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Molecular Epidemiology of Cancer
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2005 Epidemiology is very successful in identifying environmental and lifestyle factors that increase or reduce risk of specific cancers, leading to cancer prevention strategies. However, the etiology of many types of cancer is still poorly understood, despite extensive use of questionnaires and interview-based approaches in conventional epidemiologic ...
Yen-Ching Chen, David J Hunter
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The study of tuberculosis latency is problematic due to the difficulty of isolating the bacteria in the dormancy state. Despite this, several in vivo approaches have been taken to mimic the latency process.
Jessica Comín +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The purpose of this study was to increase our knowledge about Mycobacterium africanum and report the incidence and characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) due to their lineages in Aragon, Spain, over the period 2003–2019. The study includes all the cases in
Jessica Comín +4 more
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Molecular Epidemiology of Diphtheria [PDF]
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2000 Molecular subtyping of Corynebacterium diphtheriae identified significant genetic diversity within the species and led to the identification of a unique clonal group that emerged in Russia in 1990 at the beginning of the current epidemic. Strains of this group belong to a distinct electrophoretic type complex and are of ribotypes D1 and D4 ...
T, Popovic +7 more
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018 There are limited data on the molecular epidemiology of cryptococcosis in Brazil. Here, we report on the identification of the molecular pattern of the Cryptococcus species that caused meningitis in patients admitted in a Brazilian reference tertiary ...
Fernanda Wirth +2 more
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Molecular epidemiology of amebiasis [PDF]
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2008 Entamoeba histolytica, the causative agent of human amebiasis, remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries and is responsible for up to 100,000 deaths worldwide each year. Entamoeba dispar, morphologically indistinguishable from E. histolytica, is more common in humans in many parts of the world.
Ibne Karim M, Ali +2 more
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Journal of Internal Medicine, 2000 Abstract. Boffetta P (Unit of Environmental Cancer Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France). Molecular epidemiology (Internal Medicine in the 21st Century). J Intern Med 2000; 248: 447–454.The use of biomarkers in epidemiology is not new, but recent developments in molecular biology and genetics have increased the ...
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Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2002 Despite the almost 50 yrs since the introduction of curative antituberculosis drugs,Mycobacterium tuberculosiscontinues to exert an enormous toll on world health, and tuberculosis remains the world's leading cause of death due to a single infectious agent. This has stimulated research efforts into finding new tools to tackle the continuing tuberculosis
M V, Burgos, A S, Pym
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Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases
Electronic Physician, 2017 Molecular epidemiology (ME) is a branch of epidemiology developed by merging molecular biology into epidemiological studies. In this paper, the authors try to discuss the ways that molecular epidemiology studies identify infectious diseases’ causation ...
Sana Eybpoosh +5 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive pathogen that causes various infections in humans and domestic animals. In China, S. aureus is the most common Gram-positive pathogen that causes clinical infections.
Zhen Xu, Chao Yuan
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