Application of fluid dynamics in modeling the spatial spread of infectious diseases with low mortality rate: A study using MUSCL scheme by Nnaji Daniel Ugochukwu, Kiogora Phineas Roy, Onah Ifeanyi Sunday, Mung’atu Joseph, Aguegboh Nnaemeka Stanley

“…By treating susceptible, infected, and treated population densities as fluids governed by a system of partial differential equations, the study simulates the epidemic’s spatial dynamics. …”
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Development of a Predictive Model of Tuberculosis Transmission among Household Contacts by Saibin Wang

“…Household contacts of patients with tuberculosis (TB) are at great risk of TB infection. The aim of this study was to develop a predictive model of TB transmission among household contacts. …”
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Behavior of morbidity and mortality due to human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS in Nuevitas, Camagüey, 1993-2021 by Yoan Miguel Aguilar Duret, Leida Nilda Sifontes Viñas, María Esther Del Toro Rodríguez, Adonis Cintras Dones, Yenlys Laucraf Primelles

“…<p><strong>Foundation</strong>:  infection by human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS is considered the most fearsome of sexually transmitted infections. …”
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Meningococcal Neonatal Purulent Conjunctivitis/Sepsis and Asymptomatic Carriage of N. meningitidis in Mother’s Vagina and Both Parents’ Nasopharynx by Enrique Chacon-Cruz, Jorge Arturo Alvelais-Palacios, Jaime Alfonso Rodriguez-Valencia, Erika Zoe Lopatynsky-Reyes, Maria Luisa Volker-Soberanes, Rosa Maria Rivas-Landeros

“…Neonatal conjunctivitis is usually associated with vagina’s infection by Chlamydia sp., N. gonorrhoeae, and/or other bacteria during delivery. …”
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Chloroquine Inhibits Dengue Virus Type 2 Replication in Vero Cells but Not in C6/36 Cells by Kleber Juvenal Silva Farias, Paula Renata Lima Machado, Benedito Antônio Lopes da Fonseca

“…Chloroquine, an amine acidotropic drug known to affect intracellular exocytic pathways by increasing endosomal pH, was used in the in vitro treatment of Vero and C6/36 cells infected with dengue virus type 2 (DENV-2). Real-time RT-PCR and plaque assays were used to quantify the DENV-2 load in infected Vero and C6/36 cells after chloroquine treatment. …”
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Severity and mortality of COVID-19 among people with disabilities: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Abay Woday Tadesse, Abubeker Alebachew Seid, Aragaw Asfaw Hasen

“…The outcomes of interest include the risk of COVID-19 infection, rate of hospitalisation, severity, hospital stay, mortality and others variables where data are available. …”
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Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response by C Goslett, K du Preez, G Hendricks, A Best

“…Children are particularly vulnerable to TB infection and to dangerous forms of disseminated TB such as TB meningitis, which can cause death or major lifelong disability. …”
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Clinical profile of adults and children with reactive arthritis in India – A cohort study by Koshy Nithin Thomas, Anamika Kumari Anuja, Latika Gupta

“…Enteritis was the most common preceding trigger (37, 54%), followed by genitourinary infection (25, 36%), irrespective of gender. The clinical spectrum mirrored previous descriptions, with arthritis in most (95%), enthesitis in 33%, and conjunctivitis and circinate balanitis being the most common extra-articular features (8% each). …”
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qDATA - an R application implementing a practical framework for analyzing quantitative real-time PCR data by Adrian Ionascu, Alexandru Al. Ecovoiu, Mariana Carmen Chifiriuc, Attila Cristian Ratiu

“…The efficiency of our computing approach was tested using input Ct values corresponding to immune related gene expression evaluated in experimental infection of Drosophila melanogaster and Apis mellifera workers. …”
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Bacteriocin-like peptides encoded by a horizontally acquired island mediate Neisseria gonorrhoeae autolysis. by Katy Poncin, Samantha A McKeand, Hayley Lavender, Kacper Kurzyp, Odile B Harrison, Annabell Roberti, Charlotte Melia, Errin Johnson, Martin C J Maiden, David R Greaves, Rachel Exley, Christoph M Tang

