Flu & URI

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.

Harnessing Computational Biology for Exact Linear B-Cell Epitope Prediction: A Novel Amino Acid Composition-Based Feature Descriptor.

Proteins embody epitopes that serve as their antigenic determinants. Epitopes occupy a central place...

Can Natural Language Processing Improve the Efficiency of Vaccine Adverse Event Report Review?

BACKGROUND: Individual case review of spontaneous adverse event (AE) reports remains a cornerstone o...

Comparison of machine learning classifiers for influenza detection from emergency department free-text reports.

Influenza is a yearly recurrent disease that has the potential to become a pandemic. An effective bi...

Synbiotic enhances immune responses against infectious bronchitis, infectious bursal disease, Newcastle disease and avian influenza in broiler chickens.

Increased susceptibility of birds to avian pathogens in intensive husbandry system has emphasized on...

Pathology Image of the Month:Cough and Shortness of Breath in a Noncompliant Patient with HIV/AIDS.

A 37- year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) w...

Automatic classification of diseases from free-text death certificates for real-time surveillance.

BACKGROUND: Death certificates provide an invaluable source for mortality statistics which can be us...

An Ebola virus-centered knowledge base.

Ebola virus (EBOV), of the family Filoviridae viruses, is a NIAID category A, lethal human pathogen....

Prediction of drug-induced eosinophilia adverse effect by using SVM and naïve Bayesian approaches.

Drug-induced eosinophilia is a potentially life-threatening adverse effect; clinical manifestations,...

Morbidity Rate Prediction of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) Using the Support Vector Machine and the Aedes aegypti Infection Rate in Similar Climates and Geographical Areas.

BACKGROUND: In the past few decades, several researchers have proposed highly accurate prediction mo...

Machine learning methods enable predictive modeling of antibody feature:function relationships in RV144 vaccinees.

The adaptive immune response to vaccination or infection can lead to the production of specific anti...

An open-label, in-use study assessing the warming sensation accompanying IFF Flavour 316282 and the acceptability and local tolerability of a syrup containing paracetamol and pseudoephedrine for the short-term treatment of symptoms of an upper respiratory tract infection.

OBJECTIVE: The primary objective was to assess the warming sensation caused by IFF Flavour 316282 in...

Describing the breakbone fever: IDODEN, an ontology for dengue fever.

BACKGROUND: Ontologies represent powerful tools in information technology because they enhance inter...