Secondary Immunodeficiency by Persia Pourshahnazari, Stephen D. Betschel, Vy. H. D. Kim, Susan Waserman, Rongbo Zhu, Harold Kim

“…Some of these impair the immune system leading to secondary immunodeficiencies (SID) that increase host susceptibility to infections and other complications. The causes and consequences of these SID are extremely broad, and a detailed review is beyond the scope of this article. …”
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Giant Intraperitoneal Multiloculated Pseudocyst in a Male by Jacqueline Oxenberg

“…Reports of occurrences are mainly associated with long-term intraperitoneal catheter use, intraperitoneal catheter infections, or major pelvic surgery in females, although there are few reported incidences without prior trauma. …”
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Oral Corticosteroid Relieves Post-COVID-19 Anosmia in a 35-Year-Old Patient by Sam K. Touisserkani, Azin Ayatollahi

“…In our early encounter with the COVID-19, before the pandemic and during the early days of dealing with this novel viral disease in our country, we saw some cases of anosmia in patients infected by SARS-CoV-2. In many cases, this chemosensitive dysfunction persisted after the negativization of the nasopharyngeal swab. …”
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2019–2020 Florida Citrus Production Guide: Alternaria Brown Spot by Megan M. Dewdney

“…In rare cases, it may also infect grapefruit. Where severe, the disease results in extensive fruit drop and must be controlled on processing and fresh-market fruit. …”
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Appendagitis following Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Laparoscopic Appendicectomy by R. Kumar, R. F. Bamford, D. Kumar, G. Singh-Ranger

“…Appendagitis is an uncommon clinical entity, often not recognised, and mistaken for more serious infective conditions. We describe a proven case of appendagitis which occurred after confirmed appendicitis. …”
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Surgical Resection of Tracheal Diverticulum with Haemoptysis as Unusual Presentation by Leonardo Toscano, Daniel Terra, Siul Salisbury, Nicolas Arechavaleta

“…The common symptoms are chronic cough, stridor, or recurrent respiratory infections. Asymptomatic diverticulum requires no treatment and managed conservatively while surgical excision is indicated in cases of local complications or symptom permanence. …”
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Propagation of Computer Virus under Human Intervention: A Dynamical Model by Chenquan Gan, Xiaofan Yang, Wanping Liu, Qingyi Zhu, Xulong Zhang

“…A dynamical model describing the spread of computer virus, under which a susceptible computer can become recovered directly and an infected computer can become susceptible directly, is proposed. …”
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Modeling diseases with latency and relapse by P. van den Driessche, Lin Wang, Xingfu Zou

“…In particular, the disease-free equilibriumis proved to be globally asymptotically stable if $\R_01$, and the disease is shown to be uniformly persistentwith the infective population size either approaching oroscillating about the endemic level. …”
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Stability and Permanence of a Pest Management Model with Impulsive Releasing and Harvesting by Jiangtao Yang, Zhichun Yang

“…We formulate a pest management model with periodically releasing infective pests, immature and mature natural enemies, and harvesting pests and crops at two different fixed moments. …”
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Using Multicore Technologies to Speed Up Complex Simulations of Population Evolution by Mauricio Guevara-Souza, Edgar E. Vallejo

“…In our model, a native population of simulated vectors is inoculated with a small exogenous population of vectors that have been infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which confers immunity to the disease. …”
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2018–2019 Florida Citrus Production Guide: Alternaria Brown Spot by Megan M. Dewdney

“…In rare cases, it may also infect grapefruit. Where severe, the disease results in extensive fruit drop and must be controlled on processing and fresh market fruit. …”
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Field Identification of Citrus Canker Symptoms and Decontamination Procedures by Mongi Zekri, Megan M. Dewdney, Jamie D. Yates, Pamela Roberts

“…The disease causes necrotic dieback, general tree decline, premature fruit drop, and fruit blemishes. Severely infected trees become weak, unproductive, and unprofitable. …”
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“Human Babesiosis”: An Emerging Transfusion Dilemma by Helieh S. Oz, Karin H. Westlund

“…Babesiosis, a common disease of animals, can infect humans via vector “tick bite”, particularly in endemic areas. …”
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Advances in preclinical and clinical studies of oncolytic virus combination therapy by Wenlong Du, Jintong Na, Liping Zhong, Liping Zhong, Pumin Zhang

“…Oncolytic viruses represent a distinct class of viruses that selectively infect and destroy tumor cells while sparing normal cells. …”
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Pentavalent Vaccine‐Induced Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report From Nepal by Ramesh Khadayat, Sailesh Shrestha, Tilak Gautam, Sagar Rana Magar, Prashant Bhatta

“…It can be triggered by various factors, including idiopathic origins, medications, malignancies, infections, and other autoimmune conditions. Though rare, ITP can also occur postvaccination. …”
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Field Identification of Citrus Canker Symptoms and Decontamination Procedures by Mongi Zekri, Megan M. Dewdney, Jamie D. Yates, Pamela Roberts

“…The disease causes necrotic dieback, general tree decline, premature fruit drop, and fruit blemishes. Severely infected trees become weak, unproductive, and unprofitable. …”
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Intravenous to Oral Stepdown Antibiotic Therapy: Another Cost-Effective Strategy in an Era of Shrinking Health Care Dollars by Thomas J Louie

“…Although there are gaps in our information base with regards to outcome studies. the application of newer “pharmacodynamic” principles of antimicrobials action and careful selection of antimicrobials based on in vitro activity and pharmacokinetics will maximize the effectiveness of stepdown treatment of infections.…”
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Syphilis-Related Eye Disease Presenting as Bilateral Papilledema, Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Hemorrhage, and Anterior Uveitis in a Penicillin-Allergic Patient by Jamie Dietze, Shane Havens

“…Treponema pallidum is known as the “great masquerader” for its many presentations and ocular findings in patients who are infected and develop secondary and tertiary stage of syphilis. …”
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Abnormal 18F-FDG Uptake Detected with Positron Emission Tomography in a Patient with Breast Cancer: A Case of Sarcoidosis and Review of the Literature by Selmin Ataergin, Nuri Arslan, Ahmet Ozet, Mehmet Ali Ozguven

“…18F-FDG PET is a useful and sensitive imaging method for a variety of malignancies, however, the specificity is low in active infections and inflammatory diseases. We describe a female patient with stage IIIA breast cancer in first complete remission with combination chemotherapy who developed nodular formations in the lung and axilla 12 years later. …”
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Classification and advances in clinical research of artificial colloidal plasma substitutes by CHANG Zhengyang, LI Ming, GAO Jianpeng, ZHANG Jing, LYU Hua, ZHANG Licheng

“…The number of patients with reduced blood volume due to haemorrhage, fractures, severe infections, extensive burns and tumours is increasing, and traditional blood products are no longer able to meet the increasing clinical demand. …”
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