Correlation of serum C - reactive protein with clinical parameters in diabetic patients having chronic periodontitis before and after treatment by Arkhawan Ali Abdulhaq, Ziwar Ahmed Salih, Solaf Abdulqadir Mustafa

“… Background and Objectives: Chronic periodontitis is an infectious disease characterized by inflammation within the supporting tissues of the teeth, progressive attachment loss, and bone loss. …”
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Multiclass Supervised Learning Approach for SAR-COV2 Severity and Scope Prediction: SC2SSP Framework by Shaik Khasim Saheb, B. Narayanan, T.V. Narayana Rao

“… Purpose: Identifying high-risk areas for the virus or the potential for the technique to be applied to this infectious disease might be difficult. The existing tools being used for predicting viruses exhibit various limitations. …”
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Uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision among men with sexually transmitted infections in Lilongwe, Malawi: a protocol for a pre-interventional and post-interventional study by Mina C Hosseinipour, Mitch M Matoga, Sara Jewett, Charles Chasela

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Development of tolerance to bedaquiline by overexpression of trypanosomal acetate: succinate CoA transferase in Mycobacterium smegmatis by Gloria Mavinga Bundutidi, Kota Mochizuki, Yuichi Matsuo, Mizuki Hayashishita, Takaya Sakura, Yuri Ando, Gregory Murray Cook, Acharjee Rajib, Frédéric Bringaud, Michael Boshart, Shinjiro Hamano, Masakazu Sekijima, Kenji Hirayama, Kiyoshi Kita, Daniel Ken Inaoka

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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Knowledge Attitude and Practices on African Animal Trypanocide Resistance by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Ewan Thomas, MacLeod, Charles, Waiswa, Michael, Mahero, Ibrahim, Ntulume, Susan Christina, Welburn

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A randomized, double-blind, Phase 1, single- and multiple-dose placebo-controlled study of the safety and pharmacokinetics of IN-006, an inhaled antibody treatment for COVID-19 in... by Thomas R. Moench, Lakshmi Botta, Brian Farrer, Jason D. Lickliter, Hyunah Kang, Yoona Park, Cheolmin Kim, Marshall Hoke, Miles Brennan, Morgan D. McSweeney, Zachary Richardson, John B. Whelan, Jong Moon Cho, Soo Young Lee, Frances Faurot, Jeff Hutchins, Samuel K. Lai

“…These data support further development of nebulized delivery of antiviral mAbs for respiratory infectious disease. Funding: This work was funded by the U.S. …”
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Hospitalisation from seasonal influenza among persons with type 1 diabetes: a cohort study from the Swedish National Diabetes Register by Katarina Eeg-Olofsson, Björn Eliasson, Hanne Krage Carlsen, Lena Svensson, Magnus Gisslén, Elin Allansson Kjölhede, Oliver Martyn

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Metabolic deficiencies underlie reduced plasmacytoid dendritic cell IFN-I production following viral infection by Trever T. Greene, Yeara Jo, Carolina Chiale, Monica Macal, Ziyan Fang, Fawziyah S. Khatri, Alicia L. Codrington, Katelynn R. Kazane, Elizabeth Akbulut, Shobha Swaminathan, Yu Fujita, Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Thekla Cordes, Christian Metallo, David A. Scott, Elina I. Zúñiga

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Using the WHO building blocks to examine cross-border public health surveillance in MENA by Laura Buback, Shayanne Martin, Esbeydy Pardo, Farah Massoud, Jesus Formigo, Atousa Bonyani, Noha H. Farag, Zayid K. Almayahi, Kenta Ishii, Susie Welty, Dana Schneider

“…Public health surveillance, crucial for detecting and responding to infectious disease outbreaks, is key to building health system resilience. …”
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Aplikasi Jurnal Harian Covid-19 untuk Pemantauan Isolasi Mandiri (PISOM) by Mutiara Anggun, Margaretha Amanda, Tri Ahmad Sandi, Rinto Priambodo

“…Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is an infectious disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus which affects the respiratory system in the human body and can result in death. …”
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Spatial proteomics identifies a CRTC-dependent viral signaling pathway that stimulates production of interleukin-11 by Benjamin J. Ravenhill, Marisa Oliveira, George Wood, Ying Di, Joanne Kite, Xinyue Wang, Colin T.R. Davies, Yongxu Lu, Robin Antrobus, Gill Elliott, Nerea Irigoyen, David J. Hughes, Paul A. Lyons, Betty Chung, Georg H.H. Borner, Michael P. Weekes

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Assessing the comparative effectiveness of ECHO and coaching implementation strategies in a jail/provider MOUD implementation trial by Todd Molfenter, Jessica Vechinski, Jee-Seon Kim, Jingru Zhang, Lionel Meng, Jessica Tveit, Lynn Madden, Faye S. Taxman

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Acceptability of and experiences with menstrual hygiene cups among adolescent girls and young women aged 15–24 in two communities in Lusaka, Zambia: an exploratory study nested in... by Melleh Gondwe, Melvin Simuyaba, Mwelwa Phiri, Chisanga Mwansa, Albertus Schaap, Lucheka Sigande, Kwame Shanaube, Sian Floyd, Sarah Fidler, Helen Ayles, Musonda Simwinga, Bernadette Hensen

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Status and influencing factors of health literacy among college students of traditional Chinese medicine: a cross-sectional study by Jie Zhu, Cuixia Lin, Yanhui Yang, Rui Yao, Ran Yang, Mingqian Jiang

