Dinesh Mondal, Caryn Bern, Debashis Ghosh, Masud Rashid et al.
BACKGROUND: On the Indian subcontinent, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) incidence is on track to reach elimination goals by 2020 in nearly all endemic districts. Although not included in official targets, previous data suggest post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) patients can act as an infection r...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
Introduction There are few published empirical data on the effects of COVID‐19 on mental health, and until now, there is no large international study. Material and methods During the COVID-19 pandemic, an online questionnaire gathered data from 55,589 participants from 40 countries (64.85% females a...
Ricardo Molina, Debashis Ghosh, Eugenia Carrillo, Séverine Monnerat et al.
We compared xenodiagnosis with quantitative polymerase chain reaction in skin biopsies from 3 patients with maculopapular or nodular post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL). All patients infected sand flies. Parasite loads in skin varied from 1428 to 63 058 parasites per microgram. PKDL detection...
Kaisa Thorell, Zilia Y. Muñoz-Ramírez, Difei Wang, Santiago Sandoval‐Motta et al.
Helicobacter pylori, a dominant member of the gastric microbiota, shares co-evolutionary history with humans. This has led to the development of genetically distinct H. pylori subpopulations associated with the geographic origin of the host and with differential gastric disease risk. Here, we provid...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
Introduction During the COVID-19 pandemic various degrees of lockdown were applied by countries around the world. It is considered that such measures have an adverse effect on mental health but the relationship of measure intensity with the mental health effect has not been thoroughly studied. Here ...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
Introduction The current study aimed to investigate the rates of anxiety, clinical depression, and suicidality and their changes in health professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak. Materials and methods The data came from the larger COMET-G study. The study sample includes 12,792 health profession...
Rosa Maria Di Maggio, Laurance Donnelly, Khudooma Saeed Al Naimi, Pier Matteo Barone et al.
Rosa Maria Di Maggio, Laurance J. Donnelly, Khudooma Saeed Al Naimi, Pier Matteo Barone, Fabio Augusto Da Silva Salvador, Lorna Dawson, Roger Dixon, Rob Fitzpatrick, Olga Gradusova, Ekaterina Nesterina, Marina Peleneva, Olga Ushacova, Carlos Martin Molina Gallego, Duncan Pirrie, Alastair Ruffell, Je...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
Abstract Background The prevalence of medical illnesses is high among patients with psychiatric disorders. The current study aimed to investigate multi-comorbidity in patients with psychiatric disorders in comparison to the general population. Secondary aims were to investigate factors associated wi...
Begoña Molina‐Baena, José Antonio Carranza Carnicero, Suzette L. Pereira, Francisco J. García‐García et al.
BACKGROUND: Frailty is a key element in healthy ageing in which muscle performance plays a main role. Beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) supplementation has shown favourable effects in modulating protein synthesis, improving muscle mass and function in interventional studies. Decreased age-relat...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Jeļena Vrubļevska, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant mental health challenges, particularly for vulnerable populations, including non-binary gender individuals. The COMET international study aimed to investigate specific risk factors for clinical depression or distress during the pandemic, also ...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
• 24 .14 % of the study sample reported a history of any mental disorder. • Depression was present in more than1 2 %, non-affective psychosis, and Bipolar disorder in 1 % each, self-injury in >2 0 %, suicide attempt in >1 0 %, and illegal substance abuse in 7.1 7 %. • Almost two-thirds were not unde...
Zuhelen Padilla Barrera, Ricardo Torres‐Jardón, Luis Gerardo Ruiz, T. Castro et al.
<p>The estimation of emissions inventories of climate forcing species and air pollutants from activities such as the burning of biomass from cooking food in rural environments in Mexico presents some degree of uncertainty due to the lack of locally obtained emission factors; emissions ...
Begoña Molina‐Baena, José Antonio Carranza Carnicero, Suzette L. Pereira, Ricardo Rueda et al.
BACKGROUND: β-Hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB) is a bioactive metabolite formed from the breakdown of leucine, which increases muscle protein synthesis and reduces muscle breakdown. Previous studies have shown an inverse association between HMB levels and frailty in older adults. This study aims to as...
Debashis Ghosh, Soumik Kha Sagar, Ricardo Molina, Abdul Alim et al.
Laboratory-established sand fly colonies provide important material for leishmaniasis research; however, the establishment and maintenance of such colonies can be complicated. In this study, a colony of Phlebotomus argentipes (P. argentipes) was established using wild-caught sand flies in Bangladesh...
Sanjeeth Sewchurran, Bilal Dzgn, Mr Goroumaru, Mr Akira et al.