Virtual Reality–Based Psychological Intervention for Young Adults Living With HIV: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Hanxi Zhang, Jing Han, Ye Su, Hongxin Zhao, Fujie Zhang

“…MethodsWe use the qualitative interviews and questionnaire results as well as guided by classical psychotherapy to create a personalized psychological intervention system for young adults living with HIV through VR technology, which is based on the long-term AIDS treatment cohort and infectious diseases cohort of children. We use the mental scales and biochemical indexes as the outcomes, conducting a prospective randomized controlled trial to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the VR psychological intervention system. …”
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Determination of anti-COVID-19 IgG and IgM seroprevalence among pregnant women at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa by I Rukasha, S T S Pheeha, M R Lekalakala, P Malope

“…Pregnant women are considered to be a special population group owing to their specific susceptibility to some infectious diseases. Objective. To determine the seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among pregnant women attending an antenatal clinic. …”
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An Unusually Short Latent Period of Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasm Harboring a Rare MLL-EP300 Rearrangement: Case Report and Literature Review by Reina Takeda, Kazuaki Yokoyama, Seiichiro Kobayashi, Toyotaka Kawamata, Sousuke Nakamura, Tomofusa Fukuyama, Mika Ito, Nozomi Yusa, Eigo Shimizu, Nobuhiro Ohno, Rui Yamaguchi, Seiya Imoto, Satoru Miyano, Kaoru Uchimaru, Arinobu Tojo

“…The patient presented with persistent fever and monocytosis without any evidence of infectious diseases. Bone marrow examinations revealed chronic myelomonocytic leukemia-like disease with a chromosomal translocation of t(11;22)(q23;q13) as a solo cytogenetic abnormality, resulting in the diagnosis of t-MN. …”
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The Role of Coenzyme Q10 in Modern Medicine: Insights into Energy Metabolism and Antioxidant Therapy by Mateusz Górski, Adrianna Załęska, Mateusz Bychowski, Julia Kwaśna, Izabela Kaźmierczyk, Kacper Lenart, Michał Homza, Natalia Zakrzewska, Szymon Bednarek, Joanna Kulicka

“…Its applications span cardiovascular health, infectious diseases, neurological conditions, reproductive health, and fatigue management. …”
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Frequency and types of antibiotic usage in a referral neonatal intensive care unit, based on the world health organization classification (AwaRe) by Farzaneh Hematian, Seyyed Mohammad Hassan Aletayeb, Masoud Dehdashtian, Mohammad Reza Aramesh, Arash Malakian, Mahboobeh Sadat Aletayeb

“…This is primarily because neonatologists are concerned about the fragile immune systems of newborns, their vulnerability to serious infectious diseases, and the challenge of accurately distinguishing between infectious and non-infectious conditions. …”
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Evaluation of Acute and Sub-Chronic Toxicity of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG in Sprague-Dawley Rats by Vedam Venkata Kanthi Vaishnavi, Urmila Banik, Gokul Shankar Sabesan, Arun K. Adhikary, Subramani Parasuraman

“…Background: Probiotic-based bacteriotherapy has emerged as a potentially effective strategy for preventing infectious diseases. Lactobacillus strains consumed as probiotics and the safety of these spp. has been questioned due to reported unexpected responses. …”
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Women’s contribution to climate change action: A gender analysis by Setyowati Retno, Rusdiyana Eksa, Widiyanto, Sugihardjo, Lestari Eny, Arwindianti Micelle Lovinia

“…This movement is embodied into such institutions as female farmer group, Family Welfare Program (FWP), and waste bank driven by women through activities food production from the surrounding environment, healthy (organic) farming practices, health education and environmental hygiene, basic health services (posyandu for toddlers, adolescents and elderly), prevention of infectious diseases through “Jumantik”, waste reduction education, education on circular economy utilization of waste, making biopores and utilizing organic waste (magot cultivation).…”
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NURSING CARE OF AIRWAY CLEARANCE INEFFECTIVE IN CHILDREN WITH PNEUMONIA: A CASE REPORT by Emuliana Sulpat, Amellia Mardhika, Lailatul Fadliyah, Anestasia Pangestu Mei Tyas, Susilo Harianto, Adhelia Fadilla Sari

“…Introduction: pneumonia is one of the acute lower respiratory tract infectious diseases with symptoms of cough and accompanied by shortness of breath caused by  infectious agents such as viruses,  bacteria, mycoplasma  and  aspiration of foreign  substances  , in the form of pneumonia accompanied by exudation and consultation. …”
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Hospital-Acquired COVID-19: Case Discussions of Two Patients Treated at a Level I Trauma Center by Ryan M. Desrochers, Jonathan D. Gates, Daniel Ricaurte, Jane J. Keating

