Factors Associated with Stunting in Children Under Five Years of Age: A Case of Buhara Sub County, Kabale District. by Namanya, Oliver

“…The study recommended that, Kabale District local government in conjunction with Buhara Sub County leadership should come up with ordinances and byelaws on how to improve community sanitation and hygiene practices especially improving toilet coverage, hand washing and proper disposal of the wastes to avoid stunting as they pose great risk to diarrheal diseases leading to mal-absorption food. …”
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Concentrations and associated health risks of indoor/outdoor PM2.5- bound metallic elements at a subway station in Tianjin city during winter by Yan ZHAO, Yang CHEN, Yuwen WANG, Bodong SHANG, Yuxin DU

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Immune responses of cattle vaccinated by various routes with Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) by Mitchell V. Palmer, Soyoun Hwang, Carly Kanipe, Ellie J. Putz, Luis Guilherme Virgilio Fernandes, Anna Didkowska, Paola M. Boggiatto

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COVID-19 status and utilisation of essential maternal and child healthcare services during the pandemic in Ahmedabad, India by Sandul Yasobant, K Shruti Lekha, Ravina Tadvi, Bhavin Solanki, Walter Bruchhausen, Deepak Saxena

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Prone Positioning and Intravenous Zanamivir may Represent Effective Alternatives for Patients with Severe ARDS Virus A (H1N1) Related Pneumonia in Hospitals with no Access to ECM... by Giuseppe Gristina, Giuseppe Nardi, Daniela Orazi, Francesco Nicola Lauria, Maria Beatrice Valli, Eleonora Lalle, Stefano Menzo, Luigi Riccioni, Maria Pia Camporiondo

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The rapid detection of a neonatal unit outbreak of a wild-type Klebsiella variicola using decentralized Oxford Nanopore sequencing by Rhys T. White, Michelle Balm, Megan Burton, Samantha Hutton, Jamaal Jeram, Matthew Kelly, Donia Macartney-Coxson, Tanya Sinha, Henrietta Sushames, David J. Winter, Maxim G. Bloomfield

“…Sink traps were disinfected, environmental cleaning procedures were updated, and a strict focus on hand hygiene was reinforced on the ward. No further isolates were detected, and the outbreak was closed after two months. …”
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The Relationship Between Screen Time, Sleep and Obesity by Dominika Lewandowska, Dominika Rosińska-Lewandoska, Zofia Podraza, Dominika Strep, Julia Grabowska, Jakub Rosiński, Zofia Głowniak, Maciej Kwiatkowski, Izabela Kwiatkowska, Malwina Soja

“…Interventions targeting reduced screen exposure, improved sleep hygiene, and increased physical activity could mitigate obesity risk, especially in vulnerable populations such as children and adolescents. …”
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Good soil management can reduce dietary zinc deficiency in Zimbabwe by Muneta G. Manzeke-Kangara, Edward J. M. Joy, Florence Mtambanengwe, Prosper Chopera, Michael J. Watts, Martin R. Broadley, Paul Mapfumo

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Identifikasi Bakteri Coliform pada Air Kobokan di Rumah Makan Kelurahan Andalas Kecamatan Padang Timur by Ervan Arditya Kusuma, Roslaili Rasyid, Endrinaldi

“…It can be cause many factor like hygiene of container, restaurant location and dug well location.…”
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Strawberry dietary intervention influences diversity and increases abundances of SCFA-producing bacteria in healthy elderly people by Franziska Meiners, Bernd Kreikemeyer, Patrick Newels, Ingmar Zude, Michael Walter, Alexander Hartmann, Daniel Palmer, Georg Fuellen, Israel Barrantes

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Oral health and dental behaviour of patients with left ventricular assist device: a cross‐sectional study by Jens Garbade, Josephine Rast, Gerhard Schmalz, Mirjam Eisner, Justus Wagner, Tanja Kottmann, Andreas Oberbach, Sven Lehmann, Rainer Haak, Michael A. Borger, Christian Binner, Dirk Ziebolz

“…The minority of patients used aids for interdental hygiene (16.4%). For the LVAD patients, a German short form of oral health impact profile sum score of 4.96 ± 8.67 [0.5; 0–6] was assessed. …”
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Impact of diagnosis-related group payment on medical expenditure and treatment efficiency on people with drug-resistant tuberculosis: a quasi-experimental study design by Yingbei Xiong, Yifan Yao, Yuehua Li, Shanquan Chen, Yunfei Li, Kunhe Lin, Li Xiang

