Congenital Rubella Syndrome: A Case Report from Somalia.

Congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) is a serious condition with a high rate of morbidity. It is currently a rare disorder, especially in developed countries, because of universal vaccination campaigns. However, it remains a public health concern in developing countries.

Knowledge and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination in Sudan: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Vaccines are an essential part of public health interventions to mitigate the devastating health and non-health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the fact that Sudan launched the COVID-19 vaccination program in March 2021, only 10% of the population received their two primary doses of vaccines by the end of May 2022. This delayed uptake of vaccines obviously warrants investigation.

EVs predict the outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a condition with myocardial necrosis caused by an unstable ischemic syndrome. AMI is the leading cause of disability and death around the world. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small-sized fragments of phospholipids produced by the outward budding of the cell membrane of different types of cells (red blood cells, endothelial cells, platelets, and leukocytes).

Time-Domain Joint Training Strategies of Speech Enhancement and Intent Classification Neural Models.

Robustness against background noise and reverberation is essential for many real-world speech-based applications. One way to achieve this robustness is to employ a speech enhancement front-end that, independently of the back-end, removes the environmental perturbations from the target speech signal. However, although the enhancement front-end typically increases the speech quality from an intelligibility perspective, it tends to introduce distortions which deteriorate the performance of subsequent processing modules.

Hypothermia induced by central injection of sucralose potentially occurs via monoaminergic pathways in the hypothalamus of chicks.

Oral administration of sucralose has been reported to stimulate food intake through inducing hypothalamic neuropeptide Y (NPY) in mice and fruit flies. However, the underlying mechanisms of action of sucralose in hypothermia and NPY and monoamine regulation remain unknown. The aim of the present study was to investigate central effects of sucralose on body temperature, NPY, and monoamine regulation, as well as its peripheral effects, in chicks.

In-plane coupled Fabry-Perot micro-cavities based on Si-air Bragg mirrors: a theoretical and practical study.

In-plane Fabry-Perot cavities based on deeply etched Bragg mirrors are used in many microphotonic applications including sensing, telecom, and swept laser devices. A main limitation to their performance is the small free spectral range (FSR) and low finesse. The FSR limits the dynamic range or the wavelength tuning range, while the linewidth limits the resolution.

Biodegradation of dairy wastewater using bacterial and fungal local isolates.

Dairy wastewater contains high levels of organics and other pollutants. The present study was carried out to investigate the biodegradation process of dairy effluents using some locally isolated bacteria and fungi. Four different dairy effluent samples were collected from Obour and 6th October industrial cities, Egypt.

Central NPY-Y5 sub-receptor partially functions as a mediator of NPY-induced hypothermia and affords thermotolerance in heat-exposed fasted chicks.

Exposure of chicks to a high ambient temperature (HT) has previously been shown to increase neuropeptide Y (NPY) mRNA expression in the brain. Furthermore, it was found that NPY has anti-stress functions in heat-exposed fasted chicks. The aim of the study was to reveal the role of central administration of NPY on thermotolerance ability and the induction of heat-shock protein (HSP) and NPY sub-receptors (NPYSRs) in fasted chicks with the contribution of plasma metabolite changes.

Dispersion of the Vancomycin Resistance Genes vanA and vanC of Enterococcus Isolated from Nile Tilapia on Retail Sale: A Public Health Hazard.

Although normally regarded harmless commensals, enterococci may cause a range of different infections in humans, including urinary tract infections, sepsis, and endocarditis. The acquisition of vancomycin resistance by enterococci (VRE) has seriously affected the treatment and infection control of these organisms. VRE are frequently resistant to all antibiotics that are effective treatment for vancomycin-susceptible enterococci, which leaves clinicians treating VRE infections with limited therapeutic options.

Toxoplasmosis preventive behavior and related knowledge among Saudi pregnant women: an exploratory study.

Introduction: Many cases of congenital toxoplasmosis can be prevented provided that pregnant women following hygienic measures to avert risk of infection and to reduce severity of the condition if primary prevention failed.

Objectives: This descriptive exploratory study aimed to assess the risk behavior and knowledge related to toxoplasmoisis among Saudi pregnant women attending primary health care centers (PHCs) in Al Hassa, Saudi Arabia and to determine socio-demographic characteristics related to risk behavior and knowledge.

Methods: All Saudi pregnant women attending antenatal care at randomly selected six urban and four rural PHCs were approached.