Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis B virus: Epidemiological Considerations and Implications for Control with Vaccine by Franklyn N Judson

“…The percentage of hepatitis B virus infections attributable to heterosexual transmission in developing and developed countries of Asia is unknown, but is probably proportionate to the percentage of the population which escapes perinatal and early childhood infection. …”
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Currently important pathogenic Listeria species affecting animals and birds (review) by P. N. Shastin

“…The infection incubation period is 20–30 days in animals and humans. …”
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Importance of Diversity in the Oral Microbiota including Candida Species Revealed by High-Throughput Technologies by Tamaki Cho, Jun-ichi Nagao, Rieko Imayoshi, Yoshihiko Tanaka

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The Role and Function of Regulatory T Cells in Toxoplasma gondii-Induced Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes by Xuyang Gao, Yue Zhong, Yifan Liu, Runmin Ding, Jinling Chen

“…People acquire infection through the consumption of infected and undercooked meat or contaminated food or water. …”
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Everyday and Exotic Foodborne Parasites by Marilyn B Lee

“…Transmission of helminth infections, such as tapeworms, is rare in Canada because of effective sewage treatment. …”
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In vivo regulation of the monocyte phenotype by Mycobacterium marinum and the ESX-1 type VII secretion system by Kristina Munke, Line Wulff, Julia Lienard, Fredric Carlsson, William W. Agace

“…In a murine Mycobacterium marinum infection model we previously demonstrated that infiltrating monocytes and neutrophils represent the major bacteria-harbouring cell populations in infected tissue. …”
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Molecular epidemiology of Candida albicans colonization and fungemia in very low birthweight infants by Joan L Robinson, Alan I Hartstein, Renate U Meuser, Virginia H Morthland, Margaret E Dragoon, Wanda M Wenman

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Diarrhoea in Patients with COVID-19 by A. A. Sheptulin

“…Revision of possible causes of diarrhoea in patients with the COVID-19 infection.Key points. Apart from respiratory symptoms, patients with the COVID-19 infection may also express gastrointestinal complaints, more frequently of diarrhoea (2–40% incidence rate). …”
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Emergence of Haemophilus influenzae Strains in the Nasopharynx of Children with Tuberculosis by Alina V. Martynova, Larisa A. Balabanova, Alexei Pruschinskyi

“…Also we gained microbiology characteristics of the isolates and defined the clinical significance of H. influenzae carriage in development of opportunistic infections in children with the tuberculosis infection.…”
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Type I Interferon at the Interface of Antiviral Immunity and Immune Regulation: The Curious Case of HIV-1 by Adriano Boasso

“…Type I interferon (IFN-I) play a critical role in the innate immune response against viral infections. They actively participate in antiviral immunity by inducing molecular mechanisms of viral restriction and by limiting the spread of the infection, but they also orchestrate the initial phases of the adaptive immune response and influence the quality of T cell immunity. …”
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A malaria model with partial immunity in humans by Jia Li

“…In this paper, we formulate a mathematical model for malaria transmission thatincludes incubation periods for both infected human hosts and mosquitoes. Weassume humans gain partial immunity after infection and divide the infected humanpopulation into subgroups based on their infection history. …”
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Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Dongning Wu, Kenneth Bromberg, Roberto Jodorkovsky

“…Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease associated with high morbidity and mortality, often caused by infection. We report two patients with SLE who were treated with steroids and immunosuppressive medication and then developed invasive Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections. …”
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Pasteurella multocida Osteomyelitis: An Unusual Case Presentation by Herbert P von Schroeder, Robert S Bell

“…A healthy male farm employee developed an unusual infection caused by Pasteurella multocida. Atypical features included the chronic nature of the infection, the development of osteomyelitis of the tibia without direct animal inoculation, and lack of fever and leukocytosis. …”
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Cytomegalovirus and Human Herpesvirus 6 and 7: Diseases and Diagnosis in Transplantation by Paul D Griffiths

