Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic intracellular protozoa of the genus . The visceral form of this disease caused by continues to constitute a major public health crisis, especially in countries of endemicity. In some cases, it is asymptomatic and comes with acute and chronic clinical outcomes such as weight loss, pancytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly, and death if left untreated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs of 27 December 2021, SARS-CoV-2 has infected over 278 million persons and caused 5.3 million deaths. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, different methods, from medical to artificial intelligence, have been used for its detection, diagnosis, and surveillance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, a magnetic generation-5 polyamidoamine (G-5 PAMAM) dendrimer-functionalized SBA-15 (mPSBA) composite was synthesized by coupling amine-functionalized silica (SBA-15-NH) and amine-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (MNP-NH) with the G-5 PAMAM, before characterization and aqueous sorption of As(III), Cd(II), tetracycline, and ciprofloxacin using the composite. The mPSBA characterization data exhibited the typical Si-O-Si infrared peaks from the SBA-15 backbone in addition to the acquired characteristic infrared Fe-O and amide-I/II peaks from the MNP and G-5 PAMAM dendrimers, respectively. Postsorption infrared spectra showing shifts for the amide-linked groups indicated the likely points of contaminant attachment on the composite.
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