Infectious Disease

AI-assisted diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection: strengths, limitations, and future directions.

Long-term COVID-19 symptoms and post-vaccination reactions among prolonged COVID-19 patients in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Vaccination has long been recognized as the most effective means for disease prevention, yet concern...

NLP-like deep learning aided in identification and validation of thiosulfinate tolerance clusters in diverse bacteria.

Allicin tolerance () clusters in phytopathogenic bacteria, which provide resistance to thiosulfinate...

Predicting 14-day readmission in middle-aged and elderly patients with pneumonia using emergency department data: a multicentre retrospective cohort study with a survival machine learning approach.

OBJECTIVES: Unplanned pneumonia readmissions increase patient morbidity, mortality and healthcare co...

Self-Driving and Detachable Lab-Microrobots Tailor Drug Delivery for Closed-Loop Stimulation of the Antitumor Immune Cycle.

Hypoxia arises in most solid tumors with insufficient blood flow, which hinders the delivery and eff...

Precision Medicine and Machine Learning to predict critical disease and death due to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

INTRODUCTION: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes Coronavirus Di...

Exploring T-cell metabolism in tuberculosis: development of a diagnostic model using metabolic genes.

OBJECTIVES: The early diagnosis and immunoregulatory mechanisms of active tuberculosis (ATB) and lat...

Measurement, Characterization, and Mapping of COVID-19 Misinformation in Spain: Cross-Sectional Study.

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by an unprecedented infodemic characterized b...

Advancing AMR Surveillance: Confluence of One Health and Big Data Integration : Converging One Health and Big Data for AMR.

Antibiotic resistance poses a critical global health threat, demanding robust surveillance systems t...

Morphological Profiling of Imaging Flow Cytometry Data Uncovers Heterogeneity in Infected Gephyrocapsa huxleyi Cultures.

Phytoplankton, such as the coccolitophore Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (G. huxleyi), has a major ecological ...

Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury in Critically ill Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia Using Machine Learning.

BackgroundThe incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) is increased in patients with community-acquire...

A machine learning model for predicting severity-adjusted in-hospital mortality in pneumonia patients.

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to develop a customized severity adjustment tool for hospital deaths in p...

Improving Hepatitis B outcome prediction with ensemble machine learning: A study on predictive models and interpretability.

OBJECTIVE: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a significant global health threat, responsible for severe liv...

Chemokine-like factor-like MARVEL transmembrane domain-containing 1 identified as a novel target protein for immune dysregulation in sepsis: A machine learning and molecular dynamics framework for diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic exploration.

BACKGROUND: Sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response syndrome precipitated by infection, involves cr...

Melioidosis molecular diagnostics: An update.

Melioidosis, a fatal tropical disease, presents a wide array of clinical manifestations, including a...

LLM-Generated Multiple Choice Practice Quizzes for Pre-Clinical Medical Students; Prevalence of Item Writing Flaws.

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are frequently used in medical education for assessment. Automated ...

AI-driven techniques for detection and mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 spread: a review, taxonomy, and trends.

The SARS-CoV-2 RNA virus, with its rapid spread and frequent genetic changes, has posed unparalleled...

Enzymatic carbon-fluorine bond cleavage by human gut microbes.

Fluorinated compounds are used for agrochemical, pharmaceutical, and numerous industrial application...

Identification of bacterial infection types in decomposition stages at various temperatures using pathology images and artificial intelligence algorithms.

Bacterial infections present a significant threat to human health, and accurate identification of in...

Highly specific virus-host linkages in mesothermophilic and circumneutral hot springs microbial communities.

Microbial communities in hot springs are distributed globally and have been extensively characterize...

Mucosal immune responses and intestinal microbiome associations in wild spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).

Little is known about host-gut microbiome interactions within natural populations at the intestinal ...