Despite not originating in Spain, the 1918 influenza pandemic is commonly known as the “Spanish flu”-a name that reflects a tendency in public health history to associate new infectious diseases with foreign...
DNA molecular machines are DNA self-assemblies that perform quasi-mechanical movement at the micro-nano scale, and have attracted increasing attention in the fields of biosensing, drug delivery and biocomputing. Herein, we...
Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) is a critical illness with a wide range of severity caused by Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy. Life-threatening neurodevelopmental dysfunctions are among the most common phenotypes...
Review evidence is lacking about how contraception is affected by severe social disruption, such as that caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this scoping review was to explore the impact of natural and man-made...
Carceral facilities are epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic, placing incarcerated people at an elevated risk of COVID-19 infection. Due to the initial limited availability of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, all states...
COVID-19 disproportionately impacts residents in long-term care facilities. Our objective was to quantify the presence and magnitude of antibody response in vaccinated, older adult residents at assisted living, personal care,...
There is an urgent need to ameliorate the possibilities to transport the reconstituted mRNA vaccines from the centralized preparation centers to the vaccination sites to improve the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns. We have...
The majority of active tuberculosis (TB) cases develop from latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Since the risk of TB in hemodialysis (HD) patients is particularly high, interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) for LTBI screening...
This study is aimed to develop a new nomogram for the clinical diagnosis of osteoarticular tuberculosis (TB).xCell score estimation to obtained the immune cell type abundance scores. We downloaded the expression profile of...
Tuberculosis presents a global health challenge and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) signaling is required for host immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). TNF receptor shedding however compromises effective immunity by...
Procalcitonin (PCT) is an established marker for bacterial infection. Elevation of PCT can occur due to various reasons and is not specific, as we outline in the following case report. We report on a 29 year old patient, who...
Interleukin 17A (IL-17A)-producing T helper 17 (Th17) cells were identified as a subset of T helper cells that play a critical role in host defense against bacterial and fungal pathogens. Th17 cells differentiate from Th0 naïve...
