Jing Wang,Terry W Wright,Francis Gigliotti
Jing Wang
Pneumocystis is an opportunistic fungal respiratory pathogen that causes life-threatening pneumonia (Pcp) in patients suffering from defects in cell-mediated immunity, including those with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and immun...
Patient safety climate: variation in perceptions by infection preventionists and quality directors [0.03%]
患者安全气候：感染预防专家与质量总监感知的差异性分析
Shanelle Nelson,Patricia W Stone,Sarah Jordan et al.
Shanelle Nelson et al.
Background. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are an important patient safety issue, and safety climate is an important organizational factor. This study explores perceptions of infection preventionists (IPs) and quality directors (QD...
Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG as an Effective Probiotic for Murine Giardiasis [0.03%]
鼠 giardiasis的有效益生菌乳杆菌rhamnosus GG
Nisha Goyal,Ram Prakash Tiwari,Geeta Shukla
Nisha Goyal
The gut microflora is an important constituent in the intestinal mucosal barrier and has been introduced as the concept of probiotic therapy that beneficially affects the host by improving its intestinal microbial balance. Therefore, the ma...
The Candida albicans Dse1 Protein Is Essential and Plays a Role in Cell Wall Rigidity, Biofilm Formation, and Virulence [0.03%]
白色念珠菌Dse1蛋白对于细胞壁的刚性、生物被膜形成及致病性的调控作用及其在维持细胞存活中的必要性研究
Jalil Y Daher,Joseph Koussa,Samer Younes et al.
Jalil Y Daher et al.
The fungal pathogen Candida albicans is one of the leading causative agents of death in immunocompromised individuals. It harbors an arsenal of cell wall anchored factors that are implicated in virulence such as filamentation inducing facto...
Cryptococcus neoformans as a Model for Radioimmunotherapy of Infections [0.03%]
新生隐球菌作为感染放射免疫治疗模型的研究
Ekaterina Dadachova,Arturo Casadevall
Ekaterina Dadachova
There is an obvious and urgent need for novel approaches to treat infectious diseases. The use of monoclonal antibodies in therapy of infectious diseases is now experiencing renewed interest. During the last 5 years radioimmunotherapy (RIT)...
Xuan-Yi Wang,Paul E Kilgore,Kyung Ah Lim et al.
Xuan-Yi Wang et al.
To help understand the potential impact of bacterial coinfection during pandemic influenza periods, we undertook a far-reaching review of the existing literature to gain insights into the interaction of influenza and bacterial pathogens. Re...
Meggan E Craft,Damien Caillaud
Meggan E Craft
Although the approach of contact network epidemiology has been increasing in popularity for studying transmission of infectious diseases in human populations, it has generally been an underutilized approach for investigating disease outbrea...
Eben Kenah,Joel C Miller
Eben Kenah
Epidemic percolation networks (EPNs) are directed random networks that can be used to analyze stochastic "Susceptible-Infectious-Removed" (SIR) and "Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Removed" (SEIR) epidemic models, unifying and generalizing p...
Leon Danon,Ashley P Ford,Thomas House et al.
Leon Danon et al.
The science of networks has revolutionised research into the dynamics of interacting elements. It could be argued that epidemiology in particular has embraced the potential of network theory more than any other discipline. Here we review th...
Matthew J Ferrari,Sarah E Perkins,Laura W Pomeroy et al.
Matthew J Ferrari et al.
Understanding the scaling of transmission is critical to predicting how infectious diseases will affect populations of different sizes and densities. The two classic "mean-field" epidemic models-either assuming density-dependent or frequenc...