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Bullous Lung Disease in Turner Syndrome: An Underrecognized Comorbidity? Open

S. Lu, Lois J. Starr, Rachel A. Taylor, Anji T. Yetman · 2024

Congenital pulmonary anomalies in Turner syndrome (TS) are rarely reported. Herein, we describe a female with TS who presented with emphysema in infancy and developed pulmonary hypertension in adulthood. A 4‐month‐old patient presented wit…

Trends and Disparities in Initiation of Buprenorphine in US Emergency Departments, 2013-2022 Open

Neeraj Chhabra, Dale Smith, G Dickinson, Lily Caglianone, Rachel A. Taylor , et al. · 2024

This cross-sectional study assesses trends in buprenorphine initiation in US emergency departments and demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with its initiation.

A qualitative risk assessment of imports of animal feed as a potential pathway for Aujeszky's disease virus incursion Open

Daniel Evans, Verity Horigan, Rachel A. Taylor, Louise Kelly · 2024

Aujeszky's disease (AD) is a highly contagious disease of pigs that primarily transmits by respiratory and oral routes. Evidence from recent outbreaks suggests that some swine viruses can survive in contaminated animal feed, thus posing a …

West Nile virus spread in Europe: Phylogeographic pattern analysis and key drivers Open

Lu Lu, Feifei Zhang, Bas B. Oude Munnink, Emmanuelle Münger, Reina S. Sikkema , et al. · 2024

Background West Nile virus (WNV) outbreaks in birds, humans, and livestock have occurred in multiple areas in Europe and have had a significant impact on animal and human health. The patterns of emergence and spread of WNV in Europe are ve…

The cell-end protein Tea4 spatially regulates hyphal branch initiation and appressorium remodeling in the blast fungus <i>Magnaporthe oryzae</i> Open

Audra Mae Rogers, Rachel A. Taylor, Martin J. Egan · 2023

The differentiation of specialized infection cells, called appressoria, from polarized germ tubes of the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, requires remarkable remodeling of cell polarity and architecture, yet our understanding of this proce…

An Inverse Approach for Finding Graphs with a Failed Zero Forcing Number of k Open

Chirag Kaudan, Rachel A. Taylor, Darren A. Narayan · 2023

For a given a graph G, the zero forcing number of G, Z(G), is the smallest cardinality of any set S of vertices on which repeated applications of the forcing rule results in all vertices being included in S. The forcing rule is as follows:…

Renalase Identified by Machine Learning Methods As A Novel Independent Predictor Of Mortality In Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 Open

Basmah Safdar, Matthew Sobiesk, Dimitris Bertsimas, Armin Nowroozpoor, Yanhong Deng , et al. · 2023

Low levels of renalase, a flavoprotein released by kidneys, has been linked with cytokine release syndrome and disease severity of viral infections. We sought to, 1) identify traditional and novel predictors of mortality for patients hospi…

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Duncan Campbell, Dallas Harrison, Rachel A. Taylor, Ken Carriere's Father, Pierre Carriere , et al. · 2022

West Nile Virus spread in Europe - phylogeographic pattern analysis and key drivers Open

Lu Lu, Feifei Zhang, Bas B. Oude Munnink, Emmanuelle Münger, Reina S. Sikkema , et al. · 2022

Spread and emergence of West Nile virus (WNV) in Europe have been very different from those observed in North America. Here, we describe key drivers by combining viral genome sequences with epidemiological data and possible factors of spre…

Interventions to prevent hypothermia in extremely preterm low-weight infants undergoing cardiac catheterisation Open

Eliane Alhalabi, Maria M. Zestos, Daisuke Kobayashi, George M Mckelvey, Rachel A. Taylor · 2022

Background In January 2019, a new device called the Amplatzer Piccolo Occluder was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for percutaneous closure of patent ductus arteriosus in infants weighing more than 700 g and of postnatal ag…

Modelling the temperature suitability for the risk of West Nile Virus establishment in European <i>Culex pipiens</i> populations Open

Gabriella Di Pol, Matteo Crotta, Rachel A. Taylor · 2022

Increases in temperature and extreme weather events due to global warming can create an environment that is beneficial to mosquito populations, changing and possibly increasing the suitable geographical range for many vector-borne diseases…

Microbial risk assessment of Escherichia coli shiga-toxin producers (STEC) in raw sheep's milk cheeses in Italy Open

Roberto Condoleo, Roberta Palumbo, Ziad Mezher, Luca Bucchini, Rachel A. Taylor · 2022

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), widespread pathogens associated with severe foodborne disease, can contaminate milk during the milking process through faecal matter and survive or grow during cheese making if a pasteurization treatme…

Percutaneous Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus Open

Megan Barcroft, Christopher McKee, Darren P. Berman, Rachel A. Taylor, Brian K. Rivera , et al. · 2022

A semi-quantitative model for ranking the risk of incursion of exotic animal pathogens into a European Union Member State Open

Roberto Condoleo, Rachel A. Taylor, Robin Simons, P. Gale, Ziad Mezher , et al. · 2021

Risk ranking tools to prioritize the impact of exotic animal diseases in a country or area are useful to assist risk managers in optimizing the allocation of available resources for the prevention and control of infectious diseases. Althou…

