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Letters to the EditorOpen accessIn the abstractCOVID-19 Masquerading as Chikungunya FeverWaqas Ullah, Andrew Tran, Sohaib Roomi et al.The COVID-19 outbreak is an unprecedented global public health challenge. It has a myriad of clinical presentations including fever, cough, vomiting, and diarrhea. Here, we present a unique case of COVID-19, with an atypical presentation of arthralgias and false-positive results for the chikungunya virus. By highlighting the importance of this rare association, we want physicians to be vigilant in the … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 16, Issue 2 · 14 May 2020 · 7,831 accessesView PDF Cite

Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNASA Satellites Help us to Quickly Detect Forest FiresRelly Victoria Virgil Petrescu, Raffaella Aversa, Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh et al.The main idea is that, as the forests of the planet are getting smaller, too much wood is cut and the forests are made too slow, there are also large forest fires due to excessive heat, of people arguing with the law, or simply by chance. Extinguishing fires are generally difficult, interventions being difficult anyway due to the increased fire, … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 20 Feb 2018 · 8,085 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAccess Control, Fire Prevention and Surveillance Security SystemAkande Saheed, Adeoye Adeyinka O.M., Adeola-Bello ZulikhaThis system is designed to detect intruders, gas leakages as well as to serve as a surveillance system. This work focuses on the development of a reliable access control and fire prevention system synergized with surveillance system. In developing the system, Passive Infrared (PIR) sensors, gas sensor, buzzer, Global System Mobile (GSM) module, Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and RGB Light … …Journal of Mechatronics and Robotics, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 1 Oct 2019 · 6,694 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractArabic Online Event-Based System for Monitoring and Extracting Infectious Disease-Related InformationMeshrif AlruilyWith the revolution of the internet, online data play a significant role in identifying disease outbreaks. This has led researchers, governments and organizations to pay close attention to such data in order to employ and exploit them in developing event-based systems. This research studies the infectious disease outbreaks domain in the Arabic language. In this paper, the Arabic Surveillance Infectious … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 1 · 22 Jan 2019 · 7,420 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractLeptospirosis in the Tropics: When Prevention Doesn't Easily Sell as a Ton of CureRoger Lee MendozaProblem statement: Human leptospirosis -- the most widespread zoonotic disease -- thrives in tropical and subtropical climates. It is seldom addressed ex ante or prior to an outbreak or expected outbreak by governments of high-risk countries. Whether common, post-exposure treatment with antimicrobial drugs is more cost-efficient than reducing animal reservoir populations was the overarching question that guided this study. A … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 2, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2010 · 8,378 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSearching of Main Cause Leading to Severe Influenza A Virus Mutations and Consequently to Influenza Pandemics/EpidemicsGuang Wu, Shaomin YanThe unpredictable mutations in the proteins from influenza A virus lead to the great difficulty in prevention of possible outbreak of bird flu and pandemic/epidemic of influenza. This unpredictability is due to the fact that we know little about the causes that lead to the mutations. In three of our recent studies on the hemagglutinins from influenza A virus, we … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 9,970 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIsolation, Identification and Genomic Analysis of Plesiomonas shigelloides Isolated from Diseased Percocypris pingi (Tchang, 1930)Lei Pan, Shuiyi Liu, Xuwei Cheng et al.Recently, the outbreak of a serious infectious disease of unknown etiology was noted in Percocypris pingi (Tchang, 1930) farms in Yunnan province. Due to currently limited information, we aimed to identify the pathogen isolates, determine the susceptibility of the isolates, evaluate the pathogenicity and analyze the genome of the representative strain. Ten strains of Gram-negative rods were isolated from diseased … …American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 13, Issue 4 · 22 Dec 2017 · 8,836 accessesView PDF Cite

Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractBotany, Ecology and Diversity of Acacia Koa in the Hawaiian IslandsKazue Lee Ishihara, Maia Corpuz, Clifford Wayne Morden, Dulal BorthakurAcacia koa (koa) is a valuable leguminous timber-wood tree endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Over the past century, conversion of some native forests for agriculture and ranching, uncontrolled spread of invasive plant species and outbreak of a deadly fungal wilt disease severely reduced A. koa forests. However, recently there has been a growing interest in re-establishing A. koa as an … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 2 · 21 Jun 2017 · 9,008 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEstimation of the Case Fatality Ratio of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome based on Patients' Comorbidities with Application to the MERS-CoV Epidemics in the Republic of Korea, 2015Changhyuck Oh, Seonyeong HwangIn an early stage of the course of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in Korea in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Korea and several studies reported estimated Case Fatality Ratios (CFRs) that were significantly different. Here, we propose an estimation method based on the commonly quoted naive estimator of CFR utilizing the number … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, Issue 11 · 14 Nov 2016 · 7,458 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractVisual Curvatures of H1N1 Incidences in African, Asian, European, American and Oceanic NationsRamalingam ShanmugamThe World Health Organization (WHO) was worried about the outbreak of H1N1 epidemic worldwide as it consumed several human lives. In a novel manner, this article defines, computes and illustrates the effectiveness of health administrators’ efforts to extinguish pandemic H1N1 using curvature concept. Data on weekly incidences of H1N1 in year 2009 among the nations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 6, Issue 2 · 29 Oct 2015 · 6,942 accessesView PDF Cite