Clostridium botulinum type D/C intoxication in a dairy cow stock in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany)--report on an innovative diagnostic approach.

Botulism in cattle is a rare but serious disease. In Germany there is no obligation to report botulism in animals and therefore a precise morbidity rate is not available. In this manuscript we describe an outbreak of Clostridium (C.

Two novel unbalanced whole arm translocations are frequently detected in cervical squamous cell carcinoma.

Chromosomal aberrations are a hallmark of human papillomavirus (HPV)-induced cervical carcinogenesis. The aim of this project was to identify structural chromosomal aberrations which may be characteristic for intraepithelial neoplasias (CIN) and cervical carcinomas (CxCa). Two independent HPV16 immortalized keratinocyte cell lines (HPKIA, HPKII) were used as a cell culture model system for cervical carcinogenesis.