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Study of Children Aged Under 2 Years Admitted With RSV at Four Australian Hospitals [2021-2022].

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January 2025

WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, VIDRL, Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Aims: Primary aim was to review severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) hospitalisations caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children aged < 2 years in paediatric hospitals in Australia. Secondary aims included RSV subtyping, assessing RSV seasonality and contributing to the World Health Organisation's RSV surveillance programme.

Methods: We prospectively reviewed the medical records of children (< 2 years of age) with a confirmed SARI who were admitted to one of four major Australian paediatric hospitals and had a respiratory sample analysed by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).

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Background: Immunization clinics present an opportunity for passive screening for malnutrition among young children through plotting of growth charts. Passive screening for malnutrition can enable timely interventions and improve morbidity and mortality of under-five children. Therefore, we aimed to increase the plotting of growth charts (weight-for-age) to 90%, among under-five children attending immunization clinics in an Urban Health Centre (UHC) in south Delhi over three months.

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An online segmented continuous flow analysis system for rapid determining chemical oxygen demand in seawater to assess organic pollution levels.

Mar Pollut Bull

January 2025

Coastal Zone Ecological Environment Monitoring Technology and Equipment Shandong Engineering Research Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, Shandong 264003, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China; Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, Yantai, Shandong 264003, China. Electronic address:

By integrating ultraviolet (UV) photocatalytic oxidation digestion with segmented continuous flow analysis technology, an online measurement method and analysis system for the alkaline chemical oxygen demand (COD) in seawater, based on the color-change reaction of potassium permanganate, has been established. This represents the first application of UV photocatalytic oxidation technology in the measurement of COD in seawater. The system effectively overcomes the limitations of high-temperature and high-pressure digestion methods employed in traditional COD analysis.

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Revealing real impact of microalgae on seasonal dynamics of bacterial community in a pilot-scale microalgal-bacterial consortium system.

Water Res

January 2025

State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, PR China. Electronic address:

The microalgal-bacterial consortium (MBC) system is recognized as an advanced approach for nitrogen and phosphorus removal in wastewater treatment. However, the influence of microalgae on bacterial community dynamics and niche differentiation across varying seasonal conditions remains unexplored. In this study, we established a pilot-scale continuous-flow MBC system to disentangle, for the first time, the impact of microalgae on seasonal bacterial community succession by conducting monthly time-series sampling over a full seasonal cycle.

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Current hemodialysis treatments can cause adverse effects, many of which are linked to the membranes used in the process. These issues are being addressed through new materials and technologies, making it urgent to establish minimum guidelines for evaluating such membranes. This review proposes standardizing the biological tests and variables to evaluate the performance of new membranes, aiming to replicate hemodialysis conditions closely.

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