Hepatitis C is a contagious blood-borne infection, and it mostly asymptomatic during the initial stages. Therefore, difficult to diagnose treat patients in early stages of infection. The disease’s progression its last makes diagnosis treatment more difficult. In this study, an AI system based on machine learning algorithms presented help healthcare professionals with hepatitis C. dataset used f...

BACKGROUND Men who have sex with men (MSM) are more vulnerable to blood-borne infections and/or sexually-transmitted infections (STI). This study was conducted to estimate the prevalences of mono and co-infections of HIV-1 and other blood-borne/STIs in a sample of MSM in Campinas, Brazil. METHODS Responding Driven Sampling (RDS) was used for recruitment of MSM. Serum samples collected from 55...

Bovine anaplasmosis is a vector-borne disease that results in substantial economic losses in other parts of the world but so far not in northern Europe. In August 2002, a fatal disease outbreak was reported in a large dairy herd in the Swiss canton of Grisons. Diseased animals experienced fever, anorexia, agalactia, and depression. Anemia, ectoparasite infestation, and, occasionally, hemoglobin...

Neighborhood dogs may act as reservoirs and disseminators of vector-borne diseases in urban areas. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to ascertain the health status and the vector-borne pathogens infecting dogs living in public areas with high levels of human movement in the city of Curitiba, southern Brazil. Blood samples from 21 neighborhood dogs that were found in nine of 22 bus stations...

Ticks and tick-borne diseases, including theileriosis, constitute a major constraint to livestock production. Two species, known as Theileria lestoquardi and Theileria ovis, are suspected to contribute to ovine theileriosis in Iran. However, the epidemiological aspects of ovine theileriosis are poorly understood in this country. In a survey, designed to identify Theileria species in sheep, 52 (...

RATIONALE The mosquito-borne Zika virus (ZIKV) is now recognized as a blood-borne pathogen, raising an important question about how the virus gets into human bloodstream. The imminent threat of the ZIKV epidemic to the global blood supply also demands novel therapeutics to stop virus transmission though transfusion. OBJECTIVE We intend to characterize ZIKV tropism for human endothelial cells ...

Blood borne virus (BBV) infection was recognised as an important hazard for patients and staff in renal units in the 1960s [1]. In 1972 the Rosenheim Report was commissioned by the precursor to what is now the Department of Health (DoH) and included a set of guidelines for the control of hepatitis B (HBV) infection in renal units [2]. In 2002 a working party convened by the Public Health Labora...

BACKGROUND & AIMS A 3-dimensional (3D) culture system for immortalized human hepatocytes (HuS-E/2 cells) recently was shown to support the lifecycle of blood-borne hepatitis C virus (HCV). We used this system to identify proteins that are active during the HCV lifecycle under 3D culture conditions. METHODS We compared gene expression profiles of HuS-E/2 cells cultured under 2-dimensional and ...

BACKGROUND Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi) exhibits unique characteristics as an intracellular human pathogen. It causes both acute and chronic infection with various disease manifestations in the human host only. The principal factors underlying the unique lifestyle of motility and biofilm forming ability of S. Typhi remain largely unknown. The main objective of this study was to ...

Health care workers (HCW) are at high risk of acquiring blood-borne diseases. This study compared the risk of infection among HCW in different hospital units and also between HCW and students in medical fields. This cross-sectional study involved pre-tested questionnaires that were completed by 625 HCW and undergraduate students undergoing clinical attachments from February to August 2001. The ...