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Parasites that Harm, Parasites that Help

, 2008
This program contrasts pernicious and benign parasites through four case studies: a flesh-eating organism that nearly causes the facial disfigurement of a young woman; a mysterious malaria attack contracted by an American man who has never traveled to an

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Sex ratios in the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi [PDF]

, 2003
The sex ratios of malaria and related Apicomplexan parasites play a major role in transmission success. Here, we address 2 fundamental issues in the sex ratios of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi.
West, SA, West, S A, Read, A F, REECE, S. E., West, S. A., Read, A. F., Duncan, A B, West, Stuart A, Reece, S E, Duncan, A., Reece, SE, Duncan, AB, Read, AF, Duncan, Alison B, Read, Andrew F   +14 more
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Operando Tracking of Oxygen‐Vacancy Dynamics and Negative Capacitance in Ca‐Doped BiFeO3

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Operando electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, combined with electrocoloration, enables a direct correlation between real‐space ionic redistribution and the corresponding frequency‐domain electrical response. In lateral Ca‐doped BiFeO3 devices, time‐resolved impedance snapshots capture the evolution from bulk‐dominated mixed conduction to an ...
Jeonghun Suh, Heung‐Sik Park, Jong‐Sook Lee, Chan‐Ho Yang   +3 more
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Simultaneous Enhancement of Performance and Stability in Dual‐Gate a‐IGZO Thin‐Film Transistors via Single‐Step Laser Annealing for Capacitor‐Less DRAM

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A single‐step laser annealing strategy is presented for dual‐gate a‐IGZO TFTs. The steep thermal gradient induces graded oxygen doping in the channel and simultaneous WOx removal at the contacts, enabling concurrent interface and contact engineering.
Sihyeon Kwon, Junil Kim, Geuntae Park, Minseok Kim, Woohyun Hwang, Wanki Kim, Daewon Ha, Byeongmoon Lee, Jae Eun Jang, Hyuk‐Jun Kwon   +9 more
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BaGPipe: an automated, reproducible, and flexible pipeline for bacterial genome-wide association studies

BMC Microbiology
Background Microbial genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are crucial for linking genetic variation to phenotypic traits in bacteria. However, current tools often involve complex manual processing, limited scalability, and fragmented workflows, which ...
Kuangyi Charles Wei, Beth Blane, Jacqueline Toussaint, Sandra Reuter, Michelle S. Toleman, Mili Estee Torok, Sharon J. Peacock, Ewan M. Harrison, Dinesh Aggarwal, William Roberts-Sengier   +9 more
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Immunological memory to blood-stage malaria infection is controlled by the histamine releasing factor (HRF) of the parasite

Scientific Reports, 2017
While most subunit malaria vaccines provide only limited efficacy, pre-erythrocytic and erythrocytic genetically attenuated parasites (GAP) have been shown to confer complete sterilizing immunity.
Claudia Demarta-Gatsi, Roger Peronet, Leanna Smith, Sabine Thiberge, Robert Ménard, Salaheddine Mécheri   +5 more
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Tough and Skin‐Free Porous Polyelectrolyte Complex Hydrogels via Salt‐Induced Aqueous Phase Separation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Controlling counterion exchange rate during aqueous phase separation enables the formation of skin‐free, homogeneously porous polyelectrolyte complex hydrogels by suppressing kinetically trapped skin layers and macrovoids. The resulting hydrogel networks exhibit exceptional toughness (∼15 MJ·m−3) and enable 3D (bio)printing and post‐functionalization ...
Adrivit Mukherjee, Vishakha Vishakha, Julien Es Sayed, Hugo Brummer, Peter Dijkstra, Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli, Ranjita K. Bose, Marleen Kamperman   +7 more
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Seroprevalence and molecular detection of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in beef cattle and goats in Hunan province, China

Parasites & Vectors
Background Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum are closely related protozoan parasites that are considered important causes of abortion in livestock, causing huge economic losses. Hunan Province ranks 12th in the production of beef and mutton in China.
Xi-Long Yi, Wen-He Yang, He-Liang Zheng, Mei-Ling Cao, Jun Xiong, Wen-Cheng Chen, Yu-Jing Zhou, Fen Li, Xing-Quan Zhu, Guo-Hua Liu   +9 more
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Genome analysis of Clostridium perfringens isolates from healthy and necrotic enteritis infected chickens and turkeys

BMC Research Notes, 2017
Objective Clostridium perfringens causes gastrointestinal diseases in both humans and domestic animals. Type A strains expressing the NetB toxin are the main cause of necrotic enteritis (NE) in chickens, which has remarkable impact on animal welfare and ...
Troels Ronco, Marc Stegger, Kim Lee Ng, Berit Lilje, Ulrike Lyhs, Paal Skytt Andersen, Karl Pedersen   +6 more
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Invasive plants as catalysts for the spread of human parasites [PDF]

, 2011
To a degree not widely recognized, some naturalized and invasive plants increase the risks to human health by enhancing the proliferation of vectors of virulent human parasites. These potential risks are restricted by neither ecosystem nor geography. The
Mack, Richard N., Mack, Richard, Smith,Melissa, Melissa Smith, Richard Mack, Mack,Richard, Smith, Melissa C., Smith, Melissa   +7 more
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