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Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi
December 2024
Office of Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Tianjin300011, China.
To investigate the level of serum-neutralizing antibodies against Coxsackievirus A6 (CVA6) in a healthy population in Tianjin City from 2014 to 2020. From March 2014 to March 2020, 5 492 healthy volunteers were recruited in Tianjin City. The demographic information, personal hygiene habits, living environment hygiene, contact history with hand, foot and mouth disease cases within 6 months before the survey, history of upper respiratory tract infection, and medical history of the subjects were investigated using a self-designed questionnaire.
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December 2024
Malaria Research Group, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, Guwahati, 781039, Assam, India.
Accurate malaria diagnosis is crucial for effective disease management as different Plasmodium species require specific treatment regimens. Current detection methods have limitations related to sensitivity and specificity. This is mainly due to employing similar targets such as 18S rRNA, Pf-ldh, Pf-hrp-2, and aldolase with significant homology to human counterparts.
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November 2024
Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
Infection by retroviruses and the mobilization of transposable elements cause DNA damage that can be catastrophic for a cell. If the cell survives, the mutations generated by retrotransposition may confer a selective advantage, although, more commonly, the effect of new integrants is neutral or detrimental. If retrotransposition occurs in gametes or in the early embryo, it introduces genetic modifications that can be transmitted to the progeny and may become fixed in the germline of that species.
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October 2024
Professor of Neurology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS)-Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) relation is similar to doing a complicated puzzle: it consists of many pieces that become more and more clear as the issue is viewed from different sides. Based on the research findings, there is powerful evidence that EBV and MS have a strong relation where high levels of EBV DNA are able to be shown in all the spinal cord and the blood of the MS patients, but these are shown during disease relapses, and this implies a role in these illnesses. It kind of narrows the choices that you have to look for, just like how gathering evidence can lead to finding the missing person.
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December 2024
Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan. Electronic address:
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