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Angiostrongylus cantonensis Meningitis and Myelitis, Texas, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017 Infection with Angiostrongylus cantonensis roundworms is endemic in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin. A. cantonensis meningitis and myelitis occurred in summer 2013 in a child with no history of travel outside of Texas, USA.
Roukaya Al Hammoud +5 more
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Antimicrobial Peptides and Peptidomimetics in Foods – A Synthetic Foray
ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.This Review discusses AMPs in foods and their syntheses. It espouses facile methods to make them accessible and suggests their utility in the mitigation and eradication of the burgeoning maladies of antimicrobial and multidrug resistance (AMR and MDR).
Josephat U. Izunobi +2 more
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Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The simple nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has long served as a powerful genetic model system for studying muscle structure and function, with sarcomeres of the striated body wall muscle (BWM) that are considered largely homologous to those in vertebrates.
Michael J. Kimmich +3 more
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Phylogenomic and biogeographic reconstruction of the Trichinella complex
Nature Communications, 2016 Trichinellosis is a globally important food-borne disease caused by roundworms of the Trichinella complex. Here the authors present genomic sequences representing all 12 recognized Trichinellaspecies and genotypes, and reconstruct their phylogeny and ...
Pasi K. Korhonen +12 more
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Walsh & Hoyt: Roundworms (Nematodes)
, 2005 Roundworms, also called nematodes (from the Greek words nema, meaning ""thread,"" and eidos, meaning ""form""), are nonsegmented, bilaterally symmetric, and cylindric or filiform, with a body cavity and rounded or pointed ends.
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Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.Abstract Background Integrin is an αβ heterodimeric receptor to the extracellular matrix; its binding to the matrix recruits focal adhesions to two NPxY motifs, the tyrosine phosphorylation sites in the cytoplasmic domain. Studies found that replacing tyrosines (Y) with phenylalanines (F) in the motif of β1 integrin displayed little developmental or ...
Josh Haram Bumm +7 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 Baylisascaris procyonis roundworms can cause potentially fatal neural larva migrans in many species, including humans. However, the clinical spectrum of baylisascariasis is not completely understood.
Sarah G.H. Sapp +10 more
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Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.Abstract The sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, has been used as a model organism in developmental biology studies for many years. This estuarine species has the notable capacity to regenerate its full body plan from small pieces throughout life. Nematostella have been described as having a great degree of cellular plasticity.
Patrick A. Lewis +3 more
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Ecography, EarlyView.Insects are the most diverse terrestrial organisms, yet they are underrepresented in large‐scale conservation assessments. To address this gap, the California Insect Barcoding Initiative is developing a publicly accessible, statewide DNA‐barcode reference library for California insects to support scalable surveys, establish baseline biodiversity ...
Austin J. Baker +96 more
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Intestinal obstruction in children due to Ascariasis: A tertiary health centre experience
African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2008 Background: Ascariasis is the infestation by the largest intestinal nematode of man, a common problem in the tropics attributed to poor hygienic and low socioeconomic conditions.
Mishra P +5 more
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