Background Heightened surveillance of acute febrile illness in China since 2009 has led to
the identification of a severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) with an unknown …

Although the coupling of GC/MS with atmospheric pressure ionization (API) has been
reported in 1970s, the interest in coupling GC with atmospheric pressure ion source was …

Background An epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been associated
with an outbreak of atypical pneumonia originating in Guangdong Province, People's …

This paper studies the problem of default correlation. We first introduce a random variable
called" time-until-default" to denote the survival time of each defaultable entity or financial …

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a newly discovered emerging
infectious disease that has recently become epidemic in Asia. The causative agent of SFTS is a …

Background Human infections with different avian influenza viruses—eg, H5N1, H9N2, and
H7N9—have raised concerns about pandemic potential worldwide. We report the first …

BACKGROUND: An outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) included 1149 people
in Linyi City, Shandong Province, China, in 2007: three children died. OBJECTIVES: To …

Purpose To compare the diagnostic efficiency of 68 Gallium labelled prostate-specific
membrane antigen positron emission tomography (68 Ga-PSMA PET) and magnetic resonance …

Importance Estimates of the incidence of overall antibiotic-associated adverse drug events (ADEs)
in hospitalized patients are generally unavailable. Objective To describe the …

Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/sodium alginate (SA) hydrogel matrix-based wound dressing systems
containing nitrofurazone (NFZ), a topical anti-infective drug, were developed using freeze–…