Sources and Transmission Routes of Carbapenem-Resistant <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>: Study Design and Methodology of the SAMPAN Study by Anneloes van Veen, Selvi N. Shahab, Amber Rijfkogel, Anne F. Voor in ’t holt, Corné H. W. Klaassen, Margreet C. Vos, Yulia Rosa Saharman, Anis Karuniawati, Silvia Zelli, Desy De Lorenzis, Giulia Menchinelli, Giulia De Angelis, Maurizio Sanguinetti, Merel Kemper, Anniek E. E. de Jong, Sima Mohammadi, Valentine Renaud, Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj, Marianne Potvin, Guillaume Q. Nguyen, Jeff Gauthier, Roger C. Levesque, Heike Schmitt, Juliëtte A. Severin

“…The aim of the SAMPAN study (“A Smart Surveillance Strategy for Carbapenem-resistant <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>”) is to develop a globally applicable surveillance strategy. …”
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Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding? by Robert Lücking, M. Catherine Aime, Barbara Robbertse, Andrew N. Miller, Hiran A. Ariyawansa, Takayuki Aoki, Gianluigi Cardinali, Pedro W. Crous, Irina S. Druzhinina, David M. Geiser, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Laszlo Irinyi, Rajesh Jeewon, Peter R. Johnston, Paul M. Kirk, Elaine Malosso, Tom W. May, Wieland Meyer, Maarja Öpik, Vincent Robert, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Duong Vu, Andrey M. Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch

“…Because of clade-specific evolutionary histories, there is currently no single tool for the identification of fungi, although DNA barcoding using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) remains a first diagnosis, particularly in metabarcoding studies. …”
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Biomass burning emission analysis based on MODIS aerosol optical depth and AeroCom multi-model simulations: implications for model constraints and emission inventories by M. Petrenko, M. Petrenko, R. Kahn, R. Kahn, M. Chin, S. E. Bauer, T. Bergman, H. Bian, G. Curci, B. Johnson, J. W. Kaiser, Z. Kipling, H. Kokkola, H. Kokkola, X. Liu, K. Mezuman, K. Mezuman, T. Mielonen, G. Myhre, X. Pan, X. Pan, A. Protonotariou, S. Remy, R. B. Skeie, P. Stier, T. Takemura, K. Tsigaridis, K. Tsigaridis, H. Wang, D. Watson-Parris, D. Watson-Parris, K. Zhang

“…Many inter-model BB AOD differences can be traced to differences in values for the mass ratio of organic aerosol to organic carbon, the BB aerosol mass extinction efficiency, and the aerosol loss rate from each model. The results point to a need for increased numbers of available BB cases for study in some regions and especially to a need for more extensive regional-to-global-scale measurements of aerosol loss rates and of detailed particle microphysical and optical properties; this would both better constrain models and help distinguish BB from other aerosol types in satellite retrievals. …”
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Role of Intravitreal Antivascular Endothelial Growth Factor Injections for Choroidal Neovascularization due to Choroidal Osteoma by Ahmad M. Mansour, J. Fernando Arevalo, Eman Al Kahtani, Hernando Zegarra, Emad Abboud, Rajiv Anand, Hamid Ahmadieh, Robert A. Sisk, Salman Mirza, Samuray Tuncer, Amparo Navea Tejerina, Jorge Mataix, Francisco J. Ascaso, Jose S. Pulido, Rainer Guthoff, Winfried Goebel, Young Jung Roh, Alay S. Banker, Ronald C. Gentile, Isabel Alonso Martinez, Rodney Morris, Neeraj Panday, Park Jung Min, Emilie Mercé, Timothy Y. Y. Lai, Vicky Massoud, Nicola G. Ghazi

