Jelle Matthijnssens, Max Ciarlet, Sarah M. McDonald, Houssam Attoui et al.
In April 2008, a nucleotide-sequence-based, complete genome classification system was developed for group A rotaviruses (RVs). This system assigns a specific genotype to each of the 11 genome segments of a particular RV strain according to established nucleotide percent cutoff values. Using this app...
Yusha Araf, F. Akter, Yan‐Dong Tang, Rabeya Fatemi et al.
Currently, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread worldwide as an Omicron variant. This variant is a heavily mutated virus and designated as a variant of concern by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO cautioned that the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 held a very ...
Chen-Shan Chin, Jon M. Sorenson, Jason B. Harris, William P. Robins et al.
BACKGROUND: Although cholera has been present in Latin America since 1991, it had not been epidemic in Haiti for at least 100 years. Recently, however, there has been a severe outbreak of cholera in Haiti. METHODS: We used third-generation single-molecule real-time DNA sequencing to determine the ge...
Alan Kim Johnson, Paul M. Gross
Circumventricular organs (CVOs), small structures bordering the ventricular spaces in the midline of the brain, have common morphological and endocrine-like characteristics that distinguish them from the rest of the nervous system. Among their unique features are cellular contacts with two fluid pha...
Anne Polikeit, Lutz P. Nolte, Stephen J. Ferguson
STUDY DESIGN: The effect of cement augmentation on an osteoporotic lumbar functional spinal unit was investigated using finite-element analysis. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of cement augmentation on load transfer, stresses, and strains. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Osteoporosis is the most f...
Guozhi Liu, Chao Chang, Zhi Qiao, Kaijie Wu et al.
Abstract The myelin sheath enables dramatic speed enhancement for signal propagation in nerves. In this work, myelinated nerve structure is experimentally and theoretically studied using synchrotron‐radiation‐based Fourier‐transform infrared microspectroscopy. It is found that, with a certain mid‐in...
Brian H. Harcourt, Luis Lowe, Azaibi Tamin, Xin Liu et al.
Until 2004, identification of Nipah virus (NV)-like outbreaks in Bangladesh was based on serology. We describe the genetic characterization of a new strain of NV isolated during outbreaks in Bangladesh (NV-B) in 2004, which confirms that NV was the etiologic agent responsible for these outbreaks.
M Abdullah-Al-Amin, SMK Nahar Begum, MAK Pramanik
This report presents two cases of Lichen Sclerosus et atrophicus. Patients were prepubertal females having itchy white plaques in the vulvar region with on and off burning micturition. No extragenital involvement was seen. Diagnosis was confirmed by histopathology. They were treated with local appli...
Wade Johannessen, Dawn M. Elliott
STUDY DESIGN: The biphasic compressive material properties of normal and degenerate human nucleus pulposus tissue were measured in confined compression. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to determine the effects of degeneration and age on the mechanical properties of human nucleus pulposus...
Jean‐Marc Mac‐Thiong, Ensor E. Transfeldt, Amir A. Mehbod, Joseph H. Perra et al.
STUDY DESIGN: This study prospectively evaluated the health related quality of life (HRQOL) of 73 adults presenting with scoliosis at a single institution, as related to their spinal (C7 plumbline) and global (gravity line) balance. OBJECTIVE: To assess the influence of sagittal and coronal balance ...
J.M. Arellano, Völker Storch, Carmen Sarasquete
Senegales sole, Solea senegalensis, adult specimens were subjected to sublethal copper exposure (100 microg SO(4)Cu/L) for 7 days (contamination period) and afterward kept for 4 days without copper exposure (depuration period). In contaminated and detoxified specimens, the hepatocytes indicated a gr...
Jelle Matthijnssens, Mustafizur Rahman, Vito Martella, Yang Xuelei et al.
The Belgian rotavirus strain B4106, isolated from a child with gastroenteritis, was previously found to have VP7 (G3), VP4 (P[14]), and NSP4 (A genotype) genes closely related to those of lapine rotaviruses, suggesting a possible lapine origin or natural reassortment of strain B4106. To investigate ...
Robert F. Massung, Li‐Ing Liu, Jin Qi, Janice C. Knight et al.
We analyzed the 186,102 base pairs (bp) that constitute the entire DNA genome of a highly virulent variola virus isolated from Bangladesh in 1975. The linear, double-stranded molecule has relatively small (725 bp) inverted terminal repeat (ITR) sequences containing three 69-bp direct repeat elements...
Jelle Matthijnssens, Christiaan A. Potgieter, Max Ciarlet, Viviana Parreño et al.
A limited number of human G6P[14] rotavirus strains that cause gastroenteritis in humans have been isolated in Europe and Australia. The complete genome sequences were determined for five of these human strains--B10925-97 (isolated in Belgium in 1997), 111/05-27 (Italy, 2005), PA169 (Italy, 1987), M...
Christiaan H. Vinkers, Renske Penning, Juliane Hellhammer, Joris C. Verster et al.
Even though there are indications that stress influences body temperature in humans, no study has systematically investigated the effects of stress on core and peripheral body temperature. The present study therefore aimed to investigate the effects of acute psychosocial stress on body temperature u...