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Systemic effects of sunlight: 10‐year review of cardiovascular, infection and cancer outcomes

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, EarlyView.
This review highlights the systemic effects of sunlight and ultraviolet radiation. While UV radiation exposure has known cutaneous risks including photoaging and skin cancer, evidence suggests potential associations with reduced all‐cause mortality, improved infectious disease outcomes and reduced blood pressure.
Jasira A. Ziglar, Rebecca L. Quiñonez, Lydiah Fridah M. Mpyisi, Indermeet Kohli, Yolanda Gilaberte, Henry W. Lim   +5 more
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Pseudomembranous colitis

Journal of Pathology of Nepal, 2019
Pseudomembranous colitis is an inflammatory condition of the colon that is most often a manifestation of Clostridium difficile infection. If laboratory testing and endoscopic finding for Clostridium difficile infection is negative, then other less common
Devish Pyakurel
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Periodontitis and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Mechanistic Evidence

Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
This review aims to provide a conceptual framework for understanding the mechanistic interplay between periodontitis and IBD, with a particular emphasis on the microbial and immunological crosstalk linking the oral cavity and the gastrointestinal tract.
Ana Paula V. Colombo, Adriana M. de Oliveira, Nobuhiko Kamada, Sho Kitamoto   +3 more
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Microbiome and Metabolomics in Obesity: Advances in Understanding and Interventions Across the Lifespan

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obesity arises from intertwined and reciprocal diet‐microbiome‐host pathways that reshape energy balance, insulin sensitivity, and inflammation. This review synthesizes mechanistic links between microbial functions and metabolic control, charts lifestyle‐related lifecourse dynamics from birth to older age, examines how GLP‐1‐based therapies ...
Ioanna Panagiota Kalafati, David Krongauz, Alice Bosco, Antonio Noto, Cristina Piras, Maria Kafyra, Angelica Dessì, Matteo Mauri, Luigi Atzori, Adina Weinberger, Vassilios Fanos, George V. Dedoussis, on behalf of the BETTER4U consortium   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life histories offer a clue to the future role of infectious disease in coral reefs [PDF]

, 2012
Increased frequency and severity of stressors associated with climate change are drastically altering ecosystems. Caribbean coral reefs differ markedly from just 30 years ago, with much restructuring attributable to infectious disease outbreaks.
Mumby, P. J., Mumby, Peter, YAKOB, L, Yakob, L., MUMBY, PJ, Yakob, Laith   +5 more
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Application of the ATLAS score for evaluating the severity of Clostridium difficile infection in teaching hospitals in Mexico

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015
Background: For clinicians, a practical bedside tool for severity assessment and prognosis of patients with Clostridium difficile infection is a highly desirable unmet medical need. Setting: Two general teaching hospitals in northeast Mexico. Population:
Raúl Hernández-García, Elvira Garza-González, Mark Miller, Giovanna Arteaga-Muller, Alejandra María Galván-de los Santos, Adrián Camacho-Ortiz   +5 more
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Novel and emerging antimicrobial strategies in the management of oral infections

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Antibiotics marked a pivotal turning point in human civilization, enhancing social interactions and extending human life expectancy. In addition to their success in treating systemic infectious diseases, they have significantly improved periodontal treatment outcomes as an adjunct therapy.
Ozge Unlu, Nil Yakar, Alpdogan Kantarci
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Clostridium difficile Infection

Microbiology Spectrum, 2016
ABSTRACT Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic, Gram-positive, spore-forming, toxin-secreting bacillus that has long been recognized to be the most common etiologic pathogen of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. C.
Jae Hyun, Shin, Esteban, Chaves-Olarte, Cirle A, Warren   +2 more
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Histiocytes: Multifaceted Regulators of Health and Disease

Veterinary Clinical Pathology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The mononuclear phagocyte system encompasses macrophages, dendritic cells (DCs), and monocytes. Tissue‐resident macrophages and dendritic cells arise during embryogenesis and are replenished either through self‐renewal or by monocytes during inflammation.
Erika J. Gruber
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A Case of Toxic Megacolon Caused by Clostridium difficile Infection and Treated with Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

Gut and Liver, 2015
Toxic megacolon is a rare clinical complication of fulminant Clostridium difficile infection. The mortality rate of fulminant C. difficile infection is reported to be as high as 50%.
doaj   +1 more source