Calf immunization protocols with low-virulence isolates of Anaplasma marginale: Analysis of post-inoculation effects and protection against natural challenge by Filipe Lucas de Melo Mendonça, Matheus Figueiredo Coelho, Camila Valgas Bastos, Júlia Angélica Gonçalves da Silveira, Rafael Romero Nicolino, Jose Azael Zambrano Uribe, Múcio Flávio Barbosa Ribeiro, Bruna Torres Silvestre, Rodrigo Melo Meneses, Antônio Último de Carvalho, Tiago Facury Moreira, Elias Jorge Facury-Filho

“…Considering the results collectively, the protocol using the UFMG1 strain (G1) stands out for its potential to be safe and induce some degree of immunization against A. marginale, reducing the incidence of clinical disease and the need for treatment during natural challenge.…”
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Analysis of drought and extreme precipitation events in Thailand: trends, climate modeling, and implications for climate change adaptation by José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior, David Mendes, Helder Dutra Porto, Kelvy Rosalvo Alencar Cardoso, José Augusto Ferreira Neto, Emannuel Bezerra Cavalcante da Silva, Marlúcia de Aquino Pereira, Monica Cristina Damião Mendes, Bernardo Bruno Dias Baracho, Punyawi Jamjareegulgarn

“…In the R8.5 scenario, the number of consecutive dry days increased across the entire country. The WSDI stood out in both the R4.5 and R8.5 scenarios, with an increase in the duration of warm spells in Thailand. …”
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Perbandingan Efektivitas Daya Hambat Kotrimoksazol Generik dan Paten terhadap Pertumbuhan Bakteri Escherichia coli sebagai Penyebab Infeksi Saluran Kemih secara In Vitro by Puti Anggun Sari, Erly ., Dessy Arisanty

“…Whereas it is the community that will be benefited if they found out that the quality of generic drug is not inferior to the patent drug. …”
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Two-stage surgical treatment of cataracts with weakness of the lenticular zonular apparatus and uncompensated glaucoma by E.A. Ivachev, S.A. Kochergin

“…Initial stages of trabeculectomy were performed according to the conventional procedure. After cutting out a deep scleral flap without penetration into the anterior chamber, a cohesive viscoelastic was injected using a cannula under the iris through corneal paracentesis already formed during phacoemulsification into the area of the posterior chamber in the projection of the future coloboma and fistula; then, the internal scleral flap was removed with the opening of the anterior chamber, the iris was inserted into the fistula, after that, the coloboma was formed; a part of viscoelastic was evacuated through the fistula without VB prolapse. …”
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Development and validation of a hyperlipidemia risk prediction model for middle-aged and older adult Chinese using 2015 CHARLS data by Li-xiang Zhang, Shan-Bing Hou, Fang-fang Zhao, Ting-ting Wang, Ying Jiang, Xiao-juan Zhou, Jiao-yu Cao

“…Subsequently, we established a risk prediction model for hyperlipidemia in the middle-aged and older adult population using statistical software Stata 17.0.ResultsThe prevalence rate of hyperlipidemia among the 6,629 middle-aged and older adult participants was 26.32% (1,745 out of 6,629). The LASSO regression and multivariate Logistic regression analysis all revealed that Body Mass Index (BMI), fasting blood glucose, serum uric acid, C-reactive protein, and white blood cell count were independent risk factors for hyperlipidemia in this demographic (with Odds Ratios (OR) greater than 1 and p-values less than 0.05). …”
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Strategies and resources used by public health units to encourage COVID-19 vaccination among priority groups: a behavioural science-informed review of three urban centres in Canada by Tori Langmuir, Mackenzie Wilson, Nicola McCleary, Andrea M. Patey, Karim Mekki, Hanan Ghazal, Elizabeth Estey Noad, Judy Buchan, Vinita Dubey, Jana Galley, Emily Gibson, Guillaume Fontaine, Maureen Smith, Amjad Alghamyan, Kimberly Thompson, Jacob Crawshaw, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Trevor Arnason, Jamie Brehaut, Susan Michie, Melissa Brouwers, Justin Presseau

