subsp. subsp. nov., a nascent bacterial endosymbiont isolated from the parasitoid wasp, .

An endosymbiotic bacterium of the genus , designated as strain HZ, was cultured from the parasitoid wasp , which develops on the pupae of various host flies. The bacterium was detected in developed on houseflies, , in a poultry facility in Hazon, northern Israel. After culturing, this bacterium displayed no surface motility on Luria-Bertani agar and was rod-shaped and irregular in size, ~10-30 nm in diameter and 5-20 µm in length.

Detection of Polioviruses Type 2 among Migrant Children Arriving to the Russian Federation from a Country with a Registered Poliomyelitis Outbreak.

The widespread use of the oral poliovaccine from Sabin strains (tOPV) radically reduced poliomyelitis incidence worldwide. However, OPV became a source of neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs). Currently, circulating type 2 VDPVs (cVDPV2) are the leading cause of poliomyelitis.

Qualitative real-time RT-PCR assay for nOPV2 poliovirus detection.

Based on the success of the Sabin2-based vaccine, a next-generation nOPV2 poliovirus vaccine has been developed. For epidemic monitoring and conducting epidemiological investigations, it is necessary to have a diagnostic assay with the ability to differentiate this variant from others. Here we describe such a real-time RT-PCR assay.

Dataset on the crystal structure and electronic properties of kaolinite edge surfaces.

The data presented in this paper characterize stable kaolinite edge surfaces. Their equilibrium structure is obtained by DFT methods using the first-principles package CASTEP. The calculations are performed using a basis set of plane waves in the PBE exchange-correlation potential.