Joseph A. Lewnard, Esmita Charani, Alec Gleason, Li Yang Hsu et al.
National action plans enumerate many interventions as potential strategies to reduce the burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, knowledge of the benefits achievable by specific approaches is needed to inform policy making, especially in low-income and middle-income countries (L...
Marina Romanello, Maria Walawender, Shih-Che Hsu, Annalyse Moskeland et al.
Vasanthakumari Neela, Ghaznavi Rad Ehsanollah, S. Zamberi, Alex van Belkum et al.
Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization is common among humans, and causality between carriage and invasive diseases has been substantiated.1Wertheim H.F. Melles D.C. Vos M.C. van Leeuwen W. van Belkum A. Verbrugh H.A. et al.The role of nasal carriage in Staphylococcus aureus infections.Lancet Infe...
Iain Beehuat Tan, Clive Tan, Li Yang Hsu, Yock Young Dan et al.
High-density communal residences are at elevated risk of large outbreaks of respiratory disease. 1,2 After an initial nationwide outbreak of 231 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in Singapore, which was contained as of March 24, 2020, a surge of 244 cas...
A.H.M. Selim Reza, Jiin‐Shuh Jean, Huai-Jen Yang, Ming-Kuo Lee et al.
Humic substances in groundwater and aquifer sediments from the arsenicosis and Blackfoot disease (BFD) affected areas in Bangladesh (Bengal delta plain) and Taiwan (Lanyang plain and Chianan plain) were characterized using fluorescence spectrophotometry and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectro...
Lai‐Shan Tam, Yoshiya Tanaka, Rohini Handa, Zhanguo Li et al.
AIM: To update previous guidance of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) on the management of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. METHODS: Research questions were formulated focusing on diagno...
Islam Md. Mohaimenul, Touray Musa, Hsuan‐Chia Yang, Poly Tahmina Nasrin et al.
Web 2.0 has become a leading health communication platform and will continue to attract young users; therefore, the objective of this study was to understand the impact of Web 2.0 on health information seeking behavior among university students in Bangladesh. A random sample of adults (n = 199, mean...
Tse Hsien Koh, Delphine Cao, Kian Sing Chan, Limin Wijaya et al.
To the Editor: Nordmann et al. (1) raised concern over the global spread of carbapenemaseproducing Enterobacteriaceae. In their article, they called attention to the oxacillinase-48 (OXA-48) type carbapenemases because bacteria that produce these enzymes do not have a distinctive antimicrobial drug ...
Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene, Ayelet Berman, Ana B. Amaya et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the failures of global, multilateral cooperation to respond and adapt to health emergencies while observing the principles of solidarity and equity. This response has raised the question of whether the global architecture for health emergencies is fit for purpose. In t...
Yin Mo, Ying Ding, Yang Cao, Jill Hopkins et al.
<ns3:p> <ns3:bold>Background</ns3:bold> : <ns3:bold/> Antimicrobial resistance surveillance is essential for empiric antibiotic prescribing, infection prevention and control policies and to drive novel antibiotic discovery. However, most existing surveillance systems are isolate-based without suppor...
Zhenhua Guo, Md Sariful Islam, DongXu Liu, G Liu et al.
Several oocyte-derived genes/proteins are essential to early embryonic development. The expression and stability of these proteins are influenced by the autocrine/paracrine activity of factors released by oocytes and cumulus cells. This study investigated the paracrine and autocrine activity of foll...
Kaipeng Zhou, Chen Lou, Po‐Han Chang, Jingjing Jiang et al.
Chao Gao, Xinxing Lu, Yiwei Jiang, Ying Tang et al.
BACKGROUND: Sepsis is characterized by a dysregulated immune response to infection, with a balance between hyperinflammation and immunosuppression, which determines the patient's immune status. Real-time monitoring of the immune status in sepsis is crucial for guiding immunotherapy. However, reliabl...
Ramat Yeasmin, Jahan Rawnak, Sarwar Nasrin, Mohammad Khalid Parvez et al.
Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat. is an important medicinal plant. To learn more about properties of this plant, the present study was aimed to evaluate the phytochemical analysis and antioxidant activity of three colours (pink, yellow and white) flower of Chrysanthemum morifolium. Spot phytochemical ...
Ming–Hsuan Yang, Qingjiu Gao, Tim Li