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Male-benefit sexually antagonistic genotypes show elevated vulnerability to i...
Abstract Background There is theoretical and empirical evidence for strong sexual selection in males having positive effects on population viability by serving to purify the... -
Perspectives of policy-makers and stakeholders about health care waste manage...
Abstract Background In South Africa, a new primary health care (PHC) re-engineering initiative aims to scale up the provision of community-based care (CBC). A central element in... -
Identification of a major Listeria monocytogenes outbreak clone linked to sof...
Abstract Background Molecular subtyping and enhanced surveillance in Lombardy region identified a cluster of possibly related listeriosis cases from 2006 to 2010. This cluster... -
Pilot study comparing the Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research All...
Abstract Objectives To assess the feasibility of studying the comparative effectiveness of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) consensus treatment... -
Nationwide cross-sectional survey of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted hel...
Abstract Background Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STHs) are target neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) of preventive chemotherapy, but the control and... -
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis...
Abstract Background Main treatable Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRDs) like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Bronchial Asthma (BA) and Allergic Rhinitis (AR) are... -
What happened to anti-malarial markets after the Affordable Medicines Facilit...
Abstract Background The private sector supplies anti-malarial treatment for large proportions of patients in sub-Saharan Africa. Following the large-scale piloting of the... -
Oral vaccination of wildlife using a vaccinia–rabies-glycoprotein recombinant...
Abstract RABORAL V-RG® is an oral rabies vaccine bait that contains an attenuated (“modified-live”) recombinant vaccinia virus vector vaccine expressing the rabies virus... -
Bacterial communities and metabolic activity of faecal cultures from equol pr...
Abstract Background Isoflavones are polyphenols with estrogenic activity found mainly in soy and soy-derived products that need to be metabolised in the intestine by the gut... -
Synthesis and biological activity of myricetin derivatives containing 1,3,4-t...
Abstract Background Myricetin and 1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives were reported to exhibit favorable antiviral and antibacterial activities. Aiming to discover novel myricetin... -
Draft genome sequences of eight bacteria isolated from the indoor environment...
Abstract We report here the draft genome sequences of eight bacterial strains of the genera Staphylococcus, Microbacterium, Mycobacterium, Plantibacter, and Pseudomonas. These... -
Females of a gift-giving spider do not trade sex for food gifts: a consequenc...
Abstract Background Polyandry is commonly maintained by direct benefits in gift-giving species, so females may remate as an adaptive foraging strategy. However, the assumption... -
A food-grade expression system for d-psicose 3-epimerase production in Bacill...
Abstract Background Food-grade expression systems require that the resultant strains should only contain materials from food-safe microorganisms, and no antibiotic resistance... -
Ethnopharmacological survey of medicinal plants used by patients with psorias...
Abstract Background Psoriasis is a frequent skin inflammatory disorder that inflicts millions of patients around the globe. To meet their healthcare needs, patients with... -
Mathematical models for devising the optimal Ebola virus disease eradication
Abstract Background The 2014â 2015 epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa defines an unprecedented health threat for human. Methods We construct a mathematical... -
Epistaxis in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: an evidence based review ...
Abstract Patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) frequently present with epistaxis. Up to 98Â % of these patients will have epistaxis at some point in their... -
Immune responses upon Campylobacter jejuni infection of secondary abiotic mic...
Abstract Background Campylobacter jejuni infections are of rising importance worldwide. Given that innate immune receptors including nucleotide-oligomerization-domain-2 (Nod2)... -
Validation of T-Track® CMV to assess the functionality of cytomegalovirus-rea...
Abstract Background Uncontrolled cytomegalovirus (CMV) replication in immunocompromised solid-organ transplant recipients is a clinically relevant issue and an indication of... -
The wisdom of the intermediary: the role, function, and ways-of-being of the ...
Abstract This paper is an inquiry into the human factor in intermediation. We argue that we have not yet fully grasped the different roles, functions, and ways-of-being of the... -
Household level spatio-temporal analysis of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmod...
Abstract Background The global decline of malaria burden and goals for elimination has led to an increased interest in the fine-scale epidemiology of malaria. Micro-geographic...
