A Rare Encounter with an Expanding Pseudocyst of the Spleen by Ashish Lal Shrestha, Pradita Shrestha

“…SP is a unique entity, usually misdiagnosed as a parasitic lesion and often treated with antihelminthic medicines. …”
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Antibody dynamics in dogs submitted to different canine visceral leishmaniasis treatment protocols by Eliesse Pereira Costa, Gisele Vaz Aguirre Samoel, Gilneia da Rosa, Vanessa Osmari, Michelli Lopes de Souza, Luís Felipe Dias Lopes, Fernanda Silveira Flôres Vogel, Sônia de Avila Botton, Luís Antônio Sangioni

“…Furthermore, the immune response of animals must be considered, given the challenges of parasitic loads in infections. Therefore, it is necessary to complement the methods of clinical and therapeutic monitoring of dogs with CVL in order to establish the risk of transmissibility of the agent in infected and treated dogs.…”
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A Gray-Box Equivalent Neural Network Circuit Small-Signal Modeling Applied to GaN Transistors by Anwar Jarndal

“…The extrinsic part of the device was characterized by an extended electrical EC to accurately characterize distributed parasitic effects, especially in the mm-wave frequency range. …”
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Transition of interaction outcomes in a facilitation-competition system of two species by Yuanshi Wang, Hong Wu

“…Bifurcation diagram of the system exhibits that interaction outcome between the species can transition between competition, amensalism, neutralism and parasitism in a smooth fashion. A novel result of this paper is the rigorous and thorough analysis, which displays transparency of dynamics in the system. …”
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Life History of the Camelthorn Gall Leafhopper, Scenergates viridis (Vilbaste) (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) by Roman Rakitov, Esther Appel

“…The galls are subject to predation by Gelechiidae caterpillars; the eggs of the leafhopper are parasitized by two species of Trichogrammatidae and one Mymaridae (Hymenoptera), and its larvae by one species of Pipunculidae (Diptera).…”
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Phytochemicals Screening in Four Solvent Extractions of Pulverized Witchweed (Striga asiatica) by G. F. Kontagora, N. M. Ibrahim

“… Striga asiatica, commonly known as Witchweed, is a parasitic plant that significantly impacts cereal crops such as maize, sorghum, and millet, leading to severe agricultural losses. …”
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Kimura disease: A rare cause of cervical lymphadenopathy and a diagnostic challenge by Virendra Kumar Goyal, Jagdish Vishnoi, Ruhi Dak, Shokat Ali Bohra, Gunjan Sharma

“…Persistent antigenic stimulation following arthropod bites and parasitic or candida infection are also suspected. …”
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Language writ large: LLMs, ChatGPT, meaning, and understanding by Stevan Harnad

“…These convergent biases are related to (1) the parasitism of indirect verbal grounding on direct sensorimotor grounding, (2) the circularity of verbal definition, (3) the “mirroring” of language production and comprehension, (4) iconicity in propositions at LLM scale, (5) computational counterparts of human “categorical perception” in category learning by neural nets, and perhaps also (6) a conjecture by Chomsky about the laws of thought. …”
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Evaluation of Current Households Management Practices of Solid Wastes from Pharmaceuticals in Soc Trang city, Vietnam by T. T. Tien, N. T. Giao

“…The results showed that more than 300 different pharmaceutical brand names belonging to 14 groups of pharmaceutical drugs have been used in which digestive, pain relievers, antipyretics, steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, gout, bone and joint diseases, cardiovascular, parasitic, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and antifungal drugs were the commons. …”
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Comportamiento de parasitismo intestinal en el área de salud de Potrerillo by Juana Neycy Cazorla Pastor, Mariela Pérez Morales, Sandra Mas, Belquis Marín

“…<br /><strong>Métodos:</strong> estudio descriptivo realizado en el área de salud de Potrerillo, que incluyó 286 pacientes a los que se les realizó análisis de heces fecales. Se analizó edad y parásitos encontrados.<br /><strong>Resultados:</strong> de los 286 análisis realizados 52 resultaron positivos, para un frecuencia parasitaria de 18, 1 %; entre los protozoarios predominó la Entamoeba histolytica con 8, 04 % fundamentalmente en adultos (6, 99 %), la Giardia lamblia (5,59 %) con predominio en los niños (3, 49 %), la frecuencia de presentación de los helmintos fue de 4, 53 % y predominó el Áscaris lumbricoides con 4, 19 % entre los infantes (ocho niños) y cuatro adultos 1,39 % y Trichuris trichiura (0, 34 %) en un niño.…”
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MXene-based multilayered and ultrawideband absorber for solar cell and photovoltaic applications by Jusu M. Ngobeh, Vishal Sorathiya, Abdullah Alwabli, Amar Y. Jaffar, Osama S. Faragallah

