Background: A major challenge facing South Africa is the concomitant HIV and tuberculosis epidemics.The National Health Laboratory Service provides testing for staging HIV-positive patients, monitoring patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and diagnosing tuberculosis.Not all health districts have equivalent ART-related coverage in particular for
Although the effects of cigarette smoke (CS) on the development of several intestinal diseases is well documented, the impact of e-cigarette aerosol (e-cig) on digestive health is largely unknown.To compare the effects of e-cig and CS on mouse ileum and colon, animals were chronically exposed for 6 months by nose-only inhalation to e-cig at 18 or 3
Recent scientific advances have accumulated a tremendous amount of biomedical knowledge providing novel insights into the relationship between molecular and cellular processes and diseases.Literature mining is one of the commonly used methods to retrieve and extract information from scientific publications for understanding these associations.Howev