Ragheb, Suzan Mohammed; Sekyere, John Osei(Wiley, 2024-05)
This study aimed to screen antibiotic resistance and virulence genes in carbapenemresistant hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from an Egyptian hospital.
Among 38 previously confirmed carbapenem-nonsusceptible ...
Patients with cancer are presumed to be vulnerable to an increased risk of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and severe clinical outcomes due to
the immunocompromised state mediated ...
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria remains a great challenge to clinical medicine as resistant
bacterial infections are very difficult to manage. It is estimated that antibiotic-resistant
infections resulted in 1.27 million ...
Mkhize, Nomzamo; Kgokolo, Mahlatse C.M.; Steel, Helen C.; Meyer, Pieter W. A.; Kwofie, Luyanda Laura Illicia(Wiley, 2023-09)
BACKGROUND : Psoriasis is an immune-mediated polygenic skin disorder. It is influenced by multiple genes as well as environmental factors including infection and trauma. Psoriasis is associated with molecular biomarkers ...
Reticular erythematous mucinosis is a rare and persistent form of primary idiopathic mucinosis, often referred to as plaque-like cutaneous mucinosis or midline mucinosis. It presents with reticulate patches or erythematous ...
Kgokolo, C.M.; Malinga, Nonkululeko Z.; Steel, Helen C.; Meyer, Pieter Willem Adriaan; Smit, Teresa; Anderson, Ronald; Rapoport, Bernardo Leon(Elsevier, 2024-04)
The current study compared the levels and possible associations between systemic soluble immune checkpoints (sICPs, n = 17) and a group of humoral modulators of immune suppressor cells ( n = 7) in a cohort of patients with ...
Tenea, Daniela; Dinkel, Jurgen Erich; Becker, Jurgen C.; Van der Walt, Elizabeth(Karger, 2019)
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare cutaneous neoplasm of presumed neuroendocrine origin, with aggressive behavior and poor prognosis, that tends to have an increased incidence among elderly Caucasians and immunosuppressed ...
Jacyk, Witold Kamil; Marchegiani, Shannon; Davis, Taylor; Tessadori, Federico; Van Haaften, Gijs; Brancati, Francesco; Hoischen, Alexander; Huang, Haigen; Valkanas, Elise; Pusey, Barbara; Schanze, Denny; Zerfas, Patricia M.; Zambruno, Giovanna; Kariminejad, Ariana; Sabbagh-Kermani, Farahnaz; Lee, Janice; Tsokos, Maria G.; Lee, Chyi-Chia R.; Ferraz, Victor; Da Silva, Eduarda Morgana; Stevens, Cathy A.; Roche, Nathalie; Bartsch, Oliver; Farndon, Peter; Bermejo-Sanchez, Eva; Brooks, Brian P.; Maduro, Valerie; Dallapiccola, Bruno; Ramos, Feliciano J.; Chung, Hon-Yin Brian; Le Caignec, Cedric; Martins, Fabiana; Mazzanti, Laura; Brunner, Han G.; Bakkers, Jeroen; Lin, Shuo; Malicdan, May Christine V.; Boerkoel, Cornelius F.; Gahl, William A.; De Vries, Bert B.A.; Van Haelst, Mieke M.; Zenker, Martin; Markello, Thomas C.; Venselaar, Hanka(Cell Press, 2015-07)
Ablepharon macrostomia syndrome (AMS) and Barber-Say syndrome (BSS) are rare congenital ectodermal dysplasias characterized by similar clinical features. To establish the genetic basis of AMS and BSS, we performed extensive ...
Jacyk, Witold Kamil; Fourie, Jeanine; Van Heerden, Willem Francois Petrus(Cornetis Publishing House, 2012)
Chronic ulcerative dermatitis (CUS) is characterized by painful exacerbating and remitting oral erosions
and ulcerations. A very characteristic direct immunofluorescence (DIF) pattern differentiates CUS from
other ...
The reverse isotopic response is a rarely encountered phenomenon. The spared lesions are various and mainly inflammatory in nature, with herpes zoster infection being the most common. A novel case of Stevens-Johnson syndrome ...
Moosa, Yaaseen; Esterhuyse, D.J. (Daniel Johannes)(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-11)
The research objective was to gather and collate data that will enable dermatologists to quantify exposure to solar radiation so that they can give accurate advice to patients using heliotherapy, thereby minimising harm ...
BACKGROUND: Inherited ichthyoses belong to a large, clinically and etiologically heterogeneous group of mendelian disorders of cornification, typically involving the entire integument. Over the recent years, much progress ...
Pagetoid reticulosis (PR), also named Woringer-Kolopp disease, is a low-grade primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma that usually presents as a solitary, slowly enlarging erythematous or hyperkeratotic plaque on the distal areas ...