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    Physical Fitness and Mental Health Three Months after COVID-19 Infection in Young and Elderly Women

    Meng Wang1, Onkei Lei1,2, Frankie U Kei Wong1, Water Soi Po Wong1, Walter Heung Chin Hui1, Gasper Chi Hong Leong1, Wenze Fang1,3, Zhaowei Kong1,*

    International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.27, No.3, pp. 363-378, 2025, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2025.060875 - 31 March 2025

    Abstract Background: This study evaluated physical fitness and mental health in young and elderly women 3 months after mild COVID-19 infection, and examined the impact of infection and age on long COVID occurrence and trajectory. Methods: There were 213 eligible female volunteers (107 young, 106 elderly) recruited approximately three months after the significant outbreak of COVID-19 in China. Participants completed a fitness test and mental health assessment using the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Self-Assessment Scale (PTSD) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Inventory (PSQI). Results: Despite no significant difference in physical fitness, infected young and elderly females experienced poorer… More >

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    ARTICLE

    Transperineal prostate biopsy without routine antibiotics demonstrates decreased infection risk

    Benjamin J. Lichtbroun1,2,*, Mann Patel2, Alexis Consalvo2, Labeeqa Khizir2, Munisa Said2, Austin Chien2, Kevin Chua1,2, John Pfail1,2, Rachel Passarelli1,2, Vignesh T. Packiam1, David Golombos1, Sammy Elsamra2, Thomas L. Jang1, Arnav Srivastava1,3, Saum Ghodoussipour1

    Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.32, No.1, pp. 55-62, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cju.2025.064701 - 20 March 2025

    Abstract Introduction: Infections are the most feared complication of transrectal prostate biopsies, along with growing concerns of antibiotic resistance. Our institution transitioned to a transperineal approach without use of perioperative antibiotics or bowel preparations. We aimed to compare the safety outcomes associated with transperineal and transrectal prostate biopsy techniques. Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients who underwent transrectal and transperineal prostate biopsies at our institution from 2019–2022 was performed. Results: We identified 319 patients—174 transrectal and 145 transperineal. 8 patients who had transperineal biopsy (5.5%) received peri-operative antibiotics, compared to 100% with transrectal biopsy. 35.86%… More >

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    Assessing the Relationship between Lactobacilli and HPV: A Decade of Research

    Francesco Triggiano#, Giusy Diella#, Mara Lorusso, Paolo Veneziani*, Marilena D’Ambrosio, Daniela Nesta, Luigi Santacroce*

    BIOCELL, Vol.49, No.2, pp. 199-220, 2025, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2025.059322 - 28 February 2025

    Abstract The composition of the vaginal microbiota (VMB) influences the health of the female reproductive tract. Several studies have shown how the absence of lactobacilli causes an imbalance in the vaginal microbial community, favoring the development of infections. The present study aims to evaluate the relationship between the VMB and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection to clarify the role of the vaginal microbiota in the persistence and clearance of HPV. Many researchers have provided the scientific community with information on the composition of the microbiota and how it may also influence HPV infection and the development of… More >

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    ARTICLE

    SEIR Mathematical Model for Influenza-Corona Co-Infection with Treatment and Hospitalization Compartments and Optimal Control Strategies

    Muhammad Imran1,*, Brett McKinney1, Azhar Iqbal Kashif Butt2

    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.2, pp. 1899-1931, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.059552 - 27 January 2025

    Abstract The co-infection of corona and influenza viruses has emerged as a significant threat to global public health due to their shared modes of transmission and overlapping clinical symptoms. This article presents a novel mathematical model that addresses the dynamics of this co-infection by extending the SEIR (Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered) framework to incorporate treatment and hospitalization compartments. The population is divided into eight compartments, with infectious individuals further categorized into influenza infectious, corona infectious, and co-infection cases. The proposed mathematical model is constrained to adhere to fundamental epidemiological properties, such as non-negativity and boundedness within a feasible region.… More >

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    Global Piecewise Analysis of HIV Model with Bi-Infectious Categories under Ordinary Derivative and Non-Singular Operator with Neural Network Approach

    Ghaliah Alhamzi1, Badr Saad T. Alkahtani2, Ravi Shanker Dubey3, Mati ur Rahman4,5,*

    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.1, pp. 609-633, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.056604 - 17 December 2024

    Abstract This study directs the discussion of HIV disease with a novel kind of complex dynamical generalized and piecewise operator in the sense of classical and Atangana Baleanu (AB) derivatives having arbitrary order. The HIV infection model has a susceptible class, a recovered class, along with a case of infection divided into three sub-different levels or categories and the recovered class. The total time interval is converted into two, which are further investigated for ordinary and fractional order operators of the AB derivative, respectively. The proposed model is tested separately for unique solutions and existence on… More >

