Cost-Effectiveness of Extracorporeal Photopheresis in Patients With Chronic Graft-vs-Host Disease by Adrian Peacock, Frances C. Dehle, Oscar A. Mesa Zapata, Francesca Gennari, Maro R.I. Williams, Nada Hamad, Stephen Larsen, Simon J. Harrison, Colman Taylor

“…# Background The mainstay first-line therapy for chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) is corticosteroids; however, for steroid-refractory patients, there is a distinct lack of cost-effective or efficacious treatment. …”
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The evolutionary cost of homophily: Social stratification facilitates stable variant coexistence and increased rates of evolution in host-associated pathogens. by Shuanger Li, Davorka Gulisija, Oana Carja

“…Here we discuss a novel mechanism that can increase rates of long-lived strain polymorphism, rooted in the presence of social structure in a host population. …”
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A cost-effective strategy for identifying Angiostrongylus spp. larvae in Achatina fulica: combined morphological and molecular biology by Ling Jiang, Tianmei Li, Yingrui Jiang, Yuhua Liu, Shaorong Chen, Hongkun Liu, Wen Fang, Shenhua Zhao, Rong Li, Yunhai Guo

“…These differences were statistically significant (X 2 = 9.565, p < 0.05). Notably, AcanITS1 qPCR demonstrated superior sensitivity with a detection threshold of 10 pg/μl, outperforming the PCR with a threshold of 10 ng/μl. …”
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Laser-based selective killing of a manipulative parasite reveals partial reversibility of phenotypic alterations in its intermediate host by Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minnot, Frank Cézilly, Olivier Musset

“…Interestingly, melanotic encapsulation response to dead cystacanths was rare up to two months after treatment, with only 5.6% of cystacanths being fully or partially melanized, thus suggesting long-lasting protection from the acellular outer envelope. …”
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Uninvited Host by R. Benedito Ferrão, Angela Ferrão, Maria Vanessa de Sa

“…Despite its history as a favored destination for hippies from the West in the 1960s and 1970s, present-day party tourism in Goa largely attracts Indian travelers. …”
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Editorial: Parasite, host, and microbiome interactions in natural host systems by Claire E. Couch, Raquel Xavier, Raquel Xavier, Brianna R. Beechler

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Clinical implementation and validation of a new indigenously designed cost-effective blood irradiation phantom box for use with linear accelerator by Sowmiya Sampathrajan, Kesavan Govindaraj, Arunkumar Nandagopal, Senthilkumar Shanmugam

“…The main aim of this study is the clinical implementation of an indigenously designed, cost-effective blood irradiation phantom. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A blood irradiator phantom box was designed using Polymethylmethacrylate of outer dimension 33 cm × 38 cm × 11 cm and inner dimension 25 cm × 30 cm × 6 cm to accommodate a maximum of 6 blood bags. …”
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Host Extinction Dynamics in a Simple Parasite-Host Interaction Model by Tzy-Wei Hwang, Yang Kuang

“…This short article carefully formulate a simple SI model for aparasite-host interaction through the basic birth and deathprocesses analysis. …”
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Are You My Host? An Overview of Methods Used to Link Bacteriophages with Hosts by Paul Hyman

“…More recently, additional methods to link phages and hosts have been developed. These include methods to show phage genome entry into host cells (e.g., PhageFISH); proximity of phage and host genomes (e.g., proximity ligation, polonies, viral tagging); and analysis of genomes and metagenomes (e.g., CRISPR spacer analysis, metagenomic co-occurrence). …”
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Using host traits to predict reservoir host species of rabies virus. by Katherine E L Worsley-Tonks, Katherine E L Worsley-Tonks, Luis E Escobar, Roman Biek, Mariana Castaneda-Guzman, Meggan E Craft, Daniel G Streicker, Lauren A White, Nicholas M Fountain-Jones

“…We combined a trait-based analytical approach with gradient boosting machine learning models to identify physiological and ecological host features associated with being a reservoir for RABV. …”
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Cost-benefit Analysis of Earthquake Costs and Building Retrofitting Costs in Iran by Fariborz Mohammadi, Shahabodin Fuladi Moghaddam, Iman Shabanzadeh, Shahin Behdarvand

