AI Methods for Antimicrobial Peptides: Progress and Challenges by Carlos A. Brizuela, Gary Liu, Jonathan M. Stokes, Cesar de laFuente‐Nunez

“…AI approaches have recently revolutionised this field by accelerating the discovery of new peptides with anti‐infective activity, particularly in preclinical mouse models. …”
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Compartmental Models Driven by Renewal Processes: Survival Analysis and Applications to SVIS Epidemic Models by Divine Wanduku, Md Mahmud Hasan

“…Applications are provided for the SVIS (Susceptible-Vaccinated-Infected-Susceptible) disease epidemic model to investigate the impacts of hazard rate functions (HRFs) on disease control. …”
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Evaluation of vaccination strategies during pandemic outbreaks by Christopher S. Bowman, Julien Arino, S.M. Moghadas

“…The results show that, if vaccination starts early enough after the onset of the outbreak, a two-dose strategy can lead to a greater reduction in the total number of infections. This, however, requires the second dose of vaccine to confer a substantially higher protection compared to that induced by the first dose. …”
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Endothelial-Leukocyte Interaction in Severe Malaria: Beyond the Brain by Mariana C. Souza, Tatiana A. Padua, Maria G. Henriques

“…The most severe and most studied form of malaria is associated with cerebral complications due to capillary congestion and the adhesion of infected erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes to brain vasculature. …”
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Classification and Analysis of <em>Agaricus bisporus</em> Diseases with Pre-Trained Deep Learning Models by Umit Albayrak, Adem Golcuk, Sinan Aktas, Ugur Coruh, Sakir Tasdemir, Omer Kaan Baykan

“…This research evaluates 20 advanced convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures for classifying mushroom diseases in <i>Agaricus bisporus</i>, utilizing a custom dataset of 3195 images (2464 infected and 731 healthy mushrooms) captured under uniform white-light conditions. …”
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Epitope-Driven Vaccine Development for Zika Virus: A Bioinformatics Approach by Riska Ayu Sutriyansyah, Muhamad Hilmi Ihsanul Iman, Cahya Ajeng Valenta Tresna Sulung, Nelly Indira Kusuma Wardani, Arif Nur Muhammad Ansori

“…Zika virus (ZIKV) has become a global concern in 2015-2016, which can infect adults and developing fetuses. ZIKV is a member of the Flaviviridae family, which can spread through Aedes mosquitoes, sexual intercourse, from mother to fetus, and blood transfusions. …”
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Windsock mitral valve after prior aortic valve endocarditis by Augustine W. Kang, Hanjay Wang, Diane M. Libert, Gerald J. Berry, Jack H. Boyd

“…Case presentation We present the case of a 44 year old male patient who presented with symptoms suggestive of infective endocarditis. Despite initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy and surgical intervention for AV involvement, the patient developed progressive valvular dysfunction. …”
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Automatic Calculation of Cardiometric Coefficients on Chest X-Ray Images by Alexey Kornaev, Dmitry Lvov, Ilya Pershin, Semen Kiselev, Danil Afonchikov, Iskander Bariev, Bulat Ibragimov

“…Chest radiography is an indispensable diagnostic method for detecting a variety of medical conditions, such as infections, tumors, injuries, etc. Millions of chest X-ray examinations are conducted annually, providing crucial information about the functioning of the respiratory and circulatory systems. …”
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Pitfalls in Diagnosis: JMML versus KMT2A Rearranged Juvenile AML by Liesbeth Vanheeswijck, Sanjay Tewari, Robin Dowse, Nicola Potter, Jelena Jovanovic, Caroline L. Furness, Elsje Van Rijswijk

“…We report a case of a 20-month-old girl, who presented with lethargy, recurrent infections, bruising, and marked hepatosplenomegaly. …”
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Design, synthesis and molecular docking of novel triazole derivatives as potential CoV helicase inhibitors by Zaher Nashwa Hafez, Mostafa Mohammed Ismail, Altaher Abdullah Yousef

