Diagnostic Performance between Histidine-Rich Protein 2 (HRP-2), a Rapid Malaria Diagnostic Test and Microscopic-Based Staining Techniques for Diagnosis of Malaria by Jean Baptiste Niyibizi, Emmanuel Kamana Gatera

“…This cross-sectional study was conducted at Rukara Health Center which is located in Eastern Province, Kayonza district, Rwanda. One hundred and fifty suspected cases of malaria, who attended Rukara Health Centre, during the period, from 21st June to 30th July 2018, were included in this study. …”
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Identifying Patient Characteristics Associated With Opioid Use to Inform Surgical Pain Management by Anish K. Agarwal, MD, MPH, MS, Ruiying Xiong, MS, Jeffrey Ebert, PhD, Fran Shofer, PhD, Evan Spencer, MS, Daniel Lee, MD, MS, Zarina Ali, MD, MS, M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS

“…Results:. Three thousand six hundred three (30.2%) patients consented. Variation in patient reported used included 28.1% of men reported zero use versus 24.3% of women, 20.5% of Black patients reported zero use versus 27.2% of white patients. …”
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Community’s Perception and Attitude towards People with Epilepsy in Ethiopia by Wubalem Fekadu, Tesfa Mekonen, Shemelash Bitew, Tefera Chanie Mekonnen, Melak Menberu, Seble Shewangizaw

“…Only 13.1% of the participants think that they may be susceptible for epilepsy. Six hundred sixty (94.2%) participants will not employ a person with epilepsy while only 47 (6.7%) of the participants will allow a family member to marry a person with epilepsy. …”
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Unlocking faba bean (Vicia faba L.) potential: How cattle manure and fertilizer boost yields in Kaffa Zone, South-Western Ethiopia by Isreal Zewide, Asrat Ademe

“…Conversely, the lowest values (42.8 % and 41.9 %) were observed in control treatments at Alargeta and Boka. cattle manure (CAM) 5 t ha−1 + nitrogen phosphorus sulfur and boron (NPSB) 150 kg ha−1 exhibited superiority in various parameters, such as the number of branches, plant height, grain yield, hundred seed weight, pods per plant, pod length, and seeds per pod at both locations. …”
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The Lost Gambit: The Third War between Israel and Egypt, its Causes and Lessons by Alek D. Epstein

“…Dozens of books and hundreds of scientific articles on this war have been published. …”
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Estimating the met need for emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services in three payams of Torit County, South Sudan: a facility-based, retrospective cross-sectional study by Pontius Bayo, Imose Itua, Suzie Paul Francis, Kofi Boateng, Elijo Omoro Tahir, Abdulmumini Usman

“…The frequency of each complication and the interventions for treatment were the secondary outcomes.Results Two hundred and fifty four major obstetric complications were admitted in 2015 out of 390 expected from 2602 pregnancies, representing 65.13% met need. …”
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Prevalence of Obstetric Danger Signs during Pregnancy and Associated Factors among Mothers in Shashemene Rural District, South Ethiopia by Nega Terefe, Aderajew Nigussie, Afework Tadele

“…Statistical significance was declared at p<0.05. Result. One hundred sixty-three (41.3%) of women had a history of obstetric danger signs during pregnancy. …”
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Assessing the effectiveness and the feasibility of a group-based treatment for self-stigma in people with mental disorders in routine mental health services in North-East Italy: st... by Antonio Lasalvia, Luca Bodini, Doriana Cristofalo, Veronica Fin, Philip T. Yanos, Chiara Bonetto

“…Methods and analysis This pragmatic, multisite, superiority, randomized, wait-list controlled trial with two parallel arms will recruit over four hundred patients with severe mental disorders from 26 public community-based mental health centers in North-East Italy. …”
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Multiple Sclerosis Nursing to Improve Care and Education (MSNICE): an observational study by Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Melissa Cambron, Roel Crols, Gino De La Meilleure, Nelly Govers, Ludo Vanopdenbosch, Guy Laureys, Barbara Willekens, for the MSNICE Study Group

“…Secondary outcome measures included: hospital anxiety and depression scale, coping measures, health-economic and disease-knowledge parameters. Results Three hundred thirty-four pwMS were included, of which 196 had access to an MS-nurse. …”
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Shear bond strength of three different fixed retainers: Stainless steel wires versus fiber reinforced composite (An in Vitro study) by Anees Mahmood Mudhir

