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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chaiwat Arjin, Surat Hongsibsong, Kidsadagon Pringproa, Warintorn Ruksiriwanich, Chompunut Lumsangkul, Jirapat Arunorat, Phongsakorn Chuammitri, Mintra Seel-Audom, Sarana Rose Sommano, Korawan Sringarm
BACKGROUND: At present, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) caused by the PRRS virus (PRRSV) is one of the most severe epidemics impacting pig farming globally. Despite the fact that a number of studies have been conducted on potential solutions to this problem, none have proven effective. The focus of problem solving is the use of natural ingredients such as plant extracts. Popular throughout Asia, Caesalpinia sappan (CS) is a therapeutic plant that inhibits PRRSV in vitro...
March 22, 2024: BMC Veterinary Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ilhan Kurultak, Ozkan Gungor, Savas Ozturk, Ahmet Burak Dirim, Necmi Eren, Ezgi Yenigün, Elbis Ahbab Dal, Mevlut Tamer Dincer, Feyza Bora, Suat Akgur, Abdullah Sumnu, Belda Dursun, Savas Sipahi, Hakki Cetinkaya, Idris Sahin, Garip Sahin, Murvet Yilmaz, Bulent Vatansever, Emre Aydın, Memnune Sena Ulu, Ali Gundogdu, Sedat Ustundag, Hayriye Sayarlioglu, Gizem Kumru, Omer C Elcioglu, Zeki Aydın, Nedim Yılmaz Selcuk, Ceren Onal Guclu, Meric Oruc, Mehmet Kucuk, Nimet Aktas, Ulver Derici, Gultekin Suleymanlar
The data regarding primary FSGS (pFSGS) from different parts of the world differ. While the prevalence of pFSGS has been increasing in Western countries like the USA, it follows an inconsistent trend in Europe and Asia and a decreasing trend in Far Eastern countries such as China in the last two decades. There are undetermined factors to explain those national and geographic discrepancies. Herein, we aimed to reveal the current prevalence with clinical and histopathological characteristics of pFSGS in Turkish adults...
March 21, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniel J Kats, Karen Donelan, Souvik Banerjee, Gert de Graaf, Ellen Skladzien, Brian Takashi Hooper, Rose Mordi, Tetiana Mykhailenko, Frank Buckley, Stephanie L Santoro, Vasiliki Patsiogiannis, Kavita Krell, Kelsey Haugen, Brian G Skotko
PURPOSE: We previously designed the Down Syndrome Societal Services and Supports Survey (DS-4S) to measure country-specific supports for people with Down syndrome (DS) across multiple life domains (healthcare, education, policy, independence, and community inclusion). We now report and analyze the results. METHODS: We partnered with international DS consortia, who distributed the DS-4S to 154 cumulative members representing over 100 countries. Organizations were included if they had a holistic focus on the lives of people with DS and if at least 50% of their members either have DS or are family members of people with DS...
March 19, 2024: Genetics in Medicine: Official Journal of the American College of Medical Genetics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Huapeng Lin, Hye Won Lee, Terry Cheuk-Fung Yip, Emmanuel Tsochatzis, Salvatore Petta, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Masato Yoneda, Ming-Hua Zheng, Hannes Hagström, Jérôme Boursier, José Luis Calleja, George Boon-Bee Goh, Wah-Kheong Chan, Rocio Gallego-Durán, Arun J Sanyal, Victor de Lédinghen, Philip N Newsome, Jian-Gao Fan, Laurent Castéra, Michelle Lai, Stephen A Harrison, Céline Fournier-Poizat, Grace Lai-Hung Wong, Grazia Pennisi, Angelo Armandi, Atsushi Nakajima, Wen-Yue Liu, Ying Shang, Marc de Saint-Loup, Elba Llop, Kevin Kim-Jun Teh, Carmen Lara-Romero, Amon Asgharpour, Sara Mahgoub, Mandy Sau-Wai Chan, Clemence M Canivet, Manuel Romero-Gomez, Seung Up Kim, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong
IMPORTANCE: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is currently the most common chronic liver disease worldwide. It is important to develop noninvasive tests to assess the disease severity and prognosis. OBJECTIVE: To study the prognostic implications of baseline levels and dynamic changes of the vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE)-based scores developed for the diagnosis of advanced fibrosis (Agile 3+) and cirrhosis (Agile 4) in patients with MASLD...
