The Different Clinical Courses of Legionnaires' Disease in Newborns from the Same Maternity Hospital.

In children, the incidence of Legionnaires' disease (LD) is unknown, hospital-acquired LD is associated with clinical risk factors and environmental risk, and children with cell-mediated immune deficiency are at high risk of infection. Both newborns were born in the same delivery room; stayed in the same hospital room where they were cared for, bathed, and breastfed; were male; were born on time, with normal birth weight, and with high Apgar score at birth; and survived this severe infection (, serogroup 2-15) but with different clinical courses. In neonate 1, bleeding in the brain, thrombosis of deep pelvic veins, and necrosis of the lungs, which left behind cystic and cavernous changes in the lungs, were found, while neonate 2 suffered from pneumonia alone.

The Arabinogalactan Protein Family of Rafn.

(centaury) is a medicinal plant with exceptional developmental plasticity in vitro and vigorous, often spontaneous, regeneration via shoot organogenesis and somatic embryogenesis, during which arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) play an important role. AGPs are highly glycosylated proteins belonging to the super family of O-glycosylated plant cell surface hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs). HRGPs/AGPs are intrinsically disordered and not well conserved, making their homology-based mining ineffective.

Secondary Somatic Embryogenesis in Rafn.

Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is a developmental process during which plant somatic cells, under suitable conditions, produce embryogenic cells that develop into somatic embryos (). SE is the most important method for plant propagation in vitro, having both fundamental and applicative significance. SE can be induced from different tissues and organs, but when are used as explants, the process is recognized as secondary or cyclic SE.

Isolation of high-quality RNA from recalcitrant leaves of variegated and resurrection plants.

Resurrection plant is a suitable model to investigate mechanisms of desiccation tolerance, while variegated has been proven to serve as an excellent model for the metabolite allocation between sink tissue and source tissue within the same organ. However, the genomes of these plants are still not sequenced, limiting their application in molecular studies. To investigate the transcript abundance by next-generation sequencing, high-quality RNA input is required.