Though it is no longer a significant public health threat in most parts of the world, leprosy is still one of theleast understood infectious diseases, in part because the bacteria that causes it (Mycobacterium leprae) is difficult to culture for research and has only one other animal host, th...
Editorial Commentary: Still Learning From the Earliest Known MERS Outbreak, Zarqa, Jordan, April 2012.coronavirusJordanMERSserologyZarqa HospitalAn introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak associated with hospital.Lucey...
1This is an SSAT-style passageFor thousands of years, smallpox was one of the world's most dreaded diseases. An acutely infectious disease spread by a virus, smallpox was the scourge of medieval Europe, where it was known by its symptoms of extreme fever and disfiguring rash as "the invi...
Limitations of our study include the relatively small sample numbers, and as they occur over the different neurodegenerative diseases with known sex-specific prevalence differences (e.g. AD versus LBD). Without systematic regional testing, we also cannot rule out that sex-specific differences in tau...
The discovery of the earliest known cases of human tuberculosis (TB) in bones found submerged off the coast of Israel shows that the disease is 3000 years older than previously thought. Direct examination of this ancient DNA confirms the latest theory that bovine TB evolved later than human TB...
A stable cell cycle halt, typically in reaction to internal and/or external stressors including damaged telomeres, abnormal cellular expansion, and DNA impairment, is known as cellular senescence. The chemotherapeutic drugs melphalan (MEL) and doxorubicin (DXR) are known to induce cellular senescence...
"Tuberculosis in Dr Granville's mummy: a molecular re-examination of the earliest known Egyptian mummy to be scientifically examined and given a medical diagnosis," Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277: 51-56.Donoghue HD, Lee OY, Minnikin DE, et al. Tuberculosis in Dr...