March 21, 2024: JAMA
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shweta Basnett, Julia Krpan, Anahí Espíndola
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Floral characteristics vary significantly among plant species, and multiple underlying factors govern this diversity. Although it is widely known that spatial variation in pollinator groups can exert selection on floral traits, the relative contribution of pollinators and climate to the variation of floral traits across large geographic areas remains a little-studied area. Besides furthering our conceptual understanding of these processes, gaining insight into the topic is also of conservation relevance: understanding how climate may drive floral traits variation can serve to protect plant-pollinator interactions under global change conditions...
March 19, 2024: Annals of Botany
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tanja Opriessnig, Chao-Ting Xiao, Nicolas J Mueller, Joachim Denner
BACKGROUND: As sequencing is becoming more broadly available, virus discovery continues. Small DNA viruses contribute to up to 60% of the overall virus load in pigs. Porcine circoviruses (PCVs) are small DNA viruses with a single-stranded circular genome. They are common in pig breeds and have not been properly addressed for their potential risk in xenotransplantation. Whereas PCV1 is non-pathogenic in pigs, PCV2 has been associated with various disease manifestations. Recently two new circoviruses have been described, PCV3 and PCV4...
2024: Xenotransplantation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alice Lai, Ashish Trivedi
OBJECTIVE: This paper summarizes and evaluates a test-based strategy for early return to work for health-care workers (HCWs) with mild coronavirus disease in Brunei Darussalam during the Omicron wave in February 2022 and compares the characteristics of HCWs by how long it took them to return to work. METHODS: The early return-to-work strategy involved testing on day 3 of infection with reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and with a rapid antigen test on days 5 and 6 or days 5 and 7...
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Florita Toa, Wendy Williams, Chaturangi Yapa, Matthew Cornish, Melissa Binihi, Caroline van Gemert
OBJECTIVE: On 4 March 2022, the first community-acquired case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was reported in Vanuatu, with community transmission occurring subsequently. It was expected that the number of notified SARS-CoV-2 cases would be an underestimate of the true infection rate of this outbreak; however, the magnitude of underreporting was unknown. The purpose of this study was to provide a population-based estimate of SARS-CoV-2 infection shortly after the first reports of community transmission, to understand the level of underdetection and undernotification in Vanuatu and thus to inform ongoing prevention and response activities...
2024: Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
ZhenDe Wang, ChunXiao Yang, Bing Li, HongTao Wu, Zhen Xu, ZiJian Feng
BACKGROUND: Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a zoonotic infectious disease commonly found in Asia and Europe, characterized by fever, hemorrhage, shock, and renal failure. China is the most severely affected region, necessitating an analysis of the temporal incidence patterns in the country. METHODS: We employed Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Nonlinear AutoRegressive with eXogenous inputs (NARX), and a hybrid CNN-LSTM model to model and forecast time series data spanning from January 2009 to November 2023 in the mainland China...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vikas Menon, Ilambaridhi Balasubramanian, Megan L Rogers, Sandeep Grover, Bhavesh Lakdawala, Rajeev Ranjan, Sujit Sarkhel, Naresh Nebhinani, Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Vijaya Raghavan, Kshirod Kumar Mishra, Jitender Aneja, Niteen Abhivant, Raman Deep, Lokesh Kumar Singh, Avinash De Sousa, Arvind Nongpiur, Alka A Subramanyam, Debadatta Mohapatra, Sujita Kumar Kar, Vishal Dhiman, Pn Suresh Kumar, Umesh Shreekantiah, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Ramdas Ransing, Vikhram Ramasubramanian, Samir Kumar Praharaj
BACKGROUND: The Suicidal Narrative Inventory (SNI) is a 38-item self-report measure developed to assess elements of the suicidal narrative, a subacute, predominantly cognitive, presuicidal construct. Our objectives were to assess the factor structure, validity, and reliability of the SNI-38 among adults with major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS: Using a cross-sectional design, we administered the Hindi version of the SNI along with other self-report measures to adults with MDD, recruited from 24 tertiary care hospitals across India...
