Impact of public health measures and new introducing variants on Respiratory syncytial virus recrudescence in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes clinically significant distress in children and adults. Non-pharmaceutical interventions against SARS-CoV-2 have affected the seasonal activity of common respiratory pathogens. This seems exceptionally true regarding RSV's seasonal circulation, hence we have investigated the changes in the epidemiology of RSV in Taiwan during the pandemic.

A novel approach to button battery removal in a two-and-half year-old patient's esophagus after ingestion: a case report.

Background: Accidental swallowing of a foreign body occurs more frequently in children than in adults. Among these cases, button battery impaction in the esophagus may cause severe complications. While prevention is always ideal, if button battery impaction is suspected, immediate diagnosis and retrieval are important.

Delayed respiratory syncytial virus outbreak in 2020 in Taiwan was correlated with two novel RSV-A genotype ON1 variants.

Background: Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading pathogen of acute respiratory tract disease among infants and young children. Compared with previous seasons, RSV outbreaks in Taiwan during the 2020-2021 season were delayed because of COVID-19 mitigation measures. We conducted this study to determine the association of viral factors with clinical characteristics of preschool children with RSV infection.

Multiplexed holographic non-axial-scanning slit confocal fluorescence microscopy.

A non-axial-scanning multi-plane microscopic system incorporating multiplexed volume holographic gratings and slit array detection to simultaneously acquire optically sectioned images from different depths is presented. The proposed microscopic system is configured such that multiplexed volume holographic gratings are utilized to selectively produce axial focal points in two or more planes inside the sample, and then to use confocal slit apertures to simultaneously image these multiple planes onto corresponding detection areas of a CCD. We describe the design, implementation, and experimental data demonstrating this microscopic system's ability to obtain optically sectioned multi-plane images of fluorescently labeled standard micro-spheres and tissue samples without scanning in axial directions.