Comparative genomics of the Western Hemisphere soft tick-borne relapsing fever borreliae highlights extensive plasmid diversity by Alexander R. Kneubehl, Aparna Krishnavajhala, Sebastián Muñoz Leal, Adam J. Replogle, Luke C. Kingry, Sergio E. Bermúdez, Marcelo B. Labruna, Job E. Lopez

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Personal protective equipment and medical students in times of COVID-19: experiences and perspectives from the final clerkship year by Janina Straub, Anne Franz, Ylva Holzhausen, Marwa Schumann, Harm Peters

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Assessing efficiency of epidemiological security system for the medical organization by T. F. Stepanova, I. V. Bakshtanovskaya, A. P. Rebeshchenko, V. V. Mazurkevich

“…The organization of epidemiological surveillance and tuberculosis prevention medical workers so far remains unsolved both scientifically and practically. …”
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Factors Associated with Low Uptake of Medical Male Circumcision Among Adolescent Boys in Tanzania: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Modeling by Bendera A, Nakamura K, Seino K, Al-Sobaihi S

“…Furthermore, dissemination of HIV knowledge and increasing health insurance coverage may encourage more adolescent boys to undergo MMC.Keywords: adolescent boys, HIV prevention, medical male circumcision, Tanzania…”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Family Nurse Partnership home visiting programme in first time young mothers in Scotland: a protocol for a natural experiment by Fiona V Lugg-Widger, Michael Robling, Mandy Lau, Shantini Paranjothy, Jill Pell, Julia Sanders, James White, Rebecca Cannings-John

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Association between frequency of dairy product consumption and hypertension: a cross-sectional study in Zhejiang Province, China by Hao Wang, Lingli Chen, Yuan Cao, Kaixu Xie, Chunmei Wang, Pei Pei, Yu Guo, Fiona Bragg, Min Yu, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li

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Text analysis of billboards and infographic graphics advertising COVID-19 on promoting preventive behaviors and taking vaccination against the coronavirus pandemic and investigatin... by Fereshteh Mohamadpour, Gary Groot, Ardalan Askarian, Mehrdad Askarian

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The procurement and supply chain strengthening project: improving public health supply chains for better access to HIV medicines, Uganda 2011–2016 by Sowedi Muyingo, David Etoori, Paul Lotay, Samuel Malamba, James Olweny, King Keesler, Steven Wiersma, Pito Jjemba, Rashid Settaala

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Comparison of Demographic Characteristics and Social Determinants of Health Between Adults With Diagnosed HIV and All Adults in the U.S. by Sharoda Dasgupta, PhD, Tim McManus, MS, Yunfeng Tie, PhD, Carol Yen-Chin Lin, PhD, Xin Yuan, MD, MPH, J. Danielle Sharpe, PhD, Kelly M. Fletcher, MPH, Linda Beer, PhD

“…Methods: Several representative data sources were used to assess differences in social determinants of health between adults with diagnosed HIV (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Medical Monitoring Project) and the total adult population (U.S. …”
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Pharmacovariome scanning using whole pharmacogene resequencing coupled with deep computational analysis and machine learning for clinical pharmacogenomics by Alireza Tafazoli, John Mikros, Faeze Khaghani, Maliheh Alimardani, Mahboobeh Rafigh, Mahboobeh Hemmati, Stavroula Siamoglou, Agnieszka Kitlas Golińska, Karol A. Kamiński, Magdalena Niemira, Wojciech Miltyk, George P. Patrinos

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Evaluation of the influenza-like illness surveillance system in Tunisia, 2012–2015 by Rihab Yazidi, Wafa Aissi, Hind Bouguerra, Mariem Nouira, Ghassen Kharroubi, Latifa Maazaoui, Mokhtar Zorraga, Naima Abdeddaiem, Sadok Chlif, Awatef El Moussi, Mohamed Ali Ben Hadj Kacem, Mohamed Ali Snoussi, Wissem Ghawar, Makram Koubaa, Lauren Polansky, Margaret McCarron, Mohamed Boussarsar, Khaled Menif, Slim Amine, Jalila Ben Khelil, Mounir Ben Jemaa, Jihene Bettaieb, Nissaf Bouafif Ben Alaya, Afif Ben Salah

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Spot Urinary Creatinine Concentration in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure Identifies a Distinct Muscle-Wasting Phenotype with a Strikingly Different Risk of Mortality by Jolanta Malinowska-Borowska, Marta Buczkowska, Sylwia Duda, Apolonia Stefaniak, Jacek Niedziela, Jolanta Urszula Nowak, Jadwiga Nessler, Karol Adam Kamiński, Mariusz Gąsior, Piotr Rozentryt

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Disturbed Ratios between Essential and Toxic Trace Elements as Potential Biomarkers of Acute Ischemic Stroke by Anna Mirończuk, Katarzyna Kapica-Topczewska, Katarzyna Socha, Jolanta Soroczyńska, Jacek Jamiołkowski, Monika Chorąży, Agata Czarnowska, Agnieszka Mitrosz, Alina Kułakowska, Jan Kochanowicz

