Understanding Pregnancy Diagnosis in Beef Cattle by G. Cliff Lamb, Darren D. Henry, Vitor R. G. Mercadante, Doug E. Mayo

“…Pregnancy diagnosis can be performed simply during vaccination or at the time of weaning. There are three practical methods: rectal palpation, transrectal ultrasonography, or blood test. …”
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Hospitalisation from seasonal influenza among persons with type 1 diabetes: a cohort study from the Swedish National Diabetes Register by Katarina Eeg-Olofsson, Björn Eliasson, Hanne Krage Carlsen, Lena Svensson, Magnus Gisslén, Elin Allansson Kjölhede, Oliver Martyn

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High prevalence of undocumented SARS-CoV-2 infections revealed by analysis of nucleocapsid-specific IgG responses in diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals. by Kim Blom, Ilias Galanis, Philip Bacchus, Klara Sondén, Ioana Bujila, Tatiana Efimova, Fredrik Garli, Mikael Mansjö, Elin Movert, Aleksandra Pettke, Marie Rapp, Maike Sperk, Sandra Söderholm, Karin Valentin Asin, Sarah Zanetti, Magnus Gisslén, Andreas Bråve, Ramona Groenheit, Jonas Klingström

“…However, with the introduction of vaccines containing the spike protein it is no longer possible to use spike-IgG as a marker of infection. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19 and Impact on Disease Course in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Panu Wetwittayakhlang, Farah Albader, Petra A Golovics, Gustavo Drügg Hahn, Talat Bessissow, Alain Bitton, Waqqas Afif, Gary Wild, Peter L Lakatos

“…After initial infection, 61% of IBD patients received COVID-19 vaccinations. Conclusion. The prevalence of COVID-19 infection among patients with IBD was lower than that in the general population in Canada. …”
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Individual- and Community-Level Risk Factors Associated with Childhood Diarrhea in Ethiopia: A Multilevel Analysis of 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey by Setegn Muche Fenta, Teshager Zerihun Nigussie

“…Therefore, integrated child health intervention programs including provisions of toilet facility, access to a clean source of drinking water, educate parents about the importance of breastfeeding, and vaccination have to be strongly implemented in order to reduce the high incidence of childhood diarrhea among children in Ethiopia.…”
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Primary ciliary dyskinesia: Meeting the challenges of diagnosis in South Africa by Z Dangor, M Birkhead, C Verwey, D Gray, A Vanker, L Githinji, A Goga, R Masekela, M Zampoli

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Pertussis Reinfection in an Adult: A Cause of Persistent Cough Not to Be Ignored by Theocharis Koufakis, Anastasia Paschala, Dimitrios Siapardanis

“…Despite the fact that reinfection after natural disease or vaccination is not uncommon, the index of clinical suspicion of pertussis diagnosis in adults remains low. …”
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Toll-Like Receptors and RIG-I-Like Receptors Play Important Roles in Resisting Flavivirus by Hong-Yan Guo, Xing-Cui Zhang, Ren-Yong Jia

“…Even though people and animals are barraged with flavivirus infection every year, we have not invented either vaccines or antiviral for most flavivirus infections yet. …”
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Reformulation of Islamic Law in Indonesia: Study on Indonesian Ulama Council’s Fatwa by Ansori Ansori, Mughni Labib, Marwadi Marwadi

“…Of the many fatwas that have been issued by the MUI, there are a number of fatwas that are formulated such as the fatwa of the pilgrimage and umrah pilgrimage, the initial determination of Ramadan, Shawwal, Zulhijjah, qibla direction, abortion, donation of social funds with prizes (SDSB), and the use of meningitis vaccines for hajj and umrah pilgrims. MUI reformulates the fatwa due to socio-cultural changes in the community and advances in science and technology. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of Specific Immunotherapy in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jiang Chen, Guo Xiao-Zhong, Xing-Shun Qi

“…Specific immunotherapies, including vaccines with autologous tumor cells and tumor antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies, are important treatments for PC patients. …”
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Retroviral and Lentiviral Vectors for the Induction of Immunological Tolerance by Inès Dufait, Therese Liechtenstein, Alessio Lanna, Christopher Bricogne, Roberta Laranga, Antonella Padella, Karine Breckpot, David Escors

