Gene abundance and microbial syntrophy as key drivers of anaerobic digestion revealed through 16S rRNA gene and metagenomic analysis.

Genes in microorganisms influence the biological processes in anaerobic digestion (AD). However, key genes involved in the four metabolic steps (hydrolysis, acidogenesis, acetogenesis, and methanogenesis) remain largely unexplored. This study investigated the abundance and distribution of key functional genes in full-scale anaerobic digesters processing food waste (FWDs) and municipal wastewater (MWDs) through 16S rRNA gene and shotgun metagenomic analysis.

Genome-based analysis reveals niche differentiation among Firmicutes in full-scale anaerobic digestion systems.

Fermentative Firmicutes species are key players in anaerobic digestion; however, their niche differentiation based on carbohydrate utilization in full-scale systems remains unclear. In this study, we investigated niche differentiation among four major Firmicutes classes using a genome-centric approach, reconstructing 39 high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes. Limnochordia and Clostridia exhibited the broadest substrate versatility, utilizing 24% and 18% of the predicted substrates, respectively.

Towards an agenda of action and research for making health systems responsive to the needs of people with disabilities.

Ensuring health systems responsiveness is crucial for health equity and outcomes of all individuals, particularly disadvantaged groups such as people with disabilities. However, attention to and discussions on health system responsiveness for people with disabilities remains lacking. This viewpoint highlights the pervasive issues within health systems rooted in ableism and proposes an agenda to tackle ableism, aiming to make health systems responsive to the needs of people with disabilities.

A case report of segmental hypoganlionosis of the ileum in an adult.

Intestinal hypoganglionosis in adults is quite uncommon, and hypoganglionosis of the ileum has not been documented to date. The majority of studies on this disorder are single case reports and brief case series. We describe a 30-year-old male patient with bowel obstruction and intestinal hypoganglionosis of the ileum and we review the literature on the disorder.

Maternal healthcare for women with physical disabilities in Northern Vietnam: perspectives of healthcare providers.

Background: Pregnancy among women with physical disabilities is common around the world; however, there are limited qualitative studies that explore the perspectives of healthcare providers toward pregnant women with disabilities outside of the Global North.

Objective: This article explores perspectives and experiences of maternal healthcare providers in the delivery of services to women with physical disabilities in Northern Vietnam.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 healthcare providers who worked in public and/or private healthcare North Vietnamese facilities where maternal services were provided.

Whose decision? Caesarean section and women with physical disabilities in Northern Vietnam: A qualitative study.

Background: Pregnant women with physical disabilities are more likely to have caesarean sections than are women without disabilities. For some women with disabilities, caesarean birth may not be clinically necessary, as they may lack autonomy in decision-making to a greater extent than is the case for other pregnant women.

Objective: To explore the relative influence of health staff, family, friends, and the women themselves on key decisions about childbirth of women with physical disabilities in northern Vietnam.

"Under great anxiety": Pregnancy experiences of Vietnamese women with physical disabilities seen through an intersectional lens.

Background: There is scant research on pregnancy experiences of women with physical disabilities in low and middle-income countries. This qualitative study used an intersectional lens to explore pregnancy experiences of women with physical disabilities in northern Vietnam. Specifically, socio-cultural, economic, and environmental influences were analysed, drawing upon their lived experiences.

"Nothing suitable for us": experiences of women with physical disabilities in accessing maternal healthcare services in Northern Vietnam.

Purpose: This article explores how maternal healthcare access was experienced by women with physical disabilities in Northern Vietnam.

Methods: A qualitative methodology with an interpretive phenomenological design was used. In-depth interviews were conducted with women with physical disabilities who had given birth in the previous three years.

The effectiveness of workplace health promotion in low- and middle-income countries.

Although many literature reviews synthesize literature regarding workplace health promotion (WHP) interventions, systematic reviews on the effectiveness of and factors influencing the operation of WHP activities in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are scarce. Therefore, we systematically reviewed evaluation studies to examine the effectiveness and factors related to the implementation of WHP programmes in LMIC. Twenty-six peer-reviewed and grey evaluation studies, published before November 2017, were included from electronic databases (PubMed, The Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, EMBASE and Web of Science) and manual searching.

FACTORS INFLUENCING UNINTENDED PREGNANCY AND ABORTION AMONG UNMARRIED YOUTH IN VIETNAM: A LITERATURE REVIEW.

Unintended pregnancy and abortion among unmarried youths arepublic health issues in Vietnam. This review aims to analyse factors influencing unintended pregnancy and abortion among unmarried youths using published and unpublished literatures. An ecological model was used as the conceptual framework with five levels of factors to guide the analysis.

Endemic, epidemic clone of Salmonella enterica serovar typhi harboring a single multidrug-resistant plasmid in Vietnam between 1995 and 2002.

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi strains resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, tetracyclines, streptomycin, and cotrimoxazole, isolated from sporadic cases and minor outbreaks in Vietnam between 1995 and 2002, were typed and compared. Plasmid fingerprinting, Vi bacteriophage typing, XbaI pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and PstI ribotyping showed that endemic, epidemic multidrug-resistant typhoid fever was due, for at least 74.1% of the isolates, to one or two clones of serovar Typhi harboring a single resistance plasmid.