Oropouche fever caused by Oropouche virus (OROV) is a significant zoonosis in Central and South America. Despite its public health significance, we lack high-throughput diagnostics, therapeutics, and a comprehensive knowledge of OROV biology. Reporter viruses are valuable tools to rapidly study virus dynamics and develop neutralization and antiviral screening assays.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA series titled includes abstracted self-portraits of different media. The portraits consider an artist's experiences of diagnosis, routine magnetic resonance imaging, and ongoing demands to reorient herself to her future with an invisible illness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To characterize assessments of a patient's ability to report elder abuse within the context of an emergency department (ED)-based screen for elder abuse.
Design: Cross-sectional study in which participants were screened for elder abuse and neglect.
Setting: Academic ED in the United States.
Francisella tularensis LVS (Live Vaccine Strain) is an attenuated bacterium that has been used as a live vaccine. Patients immunized with this organism show a very long-term memory response (over 30 years post vaccination) evidenced by the presence of indicators of robust cell-mediated immunity. Because F.
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