In March 2025, the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) advised that clade I mpox no longer meets the criteria for a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) and recommended derogation.

INTRODUCTION: Some viruses of the Herpesviridae family are frequently the etiologic agents of oral lesions associated with HIV. The aim of this study was to identify the presence of herpes simplex ...

Segmentation of pneumonia lesions from CT scans of COVID-19 patients is important for accurate diagnosis and follow-up. Deep learning has a potential to automate this task but requires a large set of ...

Owing to noise interference as well as differences in lesions between patients, the precise segmentation of SRF lesions is extremely difficult. To this end, a segmentation method (FRCNN) of SRF ...

Molecular assays have increased VZV detection several 100-fold, such that a positive molecular result for VZV from peripheral and CSF specimens may be unclear as to the exact causative ...

VZV is one of eight herpesviruses known to infect humans, and is associated with vesicular lesions, infection of neuronal tissue and latent infection of dorsal root ganglia.

For example, exanthema could occur in infections caused by enteroviruses or by varicella-zoster virus, and conjunctival hyperaemia occurs in infections caused by human herpesvirus I virus and ...

In this study, we aimed to analyze the characteristics and risk factors of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and precancerous lesions in women and provide clinical evidence for developing ...

The two most common types of benign breast lumps are cysts and fibroadenomas. A cyst is a fluid-filled sac that develops in the breast tissue. Fibroadenomas are solid, smooth, firm, benign lumps that ...

Oral mucosal lesions present significant therapeutic challenges due to the complex oral environment and limitations of conventional biomaterials in clinical application. In this study, we introduced ...

This guideline is based on a comprehensive review of the literature on pulmonary nodules and expert opinion. Although the management pathway for the majority of nodules detected is straightforward it ...

Objective Statins are commonly prescribed worldwide. In addition to being potent lipid-lowering agents, statins have immunomodulating properties that may increase the risk of varicella zoster virus ...