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The objective of this proposal is the creation of a method for identifying patients with hospital acquired C difficile infections likely to suffer expensive and potentially life threatening recurrences after discharge from the hospital C difficile has emerged as the biggest infectious killer of Americans as well as a multi billion drain on the health care system Most of those costs and mort ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite the prevalence of university nutrition and physical activity programs, poor eating habits and sedentary behavior are persistent problems for many college students who are surrounded by numerous unhealthy food choices and physical activity barriers which make them vulnerable to chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. The Healthy Deto ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Poor eating habits sedentary behavior and deficient sleep quality are problematic for many college students Surrounded by numerous unhealthy food choices and physical activity barriers students are vulnerable to overweight and chronic diseases such as diabetes heart disease and cancer Todayandapos s college students are more technologically connected tha ...

Teen pregnancy rates remain high particularly among racial/ethnic minority youth and age of onset for sexual activity has decreased significantly in recent years. As young teenagers initiate dating and sexual activity during the years of middle school, there are often few resources available for accurate information about pregnancy prevention and reproductive health. Furthermore, teens may not kno ...

TDAs proposes to develop a novel RF heating process for rewarming cryogenically preserved tissues and organs. TDAs approach is to optimize the RF frequency and power, along with the chemical composition, size and morphology of infused nanoparticles so that they heat tissue samples rapidly and uniformly. In this manner, the cryoprotectant solutions pass from the vitrified state to the liquid stat ...

Military personnel must be protected from diseases transmitted by ticks and fleas, including Lyme disease. Effective surveillance of tick and flea vectors is vital to determine the population present, whether they are carrying disease, and whether control campaigns are working. Unfortunately, current surveillance tools are ineffective. In Phase I TDA designed, prototyped, and tested a novel ti ...

Civilian and military organizations throughout the world perform surveillance to combat vector-borne disease. Of particular concern to the U.S. military are mosquito genera Anopheles, Aedes and Culex, which are important vectors for malaria, dengue and West Nile virus respectively, and sand fly genera Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia, both vectors for leishmaniasis. The trap most commonly used for by U.S ...

Rapid sensitive and specific diagnosis of the Dengue virus DENV infection is important for both patient care and epidemiologic studies Current Dengue diagnostic tests are either time consuming expensive or lack of sensitivity We propose to develop a novel low cost lateralflow immunoassay LFIA strip capable of sensitive detection of DENV NS antigen The proposed test strip synergically in ...

"Measles is a highly contagious, human disease that is spread by the respiratory route, and, in the developing world, remains a leading cause of death due to vaccine-preventable infectious diseases in children younger than 5 years. The most recent estimates are that there were 139,300 deaths worldwide in 2010 due to measles. Research priorities to help achieve the goals of controlling, and eventua ...

A mobile computing application will be developed for Apple iOS and Google Android based mobile devices. This application will be targeted towards healthcare providers who make routine use of mobile devices in their daily work. The application will be capable of capturing all information required for submission to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and securely transmitting the info ...