“…We treated 26 eyes of 25 young patients having a mean age of 30 years with intravitreal vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor for choroidal new vessel (CNV) formation overlying choroidal osteoma over a mean follow-up of 26 months. …”
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Alleviating effect of intranasal zinc on symptoms of allergic rhinitis by Huadong Xu, PhD, Keming Tong, BS, Naruhito Iwasaki, MD, PhD, Nobutaka Ohgami, PhD, Akira Tazaki, PhD, Takumi Kagawa, MMSc, Yanjun Gao, MMSc, Delgama A.S.M. Nishadhi, MMSc, Akihito Harusato, MD, PhD, Masafumi Sakashita, MD, PhD, Kazuhiro Ogi, MD, PhD, Shigeharu Fujieda, MD, PhD, Shogo Sumiya, MD, Shinichi Iwasaki, MD, PhD, Masashi Kato, MD, PhD

“…Background: There is no information about the clinical implications and kinetics of zinc (Zn) in the nasal cavity, a center of allergic inflammation, and serum in subjects with allergic rhinitis (AR). …”
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2024 update of the AGIHO guideline on diagnosis and empirical treatment of fever of unknown origin (FUO) in adult neutropenic patients with solid tumours and hematological malignan... by Michael Sandherr, Jannik Stemler, Enrico Schalk, Tessa Hattenhauer, Marcus Hentrich, Bernd Hertenstein, Christian Hohmann, Sibylle C. Mellinghoff, Rebekka Mispelbaum, Christina Rieger, Martin Schmidt-Hieber, Rosanne Sprute, Guenter Weiss, Oliver A. Cornely, Larissa Henze, Cornelia Lass-Floerl, Gernot Beutel, Annika Y. Classen, Noemi F. Freise, Meinolf Karthaus, Philipp Koehler, Robert Krause, Julia Neuhann, Hans Martin Orth, Olaf Penack, Markus Schaich, Karsten Spiekermann, Sebastian Voigt, Florian Weissinger, Elena Busch

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Considerations in the search for epistasis by Marleen Balvert, Johnathan Cooper-Knock, Julian Stamp, Ross P. Byrne, Soufiane Mourragui, Juami van Gils, Stefania Benonisdottir, Johannes Schlüter, Kevin Kenna, Sanne Abeln, Alfredo Iacoangeli, Joséphine T. Daub, Brian L. Browning, Gizem Taş, Jiajing Hu, Yan Wang, Elham Alhathli, Calum Harvey, Luna Pianesi, Sara C. Schulte, Jorge González-Domínguez, Erik Garrisson, Lorentz workshop on epistasis, Michael P. Snyder, Alexander Schönhuth, Letitia M. F. Sng, Natalie A. Twine

“…Abstract Epistasis refers to changes in the effect on phenotype of a unit of genetic information, such as a single nucleotide polymorphism or a gene, dependent on the context of other genetic units. …”
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Longitudinal associations of flare and damage accrual in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus by Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake, Sang-Cheol Bae, Zhanguo Li, Shereen Oon, Vera Golder, Mandana Nikpour, Masayoshi Harigai, Zhuoli Zhang, Eric Morand, Chak Sing Lau, Worawit Louthrenoo, Alberta Hoi, Sandra Navarra, Sean O’Neill, Shue-Fen Luo, Yanjie Hao, Yasuhiro Katsumata, Dominique Milea, Aisha Lateef, Laniyati Hamijoyo, Sargunan Sockalingam, Madelynn Chan, Jiacai Cho, Leonid Zamora, Fiona Goldblatt, Yeong-Jian Jan Wu, Xiaomeng Xu, Aldo A Navarro Rojas

“…Prevention of flares should be considered a necessary goal of SLE disease management to minimise permanent damage.…”
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Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems by Pieter De Frenne, Rémy Beugnon, David Klinges, Jonathan Lenoir, Pekka Niittynen, Sylvain Pincebourde, Rebecca A. Senior, Juha Aalto, Kryštof Chytrý, Phillipa K. Gillingham, Caroline Greiser, Eva Gril, Stef Haesen, Michael Kearney, Martin Kopecký, Peter C. le Roux, Miska Luoto, Ilya Maclean, Matěj Man, Rachel Penczykowski, Liesbeth van denBrink, Stijn Van de Vondel, Karen De Pauw, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Julia Kemppinen, Koenraad Van Meerbeek

