Development of IgY-Based Sandwich ELISA as a Robust Tool for Rapid Detection and Discrimination of Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae by Mahdiye Bayat, Alireza Khabiri, Behzad Hemati

“…The expression and purification yielded 59 and 38 mg of recombinant OmpW and CtxB, respectively, per one liter of bacterial culture. PEG precipitation and purification of egg yolk antibodies yielded on average (±SD) 66.5 ± 1.80 and 50.9 ± 2.23 mg of purified α-OmpW and α-CtxB per egg, respectively. …”
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Oral Findings, Salivary Copper, Magnesium, and Leptin in Type II Diabetic Patients in Relation to Oral Candida Species by Mohammed Jasim Mohammed, Abbas S. Al-mizraqchi, Salah M. Ibrahim

“…The rate of saliva flow (in milliliters per minute) was measured in samples of saliva that were not stimulated. …”
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Medical Resource Use and Costs of Treating Sickle Cell-related Vaso-occlusive Crisis Episodes: A Retrospective Claims Study by Nirmish Shah, Menaka Bhor, Lin Xie, Jincy Paulose, Huseyin Yuce

“…**Background:** The study investigated the economic burden of vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC) among sickle cell disease (SCD) patients, through assessment of overall utilization and costs and costs per VOC episode (regarding the number of VOC episodes and health care setting, respectively). …”
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Fecal Microbiota and Diet of Children with Chronic Constipation by Joyce Gomes de Moraes, Maria Eugênia Farias de Almeida Motta, Monique Ferraz de Sá Beltrão, Taciana Lima Salviano, Giselia Alves Pontes da Silva

“…Constipated children had a smaller concentration of Lactobacillus per milligram of stool (p=0.015) than nonconstipated children, but the concentration of Bifidobacterium per milligram of stool (p=0.323) and the intake of fruits, vegetables (p=0.563), and junk food (p=0.093) of the two groups did not differ. …”
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Trends and Factors Affecting Hospitalization Costs in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Two-Center Study over the Past Decade by Junjie Xu, Minyue Tang, Jun Shen

“…The annual hospitalization cost per patient, cost per hospitalization, and daily cost during hospitalization increased significantly in the past decade (all P<0.001). …”
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The Effect of Water Magnetization of Different Locations in Basrah Province on the Productive and Physiological Performance of Local Ducks by Sabah K. M. Al-hummod, Khalid C. K. Al-Salhie, Salah M. Alsudany

“…A total of 105 one-day-old, unsexed local ducks were randomly distributed into seven treatments with three replicates per each (5 birds per replicate). The control treatment used reverse osmosis (RO) water. …”
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Differences of IL-1β Receptors Expression by Immunocompetent Cells Subsets in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Alina A. Alshevskaya, Julia A. Lopatnikova, Nadezhda S. Shkaruba, Oksana A. Chumasova, Aleksey E. Sizikov, Aleksander V. Karaulov, Vladimir A. Kozlov, Sergey V. Sennikov

“…The importance of determining both the relative percentage of cells expressing receptors to immunomodulatory cytokines and the number of membrane-bound receptors per cell is highlighted by evidence of unidirectional or multidirectional changing of these parameters according to cell subset and health status.…”
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Substantially underestimated global health risks of current ozone pollution by Yuan Wang, Yuanjian Yang, Qiangqiang Yuan, Tongwen Li, Yi Zhou, Lian Zong, Mengya Wang, Zunyi Xie, Hung Chak Ho, Meng Gao, Shilu Tong, Simone Lolli, Liangpei Zhang

“…Our model demonstrates strong performance, achieving a mean bias of less than -1.5 parts per billion against in-situ measurements. We estimate that 66.2% of the global population is exposed to excess ozone for short term (> 30 days per year), and 94.2% suffers from long-term exposure. …”
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A Retrospective Database Cohort Study Evaluating the Association Between Immune Suppressive Therapy and the Development of Cancer in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis Within UK Prima... by Simon Wan Yau Ming, Yi Zhou, Mike Smith, Jay Were

“…Cohorts were propensity matched 1:1, resulting in 17,556 patients per cohort. Cox proportional hazard models were used to model the hazard of a cancer diagnosis. …”
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Growth, Yield-Related Traits and Yield of Lowland Maize (Zea mays L.) Varieties as Influenced by Inorganic NPS and N Fertilizer Rates at Babile, Eastern Ethiopia by Mekuannet K. Belay

“…The results showed that the leaf area index, thousand kernel weight, and biomass and grain yields were significantly influenced by the interaction effect of variety × NPS and N in the first growing season. The number of ears per plant, ear length, ear diameter, number of kernels per ear, and biomass yield were significantly affected due to variety in the second growing season. …”
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A comparison of the parasitoid wasp species richness of tropical forest sites in Peru and Uganda – subfamily Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) by Hopkins, Tapani, Tuomisto, Hanna, Gómez, Isrrael C., Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.

