Medicine - Table of Contents

August 19, 2020

A comparison of COVID-19, SARS and MERS

Tingting Hu, Ying Liu, Mingyi Zhao, Quan Zhuang, Linyong Xu, Qingnan He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9725 PubMed 32879801

August 25, 2020

The role of textiles as fomites in the healthcare environment: a review of the infection control risk

Lucy Owen, Katie Laird

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9790 PubMed 32904371

August 11, 2020

Antibacterial activity and mechanism of sanguinarine against Providencia rettgeri in vitro

Qian Zhang, Yansi Lyu, Jingkai Huang, Xiaodong Zhang, Na Yu, Ziping Wen, Si Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9543 PubMed 32864203

August 4, 2020

Convolutional neural networks to automate the screening of malaria in low-resource countries

Oliver S. Zhao, Nikhil Kolluri, Anagata Anand, Nicholas Chu, Ravali Bhavaraju, Aditya Ojha, Sandhya Tiku, Dat Nguyen, Ryan Chen, Adriane Morales, Deepti Valliappan, Juhi P. Patel, Kevin Nguyen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9674 PubMed 32832279

August 7, 2020

High antibody titres induced by protein subunit vaccines using Mycobacterium ulcerans antigens Hsp18 and MUL_3720 with a TLR-2 agonist fail to protect against Buruli ulcer in mice

Kirstie M. Mangas, Nicholas J. Tobias, Estelle Marion, Jérémie Babonneau, Laurent Marsollier, Jessica L. Porter, Sacha J. Pidot, Chinn Yi Wong, David C. Jackson, Brendon Y. Chua, Timothy P. Stinear

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9659 PubMed 32844063

August 11, 2020

Magnitude of non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy and associated factors among adult people living with HIV/AIDS in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia

Fikadu Tadesse Nigusso, Azwihangwisi Helen Mavhandu-Mudzusi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8558 PubMed 32864199

August 17, 2020

Enterovirus infections in pediatric patients hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2015–2018

Kitsakorn Rojjanadumrongkul, Kattareeya Kumthip, Pattara Khamrin, Nuthapong Ukarapol, Hiroshi Ushijima, Niwat Maneekarn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9645 PubMed 32874779

August 12, 2020

Prevalence of and risk factors associated with latent tuberculosis infection in a Latin American region

Javier Andrés Bustamante-Rengifo, Luz Ángela González-Salazar, Nicole Osorio-Certuche, Yesica Bejarano-Lozano, José Rafael Tovar Cuevas, Miryam Astudillo-Hernández, Maria del Pilar Crespo-Ortiz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9429

August 12, 2020

Spatial variability of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus survival rates and mortality hazard in Saudi Arabia, 2012–2019

Khalid Hussain Al-Ahmadi, Mohammed Hussain Alahmadi, Ali Saeed Al-Zahrani, Maged Gomaa Hemida

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9783

August 14, 2020

Confidence in the dynamic spread of epidemics under biased sampling conditions

James Brunner, Nicholas Chia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9758 PubMed 32864224

August 25, 2020

Distribution characteristics of serum β2-microglobulin between viral and bacterial lower respiratory tract infections: a retrospective study

Xulong Cai, Qiaolan Xu, Chenrong Zhou, Li Zhou, Qijun Yong, Qing Mu, Yan Cheng, Jiena Wang, Jingjing Xie