Mansour-Ghanaei, Fariborz Joukar, Farahnaz Naghipour, Mohammadreza Hassanipour, Soheil Yeganeh, Sara Sepehrimanesh, Masood Fathalipour, Mohammad
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ObjectiveHepatitis B (HB) and C (HC) are two severe viral infectious diseases with a deleterious impact on global health. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of HB and HC in the Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies of the Iranian Adults (PERSIAN) Guilan Cohort Study using immunological and molecular methods.ResultsThe blood samples ...
Basheikh, Ahmed Alhibshi, Nizar Bamakrid, Motaz Baqais, Rasha Basendwah, Mohammed Howldar, Sara
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ObjectivesTo assess parents’ perceptions about amblyopia and its causes, symptoms, risk factors, treatments, and the importance of follow-up and to evaluate their awareness regarding the consequences and critical complications.ResultsParents or their companions (n = 401) were surveyed, and 52.9% were mothers, 81.8% of mothers and 85.7% of fathers w...
Bhowmik, Deepshikha Chetri, Shiela Das, Bhaskar Jyoti Dhar Chanda, Debadatta Bhattacharjee, Amitabha
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ObjectiveThis study was designed to discover the dissemination of virulence genes in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from clinical, community and environmental settings.ResultsThis study includes 1165 isolates collected from hospital, community and environmental settings. Among them sixty three were confirmed as MRSA with varied SCCmec ...
Baroni, Lais Salles, Rebecca Salles, Samella Pedroso, Marcel Lima, Jefferson Morais, Igor Carraro, Lucas Saldanha, Raphael de Freitas Sousa, Carlos Cardoso, Carlos
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ObjectivesNeonatal mortality is a global public health problem, and the efforts to reduce child mortality is one of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, launched in 2015 by the United Nations. The availability of historical neonatal mortality rates (NMR) data in Brazilian municipalities is crucial to evaluate trends at local, r...
Njeru, Sospeter N. Muema, Jackson M.
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ObjectivesWe and others have shown that Aspilia pluriseta is associated with various biological activities. However, there is a lack of information on its cytotoxicity. This has created an information gap about the safety of A. pluriseta extracts. As an extension to our recent publication on the antimicrobial activity and the phytochemical characte...
Mohamed, Fatima E. Aldayem, Leena N. Hemaida, Maisa A. Siddig, Omayma Osman, Zeinab H. Shafig, Irene R. Salih, Mohamed A. M. Muneer, Mohamed S. Hassan, Rowa Ahmed, Eiman Siddig
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ObjectiveHuman papillomavirus (HPV) gained momentum as a potential etiological factor for many types of cancers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of HPV-16 infection among Sudanese patients diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) and Salivary Gland Carcinoma. A descriptive, hospital-based study was conducted. 150 f...
Hurley, Emily P. Staveley, Brian E.
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ObjectiveSequestosome 1 (p62/SQSTM1) is a multifunctional scaffold/adaptor protein encoded by the p62/SQSTM1 gene with function in cellular homeostasis. Mutations in the p62/SQSTM1 gene have been known to be associated with patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Parkinson disease (PD). The aim of the p...
Stokes, Alexia Angeles, Guillermo Anthelme, Fabien Aranda-Delgado, Eduardo Barois, Isabelle Bounous, Manon Cruz-Maldonado, Nereyda Decaëns, Thibaud Fourtier, Stéphane Freschet, Grégoire T.
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ObjectivesAltitude integrates changes in environmental conditions that determine shifts in vegetation, including temperature, precipitation, solar radiation and edaphogenetic processes. In turn, vegetation alters soil biophysical properties through litter input, root growth, microbial and macrofaunal interactions. The belowground traits of plant co...
Kulkarni, Prasanna Devkumar, Poornima Chattopadhyay, Indranil
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ObjectiveDifferential alterations in gut microbiota and chronic low-grade inflammation play a critical role in the development of Type 2 diabetes (T2D). Here we aimed to investigate if dysbiosis of inflammation and anti-inflammation-associated gut bacterial communities in fecal samples of individuals had any influence on T2D using a 16S rRNA gene o...
Foroutan, Masoud Ghaffari, Ali Dalir Soltani, Shahrzad Majidiani, Hamidreza Taghipour, Ali Sabaghan, Mohamad
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ObjectivesToxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), an obligate intracellular apicomplexan parasite, could affect numerous warm-blooded animals, such as humans. Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) are essential Ca2+ signaling mediators and participate in parasite host cell egress, outer membrane motility, invasion, and cell division.ResultsSeveral bioin...
