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Epidermal Patch Technologies for Integrated Healthcare and Infection Management

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Epidermal patches have evolved from simple wound coverings into multifunctional, skin‐conformable platforms integrating drug delivery, biosensing, and therapeutic functionalities. This review highlights their material innovations, fabrication strategies, and intelligent designs, including hydrogels, microneedles, and flexible electronics, while ...
Yuqi Wang, Atakan Tevlek, Pawel L. Urban, Boaz Mizrahi, Onome Ejeromedoghene, Roshan Deen, Yuanjing Lin, Jagan Mohan Dodda   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vertical transmission of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging white-tailed deer populations

Scientific Reports
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting cervids across North America, Northern Europe, and Asia. Disease transmission among cervids has historically been attributed to direct animal-to-animal contact with ‘secreta ...
Audrey M. Sandoval, Amy V. Nalls, Erin E. McNulty, Nathaniel D. Denkers, Devon J. Trujillo, Zoe Olmsted, Ethan Barton, Jennifer R. Ballard, Daniel M. Grove, Jeremy S. Dennison, Natalie Stilwell, Christopher A. Cleveland, James M. Crum, Mark G. Ruder, Candace K. Mathiason   +14 more
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Oral Repercussions and its Possible Impact on Oral Health

Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada, 2022
Many viral infections cause oral manifestations, including disorders in odontogenesis, resulting in dental malformations. In this review, based on current knowledge, we will discuss the likely dental and oral consequences of COVID-19.
Panmella Pereira Maciel, Hercílio Martelli Júnior, Daniella Reis Barbosa Martelli, Renato Assis Machado, Priscila Victor de Andrade, Danyel Elias da Cruz Perez, Paulo Rogério Ferreti Bonan   +6 more
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Seropositivity rates for toxoplasmosis, rubella, syphilis, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis and HIV among pregnant women receiving care at a Public Health Service, São Paulo State, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010
Infectious and parasitic diseases affecting women during their reproductive age may result in vertical transmission. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence for TORSCH among pregnant women receiving care at a university hospital ...
Márcia Aparecida dos Santos Gonçalves, Cinara de Cássia Brandão de Matos, Lígia Cosentino Junqueira Franco Spegiorin, MD, Denise Cristina Mós Vaz-Oliani, Antonio Hélio Oliani, Luiz Carlos de Mattos   +5 more
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Population-Level Benefits from Providing Effective HIV Prevention Means to Pregnant Women in High Prevalence Settings [PDF]

, 2013
Background:HIV prevalence among pregnant women in Southern Africa is extremely high. Epidemiological studies suggest that pregnancy increases the risk of HIV sexual acquisition and that HIV infections acquired during pregnancy carry higher risk of mother-
AD Lyerly, AM Foss, B Ferry, CD Chambers, Claire Thorne, D Morgan, Dobromir Dimitrov, DT Dimitrov, Elizabeth R. Brown, GS Birkhead, Jeannie Marrazzo, JM Baeten, K Porter, KB Patterson, L Johnson, LS Montana, Marie-Claude Boily, MC Boily, MC Boily, MH Latka, NR Mugo, PM Garcia, Q Abdool Karim, R Beigi, R Macklin, RH Gray, Richard Beigi, RM Grant, S Dube, SC Kalichman, SF Goldkind, TM Rehle, V Leroy   +32 more
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the Southern Region of Santa Catarina, from 2005 to 2015: analysis of risk factors to seroconversion in newborns

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil
Objectives: to analyze both frequency and risk factors for seroconversion among newborns of HIV-positive mothers to HIV. Methods: a cohort study was conducted with children residing in Southern Region of Santa Catarina.
Karen Waleska Kniphoff de Oliveira, Suzana Kniphoff de Oliveira, Ana Beatriz Sanches Barranco, Tamara Hoffmann, Camila Soares Duarte, Rayane Felippe Nazário, Chaiana Esmeraldino Mendes Marcon, Fabiana Schuelter-Trevisol   +7 more
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Congenital syphilis: literature review

Revista de Epidemiologia e Controle de Infecção, 2013
Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum and has high rates of vertical transmission, which can reach 100% depending on the maternal disease and stage of pregnancy.
Eduardo Chaida Sonda, Felipe Farias Richter, Graziela Boschetti, Marcela Pase Casasola, Candice Franke Krumel, Cristiane Pimentel Hernandes Machado   +5 more
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Infectious disease frequency in pregnant women of Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil/Frequência de doenças infecciosas em gestantes de Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil

Diversitas Journal, 2020
The gestational period is not an infection problem that affects maternal and fetal health. There are risks of developing infectious diseases transmitted vertically, which can lead to several problems in the development and vitality of the future ...
Suzanna Marielle Silva de Oliveira, Murilo Barros Silveira, Andrea Alves Ribeiro, Flávia Martins Nascente, João Vicente Macedo Filho, Ana Maria de Castro, Juliana Boaventura Avelar   +6 more
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Wolbachia versus dengue: Evolutionary forecasts. [PDF]

, 2013
A novel form of biological control is being applied to the dengue virus. The agent is the maternally transmitted bacterium Wolbachia, naturally absent from the main dengue vector, the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
Bull, James J, Turelli, Michael
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