Does Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. bovis Survival in the Environment Confound Bovine Tuberculosis Control and Eradication? A Literature Review by Adrian R. Allen, Tom Ford, Robin A. Skuce

“…It is possible, therefore, that infection from environmental sources of M. bovis could be a disease transmission risk. …”
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Oxidative stress and DNA lesions: the role of 8-oxoguanine lesions in Trypanosoma cruzi cell viability. by Pedro H N Aguiar, Carolina Furtado, Bruno M Repolês, Grazielle A Ribeiro, Isabela C Mendes, Eduardo F Peloso, Fernanda R Gadelha, Andrea M Macedo, Glória R Franco, Sérgio D J Pena, Santuza M R Teixeira, Leda Q Vieira, Alessandra A Guarneri, Luciana O Andrade, Carlos R Machado

“…The recombinant parasite also displayed significantly increased growth after 48 hours of infection in fibroblasts and macrophages when compared to wild-type cells, as well as increased parasitemia in Swiss mice. …”
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A comparative study evaluating three line immunoassays available for serodiagnosis of equine Lyme borreliosis: Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato-specific antibodies in s... by Cornelia V Broeckl, Stephanie Hiereth, Reinhard K Straubinger

“…Diagnosis of equine Lyme borreliosis (LB), an infection caused by members of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex (Bbsl), is challenging due to the nonspecific clinical signs of the disease and due to the variety of non-standardized serological tests. …”
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Seminoma of Testis Masquerading as Orchitis in an Adult with Paraplegia: Proposed Measures to Avoid Delay in Diagnosing Testicular Tumours in Spinal Cord Injury Patients by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Peter L. Hughes, Paul Mansour, Bakul M. Soni

“…As these changes might merely have represented a partly treated infection, a follow-up scan was carried out 2 weeks later, which revealed a lobulated mass of mixed echogenicity within the testis and a focal area of increased echogenicity indicative of calcification. …”
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Study of COVID-19 cases with real data analysis by Wedad Albalawi, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar, Nadir Omer, Adnan Aslam, Takasar Hussain, Muhammad Ozair, Shahid Hussain, Nida Hameed

“…Two types of equilibria, infection free and endemic, are obtained. After the calculation of reproduction number, global stability of disease free equilibrium is proved using Lyapunov function theory where as graph theoretic approach is utilized to discuss the ultimate behavior of infection present constant level. …”
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Balloon-Assisted Percutaneous Thrombin Injection for Treatment of Iatrogenic Left Subclavian Artery Pseudoaneurysm in a Critically Ill COVID-19 Patient by Hassan Al-Thani, Ahmed Hussein, Ahmed Sadek, Ali Barah, Ayman El-Menyar

“…A 58-year-old male patient presented with a high-grade fever, myalgia, and shortness of breath due to COVID-19 infection. He required mechanical ventilation support and hemodialysis. …”
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Uncovering the genetic basis of antiviral polyketide limocrocin biosynthesis through heterologous expression by Sofiia Melnyk, Marc Stierhof, Dmytro Bratiichuk, Franziska Fries, Rolf Müller, Yuriy Rebets, Andriy Luzhetskyy, Bohdan Ostash

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Phytochemical screening and anti-Helicobacter pylori activity of Bryophyllum pinnatum, Ocimum gratissimum and Vernonia amygdalina by Precious Egharevba, Emilia Igue, Kingsley Enerijiofi, Orhue Amengialue

“…Helicobacter pylori, a common gastrointestinal bacterial pathogenic isolate infects 50% and 90% of the global and developing nations population respectively. …”
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FeLV-induced feline leukemia as a natural model for leukemia pathophysiology study (review) by T. V. Tabakaeva, A. V. Tsybulsky, K. A. Baranchugova, I. V. Galkina, M. Yu. Shchelkanov

“…Feline leukemia pathogenesis and etiology are described; possible methods for the infection treatment and prevention, as well as possibility of using cats as a model for feline leukemia study areassessed. …”
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Beneficial mutualistic fungus Suillus luteus provided excellent buffering insurance in Scots pine defense responses under pathogen challenge at transcriptome level by Zilan Wen, Minna J. Manninen, Fred O. Asiegbu

“…Results In co-inoculation experiment, Scots pine seedlings were pre-inoculated with mutualistic beneficial fungus (Suillus luteus) prior to H. annosum infection. The result revealed that inoculation with beneficial fungus promoted plant root growth. …”
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Carbon Nanomaterials in the Treatment of Infectious Bone Defects and Wound Scars after Wushu Fractures by Shenghui Wei, Lei Zou, Xu Hu, Qiuming Li

