Infectious Diseases
Variability of Bio-Clinical Parameters in Chinese-Origin Rhesus Macaques Infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus: A Nonhuman Primate AIDS Model
Authors: Song Chen, Chunhui Lai, Xiaoxiang Wu, Yaozheng Lu, Daishu Han, Weizhong Guo, Linchun Fu, Jean-Marie Andrieu, Wei Lu DOI:...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Uses the Mannose-6-Phosphate Receptor to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier
Authors: Shinya Dohgu, Jan S. Ryerse, Sandra M. Robinson, William A. Banks DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039565 Abstract SummaryHIV-1 uses the mannose-6 phosphate...
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Could Public Restrooms Be an Environment for Bacterial Resistomes?
Authors: Hermine V. Mkrtchyan, Charlotte A. Russell, Nan Wang, Ronald R. Cutler DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054223 Abstract SummaryPublic restrooms harbor diverse antibiotic-resistant...
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Detection of Mycolactone A/B in Mycobacterium ulcerans –Infected Human Tissue
Authors: Fred Stephen Sarfo, Richard O. Phillips, Brian Rangers, Engy A. Mahrous, Richard E. Lee, Edward Tarelli, Kingsley B. Asiedu,...
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Dynamic Alteration of the Colonic Microbiota in Intestinal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Authors: Fan Wang, Qiurong Li, Chenyang Wang, Chun Tang, Jieshou Li DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042027 Abstract SummaryNew research reveals that intestinal ischemia-reperfusion...
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MicroRNA Antagonism of the Picornaviral Life Cycle: Alternative Mechanisms of Interference
Authors: Elizabeth J. Kelly, Elizabeth M. Hadac, Bryan R. Cullen, Stephen J. Russell DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000820 Abstract SummaryResearchers engineered Coxsackievirus A21...
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Prevalence of Hepatitis E Virus in Swine Fed on Kitchen Residue
Authors: Peng Xiao, Ruiwen Li, Ruiping She, Jun Yin, Wengui Li, Jingjing Mao, Quan Sun DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033480 Abstract SummaryPigs fed...
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Non-Invasive In Vivo Study of the Trypanosoma vivax Infectious Process Consolidates the Brain Commitment in Late Infections
Authors: Simon D'Archivio, Alain Cosson, Mathieu Medina, Thierry Lang, Paola Minoprio, Sophie Goyard DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001976 Abstract SummaryResearchers developed a genetically...
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TB Screening in Canadian Health Care Workers Using Interferon-Gamma Release Assays
Authors: Alice Zwerling, Mihaela Cojocariu, Fiona McIntosh, Filomena Pietrangelo, Marcel A. Behr, Kevin Schwartzman, Andrea Benedetti, Nandini Dendukuri, Dick Menzies,...
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Fcγ Receptor I Alpha Chain (CD64) Expression in Macrophages Is Critical for the Onset of Meningitis by Escherichia coli K1
Authors: Rahul Mittal, Sunil K. Sukumaran, Suresh K. Selvaraj, David G. Wooster, M. Madan Babu, Alan D. Schreiber, J. Sjef...
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