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Effect of Hepatitis C Treatment on Renal Function in Liver Transplant Patients.

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is uniformly recurrent after liver transplant (LT) and recurrence is associated with an increased risk of mortality. Immunosuppressive medications increase the risk of chronic kidney disease, and the presence of chronic kidney disease presents a challenge for HCV treatment in LT recipients. The aim of this study was to assess changes in glomerular filtration rates (GFRs) o...

Marginal Structural Models with Counterfactual Effect Modifiers.

UNLABELLED: In health and social sciences, research questions often involve systematic assessment of the modification of treatment causal effect by patient characteristics. In longitudinal settings, time-varying or post-intervention effect modifiers are also of interest. In this work, we investigate the robust and efficient estimation of the Counterfactual-History-Adjusted Marginal Structural Mode...

Intelligent Network DisRuption Analysis (INDRA): A targeted strategy for efficient interruption of hepatitis C transmissions.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a global public health problem. The implementation of public health interventions (PHI) to control HCV infection ...

Analysis of hepatitis B virus infection in blood sera using Raman spectroscopy and machine learning.

This study presents the analysis of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in human blood serum using Raman spectroscopy combined with pattern recognition ...

Machine learning identifies signatures of host adaptation in the bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica.

Emerging pathogens are a major threat to public health, however understanding how pathogens adapt to new niches remains a challenge. New methods are u...

Deep learning Radiomics of shear wave elastography significantly improved diagnostic performance for assessing liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B: a prospective multicentre study.

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to evaluate the performance of the newly developed deep learning Radiomics of elastography (DLRE) for assessing liver fibrosis sta...

Overproduction of efflux pumps caused reduced susceptibility to carbapenem under consecutive imipenem-selected stress in .

PURPOSE: is an important pathogen in the nosocomial infections worldwide. Combining with carbapenemases, efflux pumps and outer membrane proteins (OM...

Computational Strategies for Dissecting the High-Dimensional Complexity of Adaptive Immune Repertoires.

The adaptive immune system recognizes antigens an immense array of antigen-binding antibodies and T-cell receptors, the immune repertoire. The interr...

Machine learning for the meta-analyses of microbial pathogens' volatile signatures.

Non-invasive and fast diagnostic tools based on volatolomics hold great promise in the control of infectious diseases. However, the tools to identify ...

Nicotine is a risk factor for dental caries: An  study.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: is an important pathogen in the development of dental caries. Many studies have focused on the relationship between nicotine and ...

Serum Vitamin D Levels in Treatment-naïve Chronic Hepatitis B Patients.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: According to the demographic health survey conducted in 2015, Egypt had 10% documented prevalence of anti-HBc positive pati...

HCV nonstructural protein 4 is associated with aggressiveness features of breast cancer.

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has the lymphotropic feature that is supposed to be the reason of related extrahepatic manifestation. HCV viral on...

Depression and alcohol use disorder at antiretroviral therapy initiation led to disengagement from care in South Africa.

We sought to assess mental health at the time of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and subsequent retention in care over a six-month follow-up p...

Label-free screening of foodborne Salmonella using surface plasmon resonance imaging.

It is estimated that 95% of the foodborne infections are caused by 15 major pathogens. Therefore, rapid and effective multiplex screening techniques f...

Long-term incidence and predictors of hepatitis B surface antigen loss after discontinuing nucleoside analogues in noncirrhotic chronic hepatitis B patients.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the long-term incidence and predictors for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss after nucleoside analogue therapy.

A label-free electrochemical immunosensor based on the novel signal amplification system of AuPdCu ternary nanoparticles functionalized polymer nanospheres.

A sensitive label-free electrochemical immunosensor was designed using a novel signal amplification system for quantitative detecting hepatitis B surf...

Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms Using IL28B Genotype and Biochemical Markers Best Predicted Advanced Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis C.

IL28B single nucleotide polymorphism (rs12979860) is an etiology-independent predictor of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related hepatic fibrosis. Data minin...

Antigenic and pathogenicity activities of Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 biovar 2 molecularly identified and detected by indirect ELISA using polyclonal antibodies generated in rabbits.

Eight molecular-characterized isolates of Ralstonia solanacearum from potato belonging to race 3 biovar 2, their virulence were evaluated on potato cv...

Control of Listeria monocytogenes in whole milk using antimicrobials applied individually and in combination.

Dairy product recalls and dairy-related illnesses are often the result of contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, which can occur throughout the da...

Structures and antipathogenic fungi activities of flavonoids from pathogen-infected Astragalus adsurgens.

Healthy Astragalus adsurgens is a highly palatable forage widely cultivated in arid areas of north China, while pathogen- (Embellisia asttrgali ) infe...