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Novel applications of the tomato microbiome: Roles and considerations for agriculture, human health, and society

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Plants, like humans, have a microbiome that helps them grow, defend themselves against pathogens, acquire nutrients, and protect themselves against environmental stresses. The microbiome of tomatoes, a staple crop grown worldwide, could be utilized not only to reduce fertilizer and pesticide applications, but also to clean up harmful pollutants ...
Sean Lindert, Kathryn Kingsley, Peerapol Chiaranunt, James F. White   +3 more
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Severe dengue categories as research endpoints-Results from a prospective observational study in hospitalised dengue patients.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Severe dengue was perceived as one clinical disease entity until the WHO 2009 classification stratified it into severe vascular leakage, severe bleeding, and severe organ dysfunction.
Kerstin D Rosenberger, Neal Alexander, Eric Martinez, Lucy C S Lum, Carl-Erik Dempfle, Thomas Junghanss, Bridget Wills, Thomas Jaenisch, DENCO Clinical Study Group   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Severe dengue in the intensive care unit. [PDF]

J Intensive Med
Dengue fever is considered the most prolific vector-borne disease in the world, with its transmission rate increasing more than eight times in the last two decades. While most cases present mild to moderate symptoms, 5% of patients can develop severe disease.
Tejo AM, Hamasaki DT, Menezes LM, Ho YL.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Functional Relevance of CASP16 Nucleic Acid Predictions as Evaluated by Structure Providers

Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Accurate biomolecular structure prediction enables the prediction of mutational effects, the speculation of function based on predicted structural homology, the analysis of ligand binding modes, experimental model building, and many other applications.
Rachael C. Kretsch, Reinhard Albrecht, Ebbe S. Andersen, Hsuan‐Ai Chen, Wah Chiu, Rhiju Das, Jeanine G. Gezelle, Marcus D. Hartmann, Claudia Höbartner, Yimin Hu, Shekhar Jadhav, Philip E. Johnson, Christopher P. Jones, Deepak Koirala, Emil L. Kristoffersen, Eric Largy, Anna Lewicka, Cameron D. Mackereth, Marco Marcia, Michela Nigro, Manju Ojha, Joseph A. Piccirilli, Phoebe A. Rice, Heewhan Shin, Anna‐Lena Steckelberg, Zhaoming Su, Yoshita Srivastava, Liu Wang, Yuan Wu, Jiahao Xie, Nikolaj H. Zwergius, John Moult, Andriy Kryshtafovych   +32 more
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A 20-Gene Set Predictive of Progression to Severe Dengue

Cell Reports, 2019
Summary: There is a need to identify biomarkers predictive of severe dengue. Single-cohort transcriptomics has not yielded generalizable results or parsimonious, predictive gene sets.
Makeda Robinson, Timothy E. Sweeney, Rina Barouch-Bentov, Malaya Kumar Sahoo, Larry Kalesinskas, Francesco Vallania, Ana Maria Sanz, Eliana Ortiz-Lasso, Ludwig Luis Albornoz, Fernando Rosso, Jose G. Montoya, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Purvesh Khatri, Shirit Einav   +13 more
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Education in a Changing Climate: A Systematic Review for Low and Middle‐Income Countries (LMICs)

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is a major global challenge that affects many aspects of human life and hinders progress on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One area that has not received enough attention is its impact on children's education in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), which are especially vulnerable to ...
Afshan Ameer, Rami Ghannam
wiley   +1 more source

Dengue encephalitis – An unusual case series

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Dengue infection can take on many different forms, ranging from no symptoms to a mild fever, all the way to a severe condition known as dengue shock syndrome.
Saniya Khosla, Rahul Chauhan, Ayush Aggarwal, Nupur B. Patel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk factors associated with death in Brazilian children with severe dengue: a case-control study

Clinics, 2014
Objective: The purpose of this case-control study was to evaluate risk factors associated with death in children with severe dengue. Methods: The clinical condition of hospitalized patients with severe dengue who died (cases, n = 18) was compared with ...
Maria dos Remedios Freitas Carvalho Branco, Expedito Jose de Albuquerque Luna, Leonidas Lopes Braga Junior, Ricardo Villar Barbosa de Oliveira, Livia Teresa Moreira Rios, Maria do Socorro da Silva, Maria Nilza Lima Medeiros, Gilnara Fontinelle Silva, Fernanda Campos Amaral Figueiredo Nina, Taliane Jardim Lima, Jayron Alves Brito, Avessandra Costa Cardoso de Oliveira, Claudio Sergio Pannuti   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

APRI as a predictor of severe dengue fever. [PDF]

J Family Med Prim Care
ABSTRACT Introduction: The AST/platelet ratio index (APRI) is a well-researched indicator of liver fibrosis. Some studies have shown that APRI can be used as a predictor of severe dengue, but the data is limited.
Jayachandran AK, Nelson V, Anisha K.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Evaluation of Immunogenicity of Seasonal Influenza Split HA Vaccines Involved With Changes of Vaccine Strains Using Mouse and Human Sera

Microbiology and Immunology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seasonal influenza is prevalent every winter, and influenza vaccines are used to safeguard public health. As the influenza vaccines are produced in embryonated hen eggs using vaccine viruses recommended by the World Health Organization each year based on the epidemic situation, it is important, from the perspective of public health, to ...
Kayoko Sato, Noriko Shimasaki, Seiichiro Fujisaki, Haruna Nishijima, Tomoko Kuwahara, Yusuke Nakai, Keiko Murano, Hideki Asanuma, Shinji Watanabe, Yuichi Harada, Akihide Ryo, Masato Tashiro, Shigeyuki Itamura   +12 more
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