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Role of ecological approaches to eliminating schistosomiasis in Eryuan County evaluated by system modelling

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2018
Background Schistosomiasis was severely prevalent in Yunnan Province, and it is difficult to achieve its elimination by convention approaches due to complexity of the nature.
Yi Dong, Chun-Hong Du, Yun Zhang, Li-Fang Wang, Jing Song, Ming-Shou Wu, Wen-Can Yang, Shan Lv, Xiao-Nong Zhou   +8 more
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Endemic Disease Models [PDF]

, 2019
In this chapter, we consider models for disease that may be endemic. In the preceding chapter we studied SIS models with and without demographics and SIR models with demographics. In each model, the basic reproduction number [Formula: see text] determined a threshold. If [Formula: see text] the disease dies out, while if [Formula: see text] the disease
Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Zhilan Feng, Fred Brauer   +2 more
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Identification of differentially expressed and methylated genes associated with rheumatoid arthritis based on network

Autoimmunity, 2020
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a multi-systemic inflammatory autoimmune disease involving peripheral joints, and the pathogenesis is not clear. Studies showed that DNA methylation and expression might also be involved in the pathogenesis of RA.
Di Zhang, ZhaoFang Li, RongQiang Zhang, XiaoLi Yang, DanDan Zhang, Qiang Li, Chen Wang, Xuena Yang, YongMin Xiong   +8 more
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Challenges imposed by minor reference alleles on the identification and reporting of clinical variants from exome data

BMC Genomics, 2018
Background The conventional variant calling of pathogenic alleles in exome and genome sequencing requires the presence of the non-pathogenic alleles as genome references.
Mahmoud Koko, Mohammed O. E. Abdallah, Mutaz Amin, Muntaser Ibrahim   +3 more
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Endemic Cardiovascular Diseases of the Poorest Billion [PDF]

Circulation, 2016
The poorest billion people are distributed throughout the world, though most are concentrated in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) data can be sparse in low- and middle-income countries beyond urban centers. Despite this urban bias, CVD registries from the poorest countries have long revealed a predominance of ...
Kwan, Gene-F., Mayosi, Bongani-M., Mocumbi, Ana-O., Miranda, J. Jaime, Ezzati, Majid, Jain, Yogesh, Robles, Gisela, Benjamin, Emelia-J., Subramanian, S. V., Bukhman, Gene   +9 more
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Geographical influences on thyroid abnormalities in adult population from iodine-replete regions: a cross-sectional study

Scientific Reports, 2021
The studies on the increasing incidence of thyroid abnormalities are scarce. The aim of this current study was to ascertain the effects of geographical region on thyroid abnormalities under the context of universal salt iodization (USI).
Xiaofeng Wang, Zhe Mo, Guangming Mao, Wenming Zhu, Mingluan Xing, Xueqing Li, Yuanyang Wang, Zhifang Wang, Xiaoming Lou   +8 more
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Treatment-Based Strategy for the Management of Post-Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis Patients in the Sudan

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2013
Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a dermatosis that affects more than 50% of successfully treated visceral leishmaniasis (VL) patients in Sudan.
A. M. Musa, E. A. G. Khalil, B. M. Younis, M. E. E. Elfaki, M. Y. Elamin, A. O. A. Adam, H. A. A. Mohamed, M. M. M. Dafalla, A. A. Abuzaid, A. M. El-Hassan   +9 more
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Visceral leishmaniasis-hepatitis B/C coinfections: a rising necessity to triage patients for treatment

Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2014
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a life-threatening infection caused by Leishmania species. In Sudan, VL is caused by L donovani. Most drugs used to treat VL, especially pentavalent antimony compounds (sodium stibogluconate, SSG),
Abubakr O. A. Adam, Mohamed M. M. Dafalla, Hatim A. A. Mohammed, Mohamed Y. Elamin, Brima M. Younis, Mona E. E. Elfaki, Ahmed M. Musa, Ahmed M. Elhassan, Eltahir A. G. Khalil   +8 more
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Correction to: Three novel circRNAs upregulated in tissue and plasma from hepatocellular carcinoma patients and their regulatory network

Cancer Cell International, 2021
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Lianghai Wang, Lisha Zhou, Jun Hou, Jin Meng, Ke Lin, Xiangwei Wu, Xueling Chen   +6 more
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When an emerging disease becomes endemic [PDF]

Science, 2017
Epidemics, such as HIV in the early 1980s and Ebola in 2014, inspire decisive government investment and action, and individual and societal concern, sometimes bordering on panic. By contrast, endemic diseases, such as HIV in 2017 and tuberculosis, struggle to maintain the same attention.
Graham F. Medley, Anna Vassall
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