Ill, Itinerant, and Insured: The Top 20 Users of Emergency Departments in Baltimore City by Barbara Y. DiPietro, Dana Kindermann, Stephen M. Schenkel

“…Hypertension, HIV infection, diabetes, substance abuse, and alcohol abuse were the most common chronic illnesses. …”
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Optimizing Varicella Vaccination Strategy: A Study on Age and Dose Impacts on Antibody Levels by Qing He, Yang Xu, Yilan Li, Pinting Zhu, Lei Luo

“…Seropositivity study of Varicella in Healthy Populations in Guangzhou, China. Infection with varicella-zoster virus (VZV) leads to skin and mucous membranes blisters and the complications can be life threatening. …”
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Modulating cytokine microenvironment during T cell activation induces protective RSV-specific lung resident memory T cells in early life in mice by Ziyin Wang, Miko Zhong, Chubicka Thomas, Ekaterina Kinnear, Tom Rice, Beth Holder, Beate Kampmann, John S. Tregoning

“…In contrast to adulthood, we demonstrated that RSV or influenza infection in neonatal mice recruited fewer TRM to the lungs. …”
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Chlamydophila psittaci pneumonia followed by lower gastrointestinal ischemic necrosis: a case report by Shifeng Shao, Jun Liu, Zhenbing Wu, Shasha Wu

“…Timely diagnoses and treatments of such infections and complications are necessary to achieve favorable clinical outcomes.…”
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Contributions of Mamu-A*01 status and TRIM5 allele expression, but not CCL3L copy number variation, to the control of SIVmac251 replication in Indian-origin rhesus monkeys. by So-Yon Lim, Tiffany Chan, Rebecca S Gelman, James B Whitney, Kara L O'Brien, Dan H Barouch, David B Goldstein, Barton F Haynes, Norman L Letvin

“…There have recently been conflicting reports in the literature concerning whether CCL3-like gene (CCL3L) copy number variation (CNV) is associated with resistance to HIV-1 acquisition and with both viral load and disease progression following infection with HIV-1. An association has also been reported between CCL3L CNV and clinical sequelae of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection in vivo in rhesus monkeys. …”
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Virus dynamics model with intracellular delays and immune response by Haitao Song, Weihua Jiang, Shengqiang Liu

“…In this paper, we incorporate an extra logistic growth term for uninfected CD4$^+$ T-cells into an HIV-1 infection model with bothintracellular delay and immune response delay which was studied by Pawelek et al. in [26]. …”
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<i>Mycobacterium abscessus—</i>An Emerging True Pathogen: A Case Report by Shruti Appaswamy, Bhavesh D Rathod

“…Although historically known to cause infections in immunocompromised individuals, the incidence of infections in immunocompetent humans is on the rise, giving it the status of a true pathogen. …”
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Intrafamilial Genotyping of Helicobacter pylori from Faecal DNA by M. McMillan, W. G. MacKay, C. L. Williams, A. J. Shepherd, C. Malcolm, L. T. Weaver

“…Helicobacter pylori infection, often acquired in early childhood, is a global cause of undernutrition, gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and gastric carcinoma. …”
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Diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency virus from a Cryptococcus meningoencephalitis. Case Presentation by María Odeymi Urdanivia Cruz, Idalmis D. Reyes Rod´ríguez, Jorge E. Barletta del Castillo

“…Cryptococcosis, a mycotic infection, had a sporadic presentation worldwide, but in the last two decades there has been an increase in the incidence of AIDS-related opportunistic infection, even considering it as the most frequent fungal meningitis in these patients. …”
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Kidney damage associated with COVID-19: from the acute to the chronic phase by Yannick Mayamba Nlandu, Elliot Koranteng Tannor, Titilope Adetoun Bamikefa, Jean-Robert Rissassi Makulo

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2) infection is well established as a systemic disease including kidney damage. …”
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Global stability for epidemicmodel with constant latency and infectious periods by Gang Huang, Edoardo Beretta, Yasuhiro Takeuchi

