Triple Intergenotype Recombination of Human Astrovirus 5, Human Astrovirus 8, and Human Astrovirus 1 in the Open Reading Frame 1a, Open Reading Frame 1b, and Open Reading Frame 2 R... by Hongyu Wei, Kattareeya Kumthip, Pattara Khamrin, Arpaporn Yodmeeklin, Nutthawadee Jampanil, Phitchakorn Phengma, Zhenfeng Xie, Nuthapong Ukarapol, Hiroshi Ushijima, Niwat Maneekarn

“…The emergence of a novel recombinant strain allows the new virus to adapt and successfully escape from the host immune system, eventually emerging as the predominant genotype to infect human populations that lack herd immunity against novel recombinant strains. …”
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Infecciones parasitarias del coyote, Canis latrans (Carnivora: Canidae) en un Parque Nacional y una zona agrícola en Costa Rica Parasitic infections of coyote, Canis latrans (Carni... by Carmen Niehaus, Idalia Valerio, Kinndle Blanco

“…<br>Parasitic infections of coyote, Canis latrans (Carnivora: Canidae) in a Costa Rican National Park and a surrounding agricultural area. As human populations expand into wild habitats with their pets and livestock, the potential spread of disease to wildlife or vice versa increases. …”
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Sequence Variation of Rare Outer Membrane Protein β-Barrel Domains in Clinical Strains Provides Insights into the Evolution of <italic toggle="yes">Treponema pallidum</italic> subs... by Sanjiv Kumar, Melissa J. Caimano, Arvind Anand, Abhishek Dey, Kelly L. Hawley, Morgan E. LeDoyt, Carson J. La Vake, Adriana R. Cruz, Lady G. Ramirez, Lenka Paštěková, Irina Bezsonova, David Šmajs, Juan C. Salazar, Justin D. Radolf

“…Our findings suggest that selection pressures exerted within human populations drive T. pallidum subsp. pallidum OMP diversity and that recombination at OMP loci contributes to the evolutionary biology of syphilis spirochetes. …”
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Dificultades en los métodos de estudio de exposiciones ambientales y defectos del tubo neural Methodological challenges to assess environmental exposures related to neural tube def... by Víctor Hugo Borja-Aburto, Óscar Bermúdez-Castro, Marina Lacasaña-Navarro, Pablo Kuri, Patricia Bustamante-Montes, Víctor Torres-Meza

“…However, studies conducted in human populations have found difficulties in the design and conduction to show such an association for neural tube defects (anencephaly, espina bifida and encefalocele) because of problems raised from: a) the frequency measures used to compare time trends and communities, b) the classification of heterogeneous malformations, c) the inclusion of maternal, paternal and fetal factors as an integrated process and, d) the assessment of environmental exposures. …”
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Adenovirus Infections in African Humans and Wild Non-Human Primates: Great Diversity and Cross-Species Transmission by Hacène Medkour, Inestin Amona, Jean Akiana, Bernard Davoust, Idir Bitam, Anthony Levasseur, Mamadou Lamine Tall, Georges Diatta, Cheikh Sokhna, Raquel Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Amanda Barciela, Slim Gorsane, Bernard La Scola, Didier Raoult, Florence Fenollar, Oleg Mediannikov

“…This study provides information on the AdVs that infect African NHPs and the human populations living nearby, with an evident zoonotic transmission. …”
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Comparative Genomic Analyses of New and Old World Viscerotropic Leishmanine Parasites: Further Insights into the Origins of Visceral Leishmaniasis Agents by Fernando Tobias Silveira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Junior, Rodrigo Vellasco Duarte Silvestre, Thiago Vasconcelos dos Santos, Wilfredo Sosa-Ochoa, Concepción Zúniga Valeriano, Patrícia Karla Santos Ramos, Samir Mansour Moraes Casseb, Luciana Vieira do Rêgo Lima, Marliane Batista Campos, Vania Lucia da Matta, Claudia Maria Gomes, Gabriela V. Araujo Flores, Carmen M. Sandoval Pacheco, Carlos Eduardo Corbett, Márcia Dalastra Laurenti

