ABSTRACT Background Filamin A (FLNA) deficiency is a known cause of progressive lung disease and need for pediatric lung transplant; however, what may be less well known to lung transplant providers are the extrapulmonary complications of FLNA deficiencies, such as wandering spleen.
Savannah Ellis Knight+2 more
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Communicable Diseases and the Workplace [PDF]
[Excerpt] Coming to work when we are sick raises some interesting questions: How contagious are we? Should we stay home? What could be done to prevent disease transmission to others, with its effects on absenteeism, performance, and efficiency, as well ...
Brown, Nellie J
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Inferring collective dynamical states from widely unobserved systems
When assessing spatially-extended complex systems, one can rarely sample the states of all components. We show that this spatial subsampling typically leads to severe underestimation of the risk of instability in systems with propagating events.
Priesemann, Viola, Wilting, Jens
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Interferon-lambda: A potent regulator of intestinal viral infections [PDF]
Interferon-lambda (IFN-λ) is a recently described cytokine found to be of critical importance in innate immune regulation of intestinal viruses. Endogenous IFN-λ has potent antiviral effects and has been shown to control multiple intestinal viruses and ...
Baldridge, Megan T, Lee, Sanghyun
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Norovirus Infections and Disease in Lower-Middle- and Low-Income Countries, 1997–2018
Noroviruses are a major cause of viral gastroenteritis. The burden of the norovirus in low-resource settings is not well-established due to limited data.
Janet Mans
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Estimating the Hospital Burden of Norovirus-Associated Gastroenteritis in England and Its Opportunity Costs for Nonadmitted Patients. [PDF]
Background: Norovirus places a substantial burden on healthcare systems, arising from infected patients, disease outbreaks, beds kept unoccupied for infection control, and staff absences due to infection.
Adams, Natalie+11 more
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In Vitro Proteolytic Processing of the MD145 Norovirus ORF1 Nonstructural Polyprotein Yields Stable Precursors and Products Similar to Those Detected in Calicivirus-Infected Cells [PDF]
Gaël Belliot+5 more
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Background Norovirus is the leading cause of sporadic viral gastroenteritis cases and outbreaks. Gut microbiota plays a key role in maintaining immune homeostasis.
Jie Li+8 more
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Inactivation of feline calicivirus, a surrogate of norovirus (formerly Norwalk-like viruses), by different types of alcohol in vitro and in vivo [PDF]
Christina Gehrke+2 more
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Risk Factors for Norovirus, Sapporo-like Virus, and Group A Rotavirus Gastroenteritis [PDF]
Matty AS de Wit+2 more
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