonization truly begins with land, then it can be said that landscape studies—as a field concerned the study, design, and ordering of land—has at least some stake in on going processes decolonization. Repeated contestations for Indigenous land rights North America suggest settler-colonial contexts present distinct pressing concern The landscapes colonialism are also deeply racialized, co...