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Behavioral Sciences
Daiva Radzisauskiene, Monika Vitkauskaite, Karolina Zvinyte, Ruta Mameniskiene
Summary: The study described a case series of influenza A-associated neurological complications, with a low incidence rate of influenza-associated neurological complications in hospitalized patients in 2019 at 1.9%. The findings suggest that during influenza epidemics, patients with unexplained neurological symptoms resembling aseptic and septic meningitis/encephalitis should be tested for influenza virus.
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
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Immunology
Remy Pasco, Kaitlyn Johnson, Spencer J. Fox, Kelly A. Pierce, Maureen Johnson-Leon, Michael Lachmann, David P. Morton, Lauren Ancel Meyers
Summary: In response to COVID-19, schools in the United States closed for a significant period of time and proactive testing measures were not consistently implemented. A test allocation approach can effectively reduce infections and disparities across school districts, providing a roadmap for deploying proactive testing and mitigating future risks.
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2023)
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Biology
Chaiwat Wilasang, Pikkanet Suttirat, Sudarat Chadsuthi, Anuwat Wiratsudakul, Charin Modchang
Summary: This study presents a novel modeling framework based on changes in amino acid sequences and relevant epidemiological data to investigate the competitive evolution and transmission of H1N1 and H3N2 influenza viruses in the United States. The results show that antigenic change plays an essential role in seasonal influenza dynamics.
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Francesco Paolo Bianchi, Silvio Tafuri, Giuseppe Spinelli, Matilde Carlucci, Giovanni Migliore, Giuseppe Calabrese, Antonio Daleno, Livio Melpignano, Luigi Vimercati, Pasquale Stefanizzi
Summary: Vaccination coverage among healthcare workers remains low due to reasons like lack of time to attend vaccination clinics. However, offering active on-site vaccination in hospitals has proven to be an important strategy to improve compliance, increasing vaccination rates by 44%. Despite this, mandatory vaccination directed by public health institutions may be necessary to achieve satisfactory coverage.
HUMAN VACCINES & IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS
(2022)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Yun Yin, Yuanhua Liu, Mengwei Duan, Xiyang Xie, Jie Hong, Jiaqi Huang, Ke Li, Jin Shi, Xi Chen, Hongyan Guo, Xuan Zhou, Rui Liu, Caifeng Zhou, Xiaozhe Wang, Lingcai Kong, Zhijie Zhang
Summary: This study aims to evaluate different screening strategies to balance outbreak control and resource consumption. It was found that high-frequency full screening can reduce infection rates, but intermediate frequency screening is more cost-effective in non-extreme situations. Batch screening is recommended if testing capacity is limited, and household-based sampling screening is a promising strategy to implement.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF POVERTY
(2023)
Article
Virology
Chayada Piantham, Kimihito Ito
Summary: A study found that variant H1N1 influenza viruses with different amino acids on hemagglutinin have different selective advantages based on their frequencies in the population, patient age distributions, and epitope flags. The frequency of new amino acids alone can effectively predict the fixation of these amino acids in the viral population.
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Zhannan Wang, Yingkai He, Wenfeng Wang, Yawen Tian, Chongbo Ge, Futing Jia, Tongyu Zhang, Gerui Zhang, Mingyue Wang, Jinshuo Gong, Haibin Huang, Jianzhong Wang, Chunwei Shi, Wentao Yang, Xin Cao, Yan Zeng, Nan Wang, Aidong Qian, Yanlong Jiang, Guilian Yang, Chunfeng Wang
Summary: The study demonstrates the importance of a dual dendritic cell targeting strategy in improving the effectiveness of influenza vaccines by enhancing the production of lung tissue-resident memory T cells. This research provides a novel approach for developing universal influenza vaccines.
JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Nursing
Eunjoo Kim, Eun Jung Bae
Summary: This study aims to explore the experiences of school nurses in responding to public health crises in Korea. One-on-one online in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 participants. The findings indicate that major public health crises have significant effects on schools, school nurses, and the revision of the School Health Act. The experiences of school nurses in dealing with periodic public health crises have contributed to the improvement of infectious disease response systems in schools.
JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
(2023)
Article
Education, Special
Alexandra Shelton, Jade Wexler
Summary: This passage describes Ms. Calvin's teaching situation at Robertson Middle School, where she teaches eight middle school students with mild intellectual disability. During the reading block, she focuses on phonics instruction, but switches to reading grade-level texts aloud during English language arts. However, many students struggle with comprehension tasks, such as answering questions and identifying main ideas, indicating the need for more support.
TEACHING EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Hanieh-Sadat Ejtahed, Zohreh Mahmoodi, Mostafa Qorbani, Pooneh Angoorani, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, Shirin Hasani-Ranjbar, Hasan Ziaodini, Majzoubeh Taheri, Ramin Heshmat, Roya Kelishadi
Summary: This study found a stronger association between waist circumference and continuous metabolic syndrome risk score components compared to body mass index in school-aged children, emphasizing the need for more attention to central obesity during childhood.
EATING AND WEIGHT DISORDERS-STUDIES ON ANOREXIA BULIMIA AND OBESITY
(2021)