“…This is important to consider not only for COVID-19 but also for future novel infectious diseases.…”
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Panoptosis – new frontier in research in head neck cancer by Shrikant B. Mali

“…It has been linked to the development of multiple systemic diseases in the human body, including infectious diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and inflammatory diseases. …”
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Political discourse, military and securitization of health nexus: contemporary security challenges and the military role in public health security by Vanja Rokvić, Vladimir Ajzenhamer

“…The analysis of the political and academic discourse has found that with regard to security the most important health challenges are considered the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, and the ability to make use of biological agents as weapons. …”
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Emerging antihelminthic drug resistance: Implications for mass drug administration program by Agarwal Harshita, Rajkumari Nonika

“…Although there is currently no concrete evidence of resistance to common antihelminthics in humans, experiences from other infectious diseases, particularly in livestock, serve as a cautionary tale against over-reliance on these drugs for controlling lymphatic filariasis.…”
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RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF RABIES EPIZOOTIC SITUATION IN MOSCOW REGION IN 2010-2016 by A. V. Paroshin, S. V. Voskresensky, A. A. Mukovnin, A. V. Yenshin, A. Ye. Metlin, K. N. Gruzdev

“…This is one of the oldest and most dangerous infectious diseases. As estimated by the WHO this disease is in the top five zoonoses that cause major economic losses; it poses a constant threat to animal and human health and is included in the OIE list of notifiable diseases. …”
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A Review on Colorectal Cancer and the Role of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine as Complementary Therapy by Jie Ji, Hiu Ching Phang, Xian Gu, Riyanto Teguh Widodo, Bey Hing Goh, Phei Er Kee, Siew-Keah Lee, Ashok Kumar Janakiraman, Long Chiau Ming, Kai Bin Liew

“…Natural products are crucial for treating infectious diseases, cancer, and neurological disorders, and references in religious texts have spurred scientific validation of traditional claims. …”
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The relationship between healthy eating index and Mediterranean diet adherence score with inflammatory indices and disease severity: a case-control study of hospitalized COVID-19 p... by Reihaneh Mousavi, Somayeh Rostami, Saba Shourideh Yazdi, Akram Kooshki, Elaheh Foroumandi

“…Abstract Background Recent studies have focused on the connection between nutrition, inflammation, and infectious diseases. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the Mediterranean diet adherence score (MDS) and the healthy eating index (HEI) with some clinical findings of patients with COVID-19. …”
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Highly Sensitive In Vivo Imaging of Bacterial Infections with a Hydrophilicity‐Switching, Self‐Immobilizing, Near‐Infrared Fluorogenic β‐Lactamase Probe Enriched within Bacteria... by Fangfang Chen, Yuyao Li, Yan Peng, Yifan Zhu, Gao He, Zhengwei Zhang, Hexin Xie

“…Abstract The emergence of antibiotic resistance, particularly bacterial resistance to β‐lactam antibiotics, the most widely prescribed therapeutic agents for infectious diseases, poses a significant threat to public health worldwide. …”
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Joint quantification of transmission dynamics and diagnostic accuracy applied to influenza by Hiroshi Nishiura

“…Our study suggests that by consistently reporting both test positive and test negative cases, the usefulness of extractable information from routine surveillance record of infectious diseases would be maximized.…”
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Tristemma hirtum and Five Other Cameroonian Edible Plants with Weak or No Antibacterial Effects Modulate the Activities of Antibiotics against Gram-Negative Multidrug-Resistant Phe... by Gaëlle S. Nguenang, Armelle T. Mbaveng, Aimé G. Fankam, Hermione T. Manekeng, Paul Nayim, Brice E. N. Wamba, Victor Kuete

“…In order to contribute to the fight against infectious diseases, the in vitro antibacterial activity and the antibiotic-potentiating effects of Tristemma hirtum and five other Cameroonian edible plants have been evaluated against Gram-negative multidrug-resistant (MDR) phenotypes. …”
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Incidence, Antibiotic Susceptibility and Characterization of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolated from Seafood in Selangor, Malaysia by Vurmila Venggadasamy, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Hooi-Leng Ser, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Priyia Pusparajah

“… Vibrio parahaemolyticus is one of the major foodborne pathogens owing to its cause of infectious diseases such as gastroenteritis. These diseases are often associated with the consumption of contaminated seafood. …”
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Consequences of non-Markovian healing processes on epidemic models with recurrent infections on networks by José Carlos M Silva, Diogo H Silva, Francisco A Rodrigues, Silvio C Ferreira

“…Infectious diseases are marked by recovering time distributions which can be far from the exponential one associated with Markovian/Poisson processes, broadly applied in epidemic models. …”
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