A comprehensive method on black-legged tick larvae and nymph feeding on mice to study Lyme disease transmission and acquisition by Aaron Scholl, Bingjie Li, John Dennis, Sandip De

“…Despite ongoing efforts to manage these infections, their incidence continues to rise. To develop effective control measures against these diseases and prevent the transmission of tick-borne infections through human and animal tissues, it is very important to develop detection assays and understand the transmission mechanisms of tick-borne infections. …”
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Transgenic Killer Commensal Bacteria as Mucosal Protectants by Luciano Polonelli

“…Candida albicans is among the most prevalent causes of mucosal infections not only in immuno- compromised patients, such as HIV-infected subjects who are frequently affected by oral and esophageal candidiasis, but also in otherwise healthy individuals, as in the case of acute vaginitis. …”
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Effect of Ribavirin on Hepatitis A Virus Replication In Vitro by Rabindra K Chaudhary, Anton P Andonov

“…The effect of ribavirin on fetal Rhesus monkey kidney cells (FRhK-4) acutely or chronically infected with hepatitis A virus was studied. The effect of ribavirin on hepatitis A virus yield as detected by radioimmunoassay in acutely infected FRhK-4 cells was dependent on hepatitis A virus inoculum dose. …”
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The Importance of Monitoring Baseline and Regular Immunoglobulin Levels in Managing Secondary Hypogammaglobulinemia in Rheumatic Diseases: A Case Report and Systematic Review by Winnie Wan Yin Yeung

“…Infections following treatment of rheumatic diseases are common and potentially life threatening. …”
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Ruthenium(II) Lipid‐Mimics Drive Lipid Phase Separation to Arouse Autophagy‐Ferroptosis Cascade for Photoimmunotherapy by Yue Zheng, Wen‐Jin Wang, Jing‐Xin Chen, Kun Peng, Xiao‐Xiao Chen, Qing‐Hua Shen, Bing‐Bing Liang, Zong‐Wan Mao, Cai‐Ping Tan

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Involvement of Different CD4+ T Cell Subsets Producing Granzyme B in the Immune Response to Leishmania major Antigens by Ikbel Naouar, Thouraya Boussoffara, Melika Ben Ahmed, Nabil Belhaj Hmida, Adel Gharbi, Sami Gritli, Afif Ben Salah, Hechmi Louzir

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Development and Validation of a Novel ELISA for the Specific Detection of Antibodies against Mycobacterium avium Subspecies paratuberculosis Based on a Chimeric Polyprotein by Roberto Damián Moyano, Magali Andrea Romero, María Alejandra Colombatti Olivieri, María Fiorella Alvarado Pinedo, Gabriel Eduardo Traveria, María Isabel Romano, María Natalia Alonso

“…The validation consisted of the assessment of 10 sera from PTB-infected and healthy bovines with different OD values. …”
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Ophiocordyceps salganeicola, a parasite of social cockroaches in Japan and insights into the evolution of other closely-related Blattodea-associated lineages by João P. M. Araújo, Mitsuru G. Moriguchi, Shigeru Uchiyama, Noriko Kinjo, Yu Matsuura

“…Our analyses also show that O. sinensis could have originated from an ancestor infecting termite, instead of beetle larvae as previously proposed.…”
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Studies on the effectiveness of cefoperazone on subclinical mastitis of dairy cows by Erol ALAÇAM, Tevfik TEKELİ, Yavuz SEZEN, Osman ERGANİŞ

“…<p> The microorganisms isolated from the infected quarters were found to be 50.44% for staphylococcus, 30.75% for streptococcus. …”
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Impact of Awareness to Control Malaria Disease: A Mathematical Modeling Approach by Malik Muhammad Ibrahim, Muhammad Ahmad Kamran, Malik Muhammad Naeem Mannan, Sangil Kim, Il Hyo Jung

“…To prevent the disease, we divided the infected population into two groups, unaware and aware infected individuals. …”
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Modeling HIV outbreaks: The male to female prevalence ratio in the core population by Brandy Rapatski, James Yorke

“…What affects the ratio of infected men to infected women in the core population in a heterosexual HIV epidemic? …”
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Observer-Based Vaccination Strategy for a True Mass Action SEIR Epidemic Model with Potential Estimation of All the Populations by M. De la Sen, A. Ibeas, S. Alonso-Quesada

“…This paper presents a simple continuous-time linear vaccination-based control strategy for a SEIR (susceptible plus infected plus infectious plus removed populations) propagation disease model. …”
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Myocarditis and Rhabdomyolysis in a Healthy Young Man Caused by Salmonella Gastroenteritis by Warkaa Al Shamkhani, Yasmeen Ajaz, Nagham Saeed Jafar, Sunil Roy Narayanan

“…While viral infections are commonly associated with myocarditis, bacterial infections are infrequently seen with these conditions. …”
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Herpes Simplex Virus Latency: The DNA Repair-Centered Pathway by Jay C. Brown

“…Like all herpesviruses, herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1) is able to produce lytic or latent infections depending on the host cell type. Lytic infections occur in a broad range of cells while latency is highly specific for neurons. …”
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Bacteriophages: A Challenge for Antimicrobial Therapy by Nallelyt Segundo-Arizmendi, Dafne Arellano-Maciel, Abraham Rivera-Ramírez, Adán Manuel Piña-González, Gamaliel López-Leal, Efren Hernández-Baltazar

“…Additionally, we expose key aspects of the mechanisms of action, and therapeutic uses of phage considerations in treating MDR bacterial infections are discussed, particularly in the context of infections related to virus–bacteria interactions.…”
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An application of queuing theory to SIS and SEIS epidemic models by Carlos M. Hernández-Suárez, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Osval Montesinos López, Karla Hernández-Cuevas

“…In order to achieve this we first derive new approximations to quasistationary distribution (QSD) of SIS (Susceptible- Infected- Susceptible) and SEIS (Susceptible- Latent- Infected- Susceptible) stochastic epidemic models. …”
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Outcomes of Peginterferon Alpha-2a and Ribavirin Hepatitis C therapy in Aboriginal Canadians by Curtis L Cooper, Robert J Bailey, Vince G Bain, Frank Anderson, Eric M Yoshida, Mel Krajden, Paul Marotta, for the Canadian Pegasys Study Group

“…BACKGROUND: There is little published information on baseline characteristics and therapeutic outcomes in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected Aboriginal Canadians. It is unclear what proportion of HCV-infected Aboriginal people receive therapy relative to other populations.…”
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Anti-HSV-1 agents: an update by Wenwen Lv, Lei Zhou, Jia Wu, Jishuai Cheng, Yongzhong Duan, Wen Qian

“…HSV-1 is well known for its lytic infections at the primary sites and for establishing latency in the sensory neuronal ganglia, with occasional recurrent infections. …”
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Prevalence and Scanning Electron Microscopic Identification of Anoplocephalid Cestodes among Small Ruminants in Senegal by Mallé Ndom, Gora Diop, Yann Quilichini, Tetsuya Yanagida, Cheikh Tidiane Ba, Bernard Marchand

“…For goats, 66.7% were infected by M. expansa and 33.3% by both M. expansa and T. ovilla. …”
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Predicting Spread Probability of Learning-Effect Computer Virus by Wei-Chang Yeh, Edward Lin, Chia-Ling Huang

“…Hence, there is an increasing need for accurate calculation of the probability of computer-virus-infected areas for developing corresponding strategies, for example, based on the possible virus-infected areas, to interrupt the relevant connections between the uninfected and infected computers in time. …”
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