“…Using the time value of money method to the value of 2021, we converted the estimated and realized costs to enable comparison and aggregation. …”
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Host targets of candidalysin. by Jianfeng Lin, Scott G Filler

“…In this Pearl, we review the host targets of candidalysin and how they modulate the interaction of C. albicans with the host.…”
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Host targets of candidalysin by Jianfeng Lin, Scott G. Filler

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Editorial: Host-pathogen crosstalk: implications in host cellular processes by intracellular pathogens by Deeksha Tripathi, Rajni Garg

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Host switching is the main driver of coevolution between Hepatozoon parasites and their vertebrate hosts by Raúl Matamoros-Suárez, Víctor M. Montenegro, Federico Villalobos-Brenes, Mar Llaberia-Robledillo, Alberto Solano-Barquero, Gad Baneth, Juan Antonio Balbuena, Alicia Rojas

“…Results Global assessments of congruence between phylogenies of carnivore, rodent, and squamate hosts and those of their Hepatozoon parasites were significant (PACo: all m 2 XY < 0.655, all P < 0.001; ParaFit: all ParaFitGlobal Statistics < 72.992, all P < 0.007, all Procrustes R 2 > 0.25), but not for the association between Hepatozoon spp. and invertebrates (PACo m 2 XY = 0.632, P < 0.001; ParaFitGlobal Statistic = 8.810, P = 0.124, R 2 = 0.37). …”
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Effects of Microbes on Insect Host Physiology and Behavior Mediated by the Host Immune System by Shan Zhang, Zhengyan Wang, Qiong Luo, Lizhen Zhou, Xin Du, Yonglin Ren

“…Future research directions and methodologies are also proposed, aiming to provide insights into further study on the physiological mechanism linking microbes and insect hosts.…”
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Microsporidia infection impacts the host cell's cycle and reduces host cell apoptosis. by Raquel Martín-Hernández, Mariano Higes, Soledad Sagastume, Ángeles Juarranz, Joyce Dias-Almeida, Giles E Budge, Aránzazu Meana, Neil Boonham

“…Curiously, different routes related to cell cycle were modified after infection by each microsporidia. In the case of N. apis, cyclin B1, dacapo and E2F2 were up-regulated, whereas only cyclin E was up-regulated by N. ceranae, in both cases promoting the G1/S phase transition. …”
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The host phylogeny determines viral infectivity and replication across Staphylococcus host species. by Sarah K Walsh, Ryan M Imrie, Marta Matuszewska, Gavin K Paterson, Lucy A Weinert, Jarrod D Hadfield, Angus Buckling, Ben Longdon

“…Using three methods-plaque assays, optical density (OD) assays, and quantitative (q)PCR-we find that the host phylogeny explains a large proportion of the variation in susceptibility to ISP across the host panel. …”
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Evolution and maintenance of a large multidrug-resistant plasmid in a Salmonella enterica Typhimurium host under differing antibiotic selection pressures by Ming Cheng, Jing-Jing Dai, Jin-Fei Zhang, Yu-Ting Su, Si-Qi Guo, Ruan-Yang Sun, Dong Wang, Jian Sun, Xiao-Ping Liao, Sheng Chen, Liang-Xing Fang

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Cost Impact Model of a Novel Multi-mRNA Host Response Assay for Diagnosis and Risk Assessment of Acute Respiratory Tract Infections and Sepsis in the Emergency Department by John E. Schneider, Jonathan Romanowsky, Philipp Schuetz, Ivana Stojanovic, Henry K. Cheng, Oliver Liesenfeld, Ljubomir Buturovic, Timothy E. Sweeney

“…Reductions in hospital days (-0.80 days, -36.7%), antibiotic days (-1.49 days, -29.5%), and percent 30-day mortality (-1.67%, -13.64%) were driven by HostDx Sepsis providing fewer “noninformative” moderate risk predictions and more “certain” low- or high-risk predictions compared to standard of care, especially for patients who were not severely ill. …”
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