SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Cancer Patients: Essential Aspects by Juan Santiago Serna Trejos, Stefanya Geraldine Bermúdez Moyano

“…The risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in cancer patients is related to their immune status, which is greatly affected by their underlying cancer or tumor condition as well as the treatment itself.…”
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A mathematical model of HTLV-I infection with two time delays by Xuejuan Lu, Lulu Hui, Shengqiang Liu, Jia Li

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Canadian Laboratory Standards for Sexually Transmitted Infections: Best Practice Guidelines by Max A Chernesky, David Patrick

“…Sexually transmitted infections (STI) continue to spread, and show no international boundaries. …”
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The “Top-Down” Approach to the Evaluation of Children with Febrile Urinary Tract Infection by Hans G. Pohl, A. Barry Belman

“…The evaluation of children presenting with urinary tract infection (UTI) has long entailed sonography and cystography to identify all urological abnormalities that might contribute to morbidity. …”
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Clinical characteristics and risk factors of Clostridioides difficile infection in children with diarrhoea by Ning Wang, Kun Jiang, Jinyue Huang, Mengzhu Hou, Lu Wang, Wei Wang, Yulian Fang

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the clinical characteristics and risk factors of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in children with diarrhea, and to provide evidence for the clinical prevention and treatment of CDI.MethodsThe clinical data of 192 children with diarrhoea suspected of CDI admitted from August 2020 to March 2023 were retrospectively analysed and divided into two groups according to whether CDI occurred, and the clinical characteristics and risk factors of the two groups were analysed statistically.ResultsThere were 85 cases of CDI in children with diarrhoea, 60 males (70.6%) and 25 females (29.4%), with a male to female ratio of 2.4:1; clinical manifestations were mostly fever, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, vomiting and blood in stool, with no statistically significant differences compared to the non-infected group. …”
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Prospective Study of BK Virus Infection in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Virginia Flores, Belén Rodríguez-Sánchez, Ignacio Marín-Jiménez, Emilio Bouza, Luis Menchén, Patricia Muñoz

“…A clear impact of the immunosuppressive regimen on BKV infection could not be demonstrated.…”
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Neuroinvasion in Prion Diseases: The Roles of Ascending Neural Infection and Blood Dissemination by Sílvia Sisó, Lorenzo González, Martin Jeffrey

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Chikungunya Virus Infection and Acute Elevation of Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen by William Derval Aiken, Joshua J. Anzinger

“…A man with prostate cancer on a regime of active surveillance had a laboratory-confirmed acute Chikungunya virus infection. The patient experienced a sudden increase in serum Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) during the acute illness that caused him anxiety and confounded interpretation of the PSA test. …”
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Epidemiological and clinical variables in pediatric patients hospitalized for urinary tract infection by Isabel María Vallina López, Rolando Rodríguez Puga, Yasnier Dueñas Rodríguez, Yoánderson Pérez Díaz, María Emilia Navarro Huertas, María Francisca Garcés Raventós

“…<p><strong>Foundation</strong>: urinary tract infection is one of the most common diseases in children and presents with non-specific symptoms, especially in younger children, in which the most important sign is fever.…”
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Prosthetic Joint Infection Trends at a Dedicated Orthopaedics Specialty Hospital by Robert P. Runner, Amanda Mener, James R. Roberson, Thomas L. Bradbury, George N. Guild, Scott D. Boden, Greg A. Erens

“…Though the overall number of infections was reduced, there was a significantly higher proportion of Gram-negative infections over the 8-year timeframe at 25.3%. …”
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Two Case Presentations Infected by Trichosporon asahii and Treated with Voriconazole Successfully by Hikmet Gulsah Tanyildiz, Sule Yesil, Sule Toprak, Mehmet Onur Candir, Gurses Sahin

“…Trichosporon asahii is an opportunistic fungus that causes infections in immunosuppressed patients. Neutropenia developing due to malignancies is an important risk factor for fungal infection. …”
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The Optimal First-Line Therapy of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Year 2012 by Chao-Hung Kuo, Fu-Chen Kuo, Huang-Ming Hu, Chung-Jung Liu, Sophie S. W. Wang, Yen-Hsu Chen, Ming-Chia Hsieh, Ming-Feng Hou, Deng-Chyang Wu

“…This paper reviews the literature about first-line therapies for H. pylori infection in recent years. First-line therapies are facing a challenge because of increasing treatment failure due to elevated antibiotics resistance. …”
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The Role of Type III Interferons in Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Therapy by Janina Bruening, Bettina Weigel, Gisa Gerold

“…The human interferon (IFN) response is a key innate immune mechanism to fight virus infection. IFNs are host-encoded secreted proteins, which induce IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) with antiviral properties. …”
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Global Stability of HIV-1 Infection Model with Two Time Delays by Hui Miao, Xamxinur Abdurahman, Ahmadjan Muhammadhaji

“…The model has two time delays describing time needed for infection of cell and CTLs generation. Our model admits three possible equilibria: infection-free equilibrium, CTL-absent infection equilibrium, and CTL-present infection equilibrium. …”
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A Case of Disseminated Mycobacterium avium Infection in a Dog in Greece by V. Kontos, E. I. Papadogiannakis, G. Mantziaras, M. Styliara, S. Kanavaki

“…This is the first report of disseminated M. avium infection in a dog in Greece.…”
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Characterizations of cytokines and viral genomes in serum of patients with Dabie bandavirus infection by Zefeng Dong, Man Yuan, Yueping Xing, Hongkai Zhang, Qiang Shen

“…BackgroundTen cases with Dabie bandavirus infection were identified in Suzhou City, China, from April 2023 to August 2024. …”
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Microevolution during Chronic Infection May Lead T. asahii to Coexist with the Host by Gen Ba, Xuelian Lv, Xin Yang, Wenling Wang, Junhong Ao, Rongya Yang

“…Trichosporon asahii (T. asahii) is part of the cutaneous fungal microbiota in humans and can cause lethal opportunistic infection. During infection, microorganisms can adapt to their environment by adjusting gene expression and cellular activities. …”
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Infectivity and Persistence of Steinernema scapterisci Nematodes on Pasture Mole Crickets in Florida by J. Howard Frank, Martin B. Adjei, G. C. Smart, Jr., B. J. Adams

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Dynamic interplay of autophagy and membrane repair during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection. by Jacques Augenstreich, Anna T Phan, Charles N S Allen, Anushka Poddar, Hanzhang Chen, Lalitha Srinivasan, Volker Briken

“…Autophagy plays a crucial role in the host response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection, yet the dynamics and regulation of autophagy induction on Mtb-containing vacuoles (MCVs) remain only partially understood. …”
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Transcriptomic Response of Arabidopsis thaliana to Pseudomonas syringae Infection: An In Silico Approach by Amir Ghaffar Shahriari, Mohamad Hamed Ghodoum Parizipour, Yaser Biniaz, Aminallah Tahmasebi, Fatemeh Gholizadeh

“…The study aimed to perform a meta-analysis of A. thaliana transcriptomic data in response to infection by P. syringae and P. syringae pv. maculicola. …”
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