Marc Choisy, Angela McBride, Mary Chambers, Chanh Ho Quang, Huy Nguyen Quang, Nguyen Thi Xuan Chau, Giang Nguyen Thi, Ana Bonell, Megan Evans, Damien Ming, Thanh Ngo-Duc, Pham Quang Thai, Duy Hoang Dang Giang, Ho Ngoc Dan Thanh, Hoang Ngoc Nhung, Rachel Lowe, Richard Maude, Iqbal Ely
Wellcome Open Research
This article summarises a recent virtual meeting organised by the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam on the topic of climate change and health, bringing local partners, faculty and external collaborators together from across the Wellcome and Oxford networks. Attendees included invited local and global climate scientists, clinicians, modelers, epidemiologists and community engagement practitioners, with a view to setting priorities, identifying
synergies and fostering collaborations to help define the regional
climate and health research agenda. In this summary paper, we
outline the major themes and topics that were identified and what will
be needed to take forward this research for the next decade. We aim
to take a broad, collaborative approach to including climate science in
our current portfolio where it touches on infectious diseases now, and
more broadly in our future research directions. We will focus on
strengthening our research portfolio on climate-sensitive diseases,
and supplement this with high quality data obtained from internal
studies and external collaborations, obtained by multiple methods,
ranging from traditional epidemiology to innovative technology and
artificial intelligence and community-led research. Through timely
agenda setting and involvement of local stakeholders, we aim to help
support and shape research into global heating and health in the
region.
Yuri Fukui, Moeko Saito, Natsuno Nakamura, Taichi Mizuno, Shuichi Sato, Mayu Tsukuda, Saori Nakaoka, Keita Tsuboi, Azusa Sasaki, Kouji Kuramochi, Panida Boonyaritthongchai, Nichapat Kaewmanee, Krit Thirapanmethee, Mullika Traidej Chomnawang, Bhanubong Bongcheewin, Thuy Linh Nguyen
Breeding Science
Mentha is a complex genus encompassing many species as a consequence of their interspecific hybridization and polyploidy. Southeast Asian mints have been poorly distinguished though they are widely used for culi‐ nary and medical purposes. In this study, we have analyzed Southeast Asian mints and known varieties as well as a related Lamiaceae species (Nepeta sp.) using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers and leaf mor‐ phology. Two types of mints were clearly distinguished based on their venation pattern and leaf shape index. We developed 12 SSR markers that allowed good amplification in the Mentha and another Lamiaceae species. In the SSR-based phylogram, the Mentha lines could be delimited into groups I–VI. The Southeast Asian mints divided into groups I and II, and the phylogram separated most of the available species, with groups I and II containing the known species M. × cordifolia and M. arvensis, respectively. The separation of the two groups was supported by a population structure analysis. The SSR markers developed in this study enabled the simultaneous classification of mints and will help improve our understanding of the genetic com‐ position of known mint varieties and as yet unclassified Southeast Asian mints.
Tạp chí Y học Việt Nam
The COVID-19 pandemic is both a challenge and an opportunity for scientists to accelerate their research and share their scientific results. This study was systematically searched and scoped studies with keywords of COVID-19 response and lessons from Southeast Asian countries by PRISMA-SCR for scoping review to summarize and disseminate research findings. The result of 956 articles were matched the search characteristics, in which Singapore was a country of the most researchs (329 articles, 34.4%), and the least is Timor Leste (2 articles, 0.2%). The cross - sectional descriptive studies were the most (391 articles, 40.9%) and Ideas, Editorials, Opinions were the rest (256 articles, 27.7%). The most researched topics were risk communication, community participation and disease management (314 articles, 32.8%), surveillance, epidemiological investigation, contact tracing, an adaptation of measures, public health, and society (327 articles, 34.2%); vaccines have very little research. The average number of articles published from May 2020 to June 2021 was 68.2 ± 10.7. The number of articles was uniform during the research period, with not too much variation. More intervention and case - control studies are needed to understand better and evaluate the effectiveness of current epidemic prevention measures in the region, especially more studies assessing vaccine efficacy.
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