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Incidence of WHO stage 3 and 4 conditions following initiation of Anti-Retroviral Therapy in resource limited settings [PDF]

, 2012
To determine the incidence of WHO clinical stage 3 and 4 conditions during early anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in resource limited settings (RLS)
A d’Arminio Monforte, A Miranda, Andrea J. Curtis, AS Walker, B Castelnuovo, B Ledergerber, Catherine S. Marshall, CE Gonzalez, Daniel P. O’Brien, DJ Sloan, DR Hoover, Esther C. Casas, J Abadi, J Mermin, Jane Greig, JE Golub, JE Kaplan, JF Etard, Julian H. Elliot, K Buchacz, Leslie Shanks, M-L Newell, Marcio Silveria Da Fonseca, NJ Ives, Philipp Du Cros, R Zachariah, SD Lawn, Sten H. Vermund, Tim Spelman, VO Kasprowicz, W Manosuthi   +30 more
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Prevalence and associated factors of protein- energy wasting among patients with chronic kidney disease at Mulago hospital, Kampala-Uganda: a cross-sectional study

BMC Nephrology, 2018
Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is global health concern and priority. It is the 12th leading cause of death worldwide. Protein Energy Wasting occurs in 20–25% of patients with chronic kidney disease and can lead to a high morbidity and mortality
Lydia Namuyimbwa, Collins Atuheire, Joel Okullo, Robert Kalyesubula   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Failure To Detect Prion Infectivity in Ticks following Prion-Infected Blood Meal

mSphere, 2020
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an emerging and fatal contagious prion disease that affects cervids, including mule deer, white-tailed deer, black-tailed deer, red deer reindeer, elk, and moose. CWD prions are widely distributed throughout the bodies of
Ronald A. Shikiya, Anthony E. Kincaid, Jason C. Bartz, Travis J. Bourret   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Severe malnutrition in children presenting to health facilities in an urban slum in Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2012
SETTING: An urban slum in Kamrangirchar, Bangladesh. OBJECTIVES: Among children aged 6–59 months seeking medical care from the two Médecins Sans Frontières-supported primary health centres, to determine 1) the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition (SAM)
Alders, P, Ali, E, Allaouna, M, Delchevalerie, P, Draguez, B, Enarson, D A, Harries, A D, Manzi, M, Satyanarayana, S, Shams, Z, Van den Bergh, R, Vernaeve, L, Zachariah, R   +12 more
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The Zoonotic Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease—A Review

Foods, 2023
Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative disorders that affect humans and ruminant species consumed by humans. Ruminant prion diseases include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, scrapie in sheep and goats and chronic wasting ...
Michael A. Tranulis, Morten Tryland
doaj   +1 more source

Generation of human chronic wasting disease in transgenic mice

Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 2021
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a cervid prion disease caused by the accumulation of an infectious misfolded conformer (PrPSc) of cellular prion protein (PrPC). It has been spreading rapidly in North America and also found in Asia and Europe.
Zerui Wang, Kefeng Qin, Manuel V. Camacho, Ignazio Cali, Jue Yuan, Pingping Shen, Justin Greenlee, Qingzhong Kong, James A. Mastrianni, Wen-Quan Zou   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk of hospitalization associated with body mass index and weight changes among prevalent haemodialysis patients [PDF]

, 2018
COSMOS is sponsored by the Bone and Mineral Research Unit (Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias), SAFIM (Sociedad Asturiana Fomento Investigaciones Óseas), the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association, the National ...
Cabezas Rodríguez, I., Cannata Andía, Jorge Benito, Carrero, J. J., Qureshi, A. R.   +3 more
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Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
wiley   +1 more source

Chronic Wasting Disease Prions in Elk Antler Velvet

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious, fatal prion disease of deer and elk that continues to emerge in new locations. To explore the means by which prions are transmitted with high efficiency among cervids, we examined prion infectivity in the ...
Rachel C. Angers, Tanya S. Seward, Dana Napier, Michael Green, Edward Hoover, Terry Spraker, Katherine O’Rourke, Aru Balachandran, Glenn C. Telling   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genotype by environment interactions for chronic wasting disease in farmed US white-tailed deer

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2022
Despite implementation of enhanced management practices, chronic wasting disease in US white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianusnnn h
Christopher M Seabury, Mitchell A Lockwood, Tracy A Nichols   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source