Emergence of highly virulent and multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli in breeding sheep with pneumonia, Hainan Province, China by Mengqi Wang, Mengqi Wang, Xuesong Li, Xuesong Li, Guiying Guo, Guiying Guo, Guiying Guo, Muhammad Nafees Ur Rehman, Xiaomeng Gao, Lixia Fan, Lixia Fan, Nuo Yang, Nuo Yang, Jifeng Zeng, Jiping Zheng, Jiping Zheng

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VIDAS® TB-IGRA assay for diagnosing tuberculosis infection in people living with HIV: A preliminary study by Aliasgar Esmail, Jeremi Swanepoel, Suzette Oelofse, Brandon Reyneke, Anil Pooran, Shameem Jaumdally, Lara Wiese, Keertan Dheda

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Nanopore sequencing reveals the genomic diversity of the variants of concern of SARS-CoV-2 during 2021 disease outbreak in Pakistan by Zohaib Ul Hassan, Minkyu Park, Dongju Park, Humaira Amin, Ibrar Ahmed, Nazish Badar, Asif Ali, Muhammad Salman, Massab Umair, Hamza Ahmed Mirza, Abdul Ahad, Maryam Muzaffar, Falak Fazal, Sana Bibi, Madiha Islam, Yasar Mehmood Yousafzai, Sher Shah, Muhammad Zakria, Zia Ul Haq, Seil Kim

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Research Progress on the Impact of Amino Acids on Muscle Quality in Aquatic Animals by Wuxiao ZHANG, Qingqing JIANG, Silei XIA, Hongyan TIAN, Fei LIU, Wenping YANG, Yebing YU, Zhigang YANG, Zhiqiang XU, Yongzhi ZHU, Aimin WANG

“…With the development of China's economic level and improving people's living standards, the state's supervision of food health and safety has increased. …”
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Validation and clinical evaluation of a SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralisation test (sVNT) by Benjamin Meyer, Johan Reimerink, Giulia Torriani, Fion Brouwer, Gert-Jan Godeke, Sabine Yerly, Marieke Hoogerwerf, Nicolas Vuilleumier, Laurent Kaiser, Isabella Eckerle, Chantal Reusken

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A Global Collaborative Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Antigenicity Across 15 Laboratories by Polina Brangel, Sina Tureli, Barbara Mühlemann, Nicole Liechti, Daniel Zysset, Olivier Engler, Isabel Hunger-Glaser, Ioana Ghiga, Giada Mattiuzzo, Isabella Eckerle, Meriem Bekliz, Annika Rössler, Melanie M. Schmitt, Ludwig Knabl, Janine Kimpel, Luis Fernando Lopez Tort, Mia Ferreira de Araujo, Any Caroline Alves de Oliveira, Braulia Costa Caetano, Marilda Mendonça Siqueira, Matthias Budt, Jean-Marc Gensch, Thorsten Wolff, Tarteel Hassan, Francis Amirtharaj Selvaraj, Tandile Hermanus, Prudence Kgagudi, Carol Crowther, Simone I. Richardson, Jinal N. Bhiman, Penny L. Moore, Samuel M. S. Cheng, John K. C. Li, Leo L. M. Poon, Malik Peiris, Victor M. Corman, Christian Drosten, Lilin Lai, Taweewun Hunsawong, Kamonthip Rungrojcharoenkit, Jindarat Lohachanakul, Alex Sigal, Khadija Khan, Volker Thiel, G. Tuba Barut, Nadine Ebert, Anna Z. Mykytyn, Irene Owusu Donkor, James Odame Aboagye, Prince Adom Nartey, Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Jane Cunningham, Bart L. Haagmans, Mehul S. Suthar, Derek Smith, Lorenzo Subissi

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OptimisAtion of Diagnostic Accuracy in idioPathic inflammaTory myopathies (ADAPT study): a protocol for a prospective diagnostic accuracy study of multimodality testing in patients... by Frank F Smithuis, Anneke J van der Kooi, Joost Raaphorst, Ivo N van Schaik, Marianne de Visser, Paul A Baars, Patrick M M Bossuyt, Eleonora Aronica, Johannes H T M Koelman, Camiel Verhamme, Hannah A W Walter, Renske G Kamperman, Wouter V Potters, Ester M M van Leeuwen

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Identifying immunoreactive proteins in brucellin for enhanced brucellosis diagnosis: a proteomic approach by Ivanka Krasteva, Mirella Luciani, Mirella Luciani, Federica D’Onofrio, Tiziana Di Febo, Chiara Di Pancrazio, Fabrizia Perletta, Marta Maggetti, Simonetta Ulisse, Luigina Sonsini, Gianluca Orsini, Marco Caporale, Claire Ponsart, Vitomir Djokic, Acacia Ferreira Vicente, Luca Freddi, Nicola D’Alterio, Manuela Tittarelli, Fabrizio De Massis, Flavio Sacchini

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Clinical value of blood circulating (1→3)β-D-glucan in patients with suspected invasive fungal infection by V. P. Pirumovav, M. S. Gelfand

