AIMC Topic: Carrier State

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Efficient and targeted COVID-19 border testing via reinforcement learning.

Nature
Throughout the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, countries have relied on a variety of ad hoc border control protocols to allow for non-essential travel while safeguarding public health, from quarantining all travellers to restricting ent...

The role of quantitative HBsAg in the natural history of e antigen-negative chronic hepatitis B: A Tunisian prospective study.

Infectious diseases now
BACKGROUND/AIMS: During the natural course of Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB) infection, differentiation between inactive carrier (IC) and HBeAg negative CHB is a subject of ongoing debate. We studied the role of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) level a...

Impact of Blastocystis carriage and colonization intensity on gut microbiota composition in a non-westernized rural population from Colombia.

PLoS neglected tropical diseases
BACKGROUND: The role of Blastocystis, a common intestinal parasitic protist of humans and other animals, in human health and disease remains elusive. Recent studies suggest a connection between Blastocystis colonization, healthier lifestyles, and hig...

[Reference values of antistreptolysin O and asymptomatic carriers of β-hemolytic streptococci in adolescents and adults at Municipality Francisco Linares Alcántara, Venezuela].

Revista chilena de infectologia : organo oficial de la Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia
INTRODUCTION: β-hemolytic streptococci (Streptococcus pyogenes) groups A, C or G, secretes streptolysin O, toxin which causes in the infected individual an adaptive humoral immune response with production of serum antibodies called anti-streptolysin ...