“…Results PHUs operationalised 21 out of 93 BCTs, ranging from 15 to 20 BCTs per PHU. …”
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Physical Activity Behavior in Swiss Secondary School Students: A Segmented Analysis by Marion Gasser, Andrea-Maria Nadenbousch, Fabienne Egger, Mario Kamer, Stefan Valkanover, Mirko Schmidt

“…Youth physical activity patterns during school and out-of-school time. Children, 5(9), Article 118. https://doi.org/10.3390/children5090118 …”
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Association between albumin changes and prognosis in older patients with acute myocardial infarction by Zhi-cheng Yang, Lei Zhang, Ying-bin Xi, Gui-hua Jiang, He Lin, Hui Pan, Zhi-hao Wang

“…After adjusting for all potential covariates, albumin changes were negatively associated with acute heart failure (OR: 0.86; 95%CI: 0.75–0.99, p = 0.046).ConclusionOut findings showed that a S-shaped association between the albumin changes and mortality of older AMI patients, with the inflection of roughly −3.27 g/L and 0.92/L. …”
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A cross-sectional study on the knowledge, attitude and practice of ICU nurses to ICU acquired weakness in grade-A tertiary hospitals in Beijing (北京市三甲医院ICU护士对ICU获得性衰弱的知信行现况调查及影响因素分... by KUANG Lu (旷璐), SHAO Xin (邵欣)

“…It is necessary to carry out systematic training of ICU acquired weakness knowledge for ICU nurses at different levels so as to improve their knowledge and behavior level and promote the early development of rehabilitation activities for ICU acquired weakness in clinical work, improve patient health outcomes. …”
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Effects of dietary amylose/amylopectin ratio on antioxidant ability and amino metabolism in the liver of weaned piglets undergoing feed transition and challenged with lipopolysacch... by Can Yang, Can Yang, Xiaowu Tang, Min Wang, Han Yang, Huansheng Yang, Yancan Wang, Yulong Yin, Yulong Yin

“…To find out whether dietary amylose/ amylopectin ratio (DAR) could attenuate injury in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-challenged piglets, sixty male weaned piglets (Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire, 21 days old, 6.51 ± 0.64 kg) were allotted to 5 dietary treatments with 12 cages per treatment, and fed ad libitum with diets different in DAR (0.00, 0.20, 0.40, 0.60 and 0.80). …”
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CLINICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL STUDY RESULTS OF COMPARING DIGITAL OCCLUSION INDICES AT REGISTRATION OF INTERCUSPAL POSITION IN PATIENTS WITH EDENTULOUS SPACES BEFORE AND AFTER PROSTHETI... by Тaras Hlushko, Yuriy Vovk, Volodymyr Vovk, Petro Kryukov, Мaksym Lohash

“…The research aims at carrying out a comparative clinical and instrumental analysis related to registering occlusal relations of intercuspal contact position in patients with edentulous spaces before and after prosthetic rehabilitation using various registration materials. …”
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Health and social care use, costs, and satisfaction among key workers accessing Resilience Hub support during the COVID-19 pandemic by Aleix Rowlandson, Filippo Varese, Linda M. Davies, Paul French, Kate Allsopp, Lesley-Anne Carter, Daniel Hind, Katherine McGuirk, Alan Barrett, Gita Bhutani, Fay Huntley, Joanne Jordan, May Sarsam, Hein Ten Cate, Holly Walker, Ruth Watson, Jack Wilkinson, Jenni Willbourn, Gemma E. Shields

“…Satisfaction was high, with median helpfulness rated 92 (out of 100), and many stating that Hubs either fully (148/299, 49.5%) or partially (54/299, 18.1%) met their needs. …”
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NUTRITIONAL AND OIL PROFILE OF THE SEEDS OF SESAMUM INDICUM L. AND VITELLARIA PARADOXA C. F. GAERTN. by Ibrahim Umar KARAYE, Sule Aliyu ANKA, Musa Tanko MUHAMMAD, Shafi’u Isma’ila ADILI, Muhammad Hannatu LAWAL