“…This study can be applied to designing highly efficient parasitic solar absorber structures, which are essential to highly efficient photovoltaic and solar cell design.…”
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Sero-molecular prevalence of toxoplasmosis in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients in Markazi Province, Iran by Hossein Sarmadian, Mana Shojapour, Fereshteh chegeni, Mohammad Amin Tabatabaiefar, Farshid Haghverdi, Roham Sarmadian, Reza Ghasemikhah

“…Abstract Background Infectious diseases, particularly parasitic infections such as toxoplasmosis, contribute significantly to the morbidity and mortality of hemodialysis patients. …”
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Aetiopathogenesis, clinico-epidemiological and diagnostic aspects of human ocular trematode infections: a scoping review protocol by Harshi Weerakoon, Kosala Weerakoon, Piyumi Kodithuwakku, Anjana Silva, Susiji Wickramasinghe

“…Introduction Human ocular trematode infections, caused by parasitic flatworms, are a significant public health concern worldwide. …”
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Daptomycin-Induced Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia: Late Onset and Quick Recovery by Mohamad Rachid, Khansa Ahmad, Meghan Saunders-Kurban, Aelia Fatima, Aditya Shah, Anas Nahhas

“…It is a distinct entity from atopic diseases and autoimmune, parasitic, or fungal infections that can also cause pulmonary eosinophilia. …”
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In-Situ Investigation of Copepod Predators of <i>Ichthyophthirius multifiliis</i> Theronts from Fish-Farming Pond by Lijun Wang, Bingwen Xi, Kai Chen, Jun Xie, Liangkun Pan

“…<i>Ichthyophthirius multifiliis</i>, a parasitic ciliate, causes “white spot disease” in freshwater fish and poses a significant threat to global freshwater aquaculture. …”
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Effects of Drying Treatments on the Physicochemical Characteristics and Antioxidant Properties of the Edible Wild Mushroom <i>Cyttaria espinosae</i> Lloyd (Digüeñe Mushroom) by Marcelo Villalobos-Pezos, Ociel Muñoz Fariña, Kong Shun Ah-Hen, María-Fernanda Garrido Figueroa, Olga García Figueroa, Alexandra González Esparza, Luisbel González Pérez de Medina, José Miguel Bastías Montes

“…The wild mushroom <i>Cyttaria espinosae</i>, also known as digüeñe, is a parasitic ascomycete of <i>Nothofagus</i> trees endemic to southern Chile. …”
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Clinical Recommendations of the Russian Gastroenterological Association on Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Esophagitis by V. T. Ivashkin, N. D. Yuschuk, I. V. Maev, A. S. Trukhmanov, O. A. Storonova, A. A. Makushina, S. S. Pirogov, O. V. Zayratyants, O. P. Alekseeva, D. N. Andreyev, T. L. Lapina, A. V. Tkachev, Yu. P. Uspenskiy, A. A. Sheptulin

“…Infectious esophagitis is an esophageal disease of fungal, viral, bacterial or parasitic origin. Esophagus may be affected per se or conjointly in a common gastrointestinal infection. …”
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Pathology Survey on a Captive-Bred Colony of the Mexican Goodeid, Nearly Extinct in the Wild, Zoogoneticus tequila (Webb & Miller 1998) by Alessio Arbuatti, Leonardo Della Salda, Mariarita Romanucci

“…The absence of infectious or parasitic diseases, as well as the low incidence of diseases potentially related to environmental alterations or nutritional disorders such as spinal deformities, suggests the adequacy of breeding management techniques of Z. tequila for its conservation and reintroduction in to the original habitat in the near future.…”
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Overcoming optical losses in thin metal-based recombination layers for efficient n-i-p perovskite-organic tandem solar cells by Jingjing Tian, Chao Liu, Karen Forberich, Anastasia Barabash, Zhiqiang Xie, Shudi Qiu, Jiwon Byun, Zijian Peng, Kaicheng Zhang, Tian Du, Sanjayan Sathasivam, Thomas J. Macdonald, Lirong Dong, Chaohui Li, Jiyun Zhang, Marcus Halik, Vincent M. Le Corre, Andres Osvet, Thomas Heumüller, Ning Li, Yinhua Zhou, Larry Lüer, Christoph J. Brabec

“…Especially in n-i-p configurations, the incorporation of metal nanoparticles negatively introduces serious parasitic absorption, which alleviates photon utilization in organic rear cell and decisively constrains the maximum photocurrent matching with front cell. …”
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Prevalence of Coccidiosis in Free-Range Chicken in Sidi Thabet, Tunisia by Khaled Kaboudi, Sajid Umar, Muhammad Tanveer Munir

“…The mucosa of small intestine and the caeca were examined for the presence and identification of parasitic forms using parasitology methods. The mean lesion scores were usually low (<2+) in different intestinal portions of different types of chicken and high scores (>2+) were attributed mainly to the caeca. …”
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