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Identifying diabetes cases from administrative data: a population-based valid...
Abstract Background Health care data allow for the study and surveillance of chronic diseases such as diabetes. The objective of this study was to identify and validate optimal... -
WhatsGNU: a tool for identifying proteomic novelty
Abstract To understand diversity in enormous collections of genome sequences, we need computationally scalable tools that can quickly contextualize individual genomes based on... -
Multi-center screening of the Pathogen Box collection for schistosomiasis dru...
Abstract Background Over the past five years, as a public service to encourage and accelerate drug discovery for diseases of poverty, the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) has... -
Role of ethambutol and rifampicin in the treatment of Mycobacterium avium com...
Abstract Background A three-drug regimen (macrolide, ethambutol, and rifampicin) is recommended for the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease (MAC-PD).... -
Landscape of gene fusions in epithelial cancers: seq and ye shall find
Abstract Enabled by high-throughput sequencing approaches, epithelial cancers across a range of tissue types are seen to harbor gene fusions as integral to their landscape of... -
Leveraging machine learning-based approaches to assess human papillomavirus v...
Abstract Background As one of the serious public health issues, vaccination refusal has been attracting more and more attention, especially for newly approved human... -
What is the available evidence that artificial light at night affects animal ...
Abstract Background Artificial light at night (ALAN), has increased dramatically over the past two centuries and is linked to... -
A few antibiotics can represent the total hospital antibiotic consumption
Abstract Background Appropriate antibiotic use has become an important issue. However, collecting data on the use of all antibiotics in a hospital is difficult without an... -
Horizontal gene transfer is not a hallmark of the human genome
Abstract Crisp et al. recently reported that 145 human genes have been horizontally transferred from distant species. Here, I re-analyze those genes listed by Crisp et al. as... -
Interventions targeting conscious determinants of human behaviour to reduce t...
Abstract Background Reducing meat consumption can help prevent non-communicable diseases and protect the environment. Interventions targeting conscious determinants of human... -
Healthcare workers knowledge and diagnostic practices: a need for dengue and ...
Abstract Objective Dengue and chikungunya virus diseases are becoming an increasingly important global health threats and are continuously expanding their geographical range.... -
Neglected tropical diseases in the People’s Republic of China: progress towar...
Abstract Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, considerable progress has been made in the control and elimination of the country’s initial set of 11... -
Recognizing spatial and temporal clustering patterns of dengue outbreaks in T...
Abstract Background Dengue fever is the most common arboviral infection in humans, with viral transmissions occurring in more than 100 countries in tropical regions. A global... -
Giving formulary and drug cost information to providers and impact on medicat...
Abstract Background Providers wish to help patients with prescription costs but often lack drug cost information. We examined whether giving providers formulary and drug cost... -
Allergen immunotherapy for IgE-mediated food allergy: protocol for a systemat...
Abstract Background The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) is in the process of developing the EAACI Guidelines for Allergen Immunotherapy (AIT) for... -
MaveDB: an open-source platform to distribute and interpret data from multipl...
Abstract Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs), such as deep mutational scans and massively parallel reporter assays, test thousands of sequence variants in a single... -
Telemedicine infectious diseases consultations and clinical outcomes: a syste...
Abstract Background Telemedicine use is increasing in many specialties, but its impact on clinical outcomes in infectious diseases has not been systematically studied and... -
The caloric and sugar content of beverages purchased at different store-types...
Abstract Background Following the 2014 sugary drinks tax implementation in Mexico, promising reduction in the volume of purchases of taxed beverages were observed overall and at... -
Adherence to anti-vectorial prevention measures among travellers with chikung...
Abstract Objective Compare the adoption and adherence to health protection behaviours prior to and during travel among international Australian travellers who return to... -
Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase as a potential therapeuti...
Abstract Background The Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak originating in Wuhan, China, has raised global health concerns and the...
