First report of MDR virulent Pseudomonas aeruginosa in apparently healthy Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) in Bangladesh. by Alamgir Hasan, Md Tanjir Ahmmed, Bushra Benta Rahman Prapti, Aminur Rahman, Tasnim Islam, Chandra Shaker Chouhan, A K M Anisur Rahman, Mahbubul Pratik Siddique

“…Female quail birds had almost four times higher odds (OR: 3.77; 95% CI: 1.30-10.93) of harboring Pseudomonas species than males. …”
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Diffusion MRI-based analysis of functional alterations of the glymphatic system in children with non-lesional epilepsy by Bixia Wu, Gengbiao Zhang, Yanting Wang, Hongyi Zheng, Hui Tan, Wenbin Zheng

“…Methods: A total of 83 NLE children (mean age 9.25 ± 4.07 years) and 45 matched healthy controls (mean age 9.36 ± 3.89 years) were recruited. …”
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The Prevalence of Hypertension in the Population without Awareness of the Disease: Data from a Rural Town of Shandong Province, China by Maoti Wei, Li Dong, Fenghua Wang, Kai Cui, Jiamin Yu, Delong Ma, Ning Yang, Yuming Li

“…The prevalence of hypertension in men was 54.4% (611/1124, 95% CI: 51.4–57.3%), which was almost the same as that in women (55.8%, 659/1180, 95% CI: 53.0–58.7%) (X2 = 0.515, P=0.473). …”
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Natural Language Processing and Social Determinants of Health in Mental Health Research: AI-Assisted Scoping Review by Dmitry A Scherbakov, Nina C Hubig, Leslie A Lenert, Alexander V Alekseyenko, Jihad S Obeid

“…Most of the reviewed studies (n=665, 42.8%) used clinical data as their primary text dataset, followed by social media datasets (n=523, 33.7%). The United States contributed the highest number of studies (n=568, 36.6%), with depression (n=438, 28.2%) and suicide (n=240, 15.5%) being the most frequently investigated mental health issues. …”
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Prevalence of Depression and Sleep Disorders in Patients on Dialysis: A Cross-Sectional Study in Qatar by Fadwa Al-Ali, Mostafa Elshirbeny, Abdullah Hamad, Ahmad Kaddourah, Tarek Ghonimi, Rania Ibrahim, Tarek Fouda

“…Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) had significantly more prevalence of poor sleep (131 (88.5%)) than those without DM (81 (77.1%), p=0.01). More female patients had depression than male patients (52% vs. 25%, p<0.0001; odds ratio: 3.27 (95% confidence interval: 1.9–5.6), p<0.0001). …”
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Factores que influyen en el inicio de relaciones sexuales en los adolescentes de una institución educativa de secundaria by Mónica Esther Cormilluni Layme

“…Para la recolección de datos se utilizó la técnica encuesta, como instrumento, un cuestionario autoadministrado, el procesamiento de datos se realizó en el SPSS versión 23, para comprobar la hipótesis se aplicó la prueba estadística Chi-cuadrado. Resultados: Se determinó que los factores como la edad (38,7 %), el sexo masculino (54,8 %) y la edad del primer enamorado(a) influyen en el inicio de las relaciones sexuales. …”
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Microbiological assessment reveals that Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter infections are widespread in HIV infected and uninfected patients with diarrhea in Mozambique. by Delfina Fernandes Hlashwayo, Emília Virgínia Noormahomed, Leonilde Bahule, Constance Benson, Robert T Schooley, Betuel Sigaúque, Kim E Barrett, Custódio Gabriel Bila

“…The prevalence of any bacterial infection did not differ significantly between HIV-infected (45.3%, n = 68) and HIV-uninfected patients (40.7%, = 61) (p = 0.414). Overall, having 2-3 symptoms of enteric disease (p = 0.008) and a basic education (p = 0.030) were factors associated with bacterial infection. …”
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THE EFFECT OF USING ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE IN THE DIETS OF COMMON CARP FISH AND ITS IMPACT ON THE PRODUCTIVE TRAITS OF FISH. by A. S. Naser, E. A. A. Jaseem, S. H. ALwarshan

“…The protein content ranged between 37.7-37.29%, left without addition, while the treatment T1 first treatment was a comparison treatment T2. …”
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Percepción de los universitarios sobre las repercusiones académicas originadas por la pandemia de COVID-19 by Luis Miguel Cangalaya-Sevillano, Julio Postigo-Zumarán, Dennis Arias-Chávez, Mario Gustavo Berrios-Espezúa, Jaime Espinosa-Izquierdo

“…El 61,3 % de los estudiantes limeños manifiestan indiferencia respecto a la percepción sobre el impacto académico generado por el coronavirus, con un promedio general de los ítems de 3,21. La mayor media fue de la pregunta 5(3,47). …”
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Higher Levels of Income and Education are Associated with More Specialized Sport Participation Behaviors: Results from a Representative Sample of Youth Sport Parents from the Unite... by Eric G Post, Matthew J. Rivera, Darleesa Doss, Lindsey E. Eberman

