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Primary and secondary anti-viral response captured by the dynamics and phenotype of individual T cell clones [PDF]
eLife 2020;9:e53704 (2020), 2019 The diverse repertoire of T-cell receptors (TCR) plays a key role in the adaptive immune response to infections. Previous studies show that secondary responses to the yellow fever vaccine - the model for acute infection in humans - are weaker than primary ones, but only quantitative measurements can describe the concentration changes and lineage fates ...
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Rheumatic heart disease in Tennessee: An overlooked diagnosis
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2014 Rheumatic heart disease, already a major burden in low- and middle-income countries, is becoming an emerging problem in high-income countries. Although acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease have almost been eradicated in areas with ...
Shahana A Choudhury, Vernat Exil
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‘Had it not been for her’: Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788–1834
Gender &History, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This article explores the intersections between gender, disability and care labour in the slaveholding societies of the British Caribbean from 1788 to 1834. Considered economic burdens by slaveholders, aged and disabled bondswomen were made productive through caring for their enslaved peers, many of whom were themselves temporarily ...
Stefanie Hunt‐Kennedy
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New guidelines for diagnosis of rheumatic fever; do they apply to all populations?
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2020 Background and Objectives. To evaluate the efficacy of recently updated Jones criteria for diagnosis of rheumatic fever in high incidence populations like Egypt. Methods.
Pakinam Abdel Aty-Marzouk +5 more
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Towards Super-Resolution CEST MRI for Visualization of Small Structures [PDF]
Proceedings, German Workshop on Medical Image Computing (2022)
210-215, 2021 The onset of rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis is typically subclinical, which results in challenging early detection of the disease. However, characteristic changes in the anatomy can be detected using imaging techniques such as MRI or CT.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Volume 46, Issue 6, Page 758-763, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Objectives: To evaluate the secondary prevention of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in the Townsville region, Australia. Methods: Adherence to benzathine benzylpenicillin G (BPG) was determined for 196 children and young adults aged under 22 years between January 2009 and December 2019, and factors associated with
Joshua Liaw +3 more
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A Case Report of Recurrent Rheumatic Fever: Considerations and Comments [PDF]
Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2017 Rheumatic fever (RF) is a prevalent healthcare problem in the developing countries. Recurrence of this disorder is often observed in childhood and adolescence.
Ramin Khamene Bagheri +3 more
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Modelling reporting delays for disease surveillance data [PDF]
Statistics in Medicine, 38, 22, 2019, 4363-4377, 2017 One difficulty for real-time tracking of epidemics is related to reporting delay. The reporting delay may be due to laboratory confirmation, logistic problems, infrastructure difficulties and so on. The ability to correct the available information as quickly as possible is crucial, in terms of decision making such as issuing warnings to the public and ...
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Acta Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 1, Page 19-33, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim Sweden initially chose a different disease prevention and control path during the pandemic than many other European countries. In June 2020, the Swedish Government established a National Commission to examine the management of COVID‐19 in Sweden. This paper summarises, and discusses, its findings.
Jonas F. Ludvigsson
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Acute Rheumatic Fever: Findings of a Hospital-Based Study and an Overview of Reported Outbreaks
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1990 To review the characteristics of reported outbreaks of acute rheumatic fever in the United States, and to determine if there is an increase in the incidence of acute rheumatic fever in the population served by the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto ...
Upton D Allen +2 more
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