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Vaginal Microbicides: Detecting Toxicities in Vivo that Paradoxically Increase Pathogen Transmission [PDF]
, 2006 BACKGROUND: Microbicides must protect against STD pathogens without causing unacceptable toxic effects. Microbicides based on nonoxynol-9 (N9) and other detergents disrupt sperm, HSV and HIV membranes, and these agents are effective contraceptives.
Abusuwwa, Raed +5 more
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mBio, 2020 In vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) is now widely applied for treating infertility, and unexplained recurrent implantation failure (RIF) has become a substantial challenge.
M. Fu +5 more
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Progressive Attention Guidance for Whole Slide Vulvovaginal Candidiasis Screening [PDF]
26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and
Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023), 2023 Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is the most prevalent human candidal infection, estimated to afflict approximately 75% of all women at least once in their lifetime. It will lead to several symptoms including pruritus, vaginal soreness, and so on. Automatic whole slide image (WSI) classification is highly demanded, for the huge burden of disease control ...
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Comparative analysis of the vaginal microbiome in health and disease [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2011 Diseases of the vaginal tract result from perturbations of the complex interactions among microbes of the host vaginal ecosystem. Recent advances in our understanding of these complex interactions have been enabled by next-generation-sequencing-based approaches, which make it possible to study the vaginal microbiome.
Mengfei Ho +12 more
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Forecasting Disease Burden In Philippines: A Symbolic Regression Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Burden of disease measures the impact of living with illness and injury and dying prematurely and it is increasing worldwide leading cause of death both global and national. This paper aimed to propose an index of diseases and evaluate a mathematical model to describe the number of burden of disease by cause in the Philippines from 1990 - 2016. Through
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Reduction of Coxiella burnetii prevalence by vaccination of goats and sheep, the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2011 Recently, the number of human Q fever cases in the Netherlands increased dramatically. In response to this increase, dairy goats and dairy sheep were vaccinated against Coxiella burnetii.
Bouma, A. +7 more
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Nature Communications, 2017 Reports on bacteria detected in maternal fluids during pregnancy are typically associated with adverse consequences, and whether the female reproductive tract harbours distinct microbial communities beyond the vagina has been a matter of debate.
Chen Chen +29 more
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Is recurrent vaginal melanoma a lethal disease?
Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, 2011 Melanoma is a highly aggressive and invasive disease, and occurs most commonly among the White populations. Since this disease is rare among the Asian populations, it is not so familiar to most physicians in Asian countries. In the 2011 issue of the JCMA, Lin and colleagues reported a case of melanoma that is worthy of our attention.
Bor-Ching Sheu, Peng-Hui Wang
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Role of lactobacilli and lactoferrin in the mucosal cervicovaginal defense [PDF]
, 2018 Human lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein present at high concentrations in breast milk and colostrum. It is produced by many exocrine glands and widely distributed in a variety of body fluids.
Aagaard +156 more
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Vaginal microbiota and human papillomavirus infection among young Swedish women
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2020 Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases. To define the HPV-associated microbial community among a high vaccination coverage population, we carried out a cross-sectional study with 345 young Swedish ...
Liqin Cheng +13 more
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