“… # Results Parents who reported an annual household income of \$75,001 or more were more likely than parents making less than \$75,000 to report that their child participated on an organized club team (OR \[95%CI\]: 1.94 \[1.15-3.27\]), participated on multiple organized teams at the same time (OR \[95%CI\]: 1.85 \[1.10-3.11\]), or specialized in a single sport (OR \[95%CI\]: 2.45 \[1.45-4.14\]). …”
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Remote Epilepsy Monitoring: Signal Quality and Reliability Comparative Analysis by Theeban Raj Shivaraja, Rabani Remli, Wan Asyraf Wan Zaidi, Kalaivani Chellappan

“…OptiEEG demonstrated comparable signal quality to Natus, with average standard deviations for signal-to-noise ratio (Natus: 3.27 vs. OptiEEG: 2.95), peak signal-to-noise ratio (Natus: 2.76 vs. …”
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Cytotoxicity Potential of Endophytic Fungi Extracts from Terminalia catappa against Human Cervical Cancer Cells by Michèle Stella Majoumouo, Marius Belmondo Tincho, Rufin Marie Kouipou Toghueo, Thureyah Morris, Donavon Charles Hiss, Fabrice Fekam Boyom, Chitra Mandal

“…Endophyte extracts N2, N7, N8, N97, N169, and N233 were obtained from Trichoderma sp, Phoma sp, Phomopsis phyllanticola, Fusarium oxyporum, Collectotrichum sp, and Cryptococcus flavescens, respectively. …”
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A clinical audit on the utilization of group O-negative red cells and the lesson learnt by Arzina Aziz Ali, Hira Qadir, Areeba Khalid, Bushra Moiz

“…Neonates, pediatric patients, chronically transfused, and bone marrow transplant recipients received 337 of 807 (42%) units and were marked as “acceptable.” …”
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Durvalumab and tremelimumab in combination with metronomic oral vinorelbine for recurrent advanced cervical cancer: an open-label phase I/II study by Pernelle Lavaud, Esma Saada-Bouzid, Renaud Sabatier, Olivia Le Saux, Thibault de la Motte Rouge, Anthony Gonçalves, Elodie Coquan, Jean-Sébastien Frenel, Marta Jiménez, Alice Hervieu, Laurent Mathiot, François Legrand, Claire Cropet, Edith Borcoman, Emmanuelle Charafe

“…The CBR was 53.1% (95% CI, 36.0% to 69.8%), using a non-informative prior distribution (beta(1, 1)). …”
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The paediatric liver transplant experience in Johannesburg, South Africa: A broad overview and update by K Kinandu, A Beeton, M Beretta, S Berkenfeld, L Brannigan, R Britz, D Demopoulos, L Doedens, M Duncan, P Gaylard, C Hajinicolaou, W Lowman, H Maher, T De Maayer, V Mudau, S Rambarran, M Reynders, F van der Schyff, B Ströbele, S Tager, E Wessels, J Fabian, J Loveland

“…Waiting list mortality decreased from 27.3% in 2017 to 5.9% in 2021. One hundred and fifty-four (57.0%) recipients experienced at least one type of intervention requiring surgical complication - the most common being biliary in nature (n = 91; 33.7%).   …”
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Usefulness of Measuring Thiopurine Metabolites in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Autoimmunological Hepatitis, Treated with Azathioprine by Katarzyna Bąk-Drabik, Piotr Adamczyk, Justyna Duda-Wrońska, Dominika Dąbrowska-Piechota, Anna Jarzumbek, Jarosław Kwiecień

“…The subjects with an optimal 6-TGN level presented with a higher ratio of remission (88%) than the under- or overdosed patients (60% and 69%), respectively (Chi−square test=3.87, p<0.05). Conclusion. Timely measurements of thiopurine metabolites can be a useful tool to identify nonadherent patients before a decision is taken to switch to another drug. …”
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Consumo de frutas, legumes e verduras e excesso de peso em adolescentes: dados da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar (PeNSE, 2015) by Karine Brito Beck Silva, Renato Ribeiro Nogueira Ferraz

“…Resultados: Dos 16.328 adolescentes incluídos no estudo, 40% apresentaram consumo frequente de legumes ou verduras e 33,7% de frutas frescas. A associação entre o consumo de legumes ou verduras apresentou-se positiva e estatisticamente significante (OR:0,85;IC95%:0,75-0,93). …”
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Laryngeal recurrence sites in patients previously treated with transoral laser microsurgery for squamous cell carcinoma by P. Horwich, M. H. Rigby, C. MacKay, J. Melong, B. Williams, M. Bullock, R. Hart, J. Trites, S. M. Taylor

“…Mean and median follow-up times were 36.7 months and 26.8 months respectively (range 3.9–112.6). …”
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Correlations between Placental Thickness and Neonatal Outcomes: A Detailed Analysis at 32 and 36 Weeks by Alka Agrawal, Prachi Shukla, Vivek Yonati, Sapna Ahlawat, Rinku Meena, Deepak Ahlawat, Neelesh Patel

“…At 36 weeks, among the 375 patients, PT ranged from 27 to 44 mm and a mean PT of approximately 35.2 mm ± 3.27 mm. …”
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Meta-analysis of nifedipine and enalapril combination therapy for hypertensive patients with coronary heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Kun Wang, Wenchao Ma, Leina Sun, Fangcheng Su

“…The meta-analysis findings revealed that the trial group displayed a significantly higher overall effectiveness rate compared to the control group (OR=3.47, 95%CI 2.40-5.03). Additionally, the trial group exhibited a more pronounced reduction in blood pressure and greater enhancement in cardiac function (OR=5.55, 95%CI). …”
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