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ACS Omega
December 2024
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha 34110, Qatar.
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a bloodborne RNA virus that leads to severe liver diseases, and currently, no effective prophylactic biologics are available to prevent its transmission. The prevention of HCV is closely related to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Linear antigenic peptides of HCV, known as T cell epitopes (TCEs), are crucial in the presentation process by MHC molecules to T cells, playing a key role in immune responses.
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January 2025
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, USA.
Objectives: Economic models assessing vaccinations commonly assume that inflation-adjusted vaccine costs are constant over time. This study assessed this assumption using historical vaccine cost data.
Methods: Private sector and CDC contracted vaccine cost data (2001-2023) were collected from the CDC Vaccine Price List and converted to US$2023 to adjust for inflation.
JMIR Hum Factors
December 2024
Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Ismaningerstr. 22, Munich, 81675, Germany, 49 89 4140 4041.
Background: More clinical studies use social media to increase recruitment accrual. However, empirical analyses focusing on the ethical aspects pertinent when targeting patients with vulnerable characteristics are lacking.
Objective: This study aims to explore expert and patient perspectives on vulnerability in the context of social media recruitment and seeks to explore how social media can reduce or amplify vulnerabilities.
Top Antivir Med
August 2024
New York Blood Center, New York, New York, USA.
Data on the HIV care cascade demonstrated challenges in achieving Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) targets across all 18 EHE focus metropolitan areas, but innovative adherence interventions using point-of-care tenofovir testing and motivational interviewing support care cascade outcomes in Namibia and South Africa, respectively. Data on treatment with long-acting injectable (LAI) antiretroviral therapy (ART) demonstrated high acceptability, retention, and virologic suppression including in groups that were not well represented in clinical trials including persons born female and persons with detectable viral loads. The adjuvanted hepatitis B vaccine appeared to be safe and appeared to be superior to conventional hepatitis B vaccines in persons with HIV (PWH) who were prior nonresponders to the hepatitis B vaccine.
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January 2025
School of Mathematics, Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
The genus Neisseria includes two major human pathogens: N. meningitidis causing bacterial meningitis/septicemia and N. gonorrhoeae causing gonorrhoea.
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