Indonesia needs to lower its high infectious disease rate. This requires reliable data and following their temporal changes across provinces. We investigated the benefits of surveying the ep...
Evaluate the Unity Clinic's infectious disease screening programme for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC), calculate rates of infection and identify further health needs.Retrospect...
Bookmark1. The prevalence of Hepatitis C infection during pregnancy increased between 1998 and 2018, coinciding with the opioid epidemic. 2. Individuals of White race, lower socioeconomic ...
Dramatic improvements in blood transfusion have occurred during the last two decades. Transfusion medicine services and practices in Africa remain underexplored.A survey of blood bank/transf...
Adenovirus vectors possess a good safety profile, an extensive genome, a range of host cells, high viral yield, and the ability to elicit broad humoral and cellular immune responses. Adenovi...
Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) is one of the leading causes of infectious disease in the global population, and its prevalence has been increasing globally. Human HBV infection is complex, involvin...
Proline isomerization, the process of interconversion between the - and -forms of proline, is an important and unique post-translational modification that can affect protein folding and conf...
Missed opportunities for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) testing remain high. We aimed to ascertain the knowledge of screening guidelines and attitudes of non-...
Hepatitis B core antigen (HBcAg) has been proposed as a surrogate marker to reflect transcriptional activity of HBV covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) during active infections and may b...
Use of biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs (b/tsDMARDs) in patients with pre-existing tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis B virus (HBV), or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can have serious con...
Zika virus infection is a threat to at-risk populations, causing major birth defects and serious neurological complications. Development of a safe and efficacious Zika virus vaccine is, ther...
Past studies have shown that incubation of human serum samples on high density peptide arrays followed by measurement of total antibody bound to each peptide sequence allows detection and di...
Terlipressin, a synthetic long-acting vasopressin analogue, was assessed for its effect in hepatorenal syndrome and concomitant alcoholic hepatitis. The phase 3 CONFIRM trial included...
Treating marginalized populations with HCV infection for elimination is faced with the challenge for the integration of HCV screening service offered for patients often moving across multipl...
Information on vaccination rates and factors associated with adherence in persons with HIV (PWH) is limited. We report vaccine adherence in 653 adult PWH attending an urban Infectious Diseas...
Infectious diseases still threaten global human health, and host genetic factors have been indicated as determining risk factors for observed variations in disease susceptibility, severity, ...
A better understanding of links between mental illness and risk of bloodborne infectious disease could inform preventive and therapeutic strategies in individuals with mental illness.We perf...
The aim of this systematic overview of reviews was to synthesise available evidence on inequalities in infectious disease based on three dimensions of inequalities; inclusion health groups, ...
Pathogens carried by insects, such as bunyaviruses, are frequently transmitted into human populations and cause diseases. Knowing which spillover events represent a public health threat rema...
The viral diseases encouraged scientific community to evaluate the natural antiviral bioactive components rather than protease inhibitors, harmful organic molecules or nucleic acid analogues...
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