“…This in vitro study is conducted to evaluate and compare the bond strength (shear bond strength) of three different fixed lingual retainers using a specific retainer composite and fracture modes of different retainer’s wire/adhesive combination. Methods: One‐hundred twenty extracted human upper premolar teeth (60 pairs) were divided into three groups(40 for each group) bonded with three different types of retainer wires (db Straight‐8strand flattened nickel free braided wire 0.028 x 0.008 inches UK, 3M 0.0175; multi‐stranded wire and Speed korean orthodontic fiber reinforced splint (2 mm x 200 mm ‐ FS‐2) which were bonded to the lingual surface of the teeth as fixed retainers by specific adhesives (Transbond LR, 3M). …”
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Establishing Normative Dynamic Postural Control Values in Elite Female Handball Players by Brice Picot, Jeanne Dury, Guillaume Néron, Patrick O McKeon, Nicolas Forestier

“…Group differences were weighed against the established mSEBT minimum detectable differences (MDD) to compare scores between limbs and across different player positions. # Results One-hundred and eighty-eight females (16.8±0.9 years) were tested. …”
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Diagnostic Utility of Various Hormones across Different Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Phenotypes: A Cross-sectional Study by Padala Ravi Kumar, Radha Krishna Telagareddy, Deepak Kumar Dash, Debasish Patro

“…Materials and Methods: One hundred and eighty-seven PCOS women based on revised Rotterdam 2003 criteria were recruited. …”
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<i>In silico</i> mapping of coronary artery disease genes by I. V. Zorkoltseva, N. M. Belonogova, G. R. Svishcheva, A. V. Kirichenko, T. I. Axenovich

“…For some of the several hundreds of genes located in these loci, roles in the pathogenesis of the disease have been shown. …”
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Changing Clinical Presentation, Current Knowledge-Attitude-Practice, and Current Vision Related Quality of Life in Self-Reported Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Retinopathy in Easter... by Taraprasad Das, Batriti Wallang, Preeti Semwal, Soumyava Basu, Tapas R. Padhi, Mohd Hasnat Ali

“…To document the changing clinical presentation of diabetic retinopathy (DR) over a decade, the current knowledge-attitude-practice (KAP) of known type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients, and the current vision related quality of life (VR-QOL) of patients with DR in a tertiary eye care center in Eastern India. Methods. Two hundred and forty patients with known type-2 DM were evaluated. …”
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Multiple rare abdominal aortic branch variations in the case of a centenarian woman. Case report and review of the literature by Michela Vincis, Claire Lewis, Denis Barry, Marcello Trucas

“…The donor had reached almost one hundred years of age without any significant symptoms, demonstrating how a systemic study of the patient is important prior to surgical intervention, where the presence of vascular variants is suspected.…”
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Differences in clinical characteristics between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and influenza: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yingying Han, Jia Guo, Xingzhao Li, Zhuan Zhong

“…This meta-analysis was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. One hundred articles involving 226,913 COVID-19 patients and 201,617 influenza patients were included, and all the articles included patients with these two diseases as experimental and control groups. …”
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Urinary prostaglandin metabolites evaluation for activity monitoring in inflammatory bowel disease by Renata d’Inca, Hana Manceau, Lucia Zanni, Laura Vernoux, Xavier Treton, Katell Peoc’h

“…A total of 214 patients were included from two University Hospitals in Italy and France. One hundred and twenty-one patients with CD and 86 with UC were included. …”
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Powdery mildew resistance of Nordic spring bread wheat accessions from the collection of the Vavilov Institute (VIR) by T. V. Lebedeva, A. N. Brykova, E. V. Zuev

“…These data were retested in 2012–2013. One hundred and five accessions of old landraces and modern cultivars of Nordic origin were studied under field and laboratory conditions for their response to a natural population of the fungus. …”
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Characteristics, Management, and Outcomes of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Due to Human Rhinovirus—A Retrospective Study by Ibrahim Bahabri, Abdulaziz Abdulaal, Thamer Alanazi, Sultan Alenazy, Yasser Alrumih, Rakan Alqahtani, Mohammad Bosaeed, Hasan M. Al-Dorzi

“…We compared patients requiring ICU admission to those who did not. Results. One-hundred-and-six patients were studied (peak hospitalization between November and January, median age 71.5 years, hypertension 59%, diabetes 50%, and chronic respiratory disease 44.3%); 16 (15.1%) patients required ICU admission. …”
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Intravenous lidocaine decreased oxygen-desaturation episodes induced by propofol-based sedation for gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures: a prospective, randomized, controlled tri... by Xiu-Ru Qi, Yu-Xuan Qi, Ke Zhang, Wen-Wen Hao, Li-Xin An

“…Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that IV lidocaine could decrease the incidence of propofol-induced ODE and involuntary movements in patients during GI endoscopy. Methods Three hundred twenty-two patients scheduled for GI endoscopy were randomly divided into lidocaine group and control group. …”
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