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Formulating input uncertainty

Table of Contents: “…Contents: How to express uncertainty about model inputs -- The analysis of the vaccine model exemplifies the basic approaches -- Accounting for data gaps -- Recognizing correlation between uncertain inputs -- Evaluating uncertainty in utilities.…”
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The molecular basis of bacterial pathogenicity an overview /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Overview of bacterial diseases and virulence factors -- Toxins -- Adherence mechanisms -- Type III secretion systems -- Intracellular survival mechanisms -- Avoiding the immune system -- Impact of microbiota -- Antibiotics -- Vaccines -- Bioterrorism.…”
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Alternative and controversial treatments

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Alternative and controversial treatments -- Prevalence in autism community -- Research evidence -- Sensory-motor therapies -- Bonding therapies -- Complementary and alternative medicine such as diets, nutritional supplements, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, chelation, and withholding of vaccines.…”
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Poverty and the Impact of COVID-19 : The Blue-Marble Health Approach / by Hotez, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Introduction: COVID-19 and the Blue Marble -- China -- The United States of America -- The G20 -- A Framework for Science and Vaccine Diplomacy.…”
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Diseased relations epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 / by McCrea, Heather L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : region, ethnography, and medicine in Yucatán, Mexico -- The politics of prevention : the Maya, smallpox, and vaccination campaigns -- On sacred ground : cholera, burial rites, and cemetery management -- Cholera and the caste war : civilizing campaigns and disease prevention -- Modernizing the periphery : henequen, the caste war, and yellow fever -- Disease prevention, the Rockefeller Foundation, and revolution in Yucatán, 1915-24 -- Conclusion : outsiders, disease, and public health in modern Yucatán, Mexico -- Afterword : H1N1 and the legacy of uncertainty.…”
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Gastroenteritis viruses

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Viruses causing diarrhea -- Epidemiology -- Rotavirus pathogenesis -- Rotavirus infection in calves -- Rotavirus genes and proteins -- Rotavirus replication -- NSP4 -- Properties of rotavirus enterotoxin -- Treatment and vaccines -- Norovirus -- Norovirus pathogenesis -- Challenges studying Norwalk virus.…”
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Computational immunology. by Ghosh, Shyamasree

Table of Contents: “…Overview of Immunology and Computational Immunology -- Immune Organs and Cells, Antigen, and Antibody, B-Cell, and T-Cell -- Antigen Processing and Presentation -- Innate Immunity -- Inflammation -- Infection and Immunity -- Transplantation Immunology -- Vaccines -- Diseases due to Abnormalities of the Immune System -- Cancer Biology.…”
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IBD for the non-gastroenterologist

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Clinical epidemiology and characteristics of IBD -- Diagnostic testing -- Medical treatment of UC and CD -- Adverse events with medications -- Assessing extraintestinal manifestations of IBD -- Complications of disease -- Alternative Therapies for IBD -- Vaccination advice -- Mental health issues -- Cancer screening.…”
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Sexual health

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to sexual health -- Health promotion -- Sexually acquired infections -- HIV/AIDS -- Contraception including emergency contraception -- Abortion -- Consent and confidentiality -- Sexual assault : managing disclosures of abuse -- Teenage pregnancy -- Female genital mutilation -- Cervical screening and HPV vaccines.…”
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Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries : A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands / by Doornum, Gerard van, Sankaran, Neeraja

Table of Contents: “…Origins in the dark -- Redefining viruses -- On the fringes -- From cell culture to the molecular revolution -- Medical virology in the Netherlands after 1950 -- Techniques and instruments -- Dutch virology in the tropics -- From cancer mice in the roaring 1920s to oncogenes and signalling molecules in the booming 1990s -- Virus vaccines and immunization programmes.…”
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Coccidiosis in Livestock, Poultry, Companion Animals and Humans /

