Infectious Disease

Sporulated Bacillus as alternative treatment for diarrhea of hospitalized adult patients under enteral nutrition: A pilot randomized controlled study.

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Among hospitalized patients receiving enteral nutrition (EN), malnutrition and antibiotic use are some of the most common causes of diarrhea. Prebiotics and probiotics agents have been used for treatment of diarrhea in such patients. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of a sporulated Bacillus strain (Bacillus cereus A 05), compared to a control group using a prebio...

Disruption of methicillin-resistant protein synthesis by tannins.

INTRODUCTION: Methicillin-resistant (MRSA) is a worldwide public health threat, displaying multiple antibiotic resistance that causes morbidity and mortality. Management of multidrug-resistant (MDR) MRSA infections is extremely difficult due to their inherent resistance to currently used antibiotics. New antibiotics are needed to combat the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.

Compatibility, Stability, and Efficacy of Vancomycin Combined With Gentamicin or Ethanol in Sodium Citrate as a Catheter Lock Solution.

Indwelling catheters deliver lifesaving medical treatments for many chronically ill patients but are frequently a source of infection. Treatment may ...

Investigating the antifungal activity and mechanism of a microbial pesticide Shenqinmycin against Phoma sp.

Tea white scab (TWS) is a major disease affecting tea trees in mid-elevation regions and often occurs during rainy seasons with low temperatures. This...

The R-package GenomicTools for multifactor dimensionality reduction and the analysis of (exploratory) Quantitative Trait Loci.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: We introduce the R-package GenomicTools to perform, among others, a Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (MDR) for the iden...

Expedient Synthesis of Indolo[2,3-]quinolines, Chromeno[2,3-]indoles, and 3-Alkenyl-oxindoles from 3,3'-Diindolylmethanes and Evaluation of Their Antibiotic Activity against Methicillin-Resistant .

Easily accessible 3,3'-diindolylmethanes (DIMs) were utilized to generate a focused library of indolo[2,3-]quinolines (), chromeno[2,3-]indoles (), an...

Disinfection of water with new chitosan-modified hybrid clay composite adsorbent.

Hybrid clay composites were prepared from Kaolinite clay and seeds via modification with chitosan, Alum, NaOH, and ZnCl in different ratios, using so...

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer aptasensor between nanoceria and graphene quantum dots for the determination of ochratoxin A.

In the present work, colloidal cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria) and graphene quantum dots (GQDs) were firstly synthesized by sol-gel method and ...

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...

RUDO: A Home Ambient Intelligence System for Blind People.

The article introduces an ambient intelligence system for blind people which besides providing assistance in home environment also helps with various ...

Detection of lung cancer in exhaled breath with an electronic nose using support vector machine analysis.

Lung cancer is one of the most common malignancies and has a low 5-year survival rate. There are no cheap, simple and widely available screening metho...

Learning representations for the early detection of sepsis with deep neural networks.

BACKGROUND: Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death in intensive care unit patients. Early detection of sepsis is vital because mortality increas...

A New Hybrid Model Using an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average and a Generalized Regression Neural Network for the Incidence of Tuberculosis in Heng County, China.

It is a daunting task to eradicate tuberculosis completely in Heng County due to a large transient population, human immunodeficiency virus/tuberculos...

Use of Mac-2 binding protein as a biomarker for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease diagnosis.

In contrast to patients with viral hepatitis, patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can progress to hepatocellular carcinoma during t...

Improving fold resistance prediction of HIV-1 against protease and reverse transcriptase inhibitors using artificial neural networks.

BACKGROUND: Drug resistance in HIV treatment is still a worldwide problem. Predicting resistance to antiretrovirals (ARVs) before starting any treatme...

Enhancement of hepatitis virus immunoassay outcome predictions in imbalanced routine pathology data by data balancing and feature selection before the application of support vector machines.

BACKGROUND: Data mining techniques such as support vector machines (SVMs) have been successfully used to predict outcomes for complex problems, includ...

Large-scale machine learning of media outlets for understanding public reactions to nation-wide viral infection outbreaks.

From May to July 2015, there was a nation-wide outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in Korea. MERS is caused by MERS-CoV, an enveloped,...

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A comparison of machine learning and Bayesian modelling for molecular serotyping.

BACKGROUND: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a human pathogen that is a major cause of infant mortality. Identifying the pneumococcal serotype is an import...

Identification of immune correlates of protection in Shigella infection by application of machine learning.

BACKGROUND: Immunologic correlates of protection are important in vaccine development because they give insight into mechanisms of protection, assist ...