Incidence and Risk Factors for Wound Infections after Trimeresurus stejnegeri Snakebites in Taiwan.

Snakebite envenomation is a neglected tropical disease. Taiwan, with its subtropical and Southeast Asian environment, provides suitable habitat for several venomous snake species. Trimeresurus stejnegeri, an arboreal pit viper, is the most common cause of venomous snakebite in Taiwan.

Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Uptake: A Multi-Center Retrospective Study.

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, global vaccination efforts declined due to the burden on health systems and community resistance to epidemic control measures. Influenza and pneumococcal vaccines have been recommended for vulnerable populations to prevent severe pneumonia. We investigated community response towards influenza and pneumococcal vaccines (pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine) after the COVID-19 outbreak in Taiwan.

Experience of carbon monoxide poisoning and the outcome predicting score: A multicenter retrospective study.

Background: Carbon monoxide poisoning (COP), resulting from accidental and intentional exposure, is a leading cause of fatal poisoning worldwide. Except for early death, neurological sequelae are common and impose a large burden on patients, caregivers, and the society.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study included patients who visited the emergency departments (EDs) of the medical institutes of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital after COP with a carboxyhemoglobin level > 10% between January 2009 and October 2018.

Chronic kidney disease as an important risk factor for tumor recurrences, progression and overall survival in primary non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of chronic kidney disease (CKD) on oncologic outcomes among non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients who underwent transurethral resection of bladder cancer.

Methods: We followed up the medical data of 158 newly diagnosed NMIBC patients enrolled in this study for more than 4 years. The ten putative risk factors included patient age, gender, white blood cells, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, tumor count, size, grade, stage, CKD (estimated glomerular filtration rate, eGFR < 60) and histological differentiation.

An up-down bit pattern approach to coregulated and negative-coregulated gene clustering of microarray data.

Biclustering, which performs simultaneous clustering of rows (e.g., genes) and columns (e.

Mining subspace clusters from DNA microarray data using large itemset techniques.

Mining subspace clusters from the DNA microarrays could help researchers identify those genes which commonly contribute to a disease, where a subspace cluster indicates a subset of genes whose expression levels are similar under a subset of conditions. Since in a DNA microarray, the number of genes is far larger than the number of conditions, those previous proposed algorithms which compute the maximum dimension sets (MDSs) for any two genes will take a long time to mine subspace clusters. In this article, we propose the Large Itemset-Based Clustering (LISC) algorithm for mining subspace clusters.

A Condition-Enumeration Tree method for mining biclusters from DNA microarray data sets.

Biclustering, which performs simultaneous clustering of rows (e.g., genes) and columns (e.