Table of Contents: “…References; Chapter 3: Host Immunity in Coccidiosis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Immunity in Chickens; 3.2.1 Innate Immunity in Chickens; 3.2.2 Adaptive Immunity in Chickens; 3.3 Immunity against Coccidia in Other Species; 3.3.1 Turkeys; 3.3.2 Ruminants; 3.3.3 Rabbits; 3.3.4 Horses; References; Chapter 4: Vaccination; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Basis for Development of Live Eimeria Oocyst Vaccines; 4.3 Eimeria Developmental Stages That Induce and Are Targeted by Protective Immunity; 4.4 Virulent Vaccines; 4.5 Attenuated Vaccines…”
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Molecular biology and biotechnology

Table of Contents: “…DNA in forensic science -- Ch. 12. Vaccination and gene manipulation -- Ch. 13. Transgenesis -- Ch. 14. …”
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Receptor identification for alarmins and DAMPs

Table of Contents: “…HMGN1, as also acting as alarmins that activate receptors on host cells -- Proposal to use some alarmins as vaccine adjuvants.…”
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Helper-dependent adenoviral vectors for gene therapy

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Overview of gene therapy vectors -- Helper-Dependent Ad (HDAd) vector -- Liver and lung directed gene therapy -- Hemophilia B gene therapy -- OTC deficiency clinical trial -- Balloon occlusion catheter-based delivery of HDAd -- HDAd-mediated CF gene therapy -- Brain gene therapy -- HDAd as genetic vaccine -- HDAd and stem cells.…”
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Public health policy : issues, theories, and advocacy / by Bhattacharya, Dru

Table of Contents: “…The role of law : agencies, legislators, courts, and the constitution -- The role of epidemiology and medicine : diagnosis, prevention, control, and evaluation -- The role of economics : theories, modeling, and evaluation -- The role of politics : players, processes, and power -- The role of ethics : historical, contemporary, and future perspectives -- HIV criminalization -- Clean water and mosquito control -- HPV vaccination -- Schip and children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) -- Overweight and obesity -- Breast-cancer screening -- Medical transportation? …”
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Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) from pathogenesis to treatment /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: History: fetal loss and LAC -- The use of anti-cardiolipin antigen -- GPL and past obstetric history -- The primary antiphospholipid syndrome (pAPS) -- Causes of thromboses in SLE -- Congenital thrombophilias -- APS classification criteria -- Anti-cardiolipin test (aCL) -- Autoimmunity -- Lupus and APS -- Thrombotic microangiopathy (MAPS) -- The Lucio phenomenon -- Pathogenesis -- CNS involvement in APS -- Snnedon's syndrome -- Neural injury pathogenesis in APS animal models -- Management of APS -- Asymptomatic aPL -- Thrombosis treatment -- INR recommendations -- Thrombocytopenia -- Obstetric management of APS -- Advantages and disadvantages of heparin -- Pregnancy and coumadin; clinical study -- APS and preeclampsia -- HCQ in SLE pregnancy: clinical study -- Thrombocytopenia during pregnancy -- Catastrophic APS -- Alternative therapies -- Vaccination as an APS triggering factor -- Thromboembolism and antipsychotics -- Lung adenocarcinoma and thrombosis.…”
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The management of other aspects of chronic liver disease, including transplantation

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Common complications of end stage cirrhosis including life threatening disorders of variceal bleeding, ascites, hepatorenal syndrome, encephalopathy and hepatopulmonary syndrome -- Preparation for listing for liver transplantation in patients with end stage liver disease includes documentation and absence of alcohol consumption (in alcoholics), reduction of hepatitis B DNA levels (in HBV patients) and aggressive treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma to reduce the risk of recurrent disease -- The most common allocation system for liver transplantation is the model for end stage liver disease -- Post transplantation care of the patient requires diligent annual followup with concentration on common diseases which include: metabolic syndrome (diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia), Preventive medicine (vaccination, dental disease), Inflammatory bowel disease, bone disease, and renal dysfunction.…”
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Emerging Socialities in 21st Century Healthcare /

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Chloroplast genetic engineering

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Advantages, concepts and methodology -- Maternal inheritance and cytoplasmic male sterility -- Agronomic traits to confer insect, herbicide, disease resistance, drought and salt tolerance and phytoremediation -- Transformed crop species -- Production and functional evaluation of human blood proteins (interferon) and vaccines (anthrax) -- Mechanism of oral delivery and protection against insulitis in non-obese diabetic mice -- Crop chloroplast genomics.…”
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