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Disease prevention is essential both for the health of patients and the health care system budget. One of the most suggestive examples of effective disease prevention is the immunization program, applied worldwide, including in Romania. Its many long-term benefits are easily perceptible. Among its remarkable achievements, we can mention the eradication of smallpox, almost the elimination of polio and the drop in the incidence of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, rubella, mumps, Haemophilus influenzae type B infection and others. However, the success of an immunization program depends not only on the technological advances in health care, but also on the compliance of population, the belief that vaccination is beneficial and the wide vaccinal coverage. Certain factors block the consistently efforts to prevent, control or even eradicate several potentially devastating infectious diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ASSET (Action plan on Science in Society related issues in Epidemics and Total pandemics) is a 48-month Mobilisation and Mutual Learning Action Plan (MMLAP), co-funded by the European Commission. ASSET project comprises an international group of experts in public health, social and political sciences, vaccine and epidemiological research, science communication and media. Overall, the ASSET project aims to address a wide array of issues around major infectious disease outbreaks toward the creation and elaboration of a consolidated action plan, which comprises the following objectives: 1. To forge a transdiscipiinary partnership to effectively address epidemics and pandemics: 2. To explore and map science in society related issues in epidemics and pandemics; 3. To define and test a participatory and inclusive strategy for successful action; 4. To identify resources necessary to make the action sustainable after project completion. In order to achieve the goals, project partners will perform several activities, will produce different documents that would become publicly available. Some of the results will be described in this article, other will be presented in the nearest future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Genus Acinetobacter belongs to the family Neisseriaceae. Acinetobacter spp. can be found in soil, water and in health care facilities, especially in the intensive care units (ICU). It is the most common Gram negative germ, found on the skin of hospital personnel. It could be recovered from patients on ventilator systems or with tracheostomy. Healthy people can have throat carriage. It has the ability to survive in various environmental conditions and it has multiple resistance mechanisms. As a hospital germ, it mainly affects patients in the ICU, especially those requiring mechanical ventilation or those from trauma or burn units. Patients with diabetes mellitus or chronic lung disease have a high risk of infection with A. baumannii. It is an opportunist found in hospitalized patients, causing pneumonia, skin and soft tissue infections, meningitis, urinary tract infections, bacteremia, endocarditis, intra-abdominal abscesses. It is the major pathogen in traumatic wounds, postoperative incisions, and burns. A. baumannii has different resistance mechanisms, like: plasmids, transposons, integrons, carbapenemase and ţ-lactamase synthesis, porins, efflux pumps. Its antibiotic susceptibility profile has changed over time, such that infections with A. baumannii are becoming a significant public health problem worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We must never forget the importance of medicine for public health. In previous decades, efforts have led to the eradication of only 2 infectious diseases. Beginnings with the year 1998 actions have been taken to eradicate the polio virus, although desire has not been realized even today. In the 2013-2014 period the number of poliomyelitis cases reported at the global level has risen significantly. The situation has been characterized as an "epidemiological urgency" by specialized international institutions. It is important that, starting with this case study, we analyze if the recommendations regarding the prevention and control of infectious diseases are truly implemented in our country. We must participate as a team to this collective effort, and understand the important risks both in terms of public health as well as at the individual level, in the setting in which the degree of involvement to sustain an adequate surveillance system is not at the desired level and is not within the known parameters presented in the specialty textbooks. In this sense, we have to contribute both through the knowledge of important notions of public health as a whole and vaccinations in particular, as well as through dissemination of this information to the general population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both supra and subgingival dental microorganisms are organized in an adherent biofilm, known as dental plaque. The evolution of dental biofilm is analyzed both spatially and temporally, following four development stages: reversible attachment of microorganisms, irreversible attachment, maturation and dispersal. The impact of biofilm disruption can be systemic or local. Dental caries are caused by a metabolic imbalance of the supragingival biofilm, when a low pH promotes dental demineralisation at the expense of remineralization. If in the past it was considered that periodontal disease is based on trauma or birth defects, now the main etiological factor is the oral microbial flora, together with genetic, environmental factors or the host inflammatory response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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