Helicobacter pylori(H.Pylori)is a gram-negative,flagellated and spiral-shaped bacterial pathogen that impacts approximately 46%among pregnant women globally and has been associated with various maternal-fetal complica...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)is monitoring an epidemic of monkeypox infection in the United States.The outbreak is now global and more than 6900 cases have already been reported.There are 83 conf...
This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Ninth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine(Ethics Approval No.:SH9H-2022-T139-1).
BACKGROUND Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19),caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2),has led to millions of confirmed cases and deaths worldwide.Elderly patients are at high risk of deve...
BACKGROUND Brucellosis is endemic in India with seropositivity rates as high as 10%in children in the eastern states,yet the disease is not on the radar when a differential diagnosis of pyrexia of unknown origin(PUO)i...
Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne parasitic disease affecting millions of people worldwide.However,in the last decade,the number of cases has been reduced from well-documented endemic parts,but sporadic cases have been ...
BACKGROUND Leprosy is a disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae(M.leprae),an intracellular pathogen that has tropism and affects skin and nervous system cells.The disease has two forms of presentation:Paucibacillary an...
Coronavirus disease(COVID-19)was first identified in Wuhan,China and then rapidly spread all over the world.The World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11,2020 as a result of COVID-19.As it has caused s...
BACKGROUND Leishmaniasis is a neglected zoonotic disease,endemic in Sudan.Estimating this disease is very important to inform the health care policymakers and the governments to apply proper health and economic polici...
BACKGROUND Intestinal spirochetosis(IS)is caused by Brachyspira colonization of the gastrointestinal tract.Some patients are asymptomatic,while others present with gastrointestinal complaints such as abdominal pain,di...
the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award,No.U54GM128729.
BACKGROUND During the peak of the coronavirus diseases 2019(COVID-19)pandemic,clinicians actively studied the utility of various epidemiologic-clinical parameters to determine the prognosis for patients hospitalized w...