Life Science 2.0: reframing the life science sector for ‘the benefit on mankind’ by Michaela Vallin, Göran Tomson, Beate Kampmann, Eivind Engebretsen, Stefan Swartling Peterson, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Ole Petter Ottersen

“…The COVID-19 pandemic put the life science sector to the test. Vaccines were developed at unprecedented speed, benefiting from decades of fundamental research and now honoured by a Nobel Prize. …”
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Deep learning-based malaria parasite detection: convolutional neural networks model for accurate species identification of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax by Diego A. Ramos-Briceño, Alessandro Flammia-D’Aleo, Gerardo Fernández-López, Fhabián S. Carrión-Nessi, David A. Forero-Peña

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An evaluation of the severe acute respiratory infection surveillance system in Ireland by Louise Marron, Roisin Duffy, Joan O’Donnell, Lisa Domegan

“…However, improvement in the timeliness of WGS data and recording of vaccination status and equity stratifiers e.g. ethnicity, would strengthen data quality. …”
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Effect of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) on hospitalization among adults with COVID-19: An electronic health record-based target trial emulation from N3C. by Abhishek Bhatia, Alexander J Preiss, Xuya Xiao, M Daniel Brannock, G Caleb Alexander, Robert F Chew, Hannah Davis, Megan Fitzgerald, Elaine Hill, Elizabeth P Kelly, Hemalkumar B Mehta, Charisse Madlock-Brown, Kenneth J Wilkins, Christopher G Chute, Melissa Haendel, Richard Moffitt, Emily R Pfaff, N3C Consortium

“…We also conducted stratified analyses by vaccination status and age group. Absolute risk reduction for hospitalization was similar among patients that were vaccinated and unvaccinate, but was much greater among patients aged 65+ years than among younger patients. …”
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Analysis and Optimal Control Intervention Strategies of a Waterborne Disease Model: A Realistic Case Study by Obiora Cornelius Collins, Kevin Jan Duffy

“…The model is extended by introducing control intervention strategies such as vaccination, treatment, and water purification. Mathematical analyses of the control model are used to determine the possible benefits of these control intervention strategies. …”
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Best Management Practices for Equines in Natural Disasters by Kelsey M. Irvine, Brandi K. Phillips

“…This publication discusses disaster-specific considerations, making a plan, water and feed, documentation, fence and pasture preparations, animal identification, vaccinations, insurance, what to expect at agricultural inspection station stops, and more. …”
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The Involvement of Microglial Cells in Japanese Encephalitis Infections by Thananya Thongtan, Chutima Thepparit, Duncan R. Smith

“…Despite the availability of effective vaccines, Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) infections remain a leading cause of encephalitis in many Asian countries. …”
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Immunology and the Central Nervous System by Carlos Barcia, James Curtin, Jeffrey Zirger, Daniel Larocque

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A 5-transcript signature for discriminating viral and bacterial etiology in pediatric pneumonia by Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Xabier Bello, Irene Rivero-Calle, Ana Isabel Dacosta, Myrsini Kaforou, Dominic Habgood-Coote, Aubrey J. Cunnington, Marieke Emonts, Jethro A. Herberg, Victoria J. Wright, Enitan D. Carrol, Stephane C. Paulus, Werner Zenz, Daniela S. Kohlfürst, Michiel Van der Flier, Ronald de Groot, Luregn J. Schlapbach, Philipp Agyeman, Andrew J. Pollard, Colin Fink, Taco T. Kuijpers, Suzanne Anderson, Cristina Calvo, María del Carmen Martínez-Padilla, Ana Pérez-Aragón, Esteban Gómez-Sánchez, Juan Valencia-Ramos, Francisco Giménez-Sánchez, Paula Alonso-Quintela, Laura Moreno-Galarraga, Ulrich von Both, Marko Pokorn, Dace Zavadska, María Tsolia, Clementien L. Vermont, Henriëtte A. Moll, Michael Levin, Federico Martinón-Torres, Antonio Salas

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Kawasaki Disease Complicated by Salmonella oranienburg Coinfection by Zachary Barbara, Savannah P. Ellenwood, Emily D. Loe, Joon Choi, Kathleen Ryan, Nancy Joseph

“…We present a 12-month-old vaccinated male with Kawasaki disease in the setting of Salmonella bacteremia. …”
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The Behavior of an SVIR Epidemic Model with Stochastic Perturbation by Yanan Zhao, Daqing Jiang