“…Microbiological and histological examination of biopsy material is the “gold standard” of IFI diagnostic, but in practice it is often associated with high risk for patients. …”
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Study of the capillary blood flow of the mucous membrane of the peri-implant area by laser Doppler flowmetry by D. Ya. Maksymov, S. D. Varzhapetian, D. P. Parkhomenko, V. I. Salnykov, O. M. Mishchenko

“…A control group (20 patients) was formed to determine the reference values. In total, 60 patients were involved in the study. …”
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Tractor Path Tracking Control Method Based on Prescribed Performance and Sliding Mode Control by Liwei Zhu, Weiming Sun, Qian Zhang, En Lu, Jialin Xue, Guohui Sha

“…A key feature of this control method is its inherent immunity to system parameter perturbations and external disturbances, while ensuring path tracking errors are constrained within a predefined range. …”
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Effect of Echinacea purpurea Herb Defatting on the Extraction of Hydroxycinnamic Acids by R. I. Lukashou, N. S. Gurina

“…The experiment used reference standards for HCAs.RESULTS. The study showed that a single one-hour defatting treatment of the herbal drug with heptane at a 1 g to 5 mL ratio increased the yield of HCAs extracted from Е. purpurea herb. …”
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The external validity of machine learning-based prediction scores from hematological parameters of COVID-19: A study using hospital records from Brazil, Italy, and Western Europe. by Ali Safdari, Chanda Sai Keshav, Deepanshu Mody, Kshitij Verma, Utsav Kaushal, Vaadeendra Kumar Burra, Sibnath Ray, Debashree Bandyopadhyay

“…The external performance was reduced when the model was trained on datasets from Italy and tested on Brazil (AUC score 69%) and Western Europe (AUC score 65%); presumably affected by factors, like, ethnicity, phenotype, immunity, reference ranges, across the populations. …”
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Heat Stress Upregulates the Expression of TLR4 and Its Alternative Splicing Variant in Bama Miniature Pigs by Xiang-hong JU, Han-jin XU, Yan-hong YONG, Li-long AN, Ying-mei XU, Pei-rong JIAO, Ming LIAO

“…Further, it was not a nonclassical secretory protein. Five potential reference genes were screened for their potential as reliable standards to quantify the expression of TLR4 alternative spliced variants by real-time quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). …”
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Phase II study of concomitant radiotherapy with atezolizumab in oligometastatic soft tissue sarcomas: STEREOSARC trial protocol by Nicolas Penel, Dominique Vaur, Juliette Thariat, Alexandre Escande, Jennifer le Guevelou, Colin Debaigt, Esma Saada-Bouzid, Julien Viotti, Nazim Khalladi, David Thibouw, Marie Pierre Sunyach, Laurence Moureau-Zabotto, Mohamed Benchalal, Ovidiu Veresezan, Anne Ducassou, Cecile le Pechoux, Maria Jolnerovski, Celine Bazille, Raphael Serre, Christine Lovera

“…Cytotoxic therapy is a standard treatment in this setting but yields average tumour response rates of 25% at first line and ≤10% at later lines. …”
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Evaluating methods for identifying and quantifying Streptococcus pneumoniae co-colonization using next-generation sequencing data by Jada Hackman, Martin L. Hibberd, Todd D. Swarthout, Jason Hinds, James Ashall, Carmen Sheppard, Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Kate Gould, Comfort Brown, Jacquline Msefula, Andrew A. Mataya, Michiko Toizumi, Lay-Myint Yoshida, Neil French, Robert S. Heyderman, Stefan Flasche, Brenda Kwambana, Stéphane Hué

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Phenolic Content, Antioxidant Potential, and Antimicrobial Activity of Uvaria chamae (Annonaceae), a Food Plant from Burkina Faso by Kayaba Kaboré, Crépin Ibingou Dibala, Hemayoro Sama, Mamounata Diao, Marius K. Somda, Mamoudou H. Dicko

“…Phytochemical analyses were performed according to standardized methods, while antioxidant activity was evaluated by DPPH and FRAP methods. …”
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Establishment of an indirect immunofluorescence assay for the detection of African swine fever virus antibodies by Wan Wang, Zhenjiang Zhang, Weldu Tesfagaber, Jiwen Zhang, Fang Li, Encheng Sun, Lijie Tang, Zhigao Bu, Yuanmao Zhu, Dongming Zhao

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A review on anti-aging actions of plant polysaccharides by Ranran Huang, Ruihan Li, Meihui Qin, Nina Qian, Keng Po Lai, Huiling Lu, Rong Li

“…With societal advancements and improvements in modern medical standards, there is a growing focus on anti-aging research, prompting an urgent search for effective anti-aging therapies. …”
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The genetic structure and diversity of smallholder dairy cattle in Rwanda by Oluyinka Opoola, Felicien Shumbusho, Innocent Rwamuhizi, Isidore Houaga, David Harvey, David Hambrook, Kellie Watson, Mizeck G. G. Chagunda, Raphael Mrode, Appolinaire Djikeng

“…A dataset of global dairy population of European taurine, African indicus and African taurus (n = 250) was used as reference. Results showed that Rwanda cattle population is highly admixed of diverse pure and crossbred animals with average MAF of 33% (standard error; se = 0.001) with proportion of foreign high yielding (taurine) dairy breeds of Jersey Island (18%); 12% non-Island Jersey and 42% Holstein-Friesian ancestries. …”
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