Procedural Treatments for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Review of Current Injectable Therapies by Lisa M. Billesberger, Kyle M. Fisher, Yawar J. Qadri, Richard L. Boortz-Marx

“…Total knee arthroplasty, although a definitive management, comes with risk such as postoperative infections, revisions, and chronic pain. Newer injectable therapies are gaining attention as alternatives to medications because of a safer side effect profile and are much less invasive than a joint replacement. …”
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Bayesian geostatistical modeling of leishmaniasis incidence in Brazil. by Dimitrios-Alexios Karagiannis-Voules, Ronaldo G C Scholte, Luiz H Guimarães, Jürg Utzinger, Penelope Vounatsou

“…Our risk maps predicted the highest numbers of infected people in the states of Minas Gerais and Pará for visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis, respectively.…”
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Fusarium oxysporum and Colletotrichum musae Associated with Wilt Disease of Coffea arabica in Coffee Gardens in Saudi Arabia by Zarraq AL-Faifi, Wail Alsolami, Emad Abada, Habib Khemira, Ghaliah Almalki, Yosra Modafer

“…This is the first report of these two genera of fungi infecting the roots and leaves of coffee trees in Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia and suggests that other fungus species may play a significant role as diseases in other coffee-producing areas.…”
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Mucocutaneous Manifestations of HIV and the Correlation with WHO Clinical Staging in a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria by Olumayowa Abimbola Oninla

“…There were 156 dermatoses with oral/oesophageal/vaginal candidiasis (41.1%), PPE (24.4%), dermatophytic infections (8.9%), and herpes zoster (3.8%) as the most common dermatoses. …”
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Inside the mucosal immune system. by Jerry R McGhee, Kohtaro Fujihashi

“…Perturbations certainly occur, sometimes resulting in inflammatory diseases or infections that can be debilitating and life threatening. …”
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Comprehensive influence evaluation algorithm of complex network nodes based on global-local attributes by Weijin JIANG, Ying YANG, Tiantian LUO, Wenying ZHOU, En LI, Xiaowei ZHANG

“…Mining key nodes in the network plays a great role in the evolution of information dissemination, virus marketing, and public opinion control, etc.The identification of key nodes can effectively help to control network attacks, detect financial risks, suppress the spread of viruses diseases and rumors, and prevent terrorist attacks.In order to break through the limitations of existing node influence assessment methods with high algorithmic complexity and low accuracy, as well as one-sided perspective of assessing the intrinsic action mechanism of evaluation metrics, a comprehensive influence (CI) assessment algorithm for identifying critical nodes was proposed, which simultaneously processes the local and global topology of the network to perform node importance.The global attributes in the algorithm consider the information entropy of neighboring nodes and the shortest distance nodes between nodes to represent the local attributes of nodes, and the weight ratio of global and local attributes was adjusted by a parameter.By using the SIR (susceptible infected recovered) model and Kendall correlation coefficient as evaluation criteria, experimental analysis on real-world networks of different scales shows that the proposed method is superior to some well-known heuristic algorithms such as betweenness centrality (BC), closeness centrality (CC), gravity index centrality(GIC), and global structure model (GSM), and has better ranking monotonicity, more stable metric results, more adaptable to network topologies, and is applicable to most of the real networks with different structure of real networks.…”
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In Vivo Antimalarial Activity of the Leaf Extract of Osyris quadripartita Salzm. ex Decne and Its Major Compound (–) Catechin by Teyiba Kemal, Kebede Feyisa, Daniel Bisrat, Kaleab Asres

“…The aim of the present study was to investigate the antimalarial activity of the leaf extract of O. quadripartita and its isolated constituent against mice infected with Plasmodium berghei. Methods. Isolation of a compound was carried out on silica gel column chromatography of the extract eluting with gradient mixtures of CHCl3/MeOH. …”
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The Prevalence and Underreporting of Needlestick Injuries among Dental Healthcare Workers in Pakistan: A Systematic Review by Mehak Pervaiz, Ruth Gilbert, Nasreen Ali

“…Needlestick injuries (NSIs) are a major occupational health problem among dental healthcare workers (HCWs) in Pakistan, which places them at a significant risk of acquiring blood-borne infections. However, not all NSIs are reported, leading to an underestimation of the actual prevalence. …”
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Role of the Synthetic B1 Vitamin Sulbutiamine on Health by Bernardo Starling-Soares, Pedro Carrera-Bastos, Lucien Bettendorff