“…They have been used for some time for gene therapy and the development of gene vaccines. Recently retroviral and lentiviral vectors have been used to generate tolerogenic dendritic cells, key professional antigen presenting cells that regulate immune responses. …”
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Natural compounds from medicinal plants against COVID-19 by Anton Kolodnitsky, Nikita Ionov, Irina Gravel, Vladimir Poroikov

“…Nevertheless, all of them have certain limitations: uncertainty in duration, limited efficacy of vaccines, and lack of effective drugs for COVID-19 treatment. …”
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The Informed Consent in Allergology from a Scientific, Technological and Social Perspective by Marisela Luisa Pérez Pacaréu, Yanet Morejón del Rosario, Gloria Arlenys Suárez Rodríguez, Aleima Rodríguez Carbajal

“…This paper reviews the application of the informed consent within the specialty of allergology in procedures (skin tests), therapeutic interventions (immunotherapy) and research (clinical trials) from a scientific, technological and social perspective, based on the advances achieved in Cuba in recent years to obtain better allergenic extracts for testing, high-quality vaccines and new drugs to benefit the allergic patient. …”
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Tetanus Complicated by Dysautonomia: A Case Report and Review of Management by Nishant Sharma, Si Li, Metlapalli Venkata Sravanthi, Dan Kazmierski, Yichen Wang, Amit Sharma, Pragya Dhaubhadel

“…Tetanus is a life-threatening infectious neurological disorder that is now a rare disease due to the institution of wide-spread vaccination strategies. We present an uncommon case of generalized severe tetanus with consequent respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation, which was associated with dysautonomia. …”
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Omicron: The rising fear for another wave in Malaysia by Lydia Ngiik-Shiew Law, Ke-Yan Loo, Joanna Xuan Hui Goh, Priyia Pusparajah

“…Pharmaceutical companies raced against the time to develop vaccines, believing that it would be sufficient to control COVID-19. …”
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COVID-19 Situation in Thailand by Yi-He Kuai, Hooi-Leng Ser

“…The health authorities in Thailand are constantly promoting the COVID-19 vaccination plan to achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus. …”
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Helicobacter pylori: Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Cure by ABR Thomson, CN Williams

“…Therapy of H pylori infection is complicated and involves dual therapy with an antibiotic plus a protein pump inhibitor, such as omeprazole 20 mg bid plus amoxicillin 1 g bid for two weeks, triple or quadruple therapy with bismuth, two antibiotics and an H2-receptor antagonist. Vaccination against H pylori is on the far horizon.…”
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EDITORIAL PAPER - MEDICAL TECHNIQUES by JT ADMIN

“…Health technology research could be in the form of procedures, vaccines, devices and systems as outlined by the world health organization in its Health technology assessment report. …”
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Evaluation of IgG binding capability to SARS-CoV-2 variants in early COVID-19 convalescent sera using an indirect ELISA by Behzad Hussain, Peizhe Zhao, Yu Liu, Bo Yang, Xiaoxiong Li, Zhichao Zhang, Guoqiang Feng, Demei Zhang, Defen Lu, Wu Changxin

“…These results indicate that the patients recovering from natural infection of early original Wuhan strain may have the potential to resist infection of current circulating variants and the vaccines using the prototype antigen may still work for newly emerged variants.…”
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Anti-phenolic glycolipid antibodies in Mycobacterium bovis infected cattle by Zijie Zhou, Anouk van Hooij, J. Hessel M. van Dijk, Nina Musch, Louise Pierneef, Hamza Khalid, Kees Franken, Thomas Holder, Neil Watt, Anita L. Michel, Jeroen D.C. Codée, Martin Vordermeier, Paul L.A.M. Corstjens, Elisabeth M.D.L. van der Heijden, Jayne C. Hope, Annemieke Geluk

“…The sensitivity for anti-M. bovis PGL IgM in infected animals was, however, moderate (44.9 %) and the false-positive rate was 6.3 % in SICCT-negative cattle. Notably, vaccination with BCG- or heat-killed M. bovis did not affect serum levels of anti-M. bovis PGL IgM in cattle. …”
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