“…We discuss a stochastic SIR epidemic model with vaccination. We investigate the asymptotic behavior according to the perturbation and the reproduction number R0. …”
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MEASLES WITH THE COMPLICATION OF NON-OBSTRUCTIVE HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT by Ramna Shafique Rafique, Saleha Haider, Maria Kanwal, Saba Safdar, Tayyaba Anwar, Zain Yousaf Ally

“…It is best prevented through vaccination. Complications that can be seen in measles are otitis media, diarrhea, pneumonia, encephalitis, and myocarditis, and a long-term complication is subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. …”
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New Insights for Immune-Based Diagnosis and Therapy for Infectious Diseases by Giuseppe A. Sautto, Roberta A. Diotti, Karin Wisskirchen, Kristen M. Kahle

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Post-COVID-19 patients’ clinical-epidemiological characteristics in Baracoa, Guantánamo by Yirleidy Rodríguez Labañino, Yodanky Ochoa Rodríguez, Alexander Durán Flores, Denny Matos Laffita, Oneidis Durán Flores

“…COVID-19, in the medium term, had greater implications in the respiratory, nervous and osteomyoarticular systems. Vaccination campaigns help prevent serious symptoms of the virus and counteract complications.…”
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Nanobody screening and machine learning guided identification of cross-variant anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing heavy-chain only antibodies. by Peter R McIlroy, Le Thanh Mai Pham, Thomas Sheffield, Maxwell A Stefan, Christine E Thatcher, James Jaryenneh, Jennifer L Schwedler, Anupama Sinha, Christopher A Sumner, Iris K A Jones, Stephen Won, Ryan C Bruneau, Dina R Weilhammer, Zhuoming Liu, Sean Whelan, Oscar A Negrete, Kenneth L Sale, Brooke Harmon

“…Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to persist, demonstrating the risks posed by emerging infectious diseases to national security, public health, and the economy. Development of new vaccines and antibodies for emerging viral threats requires substantial resources and time, and traditional development platforms for vaccines and antibodies are often too slow to combat continuously evolving immunological escape variants, reducing their efficacy over time. …”
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Attitudes of Final-Year Medical Students in Jordan Towards Volunteering During a Pandemic by Alassaf A, Gharaibeh L, Alkubaisi F, Alkhawaldeh M, Dababseh S, Odeh R

“…Around 60% of students were willing to participate in future voluntary work that does not involve patients infected with COVID-19, while 29.3% of them were willing to do so depending on the type of pandemic and the availability of vaccines. There were 86.1% of students who thought that participating in voluntary work involving infected patients during pandemics, should be optional; where 10.1% suggested that it should be compulsory if vaccines were available.Conclusion: The majority of medical students did not volunteer during the COVID 19 pandemic. …”
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The incidence, mortality, and survival rate of colorectal cancer in Xiamen, China, from 2011 to 2020 by Lingxian Qiu, Wenting Luo, Youlan Chen, Zhinan Guo, Jiali Quan, Jiahuang Chi, Yingying Guan, Yue Huang, Yilan Lin

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Impact of non-pharmacological interventions on the first wave of COVID-19 in Portugal 2020 by Dinis B. Loyens, Constantino Caetano, Carlos Matias-Dias

“…Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic caused over 7 million global deaths. Without vaccines during the first wave, governments implemented nonpharmacological interventions (NPIs) such as lockdowns, school closures, and travel restrictions. …”
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Immunological efficiency of Haemophilus influenzae type b polyribosyl ribitol phosphate combined with detoxified lipooligosaccharide in a rabbit model by Amin Arsang, Seyed Davar Siadat, Masoumeh Saberpour, Farshad Nojoomi

“… Background and Objectives: Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) could cause severe life-threatening infections in children. Combine vaccines have reduced invasive diseases, but disease management is still necessary. …”
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Research Note: Establishment of vector system harboring duck RNA polymerase I promoter for avian influenza virus by Yunyueng Jang, Yoon-Gi Baek, Yu-Na Lee, Ra Mi Cha, Yun-Chan Choi, Min-Ji Park, Youn-Jeong Lee, Eun-Kyoung Lee

“…Reverse genetics (RG) systems are extensively utilized to investigate the characteristics of influenza viruses and develop vaccines, predominantly relying on human RNA polymerase I (pol I). …”
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