“…Although modern antibiotics and surgical technology have made great progress, when using carbon nanomaterials to treat bone marrow-induced inflammation after martial arts fractures, how to simultaneously repair bone defects and control wound infections is the current focus of orthopedics research. …”
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Pretreatment with serine protease inhibitors impairs Leishmania amazonensis survival on macrophages by Patrícia de Almeida Machado, Pollyanna Stephanie Gomes, Elaine Soares Coimbra, Herbert Leonel de Matos Guedes

“…Serine proteases emerge as important virulence factors in the Leishmania genus, as they participate in important processes involved in their infectivity, virulence, and survival. In this work, we evaluated the leishmanicidal effect of different serine protease inhibitors (Benzamidine, PF-429242, PMSF, TLCK, and TPCK). …”
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HIV and AIDS prevention behavior among housewives in South Purwokerto sub-district, Indonesia by Colti Sistiarani, Dian Anandari, Elviera Gamelia

“…South Purwokerto is a sub-district in Banyumas District, Central Java, Indonesia, with sexually transmitted infection (STI) cases as many as 45 people. Material and methods In this quantitative cross-sectional study, health belief model (HBM) was employed to determine individual acceptance in conducting HIV and AIDS prevention behavior. …”
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Protocol for transcriptomic and epigenomic analyses of tip-like endothelial cells using scRNA-seq and ChIP-seq by Shintaro Funasaki, Yuri Miyamura, Shunsuke Kamei, Akhinur Rahman, Masaya Yamazaki, Shingo Usuki, Keiichiro Yasunaga, Yorifumi Satou, Hiroto Ohguchi, Takashi Minami

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Subdural empyema in patient with SARS-CoV-2 positivity: A rare case report of 3 patients by Hamidreza Aghadoost, MD, Ghazaleh Salehabadi, MD-MPH, Esmaeil Fakharian, MD

“…This report highlights a potential link between SARS-COV-2 infection and the patient's development of subdural empyema.…”
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Is Helicobacter pylori eradication required for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-associated erosions and ulcers? by A. Ye. Karateyev, Ye. V. Moroz, Anastasia V. Tsurgan, N. V. Gontarenko

“…According to the data of Maastricht consensus (2012), H. pylori infection and NSAIDs are the two major independent etiological factors of peptic ulcer development and upper gastro-intestinal bleeding. …”
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Diagnostic Value of CD25, CD69, and CD134 on Tuberculosis-Specific Antigen-Stimulated CD4+ T Cells for Tuberculous Pleurisy by Hanlu Shi, Liping Yang, Fujie Zhang, Yu Zhou, Yonglie Zhou

“…The expression of each activation marker was significantly increased in TB-infected populations (patients with ATB and latent TB infection vs. healthy individuals; patients with TP vs. non-TP) and was significantly higher in the PF than in the PB of patients with TP. …”
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Brucella induces an unfolded protein response via TcpB that supports intracellular replication in macrophages. by Judith A Smith, Mike Khan, Diogo D Magnani, Jerome S Harms, Marina Durward, Girish K Radhakrishnan, Yi-Ping Liu, Gary A Splitter

“…In this study, B. melitensis infection up regulated expression of the UPR target genes BiP, CHOP, and ERdj4, and induced XBP1 mRNA splicing in murine macrophages. …”
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Evaluation of inflammation adjustment methods to assess iron deficiency using longitudinal data from norovirus human challenge trials. by Yi-An Ko, Parminder S Suchdev, Jiaxi Geng, Hanqi Luo, Melissa F Young, Anne M Williams

“…Inflammation-adjusted ferritin concentrations were compared with 1) baseline, 2) endline, 3) the average of baseline and endline, and 4) predicted ferritin concentrations among subjects with infection, expressed as percent difference. The predicted ferritin concentrations were modeled using data from 26 subjects without infection in a linear mixed model. …”
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Seroepidemiological Study of Human Toxoplasmosis in Females in Ardabil City, 2019-2020 by Roya Houshmandi Khaneghahi, Shahram Habibzadeh, Farhad Pourfarzi, Behnam Mohammadi Ghalehbin

“…Consumption of raw or undercooked meat infected with tissue cysts and consumption of parasite oocysts are considered the main ways of parasite transmission to humans. …”
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