Month: July 2023

Viruses, Vol. 15, Pages 1677: New Concepts in Therapeutic Manipulation of HIV-1 Transcription and Latency: Latency Reversal versus Latency Prevention Viruses doi: 10.3390/v15081677 Authors: Catherine A. Lewis David M. Margolis Edward P. Browne Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically improved the prognosis for people living with HIV-1, but a cure remains elusive. The largest barrier to…

Viruses, Vol. 15, Pages 1676: Respiratory Viruses in Nosocomial Pneumonia: An Evolving Paradigm Viruses doi: 10.3390/v15081676 Authors: Marya D. Zilberbeg Imran Khan Andrew F. Shorr Nosocomial pneumonia (NP) represents a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Historically, clinicians have considered hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), which comprise NP, to be…

Viruses, Vol. 15, Pages 1675: Sociodemographic and Clinical Factors for Microcephaly Secondary to Teratogenic Infections in Brazil: An Ecological Study Viruses doi: 10.3390/v15081675 Authors: Arlison Pereira Ferreira Davi Silva Santana Eric Renato Lima Figueiredo Marcelo Coelho Simões Dionei Freitas de Morais Victória Brioso Tavares Juliana Gonçalves de Sousa Marcos Jessé Abrahão Silva Fabiana de Campos…

Pathogens, Vol. 12, Pages 1004: Space–Time Patterns of Poultry Pathogens in the USA: A Case Study of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale and Pasteurella multocida in Turkey Populations Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens12081004 Authors: Magnus R. Campler Amro Hashish Mostafa Ghanem Mohamed M. El-Gazzar Andréia G. Arruda Respiratory infections caused by Ornithobacterium rhinotrachealis (ORT) and Pasteurella multocida (PM) bacteria are…

Microorganisms, Vol. 11, Pages 1978: Probiotics as an Alternative to Antibiotics: Genomic and Physiological Characterization of Aerobic Spore Formers from the Human Intestine Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11081978 Authors: Maria Vittoria Anella Saggese Rachele Isticato Loredana Baccigalupi Ezio Ricca A total of thirty-two aerobic spore former strains were isolated from intestinal samples of healthy children and analyzed…

Cells, Vol. 12, Pages 1980: A Novel NCI-H69AR Drug-Resistant Small-Cell Lung Cancer Mini-Tumor Model for Anti-Cancer Treatment Screening Cells doi: 10.3390/cells12151980 Authors: Alandi van van Niekerk Krzysztof Wrzesinski Dewald Steyn Chrisna Gouws Small-cell lung cancer is a fast-growing carcinoma with a poor prognosis and a high level of relapse due to multi-drug resistance (MDR). Genetic…

Sensors, Vol. 23, Pages 6836: Hybrid Multi-Label Classification Model for Medical Applications Based on Adaptive Synthetic Data and Ensemble Learning Sensors doi: 10.3390/s23156836 Authors: M. Priyadharshini A. Faritha Banu Bhisham Sharma Subrata Chowdhury Khaled Rabie Thokozani Shongwe In recent years, both machine learning and computer vision have seen growth in the use of multi-label categorization….

Remote Sensing, Vol. 15, Pages 3827: Dual-Domain Prior-Driven Deep Network for Infrared Small-Target Detection Remote Sensing doi: 10.3390/rs15153827 Authors: Yutong Hao Yunpeng Liu Jinmiao Zhao Chuang Yu In recent years, data-driven deep networks have demonstrated remarkable detection performance for infrared small targets. However, continuously increasing the depth of neural networks to enhance performance has proven…

Cells, Vol. 12, Pages 1979: The Comet Assay in Drosophila: A Tool to Study Interactions between DNA Repair Systems in DNA Damage Responses In Vivo and Ex Vivo Cells doi: 10.3390/cells12151979 Authors: Rubén Rodríguez Isabel Gaivão Leticia Aguado Marta Espina Jorge García Pablo Martínez-Camblor L. María Sierra The comet assay in Drosophila has been used…

Materials, Vol. 16, Pages 5392: Properties of Geopolymers Based on Metakaolin and Soda-Lime Waste Glass Materials doi: 10.3390/ma16155392 Authors: Galyna Kotsay Paweł Grabowski The paper determines the properties of geopolymer pastes based on metakaolin and soda-lime waste glass. The density, alkaline activity, strength and microstructure of the reference geopolymer, as well as geopolymers with a…