Results 21 to 30 of about 53,160 (273)
Pacific Fono: a community-based initiative to improve rheumatic fever service delivery for Pacific Peoples in South Auckland [PDF]
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXTRheumatic fever inequitably affects Māori and Pacific children in New Zealand. School-based throat swabbing services, such as the South Auckland Mana Kidz programme, are a key element of rheumatic fever prevention interventions ...
Rawiri McKree Jansen+4 more
doaj
Aspirin-induced hepatotoxicity and anemia in children with acute rheumatic fever
Background. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of anemia and hepatotoxicity associated with aspirin use in patients with acute rheumatic fever. Methods. Patients with acute rheumatic fever followed at Erciyes University,
Derya Altay+4 more
doaj +1 more source
Abstract Introduction As a folk herbal medicine, Trillium tschonoskii has been used for thousands of years. However, due to the complexity of the chemical constituents of this herb, few investigations have acquired a comprehensive understanding of its quality markers.
Zhixin Wang+6 more
wiley +1 more source
BackgroundAcute rheumatic fever is considered to be a heritable condition, but the magnitude of the genetic effect is unknown. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of twin studies of concordance of acute ...
Mark E Engel+4 more
doaj +1 more source
Zero-Shot Fact-Checking with Semantic Triples and Knowledge Graphs [PDF]
Despite progress in automated fact-checking, most systems require a significant amount of labeled training data, which is expensive. In this paper, we propose a novel zero-shot method, which instead of operating directly on the claim and evidence sentences, decomposes them into semantic triples augmented using external knowledge graphs, and uses large ...
arxiv
Mathematical Analysis of the role of Information on the Dynamics of Typhoid Fever [PDF]
We consider a deterministic mathematical model to study the role of Information on the dynamics of Typhoid Fever. We analyses the model to study its boundedness and compute the threshold value known as basic reproduction number for determination of number of secondary cases and establishment of the the condition for local and global asymptotic ...
arxiv
Addressing rheumatic fever inequities in Aotearoa New Zealand: a scoping review of prevention interventions [PDF]
Introduction Rheumatic fever is a preventable illness caused by untreated Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection. Despite reductions in most high-income countries, rheumatic fever rates remain a concern in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Felicity Goodyear-Smith+6 more
doaj
Identification of potential antigenic peptides of Brucella through proteome and peptidome
Based on proteomics and peptidomics, we identified 35 peptides from the Brucella proteome, which have the ability to bind MHC molecules and have the potential to be used in vaccine design. In addition, we also found four Brucella proteins containing the identified MHC‐I and MHC‐II binding peptides, which may be good candidate targets for designing ...
Meijuan Pei+10 more
wiley +1 more source
Background Erythema marginatum is an uncommon presentation in children with acute rheumatic fever and it is one of the major criteria needed to make a diagnosis. It is seen in less than 10% of cases. It is also reported to be difficult to detect in black-
Barakat Adeola Animasahun+2 more
doaj +1 more source
Abstract The Japanese Society for Psoriasis Research (JSPR) has been conducting annual epidemiological surveys of patients with pustular psoriasis in Japan since 2017. This study aimed to conduct a recent epidemiological analysis of patients with pustular psoriasis who were enrolled in the JSPR from 2017 to 2020.
Koji Kamiya, Mamitaro Ohtsuki
wiley +1 more source