Flu & URI

Simultaneous quantification of fluoxetine and norfluoxetine in colostrum and mature human milk using a 2-dimensional liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry system.

A two-dimensional liquid chromatography system coupled to triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometer (2D LC-MS/MS) was employed for the determination of fluoxetine (FLU) and norfluoxetine (N-FLU) in colostrum and mature milk by direct sample injection. With a run time of 12 min representing a gain in throughput analysis, the validated methods furnished selectivity, extraction efficiency, accuracy,...

Lung abscess caused by serotype 6B.

Lung abscess has been considered to be a rare complication of pneumococcal infection, and most cases are reported to be serotype 3. A 67-year-old man presented with fever and was diagnosed to have lung abscess caused by serotype 6B. The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of penicillin for the isolate was 1 μg/mL. He was treated with high-dose intravenous sulbactam/ampicillin as definitive th...

Defining lower airway bacterial infection in children with chronic endobronchial disorders.

BACKGROUND: Differentiating lower airway bacterial infection from possible upper airway contamination in children with endobronchial disorders undergo...

Purification of influenza virus-like particles using sulfated cellulose membrane adsorbers.

BACKGROUND: Vaccines based on virus-like particles (VLPs) are an alternative to inactivated viral vaccines that combine good safety profiles with stro...

Forecasting influenza-like illness dynamics for military populations using neural networks and social media.

This work is the first to take advantage of recurrent neural networks to predict influenza-like illness (ILI) dynamics from various linguistic signals...

Remarkable enhancement of flavonoid production in a co-cultivation system of L. hairy root cultures and immobilized .

The dried roots of L. are highly traded in the pharmaceutical industry due to their notable anti-influenza efficacy. For the first time, hairy root ...

Critical dynamics in population vaccinating behavior.

Vaccine refusal can lead to renewed outbreaks of previously eliminated diseases and even delay global eradication. Vaccinating decisions exemplify a c...

Isolation of in HUVEC line.

formerly named and ' Rickettsia amblyommii' is an intracellular bacterium belonging to the spotted fever group It is highly prevalent in and in ot...

An outbreak of classical swine fever in pigs in Bangladesh, 2015.

In a group of 22 healthy pigs aged between 4 and 6 months, 2 pigs became ill with high fever, complete anorexia, cough and abnormal swaying movements ...

A fuzzy MICMAC analysis for improving supply chain performance of basic vaccines in developing countries.

INTRODUCTION: In recent years, demand to improve child immunization coverage globally, and the development of the latest vaccines and technology has m...

A facile and rapid method for green synthesis of stem extract-mediated silver nano-composites with cidal potential against L.

L. is the primary vector associated with transmission of globally concerned diseases; Zika, yellow fever, dengue and Chikungunya. Present study inves...

Antiplasmodial activity of two medicinal plants against clinical isolates of and infected mice.

Malaria is an infectious and deadly parasitic disease, associated with fever, anaemia and other ailments. Unfortunately the upsurge of plasmodium mult...

Efficient k-NN Implementation for Real-Time Detection of Cough Events in Smartphones.

The potential  of telemedicine in respiratory health care has not been completely unveiled in part due to the inexistence of reliable objective measur...

Ab-initio conformational epitope structure prediction using genetic algorithm and SVM for vaccine design.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: T-cell epitope structure identification is a significant challenging immunoinformatic problem within epitope-based vaccine d...

Protracted severe systemic cytomegalovirus disease in an immunosuppressed patient with ulcerative colitis.

A 33-year-old man with ulcerative colitis presented with 5-day history of fever, night sweats, abdominal pain and increased stool frequency. He was on...

Quantum associative memory with linear and non-linear algorithms for the diagnosis of some tropical diseases.

This paper presents the QAMDiagnos, a model of Quantum Associative Memory (QAM) that can be a helpful tool for medical staff without experience or lab...

Predicting Ascospore Release of Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi of Blueberry with Machine Learning.

Mummy berry, caused by Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi, causes economic losses of highbush blueberry in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW). Apothecia devel...

Spectrophotometric determination of fluoxetine by molecularly imprinted polypyrrole and optimization by experimental design, artificial neural network and genetic algorithm.

A selective method based on molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) solid-phase extraction (SPE) using UV-Vis spectrophotometry as a detection technique w...

Enhancing Seasonal Influenza Surveillance: Topic Analysis of Widely Used Medicinal Drugs Using Twitter Data.

BACKGROUND: Uptake of medicinal drugs (preventive or treatment) is among the approaches used to control disease outbreaks, and therefore, it is of vit...

Comparing the performance of 3 bioaerosol samplers for influenza virus.

Respiratory viral diseases can be spread when a virus-containing particle (droplet) from one individual is aerosolized and subsequently comes into eit...