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Modifiable Risk Factors of Non-Syndromic Orofacial Clefts: A Systematic Review by Angelo Michele Inchingolo, Maria Celeste Fatone, Giuseppina Malcangi, Pasquale Avantario, Fabio Piras, Assunta Patano, Chiara Di Pede, Anna Netti, Anna Maria Ciocia, Elisabetta De Ruvo, Fabio Viapiano, Giulia Palmieri, Merigrazia Campanelli, Antonio Mancini, Vito Settanni, Vincenzo Carpentiere, Grazia Marinelli, Giulia Latini, Biagio Rapone, Gianluca Martino Tartaglia, Ioana Roxana Bordea, Antonio Scarano, Felice Lorusso, Daniela Di Venere, Francesco Inchingolo, Alessio Danilo Inchingolo, Gianna Dipalma

“…This study provides a wide overview of the risk factors of NSOFCs, focusing on modifiable ones, to suggest new perspectives in education, prevention, medical interventions and clinical research.…”
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Protein profiling for hepatocellular carcinoma biomarker discovery in West African subjects by Fye, H, Dr Haddy KS Fye

ARIA Mexico 2014 Adaptation of the Clinical Practice Guide ARIA 2010 for Mexico. Methodology ADAPTE by Désirée Larenas-Linnemann, José Luis Mayorga-Butrón, Andrés Sánchez-González, Arturo Ramírez-García, Miguel Alejandro Medina-Ávalos, Marco Antonio Figueroa-Morales, Gabriel Montes-Narváez, Sergio Jesús Romero-Tapia, Héctor Stone-Aguilar, Luis Xochihua-Díaz, Jorge Salas-Hernández, Héctor Hernán-Ruiz, Miguel A Betancourt-Suárez, María del Carmen Cano-Salas, Lorenzo Curiel-Aceves, Javier Dibildox-Martínez, Margarita Fernández-Vega, Carlos García-Bolaños, Fernando Iduñate-Palacios, Marcos Alejandro Jiménez-Chobillon, Doris N López-Lizárraga, Juan José Matta-Campos, Jorge Olvera-Salinas, María Antonia Rivera-Gómez, César Virgen-Ortega, Juan José Luis Sienra-Monge, Blanca Estela Del Río-Navarro, Alfredo Arias-Cruz, José Antonio Sacre-Hazouri, Ambrocio Aguilar-Aranda, Rodrigo Vásquez del Mercado-Cordero, Raúl Humberto Barnica-Alvarado, Liliana Velasco-Hidalgo, Cecilia Solís-Galicia

“…Results: A total of 45 questions from the original 2010 ARIA were included and divided into six groups covering prevention, medical treatment, immunotherapy and alternative medicine to treat patients with allergic rhinitis with or without asthma. …”
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Treatment pattern and health care resource utilization for Taiwanese patients with migraine: a population-based study by Yen-Feng Wang, Yen-Feng Wang, Yen-Feng Wang, Shuu-Jiun Wang, Shuu-Jiun Wang, Shuu-Jiun Wang, Yao Hsien Huang, Yung-Tai Chen, Yu-Chun Yen, Ben-Chang Shia, Ching-Wen Tsai, Hoi-Fong Chan, Tommaso Panni, Grazia Dell’Agnello

“…Most patients (81.7%) had used acute and/or preventive medications; acute medications used more frequently than preventive medications (78.0% vs. 20.2%). …”
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Intravenous therapy device labeling in Intensive Care Units: an integrative review by Geovane de Kassio Nunes, Juliana Faria Campos, Rafael Celestino da Silva

“…Results: pre-designed labels, with pre-defined colors and information, help to prevent medication identification errors. There is still a lack of standardization in the practice of labeling syringes, intravenous lines, infusion pumps and saline solution bags. …”
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Longer duration on a Chronic Disease Management plan is associated with long-term adherence to antihypertensive and antithrombotic medications following stroke by David Ung, Monique F Kilkenny, Muideen T Olaiya, Joosup Kim, Thanh Phan, Dominique A Cadilhac, Henry Ma, Helen M Dewey, Mark R Nelson, Velandai K Srikanth, Christopher F Bladin, Sharyn M Fitzgerald, Amanda G Thrift

“…However, there is limited evidence that being on these plans improve adherence to secondary prevention medications after stroke. We aimed to assess the association of the duration on a CDM plan in improving adherence to secondary prevention medications following stroke. …”
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Cerebrovascular reserve in aged under 50 men with atherosclerosis risk factors by I. M. Sidlina, I. G. Fomina, V. N. Shveikina, V. G. Kostylev

“…High prevalence of CVD RF points to the need of including ultrasound ECA evaluation into preventive medical examination algorithms. CVR assessment will increase prevention and treatment efficacy.…”
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