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For more than years sub Saharan Africa has suffered with high rates of endemic meningococcal disease and periodic epidemic epidemics involving over cases In a low cost serogroup A polysaccharide protein conjugate vaccine MenAfriVac was introduced in the region The vaccine confers protection against serogroup A MenA disease as well as asymptomatic nasopharyngeal MenA carria ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantNeuron cell culture is widely used for studies in basic researchdrug discoveryand toxicity testingTraditional neuron cell culture approaches result in random growth of processes which prevent the study of their unique polarized morphologyOur goal is to provide robustuser friendlyand cost effective culture platforms to manipulate and access neurons and their subcellu ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of the proposed research and technology transfer effort is to develop a low cost point of care mobile device based technology for automated identification of Stillandapos s murmur the most common innocent benign and harmless heart murmur of childhood This novel technology could reduce the current rate of over a million children unnecessarily referred to pedia ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Substance use disorders SUDs continue to be one of the most serious public health problems in the US Studies have consistently documented a substantially higher prevalence of SUDs among individuals under criminal justice supervision At year end approximately million adults were under criminal justice supervision in the US of which million i ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Preclinical evaluation of treatment strategies for retinal neurodegenerative diseases is highly dependent on mouse models Classical methods to assess the visual function of animals such as electroretinogram ERG which measures electrical responses in the retina do not address connections between the eye and brain or visual perception by the visual system ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The prevalence of food allergy has been dramatically increasing for the last few decades Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network www foodallergy org estimates that up to million Americans have food allergies Six to eight percent of children under the age of three have food allergies and nearly four percent of adults have them Signs and symptoms of food all ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant andquot Code blue andquot the term used in hospitals to call for an immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR signals dire emergencies where medical errors can occur and lives can be lost Reviewing CPR performance of the code blue team is a cornerstone for improving outcomes Thorough and accurate recording of code blue events enable detailed reviews to ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Infectious bone disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide Successful treatment often requires surgical intervention with longer term antibiotic therapy Bacterial biofilm pathogens are associated with most osseous infections and represent a major target of therapy The biofilm pathogens associated with chronic bone infections bind to and co ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We propose to develop a non invasive device to enable children with urea cycle disorders and their parents guardians and physicians to actively manage the disorder at home and improve outcomes in the clinic Urea cycle disorders UCD are inborn errors of metabolism that impair oneandapos s ability to convert ammonia NH a neurotoxin into urea which is ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The ebolaviruses and Marburg virus MARV constitute the family Filoviridae andquot filovirusesandquot that cause severe hemorrhagic fever with human case fatalities of The current epidemic in West Africa unprecedented in terms of geographic scope and size highlights the continued need for development of therapeutics Among the five ebolavirus spe ...