A user-friendly decision support tool to assist one-health risk assessors Open

Rob Dewar, Christine Gavin, Catherine McCarthy, Rachel A. Taylor, Charlotte Cook , et al. · 2021

Echocardiographic Indicators Associated with Adverse Clinical Course and Cardiac Sequelae in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Open

Yamuna Sanil, Amrit Misra, Raya Safa, Jennifer Blake, Ahmad Charaf Eddine , et al. · 2021

Livestock Health and Food Chain Risk Assessment Open

Juan Manuel Astaíza Martínez, Catherine McCarthy, Rachel A. Taylor · 2020

The EUropean FOod Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellowship work programme 'Livestock Health and Food Chain Risk Assessment', funded by EFSA was proposed by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), UK. A scientist with a PhD in Food Science w…

The risk of introducing SARS-CoV-2 to the UK via international travel in August 2020 Open

Rachel A. Taylor, Catherine McCarthy, Virag Patel, Ruth Moir, Louise Kelly , et al. · 2020

International travel poses substantial risks for continued introduction of SARS-CoV-2. As of the 17 th August 2020, travellers from 12 of the top 25 countries flying into the UK are required to self-isolate for 14 days. We estimate that 89…

An improved methodology for estimating the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Open

Virag Patel, Catherine McCarthy, Rachel A. Taylor, Ruth Moir, Louise Kelly , et al. · 2020

Since the identification of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in China in December 2019, there have been more than 17 million cases of the disease in 216 countries wo…

Predicting spread and effective control measures for African swine fever—Should we blame the boars? Open

Rachel A. Taylor, Tomasz Podgórski, Robin Simons, Sophie Ip, P. Gale , et al. · 2020

An ongoing, continually spreading, outbreak of African swine fever (ASF), following its identification in Georgia in 2007, has resulted in 17 European and 12 Asian countries reporting cases by April 2020, with cases occurring in both wild …

Associations between Features of External Ventricular Drain Management, Disposition, and Shunt Dependence Open

Corey Engel, Amanda L. Faulkner, David W. Van Wyck, Ali Zomorodi, Nicolas Kon Kam King , et al. · 2020

Background In the United States, nearly 25,000 patients annually undergo percutaneous ventriculostomy for the management of increased intracranial pressure with little consensus on extraventricular drain management. To characterize relatio…

Cross-Validation of Generic Risk Assessment Tools for Animal Disease Incursion Based on a Case Study for African Swine Fever Open

C.J. de Vos, Rachel A. Taylor, Robin Simons, Helen Clare Roberts, C. Hultén , et al. · 2020

In recent years, several generic risk assessment (RA) tools have been developed that can be applied to assess the incursion risk of multiple infectious animal diseases allowing for a rapid response to a variety of newly emerging or re-emer…

The effect of seasonal strength and abruptness on predator–prey dynamics Open

Alix Sauve, Rachel A. Taylor, Frédéric Barraquand · 2020

The Risk of Infection by African Swine Fever Virus in European Swine Through Boar Movement and Legal Trade of Pigs and Pig Meat Open

Rachel A. Taylor, Roberto Condoleo, Robin Simons, P. Gale, Louise Kelly , et al. · 2020

African swine fever (ASF) is currently spreading westwards throughout Europe and eastwards into China, with cases occurring in both wild boar and domestic pigs. A generic risk assessment framework is used to determine the probability of fi…

Risk assessment for recrudescence of avian influenza in caged layer houses following depopulation: the effect of cleansing, disinfection and dismantling of equipment Open

P. Gale, Stefania Sechi, Verity Horigan, Rachel A. Taylor, Ian H. Brown , et al. · 2020

Risk assessment of exotic disease incursion and spread Open

Maria Cabral, Rachel A. Taylor, C.J. de Vos · 2019

This Technical Report describes the activities developed in the scope of the EU-FORA Fellowship, within the work programme of risk assessment (RA) of exotic disease incursion and spread, developed at Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR…

Livestock, food chain and public health risk assessment Open

Irina Smeu, Rachel A. Taylor · 2019

The EUropean FOod Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellowship work programme 'Livestock, food chain and public health risk assessment', founded by EFSA was proposed by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), United Kingdom (UK). A scientist wo…

Predicting the fundamental thermal niche of crop pests and diseases in a changing world: A case study on citrus greening Open

Rachel A. Taylor, Sadie J. Ryan, Catherine A. Lippi, David G. Hall, Hossein A. Narouei‐Khandan , et al. · 2019

Predicting where crop pests and diseases can occur, both now and in the future under different climate change scenarios, is a major challenge for crop management. One solution is to estimate the fundamental thermal niche of the pest/diseas…

Predicting spread and effective control measures for African swine fever– should we blame the boars? Open

Rachel A. Taylor, Tomasz Podgórski, Robin Simons, Sophie Ip, P. Gale , et al. · 2019

Summary African swine fever (ASF) has been causing multiple outbreaks in Russia, Poland and the Baltic countries in recent years and is currently spreading westwards throughout Europe and eastwards into China, with cases occurring in wild …

Plasmodium vivax readiness to transmit: implication for malaria eradication Open

Swamy R. Adapa, Rachel A. Taylor, Chengqi Wang, Richard Thomson-Luque, Leah R. Johnson , et al. · 2019

The study uncovers the earliest onset of P. vivax blood pathogenesis and highlights the challenges of P. vivax eradication programs.

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