Congenital Chagas Disease in the United States: Cost Savings Through Maternal Screening [PDF]
Chagas disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, is transmitted by insect vectors through transfusions, transplants, insect feces in food, and from mother to child during gestation.
Bialek, Stephanie R. +3 more
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Non-target screening of emerging contaminants in landfills: A review
Leachate from landfills is considered an important point source of contamination, which poses significant threat to the receiving ecosystems and their resources. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the occurrence of contaminants, and develop effective treatment processes, and to achieve this, target, suspect and non-target screening must be employed.
Nika, M.-C. +3 more
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Are interventions to increase the uptake of screening for cardiovascular disease risk factors effective? A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally. However, many individuals are unaware of their CVD risk factors.
AT Cheong +4 more
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Directed enzyme evolution: climbing fitness peaks one amino acid at a time [PDF]
Directed evolution can generate a remarkable range of new enzyme properties. Alternate substrate specificities and reaction selectivities are readily accessible in enzymes from families that are naturally functionally diverse.
Arnold, Frances H., Tracewell, Cara A.
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Non-targeted metabolomics screening for serum biomarkers in colorectal cancer patients [PDF]
Objective To identify potential serum metabolic biomarkers in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients using untargeted metabolomics and to evaluate their diagnostic and staging value.
WANG Aiwei, LIU Jiaqi, LIU Xiaoyan, SUN Haidan, GUO Zhengguang, HE Chengyan, SUN Wei
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Population-level impact and herd effects following the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccination programmes: updated systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Background More than 10 years have elapsed since human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination was implemented. We did a systematic review and meta-analysis of the population-level impact of vaccinating girls and women against human ...
\uc9lodie, B\ue9nard +50 more
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Suspect screening of maternal serum to identify new environmental chemical biomonitoring targets using liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. [PDF]
The use and advantages of high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS) as a discovery tool for environmental chemical monitoring has been demonstrated for environmental samples but not for biological samples.
Friesen, Matthew M +5 more
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Compared with those of berries, the stems and leaves of the genus Vaccinium are important and underestimated sources of polyphenols with high antioxidant activity.
Anna V. Faleva +3 more
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Non-targeted mass spectrometry (MS) has become an important method over recent years in the fields of metabolomics and environmental research. While more and more algorithms and workflows become available to process a large number of non-targeted data ...
Erik Müller +5 more
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Background Overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer has become a major global medical issue. Ultrasound-based thyroid cancer screening has promoted overdiagnosis, and recently international recommendations state that it should not be conducted, even after a ...
Sanae Midorikawa, Akira Ohtsuru
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