Publications by authors named "A V Rakov"
[Features of primary forms of headache in multiple sclerosis].
Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
July 2024
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- The study focused on understanding headache types in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), examining 110 MS patients at Smolensk State Medical University between April and May 2023.
- Results revealed that migraines were the most common type of headache, affecting 85% of MS patients, while tension headaches were only found in 15%. No significant links were identified between headaches and factors like age or treatment type.
- The research highlighted that 18.2% of MS patients also had primary headaches, with migraines more prevalent; female gender and certain MS types increased migraine risk, potentially worsening cognitive issues linked to anxiety and depression.
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- Karachay-Cherkessia, a region in Russia, has been under-researched concerning tick-borne bacterial pathogens, prompting this study to investigate their presence.
- Researchers collected and analyzed 159 ticks from human hosts and 53 individual ticks from vegetation, using advanced methods like qPCR and Sanger sequencing to identify the pathogens.
- The study confirmed the presence of DNA from several species of the spotted fever group and highlighted genetic diversity among the pathogens, emphasizing the need for more attention to tick-borne diseases in the area.
The prevalence of the tick-borne spotted fever group rickettsioses pathogens in ticks collected in Barnaul, the administrative center of Altai Krai, Western Siberia, was studied. The causative agent of tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA) was revealed to be present in 61.9% of the samples from ticks.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFBacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) enriched with bioactive proteins, toxins, and virulence factors play a critical role in host-pathogen and microbial interactions. The two-component system PhoP-PhoQ (PhoPQ) of Salmonella enterica orchestrates the remodeling of outer membrane lipopolysaccharide (LPS) molecules and concomitantly upregulates OMV production. In this study, we document a novel use of nanoparticle tracking analysis to determine bacterial OMV size and number.
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