Supported by the Agency Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province,China,No.2022J011285 and No.2023J011480.
BACKGROUND Severe esophagogastric varices(EGVs)significantly affect prognosis of patients with hepatitis B because of the risk of life-threatening hemorrhage.Endoscopy is the gold standard for EGV detection but it is ...
Funding WHO(GNQ/AFRO/19–194);Task Force for Global Health(NTDSC#093‑2016);Instituto de Salud Carlos III(AESI‑PI17CIII/00019&AESI‑PI20CIII/00034)and CIBERINFEC‑UE‑(CB21/13/00120).
Background Onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis(LF)are endemic in Equatorial Guinea with notable variations in disease incidence between island and mainland regions.Historically,efforts to control and map these dis...
Supported by the Croatian Science Foundation,No.IP-2016-06-7456:CRONEUROARBO;the European Union Next Generation EU project supported by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia,No.NPOO 1 of Croatian Veterinary Institute:FLAVIR.
BACKGROUND The diagnosis of West Nile virus(WNV)is challenging due to short-term and low-level viremia,flavivirus cross-reactivity,and long immunoglobulin M(IgM)persistence.AIM To evaluate different methods for WNV de...
A case report entitled“Primary gastroduodenal tuberculosis presenting as gastric outlet obstruction”recently published in the World Journal of Clinical Cases presented a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction and ...
Background and Objective: HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are very widespread in the world, however, less than 20% of the people affected are diagnosed and treated. This study aimed to determi...
BACKGROUND The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)virus has become a pandemic for the last 2 years.Inflammatory response to the virus leads to organ dysfunction and death.Predicting the severit...
Protozoan diseases such as Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) have re-emerged in Northern Brazil and cases of Chagas Disease also occur. This VL increase leads to early therapy for the public. Confirmatory parasitological di...
support of Department of Biotechnology,Government of India,for creation of Indian Consortium on Celiac Disease and National Celiac Disease Biorepository;support from Research Section of our institution for facilitating the research on Celiac disease.
Celiac disease(CeD)is a chronic gluten-induced enteropathy with plethoric manifestations.The typical manifestations of CeD such as chronic diarrhea and malabsorption are widely recognized,however,many patients have at...
BACKGROUND Studies in Africa,Asia,and Latin America are needed to provide a comprehensive picture of the global incidence of celiac disease(CD).AIM To describe the serology,endoscopic and histological findings in typi...
Coronavirus disease-19(COVID-19)has become a pandemic,being a global health concern since December 2019 when the first cases were reported.Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2,the COVID-19 causal agent,is a...