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Virology
Marina Beretta Duarte, Tatiana Schaffer Gregianini, Leticia G. Martins, Ana Beatriz G. Veiga
Summary: This study investigated the epidemiology of IBV infection in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil over 17 years, and found that IBV infection is associated with age and seasonality, with a high risk of severe infection. The research also highlighted that cardiopathy, metabolic disease, and smoking are risk factors for fatality in IBV infection.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2021)
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Microbiology
Nicolas Malausse, Sylvie van der Werf, Nadia Naffakh, Sandie Munier
Summary: Co-infections between influenza A virus (IAV) and influenza B virus (IBV) were studied by infecting A549 cells with recombinant IAV-GFP and IBV-mCherry. Surprisingly, IBV replication was enhanced when co-infected with IAV, particularly when IAV was added 1 hour before IBV. This enhancing effect was dependent on transcription/replication of the IAV genome.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
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Virology
Menucha Jurkowicz, Ital Nemet, Nofar Atari, Ilana S. Fratty, Limor Kliker, Hilda Sherbany, Nathan Keller, Eugene Leibovitz, Ella Mendelson, Michal Mandelboim, Michal Stein
Summary: The 2019-2020 influenza season in Israel was characterized by a high-intensity and early morbidity peak. A cohort of hospitalized patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza was analyzed to further understand disease severity. The study revealed vaccine delays, shortages, and a disproportionate targeting of children and young adults by A(H3N2) and B/Victoria strains, emphasizing the vulnerability of infants and young children and the importance of influenza prevention measures in this population.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2023)
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Critical Care Medicine
Tristan W. Clark, Kate R. Beard, Nathan J. Brendish, Ahalya K. Malachira, Samuel Mills, Cathleen Chan, Stephen Poole, Sean Ewings, Nick Cortes, Esther Nyimbili, Laura Presland
Summary: The study aimed to evaluate the impact of mPOCT on influenza detection and clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients. The results showed that the mPOCT group had a higher rate of influenza detection, more timely and appropriate antiviral treatment, and isolation facility use, which contributed to improved clinical outcomes.
LANCET RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
(2021)
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Plant Sciences
Xuan Chu, Kun Zhang, Hongyu Wei, Zhiyu Ma, Han Fu, Pu Miao, Hongzhe Jiang, Hongli Liu
Summary: This study presents a method using Vis/NIR spectroscopy to track the growth and identify different infection stages of C. musae in bananas. The results show that PCA-SVM and SPA-SVM models can effectively discriminate bananas at different infection levels, while the 1D-CNN model performs the best with high accuracy in identifying infected bananas at different levels and time.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
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Virology
Cynthia Y. Tang, Karen Segovia, Jane A. McElroy, Tao Li, Minhui Guan, Xiaojian Zhang, Shamita Misra, Jun Hang, Xiu-Feng Wan
Summary: The majority of IBV influenza strains in Missouri during the 2019-2020 season contained a three-amino acid deletion on the HA protein and were antigenically distant from the vaccine strain. Cell-adapted mutations were mainly found in the RNA polymerase. The study suggests that hCK is an effective platform for IBV isolation and culture-adapted mutations may influence virus studies and vaccine development.
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Immunology
Ching-Hao Hsu, Hsin-Pai Chen, Po-Liang Chen, Yu-Jiun Chan
Summary: This study described the characteristics and outcomes of lower respiratory tract infections associated with respiratory viruses in adults, finding that both influenza and non-influenza respiratory viruses were associated with increased mortality rates, with shock and acute kidney injury independently predicting a higher mortality rate.
JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTION
(2022)
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Automation & Control Systems
Jian Zhang, Abdul M. Mouazen
Summary: This study presents the development of a non-integer order SavitzkyGolay derivative function (NISGDF) for the analysis of phosphorus composition in manure. The NISGDF offers significant flexibility in noise reduction, elimination of baseline and offset, and improves the prediction accuracy of phosphorus compared to the traditional integer order SavitzkyGolay derivative function (ISGDF).
CHEMOMETRICS AND INTELLIGENT LABORATORY SYSTEMS
(2023)
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Agronomy
Michael Horf, Sebastian Vogel, Harm Druecker, Robin Gebbers, Hans-Werner Olfs
Summary: Due to disparities in animal husbandry systems, nutrient concentrations in livestock manures and biogas digestates vary greatly. Traditional estimation methods and laboratory analysis are unreliable or costly. Spectrometric methods, particularly near-infrared spectrometry (NIRS), have emerged as fast and low-cost alternatives for predicting nutrient concentrations. This review summarizes recent research on using optical spectrometry to predict various parameters of liquid organic manures, including physicochemical parameters, main plant nutrients, and micronutrients. NIRS has shown promising results and is being implemented in commercial laboratories as well as for online applications in the field.
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Respiratory System
Xiaoming Liu, Thi Hiep Nguyen, Leon Sokulsky, Xiang Li, Keilah Garcia Netto, Alan Chen-Yu Hsu, Chi Liu, Karen Laurie, Ian Barr, Hock Tay, Fiona Eyers, Paul S. Foster, Ming Yang
Summary: The study examined the inflammatory response to FLU, RV, and RSV infections in mice, finding that IL-17A is a common pathogenic molecule regulating diseases induced by the three prevalent respiratory viruses. Targeting the IL-17A pathway may offer a unified approach to treating these respiratory infections, alleviating inflammation-induced lesions and breathing difficulties.
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Virology
Pinar Yazici ozkaya, Ese Eda Turanli, Hamdi Metin, Ayca Aydin Uysal, Candan cicek, Bulent Karapinar
Summary: This study aimed to identify the clinical features and mortality associated with severe influenza A and B virus infections in children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) between 2012 and 2019. The study found that although the proportion of influenza A cases admitted to the PICU was higher, the percentage of cases requiring PICU admission was nearly two times higher in influenza B cases. Additionally, there was no statistically significant difference in disease severity and complications in patients with influenza A and influenza B.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2022)
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Medicine, Research & Experimental
Tal Levinson, Asaf Wasserman, Shani Shenhar-Tsarfaty, Ora Halutz, Itzhak Shapira, David Zeltser, Ori Rogowski, Shlomo Berliner, Tomer Ziv-Baran
Summary: This study compared the levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) as an indicator of inflammation severity between SARS-CoV-2 and other common respiratory viral infections. The results showed that SARS-CoV-2 patients had higher CRP levels compared to other viral infections, indicating a higher intensity of inflammation caused by SARS-CoV-2.
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Review
Infectious Diseases
Sophie Jullien, Felicity Fitzgerald, Suzanne Keddie, Oliver Baerenbold, Quique Bassat, John Bradley, Jane Falconer, Colin Fink, Ruth Keogh, Heidi Hopkins, Marie Voice
Summary: This study evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of the Luminex NxTAG respiratory pathogen panels for detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza viruses. The results showed high sensitivity and specificity of the test for RSV and influenza A/B. However, the performance of other comparator tests varied. Further research is needed to assess its performance in different populations.
BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Dong Kyu Lim, Jong Wan Kim, Jae Kyung Kim
Summary: Big data analysis reveals a higher detection rate of flu virus A (FLUAV) than flu virus B (FLUBV) in Cheonan, Korea. Children and older adults are the main groups affected by flu virus infections, which are correlated with climate factors such as temperature and humidity.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Minjun Ni, Hengyi Xu, Jie Luo, Wei Liu, Donggen Zhou
Summary: A novel quadruplex real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) assay was developed for the simultaneous detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 genes, hIAV and hIBV, showing good sensitivity, specificity, and clinical performance.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2021)
