PeerJ Comput Sci
November 2024
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death globally. New immunotherapies that harness the patient's immune system to fight cancer show promise, but their development requires analyzing the diversity of immune cells called T-cells. T-cells have receptors that recognize and bind to cancer cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Reliance solely on traditional approaches in health education is no longer considered sufficient, and electronic/digital education can be a complementary approach. Implementing electronic methods in health education requires identifying the requirements from the perspective of the service providers. Therefore, this study aimed to elucidate the experiences and perspectives of community health workers (Behvarzan) regarding the requirements for providing health education for rural people through electronic/digital means.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The preparedness of the healthcare system to address emergency situations is contingent on the inclination of healthcare personnel. Nursing students can serve as valuable resources to supplement the workforce during major incidents and disasters. This study investigated the facilitators and barriers of nursing students' willingness to respond to disasters at the Alborz University of Medical Sciences in 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Irano-Turanian region is one of the largest floristic regions in the world and harbors a high percentage of endemics, including cushion-like and dwarf-shrubby taxa. Onobrychis cornuta is an important cushion-forming element of the subalpine/alpine flora of the Irano-Turanian floristic region. To specify the genetic diversity among the populations of this species (including individuals of O.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe classification and prediction of T-cell receptors (TCRs) protein sequences are of significant interest in understanding the immune system and developing personalized immunotherapies. In this study, we propose a novel approach using Pseudo Amino Acid Composition (PseAAC) protein encoding for accurate TCR protein sequence classification. The PseAAC2Vec encoding method captures the physicochemical properties of amino acids and their local sequence information, enabling the representation of protein sequences as fixed-length feature vectors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite the fact that there are few formal trauma training courses for nurses, they play an important role in the care of trauma patients. This study aims to investigate the effect of micro-learning on the knowledge of managing trauma patients and learning satisfaction in nursing students.
Methods: The convenience sampling method was used to enroll 30 final-year nursing students from Alborz University of Medical Sciences in this quasi experimental One-group pretest -posttest design.
Med Biol Eng Comput
October 2023
The amount of sequencing data for SARS-CoV-2 is several orders of magnitude larger than any virus. This will continue to grow geometrically for SARS-CoV-2, and other viruses, as many countries heavily finance genomic surveillance efforts. Hence, we need methods for processing large amounts of sequence data to allow for effective yet timely decision-making.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The present study seeks to find a way to quickly and correctly differentiate myocardial infarction from unstable angina by measuring the creatine kinase-MB/creatine phosphokinase ratio and comparing in non-ST elevation myocardial infarction patients with unstable angina at different time intervals, to improve the health quality of patients with coronary artery disease.
Methods: The present study is a retrospective epidemiological analysis of 260 patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and 260 patients with unstable angina, including age, sex, creatine kinase-MB, and creatine phosphokinase biomarkers at two-time intervals, including referral (4-8 h from the onset of pain) as the first interval, and 8 h after the first sampling was extracted as the second interval. Moreover, the delta of the creatine kinase-MB/creatine phosphokinase ratio during two interval times was measured.
With the rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide, viral genomic data are available in the order of millions of sequences on public databases such as GISAID. This creates a unique opportunity for analysis toward the research of effective vaccine development for current pandemics, and avoiding or mitigating future pandemics. One piece of information that comes with every such viral sequence is the geographical location where it was collected-the patterns found between viral variants and geographical location surely being an important part of this analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: Diabetes mellitus is a prevalent risk factor for developing coronary artery disease which worsens the clinical outcomes of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). This study aimed to determine the clinical outcomes of patients with diabetes and non-diabetic patients who underwent off-pump CABG surgery.
Method: Medline, Scopus, Proquest, Embase, Web of Science, and Google scholar were searched until September 10, 2021.
This study aimed to describe the experiences of patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care units (ICU). The data were analyzed by content analysis on 16 ICU patients with COVID-19. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere have been few studies focused on the molecular characterization of invasive Staphylococcus aureus strains in patients with diabetes in Iran. In the present study, 20 invasive S. aureus strains recovered from the patients with diabetes characterized by the virulence and resistance analysis, biofilm formation, staphylocoagulase (SC) typing, S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Compared to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), there have been few studies focused on the molecular characterization of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). In this cross-sectional study, 85 MSSA isolates were characterized by antimicrobial susceptibility testing, virulence genes analysis, accessory gene regulator (agr) typing, and S. aureus protein A locus (spa) typing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Macrolide-lincosamide streptogramin B family is one of the important alternative antibiotics for treating staphylococcal infections. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics and prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in different coagulase types of clinical strains.
Methods: In the present study, 86 isolates with different phenotypes of MLS resistance were investigated.
In this work, an electrochemical sensor was fabricated for determination of an anthracycline, doxorubicin (DOX) as a chemotherapy drug in plasma based on multi-walled carbon nanotubes modified platinum electrode (Pt/MWCNTs). DOX was effectively accumulated on the surface of modified electrode and generated a pair of redox peaks at around 0.522 and 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim of the study was to investigate the linezolid activity against clinical Gram-positive cocci with advanced antimicrobial drug resistance.
Methods: A collection of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE), penicillin non-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae (PNSP), and group B streptococci (GBS) were isolated from various clinical samples. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests were done using standard methods Subsequently, we investigated linezolid antibacterial activities, the first approved oxazolidinone against isolates by the standard broth microdilution method.
Introduction: The increasing complexity of patient care conditions in intensive care units, along with the development of these units, has increased the need for qualified nurses and health professionals. Therefore, due to recent changes and in response to the shortage of capable nurses, a master's major in intensive care nursing has been created. One of the main challenges of this curriculum is to ensure that graduates have the required competencies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe growing frequency of antibiotic resistances is now a universal problem. Increasing resistance to new generations of β-lactam and quinolone antibiotics in multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates is considered an emergency health issue worldwide. The aim of this study was to evaluate plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance genes in ESBL-producing Escherichia coli isolated from urinary tract infections (UTIs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe main philosophy of postgraduate preparation for working in critical care units is to ensure the safety and quality of patients' care. Increasing the complexity of technology, decision-making challenges and the high demand for advanced communication skills necessitate the need to educate learners. Within this aim, a master's degree in critical care nursing has been established in Iran.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Today, critical care visitation is considered an important aspect of patient-centred care and its positive effects on patients and their relatives have been demonstrated. However, restricted visiting hours in the intensive care units (ICUs) is often an adopted norm. The reasons for such restricted policies in Iran still remain unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Liver transplantation is a life-saving intervention for many patients with end-stage liver disease. In the past, evaluation of successful liver transplantation was based on patients' survival rate. However, in recent years this evaluation has been based on patients' quality of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Choosing a career is an important decision for each individual, which is affected by many different factors. The process of entering nursing, as one of the pivotal healthcare discipline, certainly affects quality of care, and retention of nurses in the profession.
Aims: Exploring factors affecting the students' decision to enter nursing.
Introduction: Pregnancy and parenting have been part of human life throughout history and liver transplant recipients are not any exception. This paper reports successful pregnancies in two liver transplant recipients in Iran.
Case Presentation: The first case was a 34-year old woman who had undergone orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) at Shiraz Namazi Educational Hospital in 2002.