Leptospirosis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.Disease severity ranges from asymptomatic colonization to widespread hemorrhage and multiorgan dysfunction.The causative agents, Leptospira spp., are zoonotic Gram-negative spirochetes.One important step in pathogenesis is binding of bacterial adhesins to host components.Previ
Significant headway has been made in the global fight against malaria in the past decade and as more countries enter the elimination phase, attention is now focused on identifying effective strategies to shrink the malaria map.Saudi Arabia experienced an outbreak of malaria in 1998, but is now on the brink of malaria elimination, with just 82 autoc
In location-based services (LBS),as the untrusted LBS server can be seen as an adversary,and it can utilize the attribute as background knowledge to correlate the real location of the user in the set of uncertain locations.Then the adversary can gain the location privacy when the user enjoys the snapshot and continuous query through the correlation
Background Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often hospitalised with acute exacerbations (AECOPD) and many patients get readmitted.Intervening with hospitalised patients may be optimal timing to provide support.Our previous work demonstrated use of a digital monitoring and self-management support tool in the community.H
Background: HIV transmission from mother to child continues to be the major source of HIV infection in young children.This study assessed utilization and uptake of PPTCT services among HIV positive antenatal women registered at PPTCT centres of the Surat city.Materials and Methods: This Retro-prospective Cohort study en- rolled a sample of 282 HIV