AMOEBAE AS POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL HOSTS FOR MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIA, BUT DOUBTFUL ACTORS IN BURULI ULCER EPIDEMIOLOGY.

Amoebae as potential environmental hosts for Mycobacterium ulcerans and other mycobacteria, but doubtful actors in Buruli ulcer epidemiology.

BackgroundThe reservoir and mode of transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer, remain unknown.Ecological, genetic and epidemiological information nonetheless suggests that M.ulcerans may reside in aquatic protozoa.Methodology/principal findingsWe experimentally infected Acanthamoeba polyphaga with M.ulcerans and fo

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(Ir)reconcilability of life imprisonment and human rights

Since May 2019, Serbia has joined the majority of European countries which have the sentence of life imprisonment in their criminal justice systems.Despite the refusal of the competent authorities to hold a public hearing on the issue, the introduction of life imprisonment, excluding the possibility of conditional release of convicted persons for c

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SIMILARITIES OF ELDERLY AND THERAPY-RELATED AML

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a clonal disorder of the hematopoietic stem cell, typical of the elderly, with a median age of over 60 years at diagnosis.In AML, older age is one of the strongest independent adverse prognostic factor, associated with decreased complete response rate, worse disease-free and overall survival, with highest rates of tr

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Exclusion statistics and lattice random walks

We establish a connection between exclusion statistics with arbitrary integer exclusion parameter g and a class of random walks on planar lattices, relating the generating LED Power Supplies function for the algebraic area of closed walks on the lattice to the grand partition function of particles obeying exclusion statistics g.Square lattice rando

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