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    Mexican Immigrants’ Attitudes and Interest in Health Insurance: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

    Mexican immigrants to the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to be without health insurance than non-Hispanic native citizens. To inform strategies to increase the number of insured within this population...

    Carolyn M. Ziemer, Sylvia Becker-Dreps in Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2014)

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    Modeling human enteric dysbiosis and rotavirus immunity in gnotobiotic pigs

    Rotavirus vaccines have poor efficacy in infants from low- and middle-income countries. Gut microbiota is thought to influence the immune response to oral vaccines. Thus, we developed a gnotobiotic (Gn) pig mo...

    Erica L. Twitchell, Christine Tin, Ke Wen, Husen Zhang in Gut Pathogens (2016)

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    Nursing home nurses’ and community-dwelling older adults’ reported knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward antibiotic use

    Antibiotic overuse causes antibiotic resistance, one of the most important threats to human health. Older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, often receive antibiotics when they are not indicated.

    Christine E. Kistler, Anna Beeber, Sylvia Becker-Dreps, Kimberly Ward in BMC Nursing (2017)