[Psychiatry: what's new in 2022].

The period of study and/or vocational training coincides with the phase of life where a large proportion of psychiatric disorders emerge. It is therefore common to be asked by a young person in training to make adjustments to his or her training for psychological reasons. Some disorders that were thought to occur in childhood also exist in adults: this is the case of attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity, which must be detected and treated appropriately.

Capsules, toxins and AtxA as virulence factors of emerging Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis.

Emerging B. cereus strains that cause anthrax-like disease have been isolated in Cameroon (CA strain) and Côte d'Ivoire (CI strain). These strains are unusual, because their genomic characterisation shows that they belong to the B.

The genome of a Bacillus isolate causing anthrax in chimpanzees combines chromosomal properties of B. cereus with B. anthracis virulence plasmids.

Anthrax is a fatal disease caused by strains of Bacillus anthracis. Members of this monophyletic species are non motile and are all characterized by the presence of four prophages and a nonsense mutation in the plcR regulator gene. Here we report the complete genome sequence of a Bacillus strain isolated from a chimpanzee that had died with clinical symptoms of anthrax.

Evaluation of a real-time PCR assay to detect Coxiella burnetii.

We evaluated real-time PCR assays for the detection of C. burnetii which targets sequences that are present either in one (icd) or in several copies (transposase of IS1111a) on the chromosome. The assays are highly sensitive, with reproducible detection limits of approximately 10 copies per reaction, at least 100 times more sensitive than capture ELISA, when performed on infected placenta material and specific for C.

Highly sensitive real-time PCR for specific detection and quantification of Coxiella burnetii.

Background: Coxiella burnetii, the bacterium causing Q fever, is an obligate intracellular biosafety level 3 agent. Detection and quantification of these bacteria with conventional methods is time consuming and dangerous. During the last years, several PCR based diagnostic assays were developed to detect C.

A novel porcine gammaherpesvirus.

A novel porcine gammaherpesvirus was detected in the blood of domestic pigs by PCR. With degenerate-primer PCR and subsequent long-distance PCR approaches a 60-kbp genome stretch was amplified. Sequence analysis revealed the presence of the gammaherpesvirus ORFs 03 to 46 as well as a putative chemokine receptor and a v-bcl-2 gene.