Effectiveness of primary series, first, and second booster vaccination of monovalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections and severe diseases during the SARS-CoV-2 omicron BA.5 epidemic in Japan: vaccine effectiveness real-time surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 (VERSUS).

Background: This study aimed to evaluate VE of primary, first, and second booster ancestral-strain monovalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccination against symptomatic infections and severe diseases in Japan.

Methods: We conducted a test-negative case-control study. We included medically attended episodes and hospitalizations involving individuals aged 16 with signs and symptoms from July to November 2022, when Omicron BA.

Conserved infections and reproductive phenotypes of Wolbachia symbionts in Asian tortrix moths.

Wolbachia is a ubiquitous endosymbiotic bacterium that manipulates insect reproduction. A notable feature of Wolbachia is male killing (MK), whereby sons of infected females are killed during development; however, the evolutionary processes by which Wolbachia acquired the MK ability remain unclear. The tea tortrix moth Homona magnanima (Tortricidae) harbours three non-MK Wolbachia strains (wHm-a, wHm-b and wHm-c) and an MK strain wHm-t.

Development of an Online Communication Skills Training Program for Oncologists Working with Adolescents and Young Adults.

There are two purposes to this study. The first purpose was to develop a communication skills training (CST) program for oncologists working with adolescents and young adults (AYA-CST). The second purpose was to evaluate the program's feasibility.

[Klinefelter's syndrome diagnosed at the onset of acute myeloid leukemia with inv (16) following treatment for germ cell tumor].

A 22-year-old man with a history of mediastinal germ cell tumor, which was diagnosed at age 20 and remained disease-free after chemotherapy, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) M2 in January 2020. Karyotype analysis of bone marrow (BM) specimen at diagnosis detected 47,XXY, inv (16) in all cells. Following induction treatment, he achieved complete remission with a remarkable decrease in the minimal residual disease marker.