“…Moreover, this molecule has been proposed as a possible treatment for some microsporidial infections and even for certain types of cancer. Despite these potential effects, sulbutiamine is still a relatively unknown molecule, which justifies the present review, where we discuss its history and the existing literature on its health applications. …”
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Distribution and genetic diversity of three apple viruses in Belarus by P. V. Kuzmitskaya, O. Yu. Urbanovich

“…The aim of this investigation was to study the genetic diversity of the apple-tree viruses in Belarus. Virus-infected apple trees were identified by RT- PCR in modern horticultural plantations and were not found among old trees aged more than 50 years. …”
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COMMON CAUSES OF LIMITED MOUTH OPENING ANDITS MANAGEMENT APPROACH AMONG DENTISTS IN KARACHI by Humayun Kaleem Siddiqui et al

“…The three most common causes of trismus according to the present study came out to be oral submucosal fibrosis (26.7%), infections (24.0%), and trauma (15.0%), respectively. …”
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A Review of the Antiviral Susceptibility of Human and Avian Influenza Viruses over the Last Decade by Ding Yuan Oh, Aeron C. Hurt

“…Antivirals play an important role in the prevention and treatment of influenza infections, particularly in high-risk or severely ill patients. …”
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Effect of management system and pedoclimatic factors on Fusarium and Didymella communities associated with pea (Pisum sativum) roots in Germany by Adnan Šišić, Jelena Baćanović-Šišić, Harald Schmidt, Maria R. Finckh

“…Only in conventional systems increased root infections with F. redolens and the FSSC were linked to root rot incidence whereas yields negatively correlated with the FOSC and positively with F. tricinctum isolation frequencies. …”
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Intein-mediated split SaCas9 for genome editing in plants by Danling Hu, Lizhe Hu, Yaqiang Lu, Xiao Dong, Xingyu Cao, Shasha Bai, Lingang Zhang, Dongming Li, Yongwei Sun

“…Additionally, we constructed barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV)-based vectors to co-express Split-v1 SaCas9 and gRNAs targeting LcHRC, LcGW2, and LcTB1 in sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis), a Gramineae forage species known for its recalcitrance to genetic transformation. Infected leaves of sheepgrass exhibited genome editing efficiencies ranging from 10.40% to 37.03%. …”
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Chemokines in Renal Diseases by Stephan Segerer, Peter J. Nelson

“…Therefore, it is not surprising that chemokines play important roles in a wide range of human diseases, including genetic immunodeficiencies, infections, autoimmune diseases, and malignant tumors. …”
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A Reflection of the Position that Social Work Played in Tackling Coronavirus in South Africa by Simon Murote Kang’ethe

“…This researcher thinks that social workers during the COVID era achieved the following: Fighting coronavirus-driven poverty, facilitating psychosocial therapeutic interventions, such as counseling to the victims of gender-based violence, mobilized communities to embrace the spirit of Ubuntu, and offering caregiving to those infected. This role, this researcher believes, unequivocally mitigated the impact of the disease and assisted in raising the societies’ preparedness to handle the coronavirus pandemic astutely. …”
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The Robustness and Sustainability of Port Logistics Systems for Emergency Supplies from Overseas by Yanyu Chen, Wenzhe Zheng, Wenbo Li, Yimiao Huang

“…When the epidemic comes, in addition to eliminating people’s panic, quickly enacting corresponding laws and implementing corresponding policies, and isolating infected people, providing emergency supplies are of course essential. …”
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In Ovo Vaccination Technology: An Alternative Approach to Post-Hatch Vaccination in Modern Poultry Operations by Wafaa A. Abd El-Ghany

“…Poultry production systems are usually exposed to important infections that could be prevented by vaccination programs. …”
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Estimating the time-varying effective reproduction number via Cycle Threshold-based Transformer. by Xin-Yu Zhang, Lan-Lan Yu, Wei-Yi Wang, Gui-Quan Sun, Jian-Cheng Lv, Tao Zhou, Quan-Hui Liu

“…Recent studies showed that the viral loads characterized by cycle threshold (Ct) of the infected populations evolving throughout the course of epidemic and providing a possibility to infer the epidemic trajectory. …”
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Performance of the VITEK® MS system for the identification of filamentous fungi in a microbiological laboratory in Chile. by Lorena Porte, Rodrigo Cruz, Inia Pérez, Carmen Varela, Cristina Díaz, Patricia García, Paulette Legarraga, Francisca Valdivieso, Thomas Weitzel

“…Filamentous fungi are an emergent cause of severe infections in immunocompromised patients. Timely and accurate identification is crucial to initiate appropriate therapy. …”
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