"You Sleep, You Die": A Rare Clinical Case of Ondine's Curse after Posterior Fossa Surgery. [PDF]
Case Rep Surg, 2023 Ondine’s curse is a rare condition in which breathing is preserved while awake, but there is absence of autonomic control of ventilation. It is a potentially fatal complication that may result rarely from surgery in posterior fossa in area close to respiratory centers.
Karn M +4 more
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Numerical response of predators to large variations of grassland vole abundance and long-term community changes. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 A 20‐year survey describes the effects of large variations in grassland vole populations on the densities and the daily theoretical food intakes of a vole predator community based on roadside counts. Our results show how the predator community responds to prey variations of large amplitude and how it reorganized with the increase of the red fox, which ...
Giraudoux P +4 more
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Mapping small mammal optimal habitats using satellite-derived proxy variables and species distribution models. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Small mammal species play an important role influencing vegetation primary productivity and plant species composition, seed dispersal, soil structure, and as predator and/or prey species.
Christopher Marston +6 more
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Jean Giraudoux et Combat avec l’image : l’autoportrait en scène
Revue Italienne D'Etudes Francaises, 2021 Combat avec l’image, the only truly autobiographical text by Jean Giraudoux, written in 1940 – published by Éditions Émile-Paul in 1941 – on the basis of an ink drawing by Japanese painter Foujita representing a sleeping woman, provides the description ...
Alvio Patierno
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Practices in research, surveillance and control of neglected tropical diseases by One Health approaches: A survey targeting scientists from French-speaking countries. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021 One health (OH) approaches have increasingly been used in the last decade in the fight against zoonotic neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). However, descriptions of such collaborations between the human, animal and environmental health sectors are still ...
Sophie Molia +9 more
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Volcanic activity controls cholera outbreaks in the East African Rift. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020 We hypothesized that Cholera (Vibrio cholerae) that appeared along Lake Kivu in the African Rift in the seventies, might be controlled by volcano-tectonic activity, which, by increasing surface water and groundwater salinity and temperature, may partly ...
Doudou Batumbo Boloweti +9 more
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Can Body Condition and Somatic Indices be Used to Evaluate Metal-Induced Stress in Wild Small Mammals? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Wildlife is exposed to natural (e.g., food availability and quality, parasitism) and anthropogenic stressors (e.g., habitat fragmentation, toxicants). Individual variables (e.g., age, gender) affect behaviour and physiology of animals.
Nicolas Tête +6 more
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Dynamics of Cholera Outbreaks in Great Lakes Region of Africa, 1978–2008 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Cholera outbreaks have occurred in Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya almost every year since 1977–1978, when the disease emerged in these countries.
Didier Bompangue Nkoko +9 more
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Adorable Clio: The Prose Poetry of Jean Giraudoux: Writing Against Realism [PDF]
Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 2017 This paper considers the particularities of Jean Giraudoux’s war writings Adorable Clio in the context of French Literature of the Great War. We focus on Giraudoux’s career previous to the conflict and on his prose poetic style in the recollection to ...
Fouchard, Flavie
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Genetic diversity of the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis in red foxes at a continental scale in Europe. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009 Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a severe helminth disease affecting humans, which is caused by the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. AE represents a serious public health issue in larger regions of China, Siberia, and other regions in Asia.
Jenny Knapp +15 more
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