Polymyxin sensitivity/resistance cosmopolitan status, epidemiology and prevalence among O1/O139 and non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae: A meta-analysis [0.03%]
多粘菌素敏感/耐药的泛存在状态，流行病学及O1/O139和非O1/非O139霍乱弧菌的普遍率：一项荟萃分析研究
Bright E Igere,Hope Onohuean,Declan C Iwu et al.
Bright E Igere et al.
Resistance/sensitivity to polymyxin-B (PB) antibiotic has been employed as one among other epidemiologically relevant biotyping-scheme for Vibrio cholerae into Classical/El Tor biotypes. However, recent studies have revealed some pitfalls b...
Nannan Xu,Hui Liu,Chunmei Qu et al.
Nannan Xu et al.
China is not considered as an endemic area of Rickettsia conorii, so there is no routine clinical way to diagnose this infection. This study aims to determine whether 2 febrile patients who had a tick bite in East China were indeed infected...
Persistent Nocardia beijingensis infection in a patient with postoperative abscess and misuse of antibiotics in China [0.03%]
中国一例术后脓肿患者因滥用抗生素导致北京诺卡菌持续感染
Lihua Qi,Weihong Fan,Jing Li et al.
Lihua Qi et al.
Here we describe the first case of abscess infection caused by Nocardia beijingensis in China. The patient was immunocompetent but suffered from postoperative abscess for 6 years. This study highlights the necessity of long-term infected fo...
SUPER Score Contributes to Warning and Management in Early-Stage COVID-19 [0.03%]
超级评分在早期新冠肺炎预警和管理中的应用
Yuan Bian,Qi Han,Yue Zheng et al.
Yuan Bian et al.
Background: Some COVID-19 patients deteriorate to severe cases with relatively higher case-fatality rates, which increases the medical burden. This necessitates identification of patients at risk of severe disease. Early ...
Julio Cesar Mantilla,Juan José Chaves,Ferney Africano-Lopez et al.
Julio Cesar Mantilla et al.
Background: Tuberculosis is a disease of great relevance since it is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Gastrointestinal tuberculosis is an unusual presentation. It is defined as the involveme...
Randa Elsheikh,Abdelrahman M Makram,Tamilarasy Vasanthakumaran et al.
Randa Elsheikh et al.
In May 2022, the world witnessed the re-emergence of the zoonotic disease monkeypox. While this was not the first epidemic of this disease, what differentiated the outbreak was the rapid global spread and increase of cases, which led the WH...
The Global Leprosy Assessment Index (GLAI): A new approach for measuring the severity of disease in Brazil [0.03%]
全球麻风病评估指数（GLAI）：一种在巴西衡量疾病严重程度的新方法
Lucas Silva,Thiago Rocha,Dalson Figueiredo Filho
Lucas Silva
Background: In Brazil, the Ministry of Health (MH) monitors leprosy using 15 indicators, with the aim of implementing and evaluating evidence-based public policies. However, an excessive number of variables can complicate...
A new method for accurate calculation of case fatality rates during a pandemic: Mathematical deduction based on population-level big data [0.03%]
基于人口水平大数据的数学推导在大流行期间准确计算病死率的新方法
Jinqi Feng,Hui Luo,Yi Wu et al.
Jinqi Feng et al.
Background: During the course of an epidemic of a potentially fatal disease, it is difficult to accurately estimate the case fatality rate (CFR) because many calculation methods do not account for the delay between case c...
Association between Hepatitis B virus and gastric cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis [0.03%]
乙型肝炎病毒与胃癌的关系：系统评价和 Meta 分析
Rong Yu,Jingru Huang,Hewei Peng et al.
Rong Yu et al.
An increasing number of studies are suggesting that hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection may be associated with an increased risk of not only hepatocellular carcinoma but also gastric cancer (GC). Whether HBV infection can be a risk factor for...
Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of a commercial molecular assay for the screening of suspected monkeypox cases in Sri Lanka [0.03%]
评估一种商业分子检测试剂盒在斯里兰卡疑似猴痘病例筛查中的诊断性能
H B C Harshani,G A Liyanage,D V R G Ruwan et al.
H B C Harshani et al.
Background: The main objective of the present study was to compare the diagnostic performance of the commercial LightMix Modular Monkeypox Virus (MPXV) qPCR (TIB Molbiol, Germany) assay with the in-house nonvariola orthop...