How Much Time Should Be Waited and What Are the Main Findings to Evaluate the Hepatocellular Carcinoma Response to Regorafenib? A Real-Life Experience by Gustavo Hideki Kawanami, Leopoldo Katsuda, Thiara Barcelos Rocha, Fabio da Silva Yamashiro, Leonardo Pelafsky, Xingshun Qi, Fernando Gomes Romeiro

“…In spite of clear recommendations regarding surveillance and screening methods, most patients are still diagnosed only when they are no longer candidates to curative treatment modalities, while others do not achieve the goals of such treatments, thus increasing the need of anticancer drugs. …”
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Phylogenetic Analysis of Dengue Virus in Bangkalan, Madura Island, East Java Province, Indonesia by Teguh Hari Sucipto, Tomohiro Kotaki, Kris Cahyo Mulyatno, Siti Churrotin, Amaliah Labiqah, Soegeng Soegijanto, Masanori Kameoka

“…The results of the present study highlight the importance of continuous viral surveillance in dengue endemic areas in order to obtain a clearer understanding of the dynamics of DENV in Indonesia.…”
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Occupational Infections Among Workers in Europe: Protocol for a Scoping Review by Guglielmo Dini, Stefania Curti, Alborz Rahmani, Paolo Durando, Stefano Mattioli

“…Such findings could improve the understanding of this complex occupational phenomenon in the European context, enabling more accurate and up-to-date surveillance of infections incurred in the workplace. …”
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First detection of the S989P+V1016G+D1763Y haplotype and expansion of voltage-gated sodium channel mutations in Aedes aegypti in Taiwan in 2016-2023. by Han-Hsuan Chung, Hwa-Jen Teng, Chin-Gi Huang, I-Jung Tsai, Hung-Jui Chen, Osamu Komagata, Shinji Kasai, Kun-Hsien Tsai, Shiu-Ling Chen

“…The frequencies of S989P, V1016G, T1520I, F1534C, and D1763Y amino acid variants increased over the surveillance period. A T1520I mutation was detected for the first time and has since rapidly spread throughout Taiwan. …”
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Strength and durability of indirect protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection through vaccine and infection-acquired immunity by Sophia T. Tan, Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer, Ada T. Kwan, Seth Blumberg, Hailey J. Park, Justine Hutchinson, David Leidner, Joseph A. Lewnard, David Sears, Nathan C. Lo

“…Analyzing anonymized SARS-CoV-2 surveillance data from 9,625 residents in California state prisons from December 2021 to December 2022, we find that vaccine-derived indirect protection against Omicron SARS-CoV-2 infection is strongest within three months of COVID-19 vaccination [30% (95% confidence interval: 20–38%)] with subsequent modest protection. …”
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Dynamics of blackleg epizootic process in the Republic of Kazakhstan by A. Abutalip, B. D. Aitzhanov, A. K. Mussayeva, V. Yu. Sushchikh, N. N. Yegorova, Ye. K. Ospanov, M. A. Berdikulov, K. A. Kalkabayev, N. Matikhan

“…The research results will help to improve the system of blackleg surveillance, to predict the disease spread in animals and can be used to develop anti-epizootic measures.…”
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A retrospective study to understand the differences in maternal mortality among women admitted in critical and stable conditions in Malawi by David Lissauer, James Chirombo, Nara Tagiyeva-Milne, Jennifer Riches, Rosemary Bilesi, Lumbani Makhaza, Laura Munthali, Malangizo Mbewe

“…Data were sourced from the national maternal and newborn health surveillance platform. We performed descriptive analyses, stratified by condition on admission, to identify differences in case characteristics between the two groups, and an exploratory survival analysis, to understand the differences in time to death since admission. …”
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Detection of Aflatoxin and Ochratoxin A in Spices by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography by Zahra Zareshahrabadi, Robab Bahmyari, Hasti Nouraei, Hossein Khodadadi, Pouyan Mehryar, Fatemeh Asadian, Kamiar Zomorodian

“…Regarding the high mycotoxins contamination in spices in the current study, regular effective surveillance and quality control procedures are highly recommended. …”
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Longitudinal investigation of albumin-to-globulin ratio for human cancers demonstrates benefit in postoperative serial remeasurement by Zhenhui Li, Chunxia Li, Ruimin You, Yanli Li, Lizhu Liu, Hongjiang Pu, Ming Lei, Wenliang Li, Tao Zhang, Dingyun You

