Epidemiological and comparative genomic analyses of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii collected between 2020 and 2022 in Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, China
June 2023
The emergence and prevalence of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MRAB) poses a huge challenge to clinical treatment. To investigate the genetic and epidemiologic characteristics of MRAB...
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The potential epidemic threat of Ebola virus and the development of a preventive vaccine
June 2023
Ebola virus (EBOV) is classified as a category A pathogen as it causes viral hemorrhagic fever, one of the most-deadly virus-related diseases. Since its discovery in 1976, EBOV has caused a number of...
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Mobile biosafety level (BSL) 2 laboratories deployment: Strengthening the diagnostic facilities in Pakistan with emerging public health challenges and the way forward
June 2023
Availability of mobile laboratories can facilitate rapid on-spot detection of pathogens, monitor its presence in certain populations and inform health authorities to take immediate remedial measures....
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Efficiency of surface inactivation disinfectants for bacteria studied in an aquaculture microbiology laboratory
June 2023
Routine microbial inactivation procedures used in microbiology laboratories must be verified. In this study, the efficacy of surface disinfection using 70% Isopropanol, 0.45% Presept, and 1% Virkon...
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Human genome editing after the “CRISPR babies”: The double-pacing problem and collaborative governance
March 2023
How to ensure the safe, effective, and ethical use of emerging biotechnologies, such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based genome editing, is a global challenge....
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Potential threat of human pathogenic orthopoxviruses to public health and control strategies
March 2023
Orthopoxviruses (OPXVs) belong to a group of nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses. Human pathogenic OPXVs (hpOPXVs) include at least five viruses, among which smallpox virus and monkeypox virus are...
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Applications of the One Health concept: Current status in the Middle East
March 2023
•The concept of One Health is one of the most important topics of modern health that the world seeks to apply.•Manitaining and enhancing human, plant, and animal health from the aspect of One Health.•The...
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Evolutionary analysis of Omicron variant BF.7 and BA.5.2 pandemic in China
March 2023
On December 7, 2022, China adjusted public health control measures, there have been widespread of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Chinese mainland. As the number of infected people increased, the mutation...
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A simple and effective aerosol pathogen disinfection test for a flowing air disinfector
March 2023
Aerosol transmission is an important disease transmission route and has been especially pertinent to hospital and biosafety laboratories during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The thermal resistance of airborne...
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Study on the COVID-19 epidemic in mainland China between November 2022 and January 2023, with prediction of its tendency
March 2023
The prediction system EpiSIX was used to study the COVID-19 epidemic in mainland China between November 2022 and January 2023, based on reported data from December 9, 2022, to January 30, 2023, released...
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Coronavirus disease 2019 epidemic prediction in Shanghai under the “dynamic zero-COVID policy” using time-dependent SEAIQR model
December 2022
It’s urgently needed to assess the COVID-19 epidemic under the “dynamic zero-COVID policy” in China, which provides a scientific basis for evaluating the effectiveness of this strategy in COVID-19 control....
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Smart heightened-containment biological laboratory: Technologies, modules, and aims
December 2022
The sHCBL mainly comprises a smart management system with human brain functions to achieve 10 functional modules through a number of information technologies and to connect with practical applicati...
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2021–2022 monitoring, early warning, and forecasting of global infectious diseases
December 2022
COVID-19 has had a considerable impact on society since 2019, and the disease has high mortality and infection rates. There has been a particular focus on how to best manage COVID-19 and how to analyze...
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“Mutation blacklist” and “mutation whitelist” of SARS-CoV-2
December 2022
Over the past two years, scientists throughout the world have completed more than 6 million SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences. Today, the number of SARS-CoV-2 genomes exceeds the total number of all other...
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Heat inactivation of monkeypox virus
December 2022
Different kinds of media spiked with monkeypox virus (MPXV) were subjected to heat inactivation at different temperatures for various periods of time. The results showed that MPXV was inactivated in...
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Assessing decontamination practices at a medical microbiology research laboratory
December 2022
To our knowledge, this is the first study to conduct an objective assessment of the routine decontamination practices at a medical microbiology research laboratory (MRL) a year after a biosafety training...
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Overview and prospects of food biosafety
December 2022
Biosafety issues have become a major threat to the health of humans, animals, and ecosystems worldwide. As problems with food production and the food supply chain have become of greater concern to consumers,...
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Biosafety and biosecurity in the era of biotechnology: The Middle East region
December 2022
Biotechnology became a paradigm-shifting science among all subfields of biology. The benefits of biotechnology have reached many practical fields, whether human health, animal, and/or agricultural....
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Disease X Testing: The results of an international external quality assessment exercise
December 2022
The United Nations Secretary-General Mechanism (UNSGM) for investigation of the alleged use of chemical and biological weapons is the only established international mechanism of this type under the...
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Study and prediction of the 2022 global monkeypox epidemic
December 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on July 23, 2022, their highest level of alert. This raised concerns about the management...
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Development of and prospects for the biological weapons convention
June 2022
Biological weapons are used in wars to wound or kill people or animals and destroy crops with pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses, as well as toxins and other biologically active...
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Challenges and recent progress in the governance of biosecurity risks in the era of synthetic biology
June 2022
Considerable progress has been achieved in basic research and the biotechnological application of biological sciences in recent years. Synthetic biology integrates systems biology, engineering, computer...
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