Publications by authors named "L M Giroux"

Introduction: The Gram-positive actinobacterium is the major causal agent of potato common scab. The main pathogenicity factor is thaxtomin A, a phytotoxin that causes atypical cell death, although other secondary metabolites have been described to play a role in virulence. Despite this, many aspects of the interaction between and its primary host L.

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Background And Objectives: Aneurysmal surgery is technically complex, and surgeon experience is an important factor in therapeutic success, but training young vascular neurosurgeons has become a complex paradigm. Despite new technologies and simulation models, cadaveric studies still offer an incomparable training tool with perfect anatomic accuracy, especially in neurosurgery. The use of human placenta for learning and improving microsurgical skills has been previously described.

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Background: Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with a strong genetic predisposition and autoimmune component that is often treated with immunomodulators such as biologic therapy. Guselkumab is a biologic treatment option that selectively targets the p19 subunit of interleukin (IL)-23; risankizumab is a more recently developed monoclonal antibody of the same class that targets IL-23p19. There is limited research around effective treatment response with intra class switching within IL-23-targeted therapies for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis.

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Background: Secukinumab is an anti-IL-17A monoclonal antibody approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe psoriasis in adult patients. Despite its favourable safety and efficacy profile in clinical trials, some patients in clinical practice fail to respond adequately to the approved maintenance regimen of 300 mg subcutaneous monthly. Some clinicians manage these patients by using off-label high-dose secukinumab regimens, which include shortening the dosing interval to 300 mg every 2 or 3 weeks instead of monthly, or increasing the monthly dose to 450 mg.

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We present complete genome sequences of 13 phages isolated from urban raw sewage. They belong to the family , have genome sizes of 29,450.6 ± 256.

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