“…Among the six categories of health literacy, the level of scientific health literacy (79.68%) was the highest, followed by safety and first aid literacy (72.86%), health information literacy (61.62%), basic medical literacy (61.30%), chronic disease prevention literacy (60.11%) and infectious disease prevention literacy (40.86%). The results of multifactorial logistic regression analyses showed that females (AOR: 1.92; 95%CI: 1.40–2.62), college seniors (AOR: 2.02; 95%CI: 1.01–4.05), never smokers (AOR: 2.99; 95%CI: 1.57–5.72), and awareness of the concept of “health literacy” (AOR: 1.54; 95%CI: 1.11–2.13) were protective factors for health literacy, and the health literacy level of students in TCM colleges and universities was statistically significantly positively correlated with their health literacy level (p < 0.050).ConclusionCompared with most studies at home and abroad, the overall level of health literacy among students of TCM colleges is high. …”
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The clinical utility of tissue polymerase chain reaction, tissue culture and tissue histology in blood culture-negative infective endocarditis in South Africa – insights from the G... by W Endres, P Mkoko, M Ntsekhe

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Nucleic Acid Aptamers for Human Norovirus GII.4 and GII.17 Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) Exhibit Specific Binding and Inhibit VLPs from Entering Cells by Cheng C, Sun M, Li J, Xue Y, Cai X, Liu J, Wang X, Xu S, Xie Y, Zhang J

“…Chao Cheng,1,* Minjia Sun,1– 3,* Jingjing Li,1,* Yitong Xue,1 Xia Cai,4 Jing Liu,1 Xiaolian Wang,5 Shouhong Xu,2 Youhua Xie,1 Junqi Zhang1 1MOE/NHC/CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People’s Republic of China; 2Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Department of Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, People’s Republic of China; 3Zhejiang CONBA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, 310052, People’s Republic of China; 4Shanghai Medical College, Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Pathogeny Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Hexi University, Zhangye, 734000, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Junqi Zhang, Email junqizhang@fudan.edu.cn; Youhua Xie, Email yhxie@fudan.edu.cnPurpose: Human noroviruses (HuNoVs) are the main cause of non-bacterial acute gastroenteritis. …”
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Evaluating the Efficacy of a Serious Game to Deliver Health Education About Invasive Meningococcal Disease: Clustered Randomized Controlled Equivalence Trial by Lauren Bloomfield, Julie Boston, Martin Masek, Lesley Andrew, Donna Barwood, Amanda Devine

“… BackgroundInvasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a serious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease that can be life-threatening. Teaching adolescents about the early detection and prevention of IMD can be challenging in a school environment, with educators reporting they lack confidence or expertise to cover this in the classroom environment. …”
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Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 Pandemic by Ali Jafari-Khounigh, Alireza Razzaghi, Hamid Sharifi, Shahram Habibzadeh, Seyed Taghi Heydari, Rasool Entezarmahdi, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Alireza Ansari Moghaddam, Mahdi Rezaei, Mohammad Saadati, Ehsan Sarbazi, Morteza Haghighi, Mina Golestani, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani

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Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Various Specialties of Medical Practice (Literature Review and Expert Council Resolution) by V. T. Ivashkin, V. V. Fomin, O. N. Tkacheva, O. S. Medvedev, E. A. Poluektova, D. I. Abdulganieva, S. R. Abdulkhakov, O. P. Alexeeva, S. A. Alekseenko, D. N. Andreev, A. Yu. Baranovsky, M. S. Zharkova, O. Yu. Zolnikova, K. V. Ivashkin, I. L. Kliaritskaia, N. V. Korochanskaya, S. N. Mammaev, R. V. Maslennikov, R. G. Myazin, M. V. Perekalina, A. V. Povtoreyko, A. I. Ulyanin, M. V. Fadeeva, I. B. Khlynov, V. V. Tsukanov, O. S. Shifrin

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Dynamic Challenges of Active Tuberculosis: Prevalence and Risk Factors of Co-Infection in Clinical and Microbiological Characteristics at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah... by Mokhtar JA, Attallah DM, Jiman-Fatani AA, Al-Rabia MW, Alqarni MA, Saleh BH, Amboon MM, Altorki TA, Alkuwaity KK, Abujamel T, Kaki R, Albarakati TN, Daghistani H, Ismail MA, Alharbi O, Abu ITM, Alfadil A, Ibrahem K, Mufrrih M, Sait AM

“…Jawahir A Mokhtar,1– 3 Dalya M Attallah,2 Asif Ahmad Jiman-Fatani,1,2 Mohammed W Al-Rabia,1 Mona Abdulrahman Alqarni,1 Bandar Hasan Saleh,1,2 Maysaa Mohammed Amboon,4 Tarfa A Altorki,3,4 Khalil K Alkuwaity,3,4 Turki Abujamel,3,4 Reham Kaki,5,6 Taghreed Nassir Albarakati,7 Hussam Daghistani,8,9 Mazen A Ismail,10 Ohood Alharbi,11 Ibrahim Ismail Mohammed Abu,12 Abdelbagi Alfadil,1,13 Karem Ibrahem,1,2 Mohammed Mufrrih,4,14 Ahmad M Sait4,9 1Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia; 3Vaccines and Immunotherapy Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia; 4Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia; 5Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 6Department of Infectious Disease & Infection Control and Environmental Health, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 7Microbiology Unite in King Fahd General hospital Jeddah (KFHJ), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 8Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia; 9Regenerative Medicine Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia; 10Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia; 11Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia; 12Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jedda, 21589, Saudi Arabia; 13Centre of Research Excellence for Drug Research and Pharmaceutical Industries, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 14Special Infectious Agents Unit BSL-3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Karem Ibrahem, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. …”
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