“…The paper is structured as a chronological guide, leading the reader through each step necessary to conduct a comprehensive microclimate study. …”
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Exome sequencing of UK birth cohorts [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Petr Danecek, Amy Hough, John Wright, Karen Ho, Nicholas J. Timpson, Sarah J. Lindsay, Davide Bonfanti, Daniel S. Malawsky, Rafaq Azad, Deborah Plowman, Sara Widaa, Gemma Shireby, Emla Fitzsimons, David Bann, Matthew E. Hurles, Hilary C. Martin, Susan M. Ring, Dan Mason, Michael A. Quail, Wei Huang, Vivek Iyer, Mahmoud Koko, Iaroslav Popov, Laurie Fabian, Gennadii Zakharov, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, Emma E. Wade, Qin Qin Huang

“…They collect information useful for a wide range of life course research domains, and biological samples which can be used to derive data from an increasing collection of omic technologies. …”
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Enterococcus and Eggerthella species are enriched in the gut microbiomes of COVID-19 cases in Uganda by Carolina Agudelo, David Patrick Kateete, Emmanuel Nasinghe, Rogers Kamulegeya, Christopher Lubega, Monica Mbabazi, Noah Baker, Kathryn Y. Lin, Chang C. Liu, Arthur Shem Kasambula, Edgar Kigozi, Kevin Komakech, John Mukisa, Kassim Mulumba, Patricia Mwachan, Brenda Sharon Nakalanda, Gloria Patricia Nalubega, Julius Nsubuga, Diana Sitenda, Henry Ssenfuka, Giana T. Cirolia, Jeshua T. Gustafson, Ruohong Wang, Moses Luutu Nsubuga, Fahim Yiga, Sarah A. Stanley, Bernard Ssentalo Bagaya, Alison Elliott, Moses Joloba, Ashley R. Wolf

“…Results We used stool samples in a Ugandan biobank collected from COVID-19 cases during 2020–2022. …”
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Electrocardiogram-gated cardiac computed tomography-based patient- and segment-specific cardiac motion estimation method in stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation for ventricular ta... by Jingyang Xie, Alicia S. Bicu, Melanie Grehn, Mustafa Kuru, Adrian Zaman, Xinyu Lu, Christian Janorschke, Luuk H.G. van der Pol, Martin F. Fast, Jens Fleckenstein, Marcus Both, Stephan Hohmann, Egor Borzov, Peter Winkler, Roland R. Tilz, Dirk Rades, Frank A. Giordano, Daniel Buergy, Boris Rudic, David Duncker, Roland Merten, Tomer Charas, Mahmoud Suleiman, Thomas Brunner, Daniel Scherr, Evgeny Lian, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, Judit Boda-Heggemann, Lena Kaestner

“…In this study, we introduce a patient- and segment-specific cardiac motion estimation method and cardiac motion data of the clinical target volume (CTV), ICD lead tips and left ventricle (LV) segments. …”
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Biomarker Analysis Revealed Distinct Profiles of Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Infants with Ocular Lesions of Congenital Toxoplasmosis by Anderson Silva Machado, Ana Carolina Aguiar Vasconcelos Carneiro, Samantha Ribeiro B&#xe9;la, Gl&#xe1;ucia Manzan Queiroz Andrade, Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos-Santos, Jos&#xe9; N&#xe9;lio Janu&#xe1;rio, Jordana G. Coelho-dos-Reis, Eloisa Am&#xe1;lia Vieira Ferro, Andr&#xe9;a Teixeira-Carvalho, Ricardo Wagner Almeida Vitor, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho, UFMG Congenital Toxoplasmosis Brazilian Group &#x2014;UFMG-CTBG