“…Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) had emerged and spread because of the worldwide travel and inefficient healthcare provided for the infected patients in several countries. Herein we investigated the anti-MERS-CoV activity of newly synthesized sixteen halogenated triazole compounds through the inhibition of helicase activity using the FRET assay. …”
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Marine Diterpenoids as Potential Anti-Inflammatory Agents by Yisett González, Daniel Torres-Mendoza, Gillian E. Jones, Patricia L. Fernandez

“…The search for agents inhibiting inflammation is a great challenge as the inflammatory response plays an important role in the defense of the host to infections. Marine invertebrates are exceptional sources of new natural products, and among those diterpenoids secondary metabolites exhibit notable anti-inflammatory properties. …”
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Ciprofloxacin stress changes key enzymes and intracellular metabolites of Lactobacillus plantarum DNZ-4 by Pin Chen, Xiaoqian Chen, Wei Yu, Bo Zhou, Lihua Liu, Yuzhuo Yang, Peng Du, Libo Liu, Chun Li

“…Ciprofloxacin (CIP) is an antibiotic used to treat infections caused by bacteria. In this experiment, key enzymes and intracellular metabolites of Lactobacillus plantarum DNZ-4 was researched under CIP stress. …”
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The Emergence of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TB): TB/HIV Coinfection, Multidrug-Resistant TB and the Resulting Public Health Threat from Extensively Drug-Resistant TB,... by Paul E Alexander, Prithwish De

“…There is evidence that persons infected with HIV are more likely to experience XDR-TB. …”
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Pyogenic Sacroiliitis in Children: Two Case Reports by L. Ghedira Besbes, S. Haddad, A. Abid, Ch. Ben Meriem, M. N. Gueddiche

“…Pyogenic sacroiliitis is rare and accounts for approximately 1-2% of osteoarticular infections in children. Considerable delay between presentation and diagnosis is recognized. …”
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Parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification for an epidemic model by Alex Capaldi, Samuel Behrend, Benjamin Berman, Jason Smith, Justin Wright, Alun L. Lloyd

“…We examine estimation of the parameters of Susceptible-Infective-Recovered(SIR) models in the context of least squares. …”
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Lipid Antigens: Revealing the Hidden Players in Adaptive Immune Responses by Tamana Eskandari, Yasamin Eivazzadeh, Fatemeh Khaleghinia, Fatemeh Kashi, Valentyn Oksenych, Dariush Haghmorad

“…Lipid trafficking, CD1 molecule interactions, and the immune system’s response to lipid antigens are yet to be completely understood, particularly in the context of autoimmunity and microbial infections. In the years to come, continued research efforts are needed to uncover its underlying biological mechanisms and to exploit the full potential of therapies directed against lipid antigens.…”
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HD-SEIRS Malware Propagation Model in Heterogeneous Complex Networks by Elham Asadi, Soodeh Hosseini

“…Modeling is done based on the Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered epidemic model for devices and Internet networks. …”
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Emerging nanomedicine strategies for hepatocellular carcinoma therapy by Chen Guo, Jiayu Zhang, Xiaomeng Cai, Rui Dou, Jiaruo Tang, Zhengyuan Huang, Xueting Wang, Yan Guo, Hanqing Chen, Jun Chen

“…Abstract Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a prevalent malignant tumor with a range of risk factors, including viral infections, alcoholic liver disease, exposure to fungal toxins, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. …”
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Biochemical Composition of Propolis and Its Efficacy in Maintaining Postharvest Storability of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables by İbrahim Kahramanoğlu, Volkan Okatan, Chunpeng Wan

“…Moreover, it has a long history in the traditional and scientific medicine as having antibacterial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-infective, and wound healing effects since 300 BC. …”
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Secondary Syphilis Presenting as Glossodynia, Plaques en Prairie Fauchée, and a Split Papule at the Oral Commissure: Case Report and Review by Walter de Araujo Eyer-Silva, Maria Alessandra Leite Freire, Cecília Angelina Horta-Araujo, Guilherme Almeida Rosa da Silva, Jorge Francisco da Cunha Pinto, Fernando Raphael de Almeida Ferry

“…We report the case of a 45-year-old HIV-infected male patient in whom secondary syphilis presented with burning mouth and dysgeusia that progressed to glossodynia and odynophagia. …”
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