Flu & URI

THE EVALUATION OF DOMESTIC DUCKS AS POTENTIAL RESERVOIR OF AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS IN POST HPAI H5N1 OUTBREAK AREA, SUNYANI MUNICIPALITY, BRONG AHAFO REGION OF GHANA.

BACKGROUND: Avian influenza (AI) is an important zoonotic disease responsible for significant losses...

Planning the City Logistics Terminal Location by Applying the Green p-Median Model and Type-2 Neurofuzzy Network.

The paper herein presents green p-median problem (GMP) which uses the adaptive type-2 neural network...

Development of two artificial neural network models to support the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in hospitalized patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) remains a worldwide public health problem. Diagnostic algorithms to ide...

Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2014).

The "Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies" (VDOS) international workshop series focuses on vaccine- and...

Using Support Vector Machine (SVM) for Classification of Selectivity of H1N1 Neuraminidase Inhibitors.

Inhibition of the neuraminidase is one of the most promising strategies for preventing influenza vir...

Extreme effects of Seabuckthorn extracts on influenza viruses and human cancer cells and correlation between flavonol glycosides and biological activities of extracts.

Seabuckthorn is a medicinal plant that is used to prevent cold. It was tested for its metabolic cont...

A Case of Influenza Associated Fulminant Myocarditis Successfully Treated with Intravenous Peramivir.

We report the case of a patient with fulminant myocarditis caused by influenza A virus, who presente...

Selenium supplementation has beneficial and detrimental effects on immunity to influenza vaccine in older adults.

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Mortality resulting from influenza (flu) virus infections occurs primarily in the...

Simultaneous Determination of Rutin, Luteolin, Quercetin, and Betulinic Acid in the Extract of Disporopsis pernyi (Hua) Diels by UPLC.

Disporopsis pernyi (Hua) Diels, which belongs to genus Disporopsis, has been widely used for the tre...

Discovery of Influenza A virus neuraminidase inhibitors using support vector machine and Naïve Bayesian models.

Neuraminidase (NA) is a critical enzyme in the life cycle of influenza virus, which is known as a su...

Mutagenic Potential ofBos taurus Papillomavirus Type 1 E6 Recombinant Protein: First Description.

Bovine papillomavirus (BPV) is considered a useful model to study HPV oncogenic process. BPV interac...

An autopsy case of cardiac tamponade caused by a ruptured ventricular aneurysm associated with acute myocarditis.

We report an autopsy case of hemopericardium caused by rupture of a ventricular aneurysm associated ...

Clinical course of H1N1-vaccine-related narcolepsy.

OBJECTIVE: To follow and analyze the clinical course and quality of life of Pandemrix H1N1-vaccine-r...

Cough event classification by pretrained deep neural network.

BACKGROUND: Cough is an essential symptom in respiratory diseases. In the measurement of cough sever...

Persistence of Anti-HBs Among Palestinian Medical Students After 18 - 22 Years of Vaccination: A Cross-Sectional Study.

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B infection is a global public health problem affecting various sectors in the...

Information Dissemination of Public Health Emergency on Social Networks and Intelligent Computation.

Due to the extensive social influence, public health emergency has attracted great attention in toda...

Combining Search, Social Media, and Traditional Data Sources to Improve Influenza Surveillance.

We present a machine learning-based methodology capable of providing real-time ("nowcast") and forec...

Polyphylla saponin I has antiviral activity against influenza A virus.

OBJECTIVE: In the present study, the antiviral effects of polyphylla saponin I isolated from Parispo...

Hemato-biochemical and pathological changes on avian influenza in naturally infected domestic ducks in Egypt.

AIM: Few studies have been made in regard to avian influenza (AI) in ducks, thus the aim of this wor...

Identifying influenza-like illness presentation from unstructured general practice clinical narrative using a text classifier rule-based expert system versus a clinical expert.

BACKGROUND: We designed and validated a rule-based expert system to identify influenza like illness ...

Clinical evaluation of the newly developed infectious disease/fever screening radar system using the neural network and fuzzy grouping method for travellers with suspected infectious diseases at Narita International Airport Clinic.