When Ribonucleases Come into Play in Pathogens: A Survey of Gram-Positive Bacteria by Brian C. Jester, Pascale Romby, Efthimia Lioliou

“…It is widely acknowledged that RNA stability plays critical roles in bacterial adaptation and survival in different environments like those encountered when bacteria infect a host. Bacterial ribonucleases acting alone or in concert with regulatory RNAs or RNA binding proteins are the mediators of the regulatory outcome on RNA stability. …”
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Distribution and new hosts of the parasitic fungus Inonotus nidus-pici in Serbia by Ivan Milenković, Zlatan Radulović, Michal Tomšovský, Katarzyna Sikora, Vesna Golubović Ćurguz, Dušan Jovanović, Dragan Karadžić

“… Since 2013, symptoms indicative of I. nidus-pici infections were recorded in various stands in the central part of Serbia and several tree species from Fagaceae family were affected. …”
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Preparation of Silver Nanoparticles and Their Industrial and Biomedical Applications: A Comprehensive Review by Adnan Haider, Inn-Kyu Kang

“…The governing factor for their potent efficacy against microbes is considered to be the various mechanisms enabling it to prevent microbial proliferation and their infections. Furthermore a number of new techniques have been developed to synthesize Ag-NPs with controlled size and geometry. …”
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Estimation of the Secondary Attack Rate for Delta Hepatitis Coinfection among Injection Drug Users by Christiane Poulin, Theresa Gyorkos, Lawrence Joseph

“…The secondary attack rate for delta hepatitis coinfection was estimated among a cluster of injection drug users (IDUs). The infections occurred during an epidemic of hepatitis B in a rural area of Nova Scotia in 1988 and 1989. …”
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Kikuchi–Fujimoto disease presenting as pyrexia of unknown origin by Prasanta Padhan, Krishna Prasad Tripathy, Saroj Ranjan Sahoo, Debasish Maikup, Nachiketa Mahapatra

“…It can closely mimic infective and immunological disorders. Here, we report a 23-year-old female who presented with fever of unknown origin with other constitutional symptoms. …”
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Epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnosis and vaccination of tick-borne encephalitis: an overview by G. Navickaitė, R. Mineikytė, J. Valaikienė

“…There are few reasons for the increasing number of cases which could be attributed to increasing popularity of outdoor activities, tourism in infected areas, and better diagnosis of the disease. …”
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Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells: The Present Alternative for High-Incidence Diseases, Even SARS-Cov-2 by Karen J. Juárez-Navarro, Eduardo Padilla-Camberos, Néstor Fabián Díaz, Ariel Miranda-Altamirano, N. Emmanuel Díaz-Martínez

“…Nowadays, there are more than a thousand registered clinical trials related to MSC application around the world, highlighting MSC role on difficult-to-treat high-incidence diseases such as the current COVID-19, HIV infections, and autoimmune and metabolic diseases. Here, we summarize a general overview of MSCs and their therapeutic mechanisms; also, we discuss some of the novel clinical trial protocols and their results as well as a comparison between the number of registries, countries, and search portals.…”
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Information Entropy Based on Propagation Feature of Node for Identifying the Influential Nodes by Linfeng Zhong, Yu Bai, Yan Tian, Chen Luo, Jin Huang, Weijun Pan

“…Compared to the benchmark methods in the six different empirical networks, the IIE method has been found with a better performance on Kendall’s Tau and imprecision function under the Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) model. Especially in the Facebook network, Kendall’s Tau can grow by 120% as compared with the original IE method. …”
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Lactobacillus gasseri Causing Bilateral Empyema by Angela Esquibel, Ala S. Dababneh, Bharath Raj Palraj

“…Although they are usually thought to be nonpathogenic, there have been several cases that demonstrate severe infections caused by these microorganisms. This is a case of a 49-year-old male with previously undiagnosed type two diabetes mellitus who presented with a 3-month history of cough and was found to have right sided Lactobacillus gasseri empyema for which he underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) with chest tube placement. …”
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Acute Enterovirus Encephalitis as a Cause for Isolated Visual and Auditory Hallucinations in a 22-Year-Old Patient by M. Deest, C. Eberlein, S. Bleich, H. Frieling, T. Skripuletz, A. Neyazi