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To cool or not to cool: understanding and improving cooling centre use in metro vancouver through community-based participatory action research by Liv Yoon, Giulia Belotti, Rachel Stern, Katherine White, Aida Mohajeri, Abby Zhou, Eduardo Rosales Miranda, Erika Siao, Thanh Le, Jeff Masuda, Eun-young Lee, Chris Buse

“…Key barriers to cooling centre usage reported by participants included concerns over safety, hygiene, stigma, lack of information, and infrastructural challenges such as transportation. …”
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Occurrence of Taenia species and Toxoplasma gondii in pigs slaughtered in Bujumbura city, Kayanza and Ngozi provinces, Burundi by Salvator Minani, Emma Spiessens, Alyssa Labarrière, Pascal Niyokwizera, Anastasie Gasogo, Jean-Bosco Ntirandekura, Chiara Trevisan, Sarah Gabriël

“…Effective control strategies, including improved pig farming practices, better hygiene and sanitation, increased meat inspection, monitoring of infected pigs, risk-free culinary practices, and treatment of tapeworm carriers, should be implemented to avoid the perpetual contamination of pigs and humans with these zoonotic parasites.…”
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Relationship between kidney function and healthy life expectancy: A historical cohort study by Hisayuki Ogura, Tadashi Toyama, Hikaru Samuta, Kohei Hirako, Tomoya Itatani, Shiori Nakagawa, Megumi Oshima, Shinji Kitajima, Akinori Hara, Norihiko Sakai, Miho Shimizu, Tomoyuki Takura, Takashi Wada, Yasunori Iwata

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Egyptian Novel Goose Parvovirus in Immune Organs of Naturally Infected Ducks: Next-Generation Sequencing, Immunohistochemical Signals, and Comparative Analysis of Pathological Chan... by Mohamed A. Lebdah, Amal A. M. Eid, Reham M. ElBakrey, Abd Elgalil. El-Gohary, Mohamed G. Seadawy, Mohamed R. Mousa, Hagar F. Gouda, Nehal I. A. Goda, Mostafa F. El-Hosseny, Ahmed S. El-tahlawy, Rokayya Sami, Rasha A. Al-Eisa, Sarah S. Helal

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Impact of Heat on Human and Animal Health in India: A Landscape Review by Sandul Yasobant, K. Shruti Lekha, Poonam Trivedi, Shruti Krishnan, Chinmayee Kator, Harleen Kaur, Mudita Adaniya, Anish Sinha, Deepak Saxena

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Soil-transmitted helminthiasis among adolescents in Anaocha Local Government Area, Anambra State, Nigeria: Insights and recommendations for effective control. by Ogechukwu B Aribodor, Eunice C Jacob, Nwadiuto O Azugo, Uche C Ngenegbo, Ifeanyi Obika, Emmanuel M Obikwelu, Obiageli J Nebe

“…Coupled with school-based deworming expansion, innovative improvements in water, sanitation, hygiene, and awareness can provide a cost-effective, sustainable solution for combatting STH infections in Anambra State.…”
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Maximizing the potential of water buffalo milkability: best practices and lessons learned by Carlo Boselli, Antonio Borghese

“…The differences were the following: better pre-stimulation allowing a positive endogenous release of oxytocin, with reduced lag time; independent milk ejection for each teat, with optimal milking of all quarters, with the reduction of BT; improvement of milking hygiene during milking, limiting the incidence of mastitis and with a low value of somatic cell score; adverse effects due to failed or incomplete milking (17% of the total milkings), limiting the potential capacity and efficiency of AMS; frequent leakage of airflow, which could cause alteration of milk composition. …”
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Threats of zoonotic pathogens in food chain: Current status and gaps in IndiaKey public health Message: by Madhuchhanda Das, Anup Kumar Ojha, Venencia Albert, Saradi Borah, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Samaresh Das, Tapan Kumar Dutta, Hosterson Kylla, Rajkumari Mandakini, Sarangthem Indira Devi

“…Despite several national programs like Swatch Bharat Abhiyan (The Clean India Mission), prevention of open defecation and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), the incidence of diarrhoeal diseases remains high in India. …”
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