Evaluation of the Level of Salivary sHLA-G in Children Aged 3–5 Years with or without Dental Caries by Mansoureh Bijani, Amrollah Mostafazadeh, Mina Motallebnejad, Ali Bijani, Roghiyeh Pourbagher, Samaneh Gharekhani

“…As dental caries is a bacterial infectious disease, the host immune system parameters including soluble human leukocyte antigen-G (sHLA-G) are essential factors in estimating dental caries. …”
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An Intranasal Vaccination with a Recombinant Outer Membrane Protein H against Haemorrhagic Septicemia in Swamp Buffaloes by Anucha Muenthaisong, Boondarika Nambooppha, Amarin Rittipornlertrak, Pallop Tankaew, Thanya Varinrak, Korkiat Muangthai, Kheemchompu Atthikanyaphak, Takuo Sawada, Nattawooti Sthitmatee

“…Hemorrhagic septicemia (HS) is an important infectious disease in cattle and buffaloes, caused by Pasteurella multocida B:2 and E:2. …”
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Laboratory capacity-building during COVID-19 in Somalia: improving access to essential diagnostics for national health security in a fragile setting by Salvador Figuereo, Sahra Isse Mohamed, Desalegn Takele, Abdulrahman M. Sheikh, Solomon Chane Abera, Ayni Muhiadin Mohamed, Mutaawe Lubogo, Hassan Mukhtar Abukar, Mary Joan Karanja, Sulaiman Bangura, Antoine Abou Fayad, Ali Haji Adam, Abdinasir Yusuf Osman, Sk Md Mamunur Rahman Malik

“…As such, Somalia can now better respond to other infectious disease threats and has significantly improved national health security.…”
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Induced mesenchymal stem cells generated from periodontal ligament fibroblast for regenerative therapy by Hemanathan Vembuli, Sheeja Rajasingh, Patrick Nabholz, Jefferson Guenther, Brian R. Morrow, Margaret M. Taylor, Marziyeh Aghazadeh, Vinoth Sigamani, Johnson Rajasingh, Johnson Rajasingh, Johnson Rajasingh

“…Despite autologous bone grafts remain the gold standard for treatment, challenges such as limited bone availability, immune reactions, and the risk of infectious disease transmission have driven the search for alternative cell-based therapies for bone regeneration. …”
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Assessing the comparative effectiveness of ECHO and coaching implementation strategies in a jail/provider MOUD implementation trial by Todd Molfenter, Jessica Vechinski, Jee-Seon Kim, Jingru Zhang, Lionel Meng, Jessica Tveit, Lynn Madden, Faye S. Taxman

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Machine learning and genetic algorithm-guided directed evolution for the development of antimicrobial peptides by Heqian Zhang, Yihan Wang, Yanran Zhu, Pengtao Huang, Qiandi Gao, Xiaojie Li, Zhaoying Chen, Yu Liu, Jiakun Jiang, Yuan Gao, Jiaquan Huang, Zhiwei Qin

“…Finally, coinjection of LBDB, Vibrio alginolyticus and Staphylococcus aureus in vivo improved the survival of M. japonicus, demonstrating the promising therapeutic role of LBDB for treating infectious disease. Conclusions: The findings of this study pave the way for the rational drug design of activity-enhanced peptide antibiotics.…”
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Effectiveness of Frequent Point-of-Care Molecular COVID-19 Surveillance in a Rural Workplace: Nonrandomized Controlled Clinical Trial Among Miners by Akshay Sood, William “Cotton” Jarrell, Xin W Shore, Nestor Sosa, Alisha Parada, Nicholas Edwardson, Alexandra V Yingling, Teah Amirkabirian, Qiuying Cheng, Ivy Hurwitz, Linda S Cook, Shuguang Leng, Orrin B Myers, Douglas J Perkins

“…These findings extend beyond this study, providing valuable insights for designing interventions to maintain employees’ safety at other essential workplaces during an infectious disease outbreak.…”
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Using the WHO building blocks to examine cross-border public health surveillance in MENA by Laura Buback, Shayanne Martin, Esbeydy Pardo, Farah Massoud, Jesus Formigo, Atousa Bonyani, Noha H. Farag, Zayid K. Almayahi, Kenta Ishii, Susie Welty, Dana Schneider

“…Public health surveillance, crucial for detecting and responding to infectious disease outbreaks, is key to building health system resilience. …”
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Cluster randomised controlled trial to examine medical mask use as source control for people with respiratory illness by Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Yi Zhang, Quanyi Wang, Bayzidur Rahman, Haiyan Zhang, Holly Seale, Daitao Zhang, Yanhui Chu