“…One of the most feared kind of virus encephalitis is herpes simplex encephalitis; however, other central virus infections are also capable of presenting with psychiatric symptoms. …”
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Pancytopenia in a 70-Year-Old African-American Male: An Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease by Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, Alaa M. Ali, Aram Barbaryan, Nwabundo Anusim, Raya Saba, Shawn G. Kwatra, Nasir Hussain, Teresita Zdunek, Alan D. Gilman

“…Clinically, the disease presents with splenomegaly and abdominal discomfort, frequent infections, fatigue and bleeding because of related cytopenias. …”
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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis due to Lactobacillus paracasei in Cirrhosis by Emily Harding-Theobald, Bharat Maraj

“…Intra-abdominal Lactobacillus infections are typically seen in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis or who have recently had bowel perforation. …”
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Optimal control on hybrid ODE Systems with application to a tick disease model by Wandi Ding

“…The goal is to maximizedisease-free ticks and minimize infected ticks through an optimalcontrol strategy of treatment with acaricide. …”
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HIV Treatment as Prevention: Contradictory Perspectives from Dynamic Mathematical Models by Jing Wu, Jessie L. Norris, Yujiang Jia, Ning Wang

“…This review discusses more conservative inputs and outcomes relative to antiretroviral use in HIV infections in dynamic mathematical models. ART alone cannot eliminate HIV transmission.…”
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Invasive Mucormycosis Induced Pneumopericardium: A Rare Cause of Pneumopericardium in an Immunocompromised Patient by Sana Khan, Muhammad Waqar Elahi, Waqas Ullah, Hafez Mohammad Ammar Abdullah, Ejaz Ahmad, Mayar Al Mohajer, Aneela Majeed

“…Mucor and Rhizopus cause life-threatening infections primarily involving the lungs and sinuses, which disseminate very rapidly by necrosis and infarction of the contiguous tissues. …”
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Brucella-Induced Acute Psychosis: A Novel Cause of Acute Psychosis by Chi-Chi Obuaya, Gayathri Thivyaa Gangatharan, Efthimia Karra

“…Background. Infections have long been linked to psychosis and categorised within “secondary” psychoses. …”
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AFRICAN SWINE FEVER EPIDEMIC IN 2007–2017 PART 1. COMMON TRENDS FOR ASF IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND IN EURASIA by A. S. Oganesyan, М. A. Shibayev, Н. Ye. Baskakova, F. I. Korennoy, A. К. Karaulov

“…Common ASF epidemic trend and rate in 2007–2017 in Eurasia territory based on number of infected countries (1.273 ± 1.272 countries/year) and in Russian Federation Subjects (4.5 ± 2.3 Subjects/year) are shown. …”
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Stochastic epidemic models with a backward bifurcation by Linda J. S. Allen, P. van den Driessche

“…In this region the probabilitydistribution associated with the infective population exhibits bimodality withone mode at the disease-free equilibrium and the other at the larger endemicequilibrium. …”
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Poikiloderma with neutropenia: a case report by Jebran Chekr, Jan Andraws, Jubran Elias, Diana Alasmar

“…Case presentation Our patient, an 11-year-old Syrian male child who presented with poikiloderma, palmoplantar keratoderma, pachyonychia, recurrent infections, and neutropenia, is considered to be the first documented case in Syria. …”
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Schistosoma Tegument Proteins in Vaccine and Diagnosis Development: An Update by Cristina Toscano Fonseca, Gardênia Braz Figueiredo Carvalho, Clarice Carvalho Alves, Tatiane Teixeira de Melo

“…Parasite surface proteins, especially those expressed in schistosomula tegument, represent interesting targets to be used in vaccine formulations and in the diagnosis of early infections, since the tegument represents the interface between host and parasite and its molecules are responsible for essential functions to parasite survival. …”
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