Reporting on brucellosis, a relatively rare infectious disease caused by Brucella, is often delayed or incomplete in traditional disease surveillance systems in china. internet search engine data related to brucellosis can provide an economical and efficient complement to a conventional surveillance system because people tend to seek brucellosis-related health information from Baidu, the largest search engine in china. in this study, brucellosis incidence data reported by the cDc of china and Baidu index data were gathered to evaluate the relationship between them. We applied an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARiMA) model and an ARiMA model with Baidu search index data as the external variable (ARiMAX) to predict the incidence of brucellosis. the two models based on brucellosis incidence data were then compared, and the ARiMAX model performed better in all the measurements we applied. our results illustrate that Baidu index data can enhance the traditional surveillance system to monitor and predict brucellosis epidemics in china.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) under hypoxic conditions and drug resistance in chemotherapy are perplexing problems in anti‐tumor treatment. In addition, central nervous system neoplasm‐targeted nanoplatforms are urgently required. To address these issues, a new multi‐functional protein hybrid nanoplatform is designed, consisting of transferrin (TFR) as the multicategory solid tumor recognizer and hemoglobin for oxygen supply (ODP‐TH). This protein hybrid framework encapsulates the photosensitizer protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) and chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin (Dox), which are attached by a glutathione‐responsive disulfide bond. Mechanistically, ODP‐TH crosses the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and specifically aggregated in hypoxic tumors via protein homology recognition. Oxygen and encapsulated drugs ultimately promote a therapeutic effect by down‐regulating the abundance of multidrug resistance gene 1 (MDR1) and hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1‐α (HIF‐1α). The results reveal that ODP‐TH achieves oxygen transport and protein homology recognition in the hypoxic tumor occupation. Indeed, compared with traditional photodynamic chemotherapy, ODP‐TH achieves a more efficient tumor‐inhibiting effect. This study not only overcomes the hypoxia‐related inhibition in combination therapy by targeted oxygen transport but also achieves an effective treatment of multiple tumors, such as breast cancer and glioma, providing a new concept for the construction of a promising multi‐functional targeted and intensive anti‐tumor nanoplatform.
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