Abstract Background Anemia is common in HIV infection and independently associated with disease progression and mortality.The pathophysiology of HIV-related anemia is not well understood especially in infancy.Methods We conducted a longitudinal cohort study nested within the Zimbabwe Vitamin A for Mothers and Babies Project.We measured hemoglobin,
Abstract Molecular diagnostics is an increasingly important Pre clinical tool, especially in routine sampling.We evaluated two non-invasive methods (oral swabs and mouthwashes) for sampling nucleic acids from the oral/pharyngeal area.We created a workflow from sample collection (n = 59) to RT-qPCR based analysis.The samples were further characteriz
This article provides a list of 125 words of the Mochica language.Created in 1865 on the initiative of Santiago C.Montjoy, then United States consul in Lambayeque, the list was discovered in the 1970s among the dispatches of the Lambayecan consuls, which are Knife Racks archived in the National Archives of the United States by archeologist James B.
Abstract Disparities exist between sexes regarding tuberculosis (TB) incidence, as well as disease severity and F-Connector outcome.Using a nationwide TB registry database, we explored the impact of sex and age on extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) among all enrolled patients by (1) calculating the female proportion for every age category according to TB-aff
IntroductionImmune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID), such as multiple sclerosis (MS), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have high rates of elevated anxiety symptoms.This can may worsen functioning and increase IMID disease burden.The rate of and factors associated with elevated anxiety symptoms may differ between ma