Association between Leptin, Metabolic Factors and Liver Histology in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C by Robert P Myers, Djamila Messous, Thierry Poynard, Francoise Imbert-Bismut

“…BACKGROUND: Steatosis is common in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients and likely accelerates fibrosis progression. …”
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TLRs, Alcohol, HCV, and Tumorigenesis by Keigo Machida

“…Ample epidemiological evidence suggests that there is a strong synergism between hepatitis C virus (HCV) and alcoholic liver diseases (ALD). The Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling pathway is upregulated in chronic liver diseases. …”
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Ecoepidemiological Model and Analysis of MSV Disease Transmission Dynamics in Maize Plant by Haileyesus Tessema Alemneh, Oluwole Daniel Makinde, David Mwangi Theuri

“…In this paper, an ecoepidemiological deterministic model for the transmission dynamics of maize streak virus (MSV) disease in maize plant is proposed and analysed qualitatively using the stability theory of differential equations.The basic reproduction number with respect to the MSV free equilibrium is obtained using next generation matrix approach. …”
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Stability Regions and Bifurcation Analysis of a Delayed Predator-Prey Model Caused from Gestation Period by Nikenasih Binatari, Fajar Adi-Kusumo, Lina Aryati

“…The system is motivated by natural disease management using the interactions between the original and the treated species populations, such as Aedes aegypti and Wolbachia mosquitoes, fertile and infertile pests as a pesticide’s effect, uninfected and infected cancer cells by an oncolytic virus, and so forth. The delayed time shows the gestation effect of the treated populations where the impact on the stability of the unique positive equilibrium point of the system will be studied. …”
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Acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive HIV patients. by Héctor Cruz de los Santos, Roberto Travieso Peña, Eddy Pereira Valdes, Argelio A. Santana Cano, Rubén Bembibre Taboada

“…Infection due to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)has become a principal health problem worldwide mainly in underdeveloped countries. …”
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Therapeutic landscape for inherited ocular diseases: current and emerging therapies by Hwei Wuen Chan, Jaslyn Oh, Bart Leroy

“…Recent success in adeno-associated virus-based gene therapy, voretigene neparvovec (Luxturna®) for RPE65-related IRDs, has heralded rapid evolution in gene therapy platform technologies and strategies, from gene augmentation to RNA editing, as well as gene agnostic approaches such as optogenetics. …”
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An Overview of US Papaya Production, Trade, and Consumption by Edward A. Evans, Fredy H. Ballen, Jonathan H. Crane

“…Consumption of the fruit is on the upswing, and the development of new cultivars tolerant to the Papaya Ring Spot Virus encourage many growers in South Florida to take a second look at producing papaya for the domestic market. …”
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Newcastle and Infectious Bronchitis Vaccine Reactions in Commercial Broilers by Gary D. Butcher, Richard D. Miles, Amir H. Nilipour

“…Questions arise over route of vaccination, age at vaccination, doses of vaccine to administer per bird, mixing of ND and IB vaccines or other vaccines, vaccine reactions, use of live vaccines versus bacterins, strains or serotypes of virus to include, need for and timing of revaccination, and others. …”
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Mapping the field by Mariekie Burger

“… Despite a vast array of HIV/AIDS prevention communication initiatives in South Africa, recent research pointed out that the general public’s knowledge level about HIV/AIDS has decreased and that risky behaviour associated with the spread of the virus, is on the increase. This means that even though some successes with HIV/AIDS prevention communication have been achieved, new innovative ways of communicating about the epidemic urgently needs to be investigated. …”
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Herpetic Stromal Keratitis following Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty by Nisha Chadha, David A. Belyea, Sanjeev Grewal

“…This is a case report describing two cases of disciform corneal edema following uncomplicated selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) thought to be secondary to herpes simplex virus (HSV) given the presence of a dendrite, decreased corneal sensation, corneal thinning, and response to therapy with oral and topical antivirals. …”
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COVID-19 FAQ for Food Banks: Best Practices and Communication by Natalie Seymour, Mary Yavelak, Candice Christian, Ben Chapman, Michelle Danyluk

“…Revised April 21, 2020: Changes were made relating to physical distancing, mask usage and monitoring employee health when exposed to the virus. FSHN20-6/FS329: COVID-19 FAQ for Food Banks: Best Practices and Communication (ufl.edu) …”
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A Rare Case of Acute Pancreatitis as Dengue Complication by Tuy Hong Thi Nguyen, Hien Quang Nguyen

“…His vital signs were stable. Dengue virus nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) antigen was positive. …”
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Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli: Detection, Differentiation, and Implications for Food Safety by William J. Zaragoza, Max Teplitski, Clifton K. Fagerquist

“… Shiga toxin is a protein found within the genome of a type of virus called a bacteriophage. These bacteriophages can integrate into the genomes of the bacterium E. …”
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Control of Herpesvirus Infection in Organ Transplant Recipients by Nina E Tolkoff-Rubin, Robert H Rubin

“…Antilymphocyte antibody therapies are potent reactivators of these viruses, and cyclosporine, by inhibiting the critical host defense (virus specific cytotoxic T cells) in a dose-dependent fashion, amplifies the extent and effects of the viral replication. …”
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Syphilis-Related Eye Disease Presenting as Bilateral Papilledema, Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Hemorrhage, and Anterior Uveitis in a Penicillin-Allergic Patient by Jamie Dietze, Shane Havens

“…Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is known to expedite the progression of syphilis when patients are coinfected, thus compounding the potential ophthalmic presentations. …”
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On the usefulness of set-membership estimation in the epidemiology of infectious diseases by Andreas Widder

“…We give numerical examples of the technique using data from the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in Africa. We conclude that the method presented here can be used to extract additional information from epidemiological data.…”
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Rituximab-Associated Inflammatory Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy by Chandra Punch, Christina Schofield, Penelope Harris

“…Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare disease of the immunosuppression that results from neurotropic invasion of the JC virus which leads to demyelination of oligodendrocytes. …”
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Optimal and Nonlinear Dynamic Countermeasure under a Node-Level Model with Nonlinear Infection Rate by Xulong Zhang, Chenquan Gan

“…Finally, some numerical examples are given to illustrate the main results, from which it is found that (1) the proposed optimal strategy can achieve a low level of infections at a low cost and (2) adjusting nonlinear infection and countermeasure rates and tradeoff factor can be conductive to the containment of virus propagation with less cost.…”
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COVID-19 Preventative Measures: Clean Your Hands Often by Natalie Seymour, Mary Yavelak, Candice Christian, Ben Chapman, Michelle Danyluk

“…Revised April 21, 2020: Changes were made relating to physical distancing, mask usage and monitoring employee health when exposed to the virus. FSHN20-11/FS334: COVID-19 Preventative Measures: Clean Your Hands Often (ufl.edu) …”
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Crisis-tested Europe — Towards a Patchwork Union? by Heinz Handler

“…Abstract Based on an insufficiently consolidated “European identity”, the European Union has recently been exposed to the challenges of globalisation, financial disturbances, migration and populistic nationalism, Brexit, and the COVID 19 virus. The negative consequences of these somehow interrelated phenomena have to some extent been kept in check but are likely to be dwarfed by the looming threat of climate change. …”
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