Academic Articles & Research Papers

A History of Public Health

Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United St...

Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Essential for USMLE review and medical microbiology coursework! Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology is a succinct, high-yield review of the medically important aspects of microbiology and immunology. It covers both the basic and c...

Characterization of Primate Antibody Responses to Administered Murine Monoclonal Immunoglobulin

Murine monoclonal antibodies (MAb) are currently being assessed for their utility as tools in cancer management. Anti-murine immunoglobulin responses have been observed in many patients receiving monoclonal antibody treatment. In this study...

Basic Immunology

A knowledge of immunology is essential in developing ELISAs. Information about the specific system and similar systems already studied from the biochemical and immunological aspects is important to allow development of assays and to determi...

Fundamental Immunology

The first great revolution in immunology is credited to Louis Pasteur. Among the many achievements stemming from that early period is the elimination of smallpox from the entire world in 1977, a century later. The second great revolution, b...

The impact of globalization and climate change on Trichinella spp. epidemiology

The main reservoir hosts of nematodes of the genus Trichinella are wild carnivores, although most human infections are caused by the consumption of pork. This group of zoonotic parasites completes the entire natural life cycle within the ho...

Diversity of Rickettsia species in collected ticks from Southeast Iran

Abstract Rickettsia occurs worldwide and rickettsiosis is recognized as an emerging infection in several parts of the world. Ticks are reservoir hosts for pathogenic Rickettsia species in humans and domestic animals. Most pathogenic Rickett...

Genetic Markers of Adaptation of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Plasmodium falciparum</named-content> to Transmission by American Vectors Identified in the Genomes of Parasites from Haiti and South America

ABSTRACT The malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, was introduced into Hispaniola and other regions of the Americas through the slave trade spanning the 16th through the 19th centuries. During this period, more than 12 million Africans w...

Understanding the regulatory grammar of sepsis-causing Staphylococcus aureus bacteria using contexualised DNA language models

Abstract To efficiently and accurately understand, detect, and treat sepsis, we require a deep understanding of how its underlying biological systems work. Conventional methods struggle to provide a detailed view of both the functional and ...

Artificial intelligence-based masked face detection: A survey

The COVID-19 virus is causing a global pandemic. The total number of new coronavirus cases worldwide by the end of November 2020 had already surpassed 60 million. The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that wearing masks is a cr...

A Complex Network Epidemiological Approach for Infectious Disease Spread Control with Time-Varying Connections

This work introduces an impulsive neural control algorithm designed to mitigate the spread of epidemic diseases. The objective of this paper is the development of a vaccination strategy based on a PIN-type impulsive controller based on an o...

MalariaSED: a deep learning framework to decipher the regulatory contributions of noncoding variants in malaria parasites

Abstract Malaria remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases. Transcriptional regulation effects of noncoding variants in this unusual genome of malaria parasites remain elusive. We developed a sequence-based, ab initio deep learning f...

Rapid profiling of carcinogenic types of Helicobacter pylori infection via deep learning analysis of label-free SERS spectra of human serum

WHO classified Helicobacter pylori as a Group I carcinogen for gastric cancer as early as 1994. However, despite the high prevalence of H. pylori infection, only about 3 % of infected individuals eventually develop gastric cancer, with the ...

A deep-learning system to classify lung X-ray images into normal/pneumonia class

Face mask mandates alter major determinants of adherence to protective health behaviours in Australia

Face mask wearing is a protective health behaviour that helps mitigate the spread of infectious diseases such as influenza and COVID-19. Understanding predictors of face mask wearing can help refine public health messaging and policy in fut...

Machine learning and applications in microbiology

To understand the intricacies of microorganisms at the molecular level requires making sense of copious volumes of data such that it may now be humanly impossible to detect insightful data patterns without an artificial intelligence applica...

Explainable machine learning for predicting clinical outcomes in HIV/TB co-infection: a comparative retrospective study

Abstract Background HIV/TB co-infection presents substantial public-health challenges, showing greater treatment-failure and mortality rates than tuberculosis alone. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) provide a robust means of identif...

Diagnostic utility of plasma heparin-binding protein and procalcitonin among patients with bacterial infections: a single-center retrospective study.

Machine learning-derived prediction of in-hospital mortality in patients with severe acute respiratory infection: analysis of claims data from the German-wide Helios hospital network

Abstract Background Severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) are the most common infectious causes of death. Previous work regarding mortality prediction models for SARI using machine learning (ML) algorithms that can be useful for both i...

Study on the impact of meteorological factors on influenza in different periods and prediction based on artificial intelligence RF-Bi-LSTM algorithm: to compare the COVID-19 period with the non-COVID-19 period

Abstract Objective At different times, public health faces various challenges and the degree of intervention measures varies. The research on the impact and prediction of meteorology factors on influenza is increasing gradually, however, th...