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Risk Factors for COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality in Institutionalised Elderly People
Background: SARS-CoV-2 has caused a high mortality in institutionalised individuals. There are very few studies on the involvement and the real impact of COVID-19 in nursing homes. This study analysed factors related to ...
Nursing Home-Acquired Pneumonia: a 10 year single-centre experience
Background: Pneumonia among nursing home (NH) residents has increased considerably in recent years, but it remains unclear whether it should be considered as community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) or a new category of infection. ...
Malaria and HIV Infection in Mozambican Pregnant Women Are Associated With Reduced Transfer of Antimalarial Antibodies to Their Newborns
BACKGROUND: Malaria and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection during pregnancy affect the transplacental transfer of antibodies against several pathogens from mother to fetus, although the effect of malaria and HIV ...
Virtual microscopy in the undergraduate teaching of pathology
Background: Little evidence is available concerning the impact of virtual microscopy (VM) in the undergraduate teaching of pathology. We aimed: (1) to determine the impact in student scores when moving from conventional ...
Disclosure of investigators' Recruitment performance in multicenter clinical trials: a further step for research transparency
Transparency: A Fundamental Social Obligation for Clinical Research .After 60 years devoted to enhancing the methodology and ethics in clinical research, the last decade has been crucial to the scientific community in ...
Vaginal dilator use more than 9 months is a main prognostic factor for reducing G2‑late vaginal complications in 3D‑vaginal‑cuff brachytherapy (interventional radiotherapy)?
Purpose: Analyse the impact of different prognostic factors on G2-late vaginal complications after vaginal brachytherapy (VBT) ± external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) in postoperative endometrial cancer (PEC). Methods: One ...
Pathway-Based Analysis of a Melanoma Genome-Wide Association Study: Analysis of Genes Related to Tumour-Immunosuppression
Systemic immunosuppression is a risk factor for melanoma, and sunburn-induced immunosuppression is thought to be causal. Genes in immunosuppression pathways are therefore candidate melanoma-susceptibility genes. If variants ...
Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical strains from the endotracheal tubes of patients with nosocomial pneumonia
Background: Among all cases of nosocomial pneumonia, Staphylococcus aureus is the second most prevalent pathogen (17.8%). In Europe, 29.9% of the isolates are oxacillin-resistant. The changing epidemiology of methicillinresistant ...
Estudio Ecográfico de la laringe en cantantes niños y adultos
Presentamos un estudio ecográfico realizado en cantantes niños y adultos. Mediante ecografía se ha visualizado y analizado el comportamiento de los pliegues vocales durante la respiración tranquila y durante distintas ...
Tailored approaches grounded on immunogenetic features for refined prognostication in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients with differentialsomatic hypermutation status of the immunoglobulin heavy vari-able genes, namely mutated or unmutated, display fundamentalclinico-biological differences. Considering ...
Clinical picture of the amyloid arthropathy in patients with chronic renal failure maintained on haemodialysis using cellulose membranes.
The clinical picture of 15 patients (10 male, five female) with amyloid arthropathy secondary to chronic renal failure treated with haemodialysis has been studied. The average period of haemodialysis was 10.8 years. Joint ...
Validity of a minimally invasive autopsy for cause of death determination in stillborn babies and neonates in Mozambique: an observational study
Background Over 5 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths occur annually. Limited and imprecise information on the cause of these deaths hampers progress in achieving global health targets. Complete diagnostic autopsies ...
Transcriptome characterization by RNA sequencing identifies a major molecular and clinical subdivision in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has heterogeneous clinical and biological behavior. Whole-genome and -exome sequencing has contributed to the characterization of the mutational spectrum of the disease, but the underlying ...
Evaluation of flow cytometry for the detection of bacteria in biological fluids
Objectives: Conventional microbiological procedures for the isolation of bacteria from biological fluids consist of culture on solid media and enrichment broth. However, these methods can delay the microbiological ...
Brain metabolism during hallucination-like auditory stimulation in schizophrenia
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in schizophrenia are typically characterized by rich emotional content. Despite the prominent role of emotion in regulating normal perception, the neural interface between emotion-processing ...
Detección de resistencia a agentes antibacterianos mediante MALDI-TOF espectrometría de masas
En la última década hemos asistido a un notable incremento en el número de cepas aisladas en el medio hospitalario que son productoras de β-lactamasas de espectro extendido (BLEE) o, más recientemente, de carbapenemasas. ...
Mutational Landscape and tumor burden assessed by cell-free DNA in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in a population-based study
Purpose: We analyzed the utility of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in a prospective population-based cohort to determine the mutational profile, assess tumor burden, and estimate its impact in response rate and outcome in patients ...
Safety and vaccine-induced HIV-1 immune responses in healthy volunteers following a late MVA-B boost 4 years after the last immunization
Background: We have previously shown that an HIV vaccine regimen including three doses of HIV-modified vaccinia virus Ankara vector expressing HIV-1 antigens from clade B (MVA-B) was safe and elicited moderate and durable ...
Different spectra of recurrent gene mutations in subsets of chronic lymphocytic leukemia harboring stereotyped B-cell receptors.
We report on markedly different frequencies of genetic lesions within subsets of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients carrying mutated or unmutated stereotyped B-cell receptor immunoglobulins in the largest cohort (n=565) ...
Economic Impact of a New Rapid PCR Assay for Detecting Influenza Virus in an Emergency Department and Hospitalized Patients.
Seasonal influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality and has a substantial economic impact on the healthcare system. The main objective of this study was to compare the cost per patient for a rapid commercial PCR ...