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IMA genome-F18 by Cobus M. Visagie, Donato Magistà, Massimo Ferrara, Felipe Balocchi, Tuan A. Duong, Ales Eichmeier, David Gramaje, Janneke Aylward, Scott E. Baker, Irene Barnes, Sara Calhoun, Maria De Angelis, Jens C. Frisvad, Eliska Hakalova, Richard D. Hayes, Jos Houbraken, Igor V. Grigoriev, Kurt LaButti, Catarina Leal, Anna Lipzen, Vivian Ng, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Jakub Pecenka, Giancarlo Perrone, Anja Piso, Emily Savage, Milan Spetik, Michael J. Wingfield, Yu Zhang, Brenda D. Wingfield

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Transport and inhibition of the sphingosine-1-phosphate exporter SPNS2 by Huanyu Z. Li, Ashley C. W. Pike, Yung-Ning Chang, Dheeraj Prakaash, Zuzana Gelova, Josefina Stanka, Christophe Moreau, Hannah C. Scott, Frank Wunder, Gernot Wolf, Andreea Scacioc, Gavin McKinley, Helena Batoulis, Shubhashish Mukhopadhyay, Andrea Garofoli, Adán Pinto-Fernández, Benedikt M. Kessler, Nicola A. Burgess-Brown, Saša Štefanić, Tabea Wiedmer, Katharina L. Dürr, Vera Puetter, Alexander Ehrmann, Syma Khalid, Alvaro Ingles-Prieto, Giulio Superti-Furga, David B. Sauer

“…Abstract Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a signaling lysolipid critical to heart development, immunity, and hearing. …”
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Low agreement and frequent invalid controls in two SARS-CoV-2 T-cell assays in people with compromised immune function. by Annette Audigé, Alain Amstutz, Macé M Schuurmans, Patrizia Amico, Dominique L Braun, Marcel P Stoeckle, Barbara Hasse, René Hage, Dominik Damm, Michael Tamm, Nicolas J Mueller, Huldrych F Günthard, Michael T Koller, Christof M Schönenberger, Alexandra Griessbach, Niklaus D Labhardt, Roger D Kouyos, Alexandra Trkola, Michael Huber, Katharina Kusejko, Heiner C Bucher, Irene A Abela, Matthias Briel, Frédérique Chammartin, Benjamin Speich, Swiss HIV Cohort Study, and the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study

“…The reliability between the tests was judged as low (Cohen's kappa [κ] = 0.20; overall percent agreement [OPA] = 66%). A high proportion of tests were invalid (22% Euroimmun; 8% Roche). …”
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Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands by Marie Spohn, Sumanta Bagchi, Jonathan D. Bakker, Elizabeth T. Borer, Clinton Carbutt, Jane A. Catford, Christopher R. Dickman, Nico Eisenhauer, Anu Eskelinen, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Sally E. Koerner, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Lauri Laanisto, Ylva Lekberg, Jason P. Martina, Holly Martinson, Meelis Pärtel, Pablo L. Peri, Anita C. Risch, Nicholas G. Smith, Carly Stevens, G. F. Ciska Veen, Risto Virtanen, Laura Yahdjian, Alyssa L. Young, Hillary S. Young, Eric W. Seabloom

“…Abstract Grasslands cover approximately a third of the Earth’s land surface and account for about a third of terrestrial carbon storage. …”
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Capillary microfluidics for diagnostic applications: fundamentals, mechanisms, and capillarics by Elham Khanjani, Andrea Fergola, Joan Antoni López Martínez, Simin Nazarnezhad, Simin Nazarnezhad, Jasmina Casals Terre, Simone Luigi Marasso, Simone Luigi Marasso, Behrouz Aghajanloo

“…Frontiers in Lab on a Chip Technologies…”
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