“…For CMV in immunocompromised patients, infection is best diagnosed by identifying active infection using routine surveillance cultures. …”
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The TB27 Transcriptomic Model for Predicting Mycobacterium tuberculosis Culture Conversion by Maja Reimann, Korkut Avsar, Andrew DiNardo, Torsten Goldmann, Gunar Günther, Michael Hoelscher, Elmira Ibraim, Barbara Kalsdorf, Stefan Kaufmann, Niklas Köhler, Anna Mandalakas, Florian Maurer, Marius Müller, Dörte Nitschkowski, Ioana Olaru, Cristina Popa, Andrea Rachow, Thierry Rolling, Helmut Salzer, Patricia Sanchez-Carballo, Maren Schuhmann, Dagmar Schaub, Victor Spinu, Elena Terhalle, Markus Unnewehr, Nika Zielinski, Jan Heyckendorf, Christoph Lange

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Regulatory T cell-like response to SARS-CoV-2 in Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) transduced with human ACE2. by Bradly Burke, Savannah M Rocha, Shijun Zhan, Miles Eckley, Clara Reasoner, Amin Addetia, Juliette Lewis, Anna Fagre, Phillida A Charley, Juergen A Richt, Susan R Weiss, Ronald B Tjalkens, David Veesler, Tawfik Aboellail, Tony Schountz

“…Previous experimental challenges of Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) resulted in limited infection restricted to the respiratory tract, whereas insectivorous North American big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) showed no evidence of infection. …”
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HPV-Based Screening, Triage, Treatment, and Followup Strategies in the Management of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia by Oscar Peralta-Zaragoza, Jessica Deas, Claudia Gómez-Cerón, Wendy Argelia García-Suastegui, Geny del Socorro Fierros-Zárate, Nadia Judith Jacobo-Herrera

“…It is known that during the development of cervical cancer associated with HPV infection, a cascade of abnormal events is induced, including disruption of cellular cycle control, alteration of gene expression, and deregulation of microRNA expression. …”
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Epidemiology of Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in a Teaching Hospital in Oman: A One-Year Hospital-Based Study by Abdullah Balkhair, Yahya M. Al-Farsi, Zakariya Al-Muharrmi, Raiya Al-Rashdi, Mansoor Al-Jabri, Fatma Neilson, Sara S. Al-Adawi, Marah El-Beeli, Samir Al-Adawi

“…Continuous monitoring of antimicrobial susceptibility and strict adherence to infection prevention guidelines are essential to prevent proliferation of MDRO. …”
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Practices regarding human Papillomavirus counseling and vaccination in head and neck cancer: a Canadian physician questionnaire by Scott Anderson, Andre Isaac, Caroline C. Jeffery, Joan L. Robinson, Daniela Migliarese Isaac, Christina Korownyk, Vincent L. Biron, Hadi Seikaly

“…While the association between HPV infection and cervical cancer is widely understood, its relation to HNC is less well known. …”
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Association between diabetes mellitus and total hip arthroplasty outcomes: an observational study using the US National Inpatient Sample by Jasvinder A Singh, Sumanth Chandrupatla, Kranti Rumalla

“…Primary THA hospitlizations were analysed as the overall group and also stratified by the underlying primary diagnosis for THA.Outcome measures Outcome measures of interest were the length of hospital stay>the median, total hospital charges>the median, inpatient mortality, non-routine discharge, need for blood transfusion, prosthetic fracture, prosthetic dislocation and postprocedural infection, including periprosthetic joint infection, deep surgical site infection and postprocedural sepsis.Results Among 2 467 215 patients who underwent primary THA, the mean age was 68.7 years, 58.3% were female, 85.7% were white, 61.7% had Medicare payer and 20.4% had a Deyo-Charlson index (adjusted to exclude diabetes mellitus) of 2 or higher. 416 850 (17%) patients had diabetes. …”
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