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    Hand, foot, and mouth disease presenting with a testicular mass in an adult

    Sarah Azari, Darcy Wolfman2, Armine Smith3

    Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 11854-11857, 2024

    Abstract The majority of solid testicular tumors are treated with orchiectomy given the high risk of malignancy. We present a case of a testicular mass in an adult patient in the setting of recent hand, foot, and mouth disease that was managed conservatively with serial ultrasounds. Even though cases of viral-associated testicular masses are rare, this differential diagnosis should be considered in patients with a new testicular mass in the setting of recent viral infection and negative tumor markers. For these patients, observation may be an option instead of immediate orchiectomy. More >

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    Enhanced Ultraviolet‑B Radiation Suppresses Magnaporthe oryzae Infection and Alleviates Its Damage to the Photosynthesis of Rice Leaves

    Qinghao Zhang1, Yijie Yang1, Jiong Wu1, Hongru Li1, Yuan Li1, Zuran Li2,*, Yongmei He1,*

    Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.10, pp. 2613-2628, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.056014 - 30 October 2024

    Abstract In the present study, an indoor potting experiment was conducted to study the effects of enhanced UV-B radiation and Magnaporthe oryzae on the growth, stomatal structure, photosynthesis, and endogenous hormone contents of a traditional rice cultivar Baijiaolaojing in the Yuanyang terraces of Yunnan Province. In addition, the relationships between these parameters and disease indices were analyzed. We aimed to clarify the response of the photosynthetic physiology of rice under the combined stress of UV-B radiation and M. oryzae. Compared with the M. oryzae infection treatment, all the treatments, including M. oryzae infection before (MBR), simultaneously with (MSR), and after… More >

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    Single-cell transcriptomics reveals T-cell heterogeneity and immunomodulatory role of CD4+ T native cells in Candida albicans infection

    KERAN JIA1, YANHAO ZHANG1, MENGYU JIANG2, MENGGE CUI2, JIA WANG2, JIAJIA ZHANG2, HUIHAI ZHAO2, MENGYAN LI2, HUA WANG2, QUANMING ZOU1,#,*, HAO ZENG1,#,*

    BIOCELL, Vol.48, No.9, pp. 1355-1368, 2024, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2024.051383 - 04 September 2024

    Abstract Objective: Candida albicans is a common fungal pathogen that triggers complex host defense mechanisms, including coordinated innate and adaptive immune responses, to neutralize invading fungi effectively. Exploring the immune microenvironment has the potential to inform the development of therapeutic strategies for fungal infections. Methods: The study analyzed individual immune cell profiles in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from Candida albicans-infected mice and healthy control mice using single-cell transcriptomics, fluorescence quantitative PCR, and Western blotting. We investigated intergroup differences in the dynamics of immune cell subpopulation infiltration, pathway enrichment, and differentiation during Candida albicans infection. Results: Our findings indicate that infiltration… More >

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    Evolutionary Safe Padé Approximation Scheme for Dynamical Study of Nonlinear Cervical Human Papilloma Virus Infection Model

    Javaid Ali1, Armando Ciancio2, Kashif Ali Khan3, Nauman Raza4,5, Haci Mehmet Baskonus6,*, Muhammad Luqman1, Zafar-Ullah Khan7

    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.3, pp. 2275-2296, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.046923 - 08 July 2024

    Abstract This study proposes a structure-preserving evolutionary framework to find a semi-analytical approximate solution for a nonlinear cervical cancer epidemic (CCE) model. The underlying CCE model lacks a closed-form exact solution. Numerical solutions obtained through traditional finite difference schemes do not ensure the preservation of the model’s necessary properties, such as positivity, boundedness, and feasibility. Therefore, the development of structure-preserving semi-analytical approaches is always necessary. This research introduces an intelligently supervised computational paradigm to solve the underlying CCE model’s physical properties by formulating an equivalent unconstrained optimization problem. Singularity-free safe Padé rational functions approximate the mathematical More >

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    SCIRD: Revealing Infection of Malicious Software in Edge Computing-Enabled IoT Networks

    Jiehao Ye, Wen Cheng, Xiaolong Liu, Wenyi Zhu, Xuan’ang Wu, Shigen Shen*

    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.2, pp. 2743-2769, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049985 - 15 May 2024

    Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) has characteristics such as node mobility, node heterogeneity, link heterogeneity, and topology heterogeneity. In the face of the IoT characteristics and the explosive growth of IoT nodes, which brings about large-scale data processing requirements, edge computing architecture has become an emerging network architecture to support IoT applications due to its ability to provide powerful computing capabilities and good service functions. However, the defense mechanism of Edge Computing-enabled IoT Nodes (ECIoTNs) is still weak due to their limited resources, so that they are susceptible to malicious software spread, which can compromise… More >

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