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RadBone: bone toxicity following pelvic radiotherapy – a prospective randomised controlled feasibility study evaluating a musculoskeletal health package in women with gynaecologica... by Janelle Yorke, Sarah O’Connell, Sally Taylor, Karen Johnson, Robert G Bristow, Martin Eden, Kate Haslett, John Moore, Rohit Kochhar, Victoria Chatzimavridou Grigoriadou, Lisa H Barraclough, Ivona Baricevic-Jones, Zoe Merchant, Thomas Westwood, Anthony David Whetton, Claire E Higham

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Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants in the Management of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis—Where Do We Stand? by Nikhil Vojjala, Supriya Peshin, Lakshmi Prasanna Vaishnavi Kattamuri, Rabia Iqbal, Adit Dharia, Jayalekshmi Jayakumar, Rafi Iftekhar, Shagun Singh, Mamtha Balla, Claudia S. Villa Celi, Ramya Ramachandran, Rishab Prabhu, Sumeet K. Yadav, Geetha Krishnamoorthy, Vijendra Singh, Karan Seegobin

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Potential Risk Factors for In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Blunt Multiple Trauma Who Survive Initial Resuscitation by Neslihan Yucel, Tuba Ozturk Demir, Serdar Derya, Hakan Oguzturk, Murat Bicakcioglu, Funda Yetkin

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Paradoxical dominant negative activity of an immunodeficiency-associated activating PIK3R1 variant by Patsy R Tomlinson, Rachel G Knox, Olga Perisic, Helen Su, Gemma V Brierley, Roger L Williams, Robert K Semple

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Acceptability of and experiences with menstrual hygiene cups among adolescent girls and young women aged 15–24 in two communities in Lusaka, Zambia: an exploratory study nested in... by Melleh Gondwe, Melvin Simuyaba, Mwelwa Phiri, Chisanga Mwansa, Albertus Schaap, Lucheka Sigande, Kwame Shanaube, Sian Floyd, Sarah Fidler, Helen Ayles, Musonda Simwinga, Bernadette Hensen

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Detection of CRISPR‒Cas and type I R–M systems in Klebsiella pneumoniae of human and animal origins and their relationship to antibiotic resistance and virulence by Xue Li, Ling Wang, Jinghuan Lin, Yingjuan Gu, Zhihua Liu, Jing Hu

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COVID-19 among staff and their family members of a healthcare research institution in Bangladesh between March 2020 and April 2021: a test-negative case–control study by Subhasish Das, Mustafa Mahfuz, Shah Mohammad Fahim, Tahmeed Ahmed, Shams E Arifeen, Md Ashraful Alam, Mustafizur Rahman, John D Clemens, S M Tafsir Hasan, Ishita Mostafa, Monira Sarmin, Shahana Parveen

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Wastewater Monitoring During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Veneto Region, Italy: Longitudinal Observational Study by Honoria Ocagli, Marco Zambito, Filippo Da Re, Vanessa Groppi, Marco Zampini, Alessia Terrini, Franco Rigoli, Irene Amoruso, Tatjana Baldovin, Vincenzo Baldo, Francesca Russo, Dario Gregori

“…ConclusionsWBE, combined with the CUSUM method, offers valuable insight into the level of COVID-19 outbreaks in a community, including asymptomatic cases, thus acting as a precious early warning tool for infectious disease outbreaks with pandemic potential.…”
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Long COVID and its risk factors in migrants: a nationwide register study from Sweden by Agneta Cederström, George Frederick Mkoma, Thomas Benfield, Charles Agyemang, Marie Nørredam, Mikael Rostila

“…The findings emphasize the need for targeted health interventions for migrant communities during an infectious disease pandemic, such as strategic vaccination campaigns and extending social insurance schemes, focusing on reducing disease severity to mitigate the longer-term health consequences of an infection.…”
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Mycobacteria Exploit Host GPR84 to Dampen Pro-Inflammatory Responses and Promote Infection in Macrophages by Reziya Wumaier, Ke Zhang, Jing Zhou, Zilu Wen, Zihan Chen, Geyang Luo, Hao Wang, Juliang Qin, Bing Du, Hua Ren, Yanzheng Song, Qian Gao, Bo Yan

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Constitutive expression of Cas9 and rapamycin-inducible Cre recombinase facilitates conditional genome editing in Plasmodium berghei by Samhita Das, Tanaya Unhale, Carine Marinach, Belsy del Carmen Valeriano Alegria, Camille Roux, Hélène Madry, Badreddine Mohand Oumoussa, Rogerio Amino, Shiroh Iwanaga, Sylvie Briquet, Olivier Silvie

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