“…Nutritional and oil profile of the seeds of Sesamum indicum and Vitellaria paradoxa from Sokoto, Nigeria was carried out using standard biochemical procedures. Proximate, ascorbic acid, mineral analysis as well as extraction, quantification and the physicochemical analysis of the seed oil were assessed. …”
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Prevalence of common diarrheagenic enterobacteriaceae in Iran (2000–2023): a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mozhgan Derakhshan-Sefidi, Fereshteh Eidy, Somayyeh Nadi-Ravandi, Sareh Bagheri-Josheghani, Maryam Mirfakhraei

“…A p-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results Out of 3,701 papers reviewed, 56 studies met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. …”
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Obtaining patient phenotypes in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, and their association with clinical severity and mortality by Fernando García-García, Dae-Jin Lee, Mónica Nieves-Ermecheo, Olaia Bronte, Pedro Pablo España, José María Quintana, Rosario Menéndez, Antoni Torres, Luis Alberto Ruiz Iturriaga, Isabel Urrutia, COVID-19 & Air Pollution Working Group

“…Abstract Background There exists consistent empirical evidence in the literature pointing out ample heterogeneity in terms of the clinical evolution of patients with COVID-19. …”
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A Step Forward Towards Exploring Nutritional and Biological Potential of Mushrooms: A Case Study of Calocybe gambosa (Fr.) Donk Wild Growing in Serbia by Jovana Dragan Petrovic, Ângela Fernandes, Dejan Stojković, Marina Soković, Lillian Barros, Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira, Aditya Shekhar, Jasmina Glamočlija

“…Comprehensive antioxidant activity analysis (reducing power, DPPH radical scavenging activity, β-carotene/linoleate and TBARS assays) indicate that the mushroom is a perspective antioxidant source, whereas its antimicrobial potential turned out to be moderate. Nevertheless, at a sub-inhibitory level, the methanolic extract disrupted cell-to-cell communication using Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 as a model system. …”
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Leiden mutation (rs6025) in a severe COVID-19 pneumonia patient with Down syndrome: a clinical case by V.I. Pokhylko, Y.I. Cherniavska, L.Y. Fishchuk, Z.I. Rossokha, O.G. Ievseienkova, O.M. Dubitska, O.F. Popova, M.М. Fastovets, O.О. Kaliuzhka, N.G. Gorovenko

“…Medical treatment was carried out according to the protocol: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antibacterial therapy, anticoagulants, sympatho¬mimetics, and glucocorticosteroids. …”
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The effect of HLA genotype on disease onset and severity in CTLA-4 insufficiency by Sara Posadas-Cantera, Sara Posadas-Cantera, Noriko Mitsuiki, Florian Emmerich, Virginia Patiño, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Olaf Neth, Ingunn Dybedal, Kjetil Taskén, Alejandro A. Schäffer, Bodo Grimbacher, Bodo Grimbacher, Bodo Grimbacher, Bodo Grimbacher, Laura Gámez-Díaz, Laura Gámez-Díaz

“…Multiple HLA haplotypes have been positively or negatively associated with various autoimmune diseases and inborn errors of immunity (IEI) due to the relevance of MHC in the strength of the T cell responses.MethodsIn this exploratory study, we investigated the association of disease onset, severity and clinical manifestations of CTLA-4 insufficiency with specific HLA class I (A, B and C) and class II (DRB1 and DQB1) alleles in forty-three individuals harboring heterozygous mutations in CTLA4. Twenty-six out of the 43 recruited individuals presented moderate or severe clinical symptoms whereas 17 were completely healthy. …”
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Significance of Biogenetic Markers in Giant Cell Tumor Differentiation and Prognosis: A Narrative Review by Muhammad Taqi, Haseeb ul Rasool, Mobeen Zaka Haider, Munjed Al Muderis

“…After excluding review articles, 246 duplicates, and non-relevant articles, we included 24 articles out of 1568 articles, summarizing the role of biogenetic markers in the prognosis of GCT. …”
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Fatty Acids of Erythrocyte Membranes and Blood Serum in Differential Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by M. V. Kruchinina, I. O. Svetlova, M. F. Osipenko, N. V. Abaltusova, A. A. Gromov, M. V. Shashkov, A. S. Sokolova, I. N. Yakovina, A. V. Borisova

“…The study of fatty acids (FA) composition of RBC membranes and BS was carried out using GC/MS system based on three Agilent 7000B quadrupoles (USA).Results. …”
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