Microorganism
Yeast isolates, isolated from wounds, were obtained from the microbiological laboratory at Tanta University, Egypt, and were cultured on Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA). The identification of C. albicans isolates was performed using…
Category: 6. Health
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Antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities of culture filtrates from Lactiplantibacillus plantarum isolated from traditional dairy products in Menoufia, Egypt | BMC Microbiology
LAB strain isolation and identification
A total of twelve isolates were selected from various dairy sources, including raw buffalo milk, whey, quraish cheese, white yogurt, cream cheese, white cheese, and rayeb milk, based on colony morphology,…
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Africa CDC Statement on Confirmed Marburg Virus Disease in Jinka, Southern Region, Ethiopia – Africa CDC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15 November 2025 — The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) acknowledges the confirmation by the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI)…
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Punjab on alert as polio virus resurfaces in environmental samples
LAHORE : Health authorities in Punjab are sounding the alarm after 11 environmental samples tested positive for poliovirus, underscoring the persistent threat of transmission despite months of intensive immunization efforts across the…
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Illuminating New Alzheimer’s Variants in Dark Genome
Short-read sequencing has helped scientists identify and study genetic variants that increase Alzheimer’s disease risk, for example in the APOE, TREM2, and other genes. Yet these methods fail to capture the…
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Lung cancer and COVID-19 susceptibility and severity: a Mendelian randomization analysis | BMC Cancer
Mendelian randomization
Mendelian randomization (MR) is a widely used approach to infer potential causal relationships between exposure variables (e.g., lung cancers) and outcomes (e.g., COVID susceptibility/severity). The aim of MR is to minimize…
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Modified Nuss procedure in patients with recurrent pectus excavatum following the Ravitch procedure with a retained strut: report of two cases | Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
In contrast to the modified Ravitch procedure, the Nuss procedure is a minimally invasive technique introduced by Dr. Nuss in 1998 as an alternative to the modified Ravitch procedure for the treatment of PE, the most common chest wall…
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Science history: ‘Patient zero’ catches SARS, the older cousin of COVID — Nov. 16, 2002
QUICK FACTS
Milestone: First person infected with SARS
Date: Nov. 16, 2002
Where: Foshan, China
Who: A food handler
In January 2003, epidemiologists in China identified two cases of “atypical pneumonia” in patients who had visited health care workers…
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