“…Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a human-specific pathogen that causes the important sexually transmitted infection, gonorrhoea, an inflammatory condition of the genitourinary tract. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Cultural Communication Based on Evolutionary Game Theory by Wenting Chen, Bopeng Jin

“…Based on the community network structure and the improved classic network communication model, this paper constructs the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model for the grassroots communication of engineering safety culture and discusses the law of grassroots transmission of engineering safety culture. …”
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NIV-Helmet in Severe Hypoxemic Acute Respiratory Failure by Joana Martins, P. Nunes, C. Silvestre, C. Abadesso, H. Loureiro, H. Almeida

“…Subsequent evaluation identified an RSV infection complicated with an increase of inflammatory parameters (reactive C protein 15 mg/dL). …”
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Brief review of pathophysiological disorders as consequence of psychological stress by Francisco López-Naranjo, Rebeca Córdova-Moreno, Ivo Heyerdahl-Viau

“…Gastrointestinal disorders are mainly due to goblet cell dysfunction, resulting in intestinal hyperpermeability, inflammation and infection. Changes at the immune level lead to an increase in inflammatory responses but a decrease in the protective activities of the immune system. …”
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Similar Strains of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Found in the Gastrointestinal Tract and Bloodstream of Bacteremic Neonates by Jennifer O. Adeghate, Emese Juhász, Miklós Á. Iván, Júlia Pongrácz, Katalin Kristóf

“…Premature neonates are susceptible to opportunistic and nosocomial infections. Efforts have been made to determine whether the neonatal gut microbiome possesses potential for causing bloodstream infections in newborns via microbial translocation from the gastrointestinal tract. …”
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Spondylodiscitis Caused by Enterobacter agglomerans by Jayaweera Arachchige Asela Sampath Jayaweera, Mahen Kothalawala, Balachandran Devakanthan, Sinnappoo Arunan, Dinithi Galgamuwa, Manori Rathnayake

“…All over the globe, the incidence of vertebral infection is rising. Nowadays, compared to tuberculous variety, pyogenic spondylodiscitis incidence is high. …”
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Carcinogenic and anticancer activities of microbiota-derived secondary bile acids by Mobina Kouhzad, Friedrich Götz, Tahereh Navidifar, Elahe Taki, Mahsa Ghamari, Roghayeh Mohammadzadeh, Maryam Seyedolmohadesin, Narjess Bostanghadiri

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Network Analysis of MERS Coronavirus within Households, Communities, and Hospitals to Identify Most Centralized and Super-Spreading in the Arabian Peninsula, 2012 to 2016 by Oyelola A. Adegboye, Faiz Elfaki

“…The transmission connectivity networks of people infected with highly contagious Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia were assessed to identify super-spreading events among the infected patients between 2012 and 2016. …”
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The characteristics of intestinal microflora in infants with rotavirus enteritis, changes in microflora before and after treatment and their clinical values by Qiyan Yan, Yuanyuan Chen, E-Bin Gao, Yanbo Lu, Junhua Wu, Haiyan Qiu

“…Compared to the healthy group, the RV-infected group exhibited reduced microbial diversity. …”
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Claudin-11 regulates immunological barrier formation and spermatogonial proliferation through stem cell factor by Taichi Sugawara, Kayoko Sonoda, Nattapran Chompusri, Kazuhiro Noguchi, Seiji Okada, Mikio Furuse, Tomohiko Wakayama

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Predicting individuals’ behaviors during a pandemic: why we might have acted as we did during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shaikha S. Aldousari, William Ickes

“…In the case of the current COVID-19 crisis, some people adopt behaviors that ensure their safety and the safety of others, whereas other people display careless behaviors that contribute to spreading the infection. Because individual differences in this situation matter, it is important to determine which variables accurately predict which behaviors.…”
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