“…In this paper, an age-infectionmodel is presented for the delay SEIR epidemic model, such that theproperties of global asymptotic stability of the equilibria of theage-infection model imply the same properties for the originaldelay-differential epidemic model. …”
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Omadacycline for the Treatment of Severe Legionella Pneumonia Complicated with Multiple Organ Failure: A Case Report by Xu L, Xiong Y, Fang C

“…Omadacycline is a novel tetracycline antibiotic with a good safety profile and in vitro antibacterial activity against Legionella, but it lacks validation by clinical data.Case Description: Here, we report a case of severe pneumonia caused by Legionella infection. The patient was empirically treated with antibiotics, after admission but had a poor clinical outcome with severe hepatic and renal insufficiency. …”
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POLUDANUM’S INFLUENCE ON REPRODUCTIVE AND RESPIRATORY SYNDROME, TRANSMISSIBLE GASTROENTERITIS AND AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUSES IN PRIMARY AND CONTINUOUS CELL CULTURES by D. V. Sharypova, I. Yu.  Zhukov, Ali  Mazlum, N. N. Vlasova, O. S. Puzankova, V. L. Gavrilova, A. S. Igolkin

“…It is used for stimulation of cell immunity which is capable of preventing infection and disease development and has antiviral and immunomodulatory effect. …”
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Epichloë scottii sp. nov., a new endophyte isolated from Melica uniflora is the missing ancestor of Epichloë disjuncta by Torsten Thünen, Yvonne Becker, Murray P. Cox, Samad Ashrafi

“…A distribution analysis showed a high infection rate in close vicinity of the initial sampling site and only two more spots with low infection rates. …”
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Bacillus pumilus Septic Arthritis in a Healthy Child by V. M. Shivamurthy, Soren Gantt, Christopher Reilly, Peter Tilley, Jaime Guzman, Lori Tucker

“…This organism rarely causes serious infections and has only been described in newborns and immunocompromised individuals or as a skin infection. …”
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Stability, Bifurcation, and a Pair of Conserved Quantities in a Simple Epidemic System with Reinfection for the Spread of Diseases Caused by Coronaviruses by Jorge Fernando Camacho, Cruz Vargas-De-León

“…In this paper, we study a modified SIRI model without vital dynamics, based on a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations, for epidemics that exhibit partial immunity after infection, reinfection, and disease-induced death. …”
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Network Firewall Dynamics and the Subsaturation Stabilization of HIV by Bilal Khan, Kirk Dombrowski, Mohamed Saad, Katherine McLean, Samuel Friedman

“…Analysis of system trajectories reveals the structural mechanisms by which individuals with mature HIV infections tend to partition the network into homogeneous clusters (with respect to infection status) and how uninfected clusters remain relatively stable (with respect to infection status) over long stretches of time. …”
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Assessment of the First Commercial ELISA Kit for the Diagnosis of Theileria annulata by Amira A. T. Al-Hosary, Jabbar Ahmed, Ann Nordengrahn, Malik Merza

“…The present study assesses the efficacy of SVANOVIR Theileria annulata-Ab, the first commercial ELISA kit for the diagnosis of Theileria annulata infection in cattle based on a recombinant protein known as T. annulata surface protein (TaSp). …”
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Haemonchosis in Small Ruminants Under Traditional Husbandry Systems in Apac District, Northern Uganda by Charles Dickens Opeto, Harriet Angwech, Acaye Ongwech, Benard Abola, Steven Odongo, Geoffrey M. Malinga

“…Significant predictors of infection were the origin of study animals, animal species, breed of animal, age of study animal, faecal consistency, lactation, multispecies grazing, grazing method, and anthelmintic use. …”
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Serum Leucine-Rich α2-Glycoprotein as a Biomarker for Monitoring Disease Activity in Patients with Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis by Masaki Shimizu, Natsumi Inoue, Mao Mizuta, Yasuo Nakagishi, Akihiro Yachie

“…To investigate whether serum leucine-rich α2-glycoprotein (LRG) levels are useful as a marker of disease activity in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (s-JIA), we determined serum LRG levels in fifty-nine s-JIA patients, 15 with other subtypes of JIA, 7 with Kawasaki disease (KD), 7 with influenza A infection (flu), 7 with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) infection, and 20 healthy controls (HC). …”
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