THE GROWING THREAT OF GONOCOCCAL BLINDNESS

The Growing Threat of Gonococcal Blindness

Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea is now a reality, as well as the consequences of untreatable infections.Gonococcal eye infections result in blindness if not properly treated; they accounted for the vast majority of infections in children in homes for the blind in the pre-antibiotic era.Neisseria Canes gonorrhoeae infects the eyes of infants born to

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Source-Sink Relationship in Wheat as Affected by Planting Date

To Canes evaluate effect of photosynthate availability under terminal heat stress on yield and yield components of wheat, this research was conducted in a split plot experiment based on randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications at the Research Farm of Islamic Azad University of Ahvaz in 2015 cropping season.Treatments were def

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Perceived Norms and Vaccination against COVID-19 among the General Adult Population in Germany: Results of a Nationally Representative Survey

Objective: to examine whether perceived norms are associated with vaccination against COVID-19 (also stratified by age group).Study design: nationally representative Collections survey.Methods: Data were taken from a sample of the general adult population (n = 3829, 16 to 94 years).Data collection took place from early July to early August 2021, an

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Tissue Distribution of Parrot Bornavirus 4 (PaBV-4) in Experimentally Infected Young and Adult Cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus)

Proventricular dilatation disease (PDD) caused by parrot bornavirus (PaBV) infection is an often-fatal disease known to infect Psittaciformes.The impact of age at the time of PaBV infection on organ lesions and tissue distribution of virus antigen and RNA remains largely unclear.For this purpose, tissue sections of 11 cockatiels intravenously infec

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