March 8, 2024: Asian Journal of Psychiatry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Trevor A Crowell, Justin Ritz, Lu Zheng, Asma Naqvi, Joshua C Cyktor, Joseph Puleo, Brian Clagett, Javier R Lama, Cecilia Kanyama, Susan J Little, Susan E Cohn, Sharon A Riddler, Ann C Collier, Sonya L Heath, Pornphen Tantivitayakul, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Roberto C Arduino, James F Rooney, Gert U van Zyl, Robert W Coombs, Lawrence Fox, Jintanat Ananworanich, Joseph J Eron, Scott F Sieg, John W Mellors, Eric S Daar
OBJECTIVE: To assess how antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation during acute or early HIV infection (AEHI) affects the viral reservoir and host immune responses. DESIGN: Single-arm trial of ART initiation during AEHI at 30 sites in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. METHODS: HIV DNA was measured at week 48 of ART in 5 million CD4+ T cells by sensitive qPCR assays targeting HIV gag and pol. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were stimulated with potential HIV T cell epitope peptide pools consisting of env, gag, nef, and pol peptides and stained for expression of CD3, CD4, CD8, and intracellular cytokines/chemokines...
March 14, 2024: AIDS
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Raman Puri, Manish Bansal, Vimal Mehta, P Barton Duell, Nathan D Wong, S S Iyengar, Dinesh Kalra, Devaki R Nair, Navin C Nanda, Jagat Narula, P Deedwania, Jamal Yusuf, Jamshed J Dalal, Sadanand Shetty, Vinod M Vijan, Rajeev Agarwala, Soumitra Kumar, Kris Vijay, Aziz Khan, Gurpreet Singh Wander, P C Manoria, S K Wangnoo, Viswanathan Mohan, Shashank R Joshi, Balbir Singh, Prafulla Kerkar, Rajesh Rajput, D Prabhakar, Abdul Hamid Zargar, Banshi Saboo, Ravi R Kasliwal, Saumitra Ray, Sandeep Bansal, M U Rabbani, Shibba Takkar Chhabra, Sarat Chandra, Neil Bardoloi, Narasaraju Kavalipati, Immaneni Sathyamurthy, Kunal Mahajan, Akshya Pradhan, N N Khanna, Rajesh Khadgawat, Preeti Gupta, Milan C Chag, Ashu Gupta, A Murugnathan, S N Narasingan, Sundeep Upadhyaya, Vinod Mittal, Rashida Patanwala Melinkeri, Madhur Yadav, M Raseed Mubarak, K K Pareek, Pradeep Kumar Dabla, Rashmi Nanda, J C Mohan
OBJECTIVE: In 2016, the Lipid Association of India (LAI) developed a cardiovascular risk assessment algorithm and defined low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goals for prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in Indians. The recent refinements in the role of various risk factors and subclinical atherosclerosis in prediction of ASCVD risk necessitated updating the risk algorithm and treatment goals. METHODS: The LAI core committee held twenty-one meetings and webinars from June 2022 to July 2023 with experts across India and critically reviewed the latest evidence regarding the strategies for ASCVD risk prediction and the benefits and modalities for intensive lipid lowering...
February 8, 2024: Journal of Clinical Lipidology
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Weifeng Li, Qiqi Qi, Weipeng Wang, Dongqin Li
Hyper-immunoglobulin E syndrome (HIES) is a primary immunodeficiency disease characterized by atopic dermatitis, recurrent skin and lung infections, and significantly elevated serum immunoglobulin E levels. Autosomal dominant and loss-of-function pathogenic variants in the STAT3 gene are the most common causes of the disease and studies have shown that the presence of IL-4 receptor (IL-4R) is upregulated in patients with dominant-negative mutations in the STAT3 gene expression. Dupilumab is a monoclonal antibody that targets the IL-4α receptor and improves the symptoms of atopic dermatitis by inhibiting IL-4 and IL-13...
March 2024: Asia Pacific Allergy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Phoebe C M Williams, Mark Jones, Thomas L Snelling, Robert Duguid, Nerida Moore, Benjamin Dickson, Yue Wu, Jessica Saunders, Priyali Wijeratne, Anousone Douangnouvong, Elizabeth A Ashley, Paul Turner
BACKGROUND: High levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are propagating deaths due to neonatal and paediatric infections globally. This is of particular concern in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, where healthcare resources are constrained and access to newer agents to treat multidrug-resistant pathogens is limited. METHODS: To assess the coverage provided by commonly prescribed empiric antibiotic regimens for children in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, we built a weighted incidence syndromic combination antibiogram (WISCA), parameterised using data obtained from a systematic review of published literature incorporating WHO-defined SEARO and WPRO regions in Ovid MEDLINE, EMBASE, Global Health and PubMed...
