OUTCOME OF HIV-EXPOSED UNINFECTED CHILDREN UNDERGOING SURGERY

Outcome of HIV-exposed uninfected children undergoing surgery

Abstract Background HIV-exposed uninfected (HIVe) children are a rapidly growing population that may be at an increased risk of illness compared to HIV-unexposed children (HIVn).The aim of this study was to investigate the morbidity and mortality of HIVe compared to both HIVn and HIV-infected (HIVi) children after a general surgical procedure.Metho

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Chloroquine and mefloquine resistance profiles are not related to the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) VK210 subtypes in field isolates of Plasmodium vivax from Manaus, Brazilian Amazon

BACKGROUND The central repetitive region (CRR) of the Plasmodium vivax circumsporozoite surface protein (CSP) is composed of a repetitive sequence that is characterised by three variants: VK210, VK247 and P.vivax-like.The most important challenge in the treatment of P.vivax infection is the possibility of differential response based on the parasite

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A Simple, Stroke-Based Method for Gesture Drawing

Background: Gesture drawing is a type of fluid, fast sketch with loose and roughly drawn lines which capture the motion and feeling of a subject.While style transfer methods, which are able to learn a style from an input image and apply it to a secondary image, can reproduce many styles, they are currently unable to produce the flowing strokes of g

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