THE 2009 H1N1 PANDEMIC INFLUENZA VIRUS: WHAT NEXT?

The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Virus: What Next?

ABSTRACT History suggests that the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus faces extinction unless it mutates to avoid already high global population immunity.The immune escape mechanisms potentially at its disposal include antigenic drift, antigenic shift via genetic reassortment, and intrasubtypic reassortment.Going back to the late 19th century, the

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A Bizarre Presentation of Vulvar Nevus Lipomatosis Superficialis

A 24-year-old girl presented to the Outpatient Department with multiple painless, insidious-onset swellings Ribbon Wand on the pubic area.Initially, they started as pin-head nodules when she was just eight years old and gradually increased in number and size.Apart from occasional itching in the area, she never experienced any noticeable symptoms ov

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Optimizing SOI Slot Waveguide Fabrication Tolerances and Strip-Slot Coupling for Very Efficient Optical Sensing

Slot waveguides are becoming CO2 Supplies more and more attractive optical components, especially for chemical and bio-chemical sensing.In this paper an accurate analysis of slot waveguide fabrication tolerances is carried out, in order to find optimum design criteria for either homogeneous or absorption sensing mechanisms, in cases of low and high

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