“…Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, is an anthropozoonotic disease affecting human populations on five continents. Aetiologic agents belong to the <i>Leishmania (L.) donovani</i> complex. …”
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Fully Characterized Effective Bacteriophages Specific against Antibiotic-Resistant <i>Enterococcus faecalis</i>, the Causative Agent of Dental Abscess by Asmaa Ramadan, Mohamed O. Abdel-Monem, Noha K. El-Dougdoug, Alsayed E. Mekky, Shymaa A. Elaskary, Abdulaziz A. Al-Askar, Shimaa A Metwally, Ahmed F. El-Sayed, Gehad AbdElgayed, Ebrahim Saied, Mohamed Khedr

“…Further research and clinical trials will be essential to fully understand the therapeutic potential and safety profile of these bacteriophages in human populations.…”
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Fine particulate matter in the tropical environment: monsoonal effects, source apportionment, and health risk assessment by M. F. Khan, M. F. Khan, M. T. Latif, M. T. Latif, W. H. Saw, N. Amil, N. Amil, M. S. M. Nadzir, M. S. M. Nadzir, M. Sahani, N. M. Tahir, N. M. Tahir, J. X. Chung

“…We quantitatively characterized the health risks posed to human populations through the inhalation of selected heavy metals in PM_2.5. 48 % of the samples collected exceeded the World Health Organization (WHO) 24 h PM_2.5 guideline but only 19 % of the samples exceeded 24 h US EPA National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). …”
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Safety and Immunogenicity of a rAd35-EnvA Prototype HIV-1 Vaccine in Combination with rAd5-EnvA in Healthy Adults (VRC 012). by Michelle C Crank, Eleanor M P Wilson, Laura Novik, Mary E Enama, Cynthia S Hendel, Wenjuan Gu, Martha C Nason, Robert T Bailer, Gary J Nabel, Adrian B McDermott, John R Mascola, Richard A Koup, Julie E Ledgerwood, Barney S Graham, VRC012 Study Team

“…In addition, prior studies of rAd5-vectored vaccines suggested pre-existing human immunity may be a confounding factor in vaccine efficacy. rAd35 is less seroprevalent across human populations and was chosen for testing alone and in combination with a rAd5-EnvA vaccine in the present two-part phase I study. …”
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Comprehensive Molecular Serology of Human <italic toggle="yes">Chlamydia trachomatis</italic> Infections by Peptide Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays by K. Shamsur Rahman, Toni Darville, Ali N. Russell, Catherine M. O'Connell, Harold C. Wiesenfeld, Sharon L. Hillier, De’Ashia E. Lee, Bernhard Kaltenboeck

“…The specificity of C. trachomatis serology is also compromised by the high prevalence of cross-reactive anti-C. pneumoniae antibodies in human populations. We previously identified 48 highly specific C. trachomatis B cell epitope peptide antigens of 21 immunodominant proteins. …”
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Enfermedad por meningococo, Neisseria meningitidis: perspectiva epidemiológica, clínica y preventiva Meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis: epidemiological, clinic... by Lourdes Almeida-González, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Luis Fernando Pérez, José Ignacio Santos-Preciado

“…In particular, Neisseria meningitidis continues to be a public health problem among human populations in both developed and developing countries. …”
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El rapto de Europa... una y otra vez by Eduardo GARCIA SÁNCHEZ

“…While the previous human occupation events don't seem to be successful, paleoanthropological and archaeological data recorded from circa 550 Ka BP points to demographic continuity, linking with the earliest manifestations of the technologies and human populations characteristic of the European Middle Paleolithic.…”
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Multiple founding paternal lineages inferred from the newly-developed 639-plex Y-SNP panel suggested the complex admixture and migration history of Chinese people by Guanglin He, Mengge Wang, Lei Miao, Jing Chen, Jie Zhao, Qiuxia Sun, Shuhan Duan, Zhiyong Wang, Xiaofei Xu, Yuntao Sun, Yan Liu, Jing Liu, Zheng Wang, Lanhai Wei, Chao Liu, Jian Ye, Le Wang

