Publications by authors named "K Ben Mansour"

Household food insecurity affects 13.5% of US households and is associated with short and long-term negative health outcomes. Food addiction, which posits that highly processed (HP) foods may trigger addictive responses akin to substance use disorders (SUD), occurs in approximately 15% of adults.

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Podcasts as a mobile learning platform to augment surgical expertise and dialogue have been embraced by many surgical educators and learners. Podcasts are digital audio files that can be streamed or downloaded from the internet to individual devices. Surgical podcast literature was appraised with a search using the keywords 'surgery' AND 'podcast' in the PubMed database which found 639 results with titles and abstracts screened to identify and review 28 relevant articles.

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Nine viruses of the bean common mosaic virus subgroup of potyviruses are major international crop pathogens, but their phylogenetically closest relatives from non-crop plants have mostly been found only in SE Asia and Oceania, which is thus likely to be their "centre of emergence". We have compared over 700 of the complete genomic ORFs of the crop pandemic and the non-crop viruses in various ways. Only one-third of crop virus genomes are non-recombinant, but more than half the non-crop virus genomes are.

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Article Synopsis
  • The Erysimum latent virus (ELV) is a plant virus first discovered in wild and cultivated brassicas in Germany, distinct from the turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV).
  • ELV and TYMV were among the first plant viruses to have their genomes sequenced, with ELV identified as the likely ancestor of other tymoviruses.
  • The study includes the near-complete genomic sequence of an isolate from Czechia, showing it is closely related to the German isolates of ELV and belonging to the same virus species.
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