Infectious Disease

Forecasting deep learning-based risk assessment of vector-borne diseases using hybrid methodology.

BACKGROUND: Dengue fever is rapidly becoming Malaysia's most pressing health concern, as the reported cases have nearly doubled over the past decade. Without efficacious antiviral medications, vector control remains the primary strategy for battling dengue, while the recently introduced tetravalent immunization is being evaluated. The most significant and dangerous risk increasing recently is vect...

Diagnostic performance of machine-learning algorithms for sepsis prediction: An updated meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: Early identification of sepsis has been shown to significantly improve patient prognosis.

Prediction of early-phase cytomegalovirus pneumonia in post-stem cell transplantation using a deep learning model.

BACKGROUND: Diagnostic challenges exist for CMV pneumonia in post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (post-HSCT) patients, despite early-phase ra...

Classification of Pneumonia via a Hybrid ZFNet-Quantum Neural Network Using a Chest X-ray Dataset.

INTRODUCTION: Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant contributions to diagnosing pneumonia from chest X-ray imaging. However, certain aspec...

Identification and Prioritization of Health Indexes in Nomadic Tribespeople by Fuzzy Delphi Method: An Ecological Study.

The migratory lifestyle of nomadic communities, combined with the lack of a suitable health-related organizational structure, has made it difficult to...

The Growing Impact of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare and Public Health.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subset of Artificial Intelligence, specifically focused on understanding and generating human language. NLP tec...

Pneumonia detection on chest X-rays from Xception-based transfer learning and logistic regression.

Pneumonia is a dangerous disease that kills millions of children and elderly patients worldwide every year. The detection of pneumonia from a chest x-...

Advanced Lung Disease Detection: CBAM-Augmented, Lightweight EfficientNetB2 with Visual Insights.

INTRODUCTION: This paper presents a multichannel deep-learning method for detecting lung diseases using chest X-ray images. Using EfficientNetB0 throu...

[Antifungal immunity in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the characteristics of antifungal immunity in patients with bilateral chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.

[CLINICAL EVALUATION OF THERAPEUTIC EFFECT PREDICTORS IN PEMBROLIZUMAB FOR ADVANCED UROTHELIAL CANCER].

(Purpose) We performed a clinical retrospective study on the evaluation of pembrolizumab treatment results for advanced urothelial cancer in our hospi...

[A study of the clinical curative effect of nucleos(t)ide analogues treated to pegylated interferon-α add-on therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis B].

To investigate the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) clearance condition and its predictive factors after treatment with nucleos(t)ide analogues to...

Therapeutic effects of orally administration of viable and inactivated probiotic strains against murine urinary tract infection.

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are highly prevalent bacterial infections that pose significant health risks. Specific probiotic strains have been rec...

Highlights From IDWeek 2023-New Vaccines, Artificial Intelligence, and Antimicrobial Resistance.

Using chronobiology-based second-generation artificial intelligence digital system for overcoming antimicrobial drug resistance in chronic infections.

Antimicrobial resistance results from the widespread use of antimicrobial agents and is a significant obstacle to the effectiveness of these agents. N...

Inhibition of choline kinase as an antiamoebic approach in Entamoeba histolytica infection.

Entamoeba histolytica is the parasite responsible for amoebiasis, which can result in amoebic colitis or amoebic liver abscess. Metronidazole has been...

Elettaria cardamomum essential oil; immunomodulatory, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory effects for controlling acute Toxoplasma gondii infection.

The present study was conducted to investigate the immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects of Elettaria cardamomum essential oil (ECEO) for the...

New peperomin and polyketides from dichloromethane extract of Peperomia blanda Jack. (Kunth).

Much of the new research and investigation in pharmacy sciences are concerned with developing therapeutic agents, and identifying and finding new drug...

[Experimental study of APB-DOCK8 transgenic tomato vaccine for caries prevention].

PURPOSE: To observe the anti-caries effect of transgenic tomato anti-caries vaccine after immunization with SD rats by gavage and to explore its immun...

Skin Changes in Suspected Lyme Disease.

Dear Editor, Ticks carry many diseases, bacteria, and viruses and represent a very important healthcare issue both in Croatia and globally. Although m...

Unraveling viral drug targets: a deep learning-based approach for the identification of potential binding sites.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred a wide range of approaches to control and combat the disease. However, selecting an effec...