March 2024: Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Min Young Park, Yong Sik Yoon, Jae Ha Park, Jong Lyul Lee, Chang Sik Yu
BACKGROUND: Behcet's disease (BD), a chronic vasculitic disorder affecting multiple organs, is characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers, arthritis, vasculitis, and intestinal ulcers. Although intestinal involvement of BD is common in East Asia, the efficacy and long-term outcomes of surgical treatment of intestinal BD still remain to be established. AIM: To evaluate the postoperative clinical course of intestinal BD and determine factors associated with its recurrence...
February 27, 2024: World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
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EDITORIAL
Tao Chen, Guang Chen, Guiqiang Wang, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Han-Chieh Lin, Mamun Al-Mahtab, Yogesh K Chawla, Soek-Siam Tan, Jia-Horng Kao, Man-Fung Yuen, Guan-Huei Lee, Diana Alcantara-Payawal, Nobuaki Nakayama, Zaigham Abbas, Wasim Jafri, Dong-Joon Kim, Ashok Choudhury, Rakhi Mahiwall, Jinlin Hou, Saeed Hamid, Jidong Jia, J S Bajaj, Fusheng Wang, Shiv K Sarin, Qin Ning
End-stage liver disease (ESLD) is a life-threatening clinical syndrome and when complicated with infection the mortality is markedly increased. In patients with ESLD, bacterial or fungal infection can induce or aggravate the occurrence or progression of liver decompensation. Consequently, infections are among the most common complications of disease deterioration. There is an overwhelming need for standardized protocols for early diagnosis and appropriate management for patients with ESLD complicated by infections...
March 9, 2024: Hepatology International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ali Amid, Siyu Liu, Christian Babbs, Douglas R Higgs
Haemoglobin Bart's hydrops fetalis syndrome (BHFS) represents the most severe form of α-thalassaemia, arising from deletion of the duplicated α-globin genes from both alleles. The absence of α-globin leads to the formation of non-functional haemoglobin Bart's (γ4) or haemoglobin H (HbH: β4) resulting in severe anaemia, tissue hypoxia, and, in some cases, variable congenital or neurocognitive abnormalities. BHFS is the most common cause of hydrops fetalis in Southeast Asia; however, owing to global migration, the burden of this condition is increasing worldwide...
March 8, 2024: Blood
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sidharth Kumar Sethi, Rupesh Raina, Ahmad Sawan, Sadaf Asim, Aye Kyawt Khant, Manoj Matnani, Kalaivani Ganesan, Shraddha Lohia, Rajiv Sinha, Jubaida Rumana, Syed Saimul Haque, Suprita Kalra, Rabia Safdar, Gopal Prasad, Iftikhar Ijaz, Omer S Ashruf, Aishwarya Nair, Savita S, Kritika Soni, Devendra Shrestha, Shankar Yadav, Asiri Abeyagunawardena, Valerie A Luyckx, Khalid A Alhasan, Azmeri Sultana
BACKGROUND: Pediatric acute kidney injury (AKI) is a global health concern with an associated mortality risk disproportionately pronounced in resource-limited settings. There is a pertinent need to understand the epidemiology of pediatric AKI in vulnerable populations. Here, we proposed a prospective study to investigate the epidemiology and associated risk factors of "severe dialysis dependent AKI" in children among South Asian nations which would be the first and largest of its kind...
March 8, 2024: Pediatric Nephrology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jing Yang, Rui Zhang, Qianqian Liu, Yuping Bai, Liyan Zhang, Tingting He, Ziru Zhao, Min Huang, Yunshan Cao, Xiaopeng Wang, Min Zhang
OBJECTIVE: The study aims to evaluate and compare the efficacy and safety between ticagrelor and clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). METHODS: We searched MEDLINE (via PubMed), Cochrane, Embase, and the Cochrane library databases for eligible citations (the last search was up to December 2021). Subgroup analyses were performed based on region, study design, dose, and single-center/multicenter...
March 15, 2024: Heliyon
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REVIEW
Henrique Ayres Mayrink Giardini, Fabricio Souza Neves, Ivanio Alves Pereira, Rafael Alves Cordeiro
Despite their rarity, Lyme disease and Whipple's disease are of significant importance in rheumatology, as both can manifest as chronic arthritis, presenting challenges in the differential diagnosis of inflammatory arthropathies. In Lyme disease, arthritis typically emerges as a late manifestation, usually occurring six months after the onset of erythema migrans. The predominant presentation involves mono- or oligoarthritis of large joints, with a chronic or remitting-recurrent course. Even with appropriate antimicrobial treatment, arthritis may persist due to inadequate immunological control triggered by the disease...
March 4, 2024: Advances in Rheumatology
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