“…In conclusion, a routine follow-up of AGR in the postoperative surveillance will improve prognosis risk stratification of cancer patients.…”
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Enhancing aviation control security through ADS-B injection detection using ensemble meta-learning models with Explainable AI by Vajratiya Vajrobol, Geetika Jain Saxena, Sanjeev Singh, Amit Pundir, Brij B. Gupta, Akshat Gaurav, Kwok Tai Chui

“…The increasing use of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology in flight control systems has created many serious concerns.These weaknesses threaten the security and safety of our aviation industry. …”
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A Comparison of the Clinical and Epidemiological Profile of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever with Dengue and COVID-19 in Hospitalized Children, Sonora, México, 2015–2022 by Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández, Cristian Noé Rivera-Rosas, Jesús René Tadeo Calleja-López, Jehan Bonizú Álvarez-Meza, Maria del Carmen Candia-Plata, Denica Cruz-Loustaunau, Antonio Alvídrez-Labrado

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Status of zoonotic disease research in refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people, globally: A scoping review of forty clinically important zoonotic pathogens. by Regina Oakley, Nadja Hedrich, Alexandra Walker, Habtamu Merha Dinkita, Rea Tschopp, Charles Abongomera, Daniel H Paris

“…Vaccination/prophylaxis drug administration, surveillance/screening and improved hygiene/sanitation were the most commonly discussed preventative measures.…”
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Does Current General Mental Health Status Relate to Current Smoking Status in Pregnant Women? by Diane Liu, Emily Younger, Stacy Baker, Stephanie Touch, Tamara Willmoth, Jessica L. Hartos

“…This cross-sectional analysis used 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) data for 621 pregnant women aged 18-38 from Florida (N=136), Kansas (N=116), Minnesota (N=105), Nebraska (N=90), New York (N=78), and Utah (N=96). …”
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Possible Threats of IgA Vasculitis in Children: One Center Experience by Eglė Lanzbergaitė-Manuilova, Skirmantė Rusonienė, Augustina Jankauskienė

“…During two years of surveillance after IgAV diagnosis, 11 cases (4.6%) had indications for kidney biopsy and were diagnosed with IgAV nephritis. …”
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Dissecting macrophage heterogeneity and kaempferol in lung adenocarcinoma: a single-cell transcriptomic approach and network pharmacology by Laiyi Wan, Wentao Hao, Leilei Li, Lin Wang, Yanzheng Song

“…Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) within the TME promote tumorigenesis and evasion of immune surveillance, though their heterogeneity poses challenges in understanding their roles and therapeutic targeting. …”
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A Dual-Stage Processing Architecture for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Object Detection and Tracking Using Lightweight Onboard and Ground Server Computations by Odysseas Ntousis, Evangelos Makris, Panayiotis Tsanakas, Christos Pavlatos

“…The proposed architecture ensures real-time tracking with minimal latency, making it suitable for mission-critical UAV applications such as surveillance and search and rescue. The results demonstrate the system’s robustness in various environments, highlighting its potential for effective object tracking under limited onboard computational resources. …”
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Interval Cancers in a Population-Based Screening Program for Colorectal Cancer in Catalonia, Spain by M. Garcia, X. Domènech, C. Vidal, E. Torné, N. Milà, G. Binefa, L. Benito, V. Moreno

“…In addition, 17 CRC (18.3%) were found after an inconclusive result and 2 cases were diagnosed within the surveillance interval (2.1%). There was an increase of interval cancers over the four rounds (from 32.4% to 46.0%). …”
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A narrative literature review to inform the development of a health threats preparedness framework in Ireland by Louise Marron, James Gilroy, Michelle Williams, Randal Parlour, Máirín Boland, Máirín Boland

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The large-scale whole-genome sequencing era expedited medical discovery and clinical translation by Qingxin Yang, Shuhan Duan, Yuguo Huang, Chao Liu, Mengge Wang, Guanglin He

“…Coupled with the widespread adoption of electronic health records, wearable devices, and AI, the translation of these findings into clinical practice has been established for disease prediction, surveillance, and treatment across the lifespan. Here, a concise overview of the recent revolution in human genomic research is provided, emphasizing how these projects, in the era of large-scale whole-genome sequencing, have advanced genomic science, genomic medicine, and evolutionary genomics, as well as their clinical translational applications in disease prediction, cancer, drug response, and rare disease diagnosis.…”
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Targeting lipid metabolism: novel insights and therapeutic advances in pancreatic cancer treatment by Yanyan Zhang, Zhichao Yang, Yuchen Liu, Jinjin Pei, Ruojie Li, Yanhui Yang

“…Moreover, lipid metabolism dysregulation within immune cells, particularly T cells, impairs immune surveillance and weakens the body’s defenses against cancer. …”
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