Probabilistic seasonal dengue forecasting in Vietnam: A modelling study using superensembles.

Background: With enough advanced notice, dengue outbreaks can be mitigated. As a climate-sensitive disease, environmental conditions and past patterns of dengue can be used to make predictions about future outbreak risk. These predictions improve public health planning and decision-making to ultimately reduce the burden of disease.

Investigation of the exclusive 3He(e,e' pn)1H reaction.

Cross sections for the 3He(e,e' pn)1H reaction were measured for the first time at energy transfers of 220 and 270 MeV for several momentum transfers ranging from 300 to 450 MeV/c. Cross sections are presented as a function of the momentum of the recoil proton and the momentum transfer. Continuum Faddeev calculations using the Argonne V18 and Bonn-B nucleon-nucleon potentials overestimate the measured cross sections by a factor 5 at low recoil proton momentum with the discrepancy becoming smaller at higher recoil proton momentum.

Serum anti-brain endothelium antibodies and cognitive assessment in patients with Binswanger's encephalopathy.

The pathogenic mechanism underlying the vascular changes in Binswanger's encephalopathy (BE) is unknown. To test whether alterations of the humoral immunity may lead to endothelium damage, we analyzed serum levels of anti-brain endothelium antibodies (ABEA) (IgG and IgM) in 16 BE patients, 19 subjects with ischemic vascular disease without mental deterioration and 18 normal healthy subjects. ABEA IgM were found elevated in 1/16 (6%) BE patients and in 4/19 (21%) patients with cerebrovascular diseases; an increase in ABEA IgG was found in 6/16 (38%) BE patients and in 7/19 (37%) cerebrovascular patients.

Atypical McLeod syndrome manifested as X-linked chorea-acanthocytosis, neuromyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy: report of a family.

We report a family with three members affected by a typically X-linked McLeod syndrome. In the proband a very weak positivity for antigens of the Kell group was detected. His sister showed a normal antigenic pattern.