“…Peruvian traps caught species at a faster rate (per individual caught) than Ugandan traps. We interpret this as a sign that the Peruvian sites have more species than the Ugandan site. …”
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Whipple’s Disease: Our Own Experience and Review of the Literature by Jan Bureš, Marcela Kopáčová, Tomáš Douda, Jolana Bártová, Jan Tomš, Stanislav Rejchrt, Ilja Tachecí

“…Patients were treated using i.v. penicillin G or amoxicillin-clavulanic acid + i.v. gentamicin for two weeks, followed by p.o. doxycycline (100 mg per day) plus p.o. salazopyrine (3 g per day) for 1 year. …”
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Prediction of BlastInduced Ground Vibration (BIGV) of Metro Construction Using Difference Evolution AlgorithmOptimized Gaussian Process (DE-GP) by Tengfei Jiang, Annan Jiang, Shuai Zheng, Mengfei Xu

“…Distance from the blast-face, total charge, and maximum charge per delay have a greater impact on the prediction of PPV, while stemming length and powder factor have a smaller impact on the prediction of PPV. …”
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A clinical audit on the utilization of group O-negative red cells and the lesson learnt by Arzina Aziz Ali, Hira Qadir, Areeba Khalid, Bushra Moiz

“…Children at ≤18 years were included in the pediatric population as per our institutional criterion while a female between 15 and 49 years was considered as having childbearing potential according to previously published data. …”
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Growth and Productivity of Chironomus sp. in Enriched Substrat by Chicken Manure 1,0-2,5 g/l by D. Shafruddin, B.R. Parlinggoman, K. Sumantadinata

“…This study was carried out to examine growth and productivity of Chironomus larvae reared in water containing 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 g of chicken manure per liter water.   The growth of chironomus larvae for 4 weeks rearing was reached a peak at the third week. …”
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Response of Garlic (Allium sativum L.) Yield to Combined Biochar, Lime, and Inorganic-Fertilizer Rates in the Case of Gimbi District, Western Ethiopia by Solomon Abeba Kenea, Tolera Abera Goshu, Kinati Chimdessa

“…The treatment unit with T11 ha−1 had the significantly highest total fresh biomass yield (TFBY) per plant for both Farm-1 (65.9 g) and Farm-2 (75.3 g). …”
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Impact of Lonicera hypoglauca leaf inclusion on immune and antioxidant responses in geese by Zonghao Lv, Zhen Li, Zhizhong Zhang, Gao Li, Qinghua Chen, Qian Lin

“…For this study, 180 one-day-old male Xiang goslings were randomly assigned to control and 4 treatment groups (6 replicates per group; 6 goslings per replicate). The control group received a basal diet, whereas the treatment groups received a basal diet partially substituted with 3%, 6%, 9% and 12% LHLs, respectively. …”
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Awareness of workplace hazards and preventive measures among sandstone mineworkers in Rajasthan, India: A cross-sectional study by Absar Ahmad

“…Awareness of workplace hazards was associated with age less than 60, young age of starting work in mines (< 30 years), hours work per day (< 8 hr), and no availability of drinking water facility. …”
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Hierarchical Stratification for Spatial Sampling and Digital Mapping of Soil Attributes by Derlei D. Melo, Isabella A. Cunha, Lucas R. Amaral

“…We evaluated two sampling densities in two agricultural fields in Southeast Brazil: a sparse density (one sample per 2.5 hectares), typical in Precision Agriculture, and a denser grid (one sample per hectare), which usually provides reasonable mapping accuracy. …”
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Oral health-related conditions in Ecuador: A temporal trend analysis of hospital discharges from 2000-2023. by Verónica Baldeón, Adriana Hernández, Sthephany Tapia, Alejandro Rodriguez

“…We estimated crude and age-standardized rates per 100,000 inhabitants for the entire population and crude rates by sex, age, region, and the diagnosis. …”
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