Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of antimicrobial and health care-associated
diarrhea in humans, presenting a significant burden to global health care systems. In …

Obesity has been linked to the human gut microbiota; however, the contribution of gut bacterial
species to the obese phenotype remains controversial because of conflicting results from …

Oral glucosamine sulfate (GS) and chondroitin sulfate (CS), while widely marketed as joint-protective
supplements, have limited intestinal absorption and are predominantly utilized by …

Background Health partnerships between institutions in the UK and Low or Lower- middle
Income Countries are an increasingly important model of development, yet analysis of …

Background Clostridium difficile infection ( CDI ) may not respond to initial therapy and
frequently recurs, but predictors of response and recurrence are inconsistent. The impact of …

Background Troponin elevation is common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, but underlying
aetiologies are ill-defined. We used multi-parametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance (…

Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical
tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of'…

Background : Cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is an increasingly recognized cause
of heart failure. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), with late gadolinium enhancement (…

This article focuses on how the economic crisis in Southern Europe has stimulated temporal
thought (temporality), whether tilted in the direction of historicizing, presentifying, or futural …

CORRESPONDENCE levels were 23.0 ng/L (19.0–32.8). Patients had lymphopenia (lymphocyte
count 0.76±0.37× 109/L) and elevated C-reactive protein (227.8±126.5 mg/L) during …