“…Abstract Background Non-recombining regions of the Y-chromosome recorded the evolutionary traces of male human populations and are inherited haplotype-dependently and male-specifically. …”
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Pregnancy exposure to organophosphate esters and the risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study by Giehae Choi, Alexander P. Keil, David B. Richardson, Julie L. Daniels, Kate Hoffman, Gro D. Villanger, Amrit K. Sakhi, Cathrine Thomsen, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Heidi Aase, Stephanie M. Engel

“…Increasing concentrations have been reported in human populations over the past decade. Recent studies have linked prenatal OPE exposure to hyperactivity and attention problems in children. …”
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Investigation of Zn Use Efficiency and Zn Fertilization Efficiency in Some Genotypes of Wheat by P. Keshavarz, M. Forouhar, M. Dadivar

“…Introduction: World cereal demand is growing at the present in accordance with the global expansion of human populations.Bread wheat is the most widely grown cereal grain with 65% (6.5 million hectares) of the total crop cultivated area in Iran. …”
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Bioterrorismo: apuntes para una agenda de lo inesperado Preparedness against bioterrorist attacks in Mexico by Samuel Ponce de León-Rosales, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, Manuel Sigfrido Rangel-Frausto, Luis Antonio Sosa-Lozano, Martha Asunción Huerta-Jiménez

“…El texto completo en inglés de este artículo está disponible en: <A HREF="http://www.insp.mx/salud/index.html">http://www.insp.mx/salud/index.html </A><br>The vulnerability of human populations to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear terrorism has been widely discussed but insufficiently studied. …”
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GEOPROCESSAMENTO APLICADO NO DIAGNÓSTICO DOS CONFLITOS DE USO E OCUPAÇÃO DO SOLO EM ÁREAS DE PRESERVAÇÃO PERMANENTE NO RIBEIRÃO DAS AGULHAS – BOTUCATU (SP) by Sérgio Campos et al.

“…GEOPROCESSING APPLIED IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF CONFUSED GODS AND SOIL OCCUPATION IN AREAS OF PERMANENT PRESERVATION IN THE STREAM OF THE AGULHAS - BOTUCATU (SP) ABSTRACT The permanent preservation areas (PPA) have environmental function of preserving natural resources, biodiversity, gene flow of fauna and flora, the soil and the safety of the well-being of human populations. While the degradation of riparian forests contributes to silting, water turbidity increase and the erosion of the banks of waterways, carrying pollutants, such as pesticides and agricultural fertilizers. …”
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Clinical Utility of Amplification Refractory Mutation System-Based PCR and Mutation-Specific PCR for Precise and Rapid Genotyping of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 1 (ACE1-rs4646996... by Aadil Yousif, Rashid Mir, Jamsheed Javid, Jameel Barnawi, Mohammed M. Jalal, Malik A. Altayar, Salem Owaid Albalawi, Faisel M. Abuduhier

“…The results show that ACE2 (angiotensin I-converting enzyme 2) might act as a protective protein for cardiovascular diseases; however, only a few studies in human populations have been carried out. The aim of this study was to develop, optimize, and validate a direct T-ARMS-based PCR assay for the precise and rapid genotyping of ACE1-rs4646996 D>I and ACE2-rs4240157T>C and study their association with coronary artery disease susceptibility and progression. …”
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Hidrobiologia geral, aplicada particularmente a veiculadores de esquistossomos: hipereutrofia, mal moderno das águas Theoretical and apllied hydrobiology to vectors of Schistosomia... by Lejeune P. H. de Oliveira, Luiza Krau

“…"Hypereutrophy" is the new name, for a new calamity of waters, condictioned by the impetuosity of the industrialization, and the sudden human populational explosion after the 2nd. world-war. Preventives against the hypereutrophy is proposed in taking indispensable measures by the integrated planning of the rivers and lake basins, providing forestal waters, lakes, and rivers reserves for nature protections. …”
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Analysis and Evaluation the Relationship between Gender Stereotypes and Empowerment of women in Poor Urban Areas(Case Study: Informal Settlements in Ilam) by Reza Jahanbin, Freydoun Babaei Agdam, Shahrivar rostaei, Akbar Asghari Zamani

“…­Introduction As a visible manifestation of urban poverty and spatial inequality, all human populations live in multidimensional poverty conditions in informal settlements. …”
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