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Open AccessEffects of Design and Operational Conditions on the Performance of Constructed Wetlands for Agricultural Pollution Control – Critical Review
Constructed wetlands (CWs) can be considered as an efficient nature-based solution for the treatment of agricultural drainage water (ADW) and consequently for the mitigation of non-point source pollution. Aimi...
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Open AccessUse of the new Lake Louise Criteria improves CMR detection of atypical forms of acute myocarditis
The purpose of our study was to compare diagnostic performance of old and new Lake Louise Criteria (oLLC and nLLC) among different clinical presentations: infarct-like (IL), cardiomyopathic (CM) and arrhythmic...
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Open AccessRole of advanced imaging in COVID-19 cardiovascular complications
Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 patients are dominated by respiratory symptoms, but cardiac complications are commonly observed and associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Underlying pathologica...
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Open AccessOcular surface manifestation of COVID-19 and tear film analysis
To evaluate the ocular manifestation in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to search for the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in tears. T...
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A critical review of the current technologies in wastewater treatment plants by using hydrodynamic cavitation process: principles and applications
In the last decade, hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) was increasingly used in the field of wastewater treatment. Due to its oxidative capability, HC was applied to treat aqueous effluents polluted by organic, toxi...
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Open AccessThe plasminogen binding protein PbsP is required for brain invasion by hypervirulent CC17 Group B streptococci
Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus or GBS) is a frequent cause of serious disease in newborns and adults. Epidemiological evidence indicates a strong association between GBS strains belonging to the ...
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Bacterial recognition by TLR7 in the lysosomes of conventional dendritic cells
How and where bacterial recognition triggers the induction of type I interferon is unclear. Teti and colleagues show that phagosomal bacteria trigger Toll-like receptor 7–dependent interferon production in lys...
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Open AccessA cryptic promoter in the first exon of the SPG4gene directs the synthesis of the 60-kDa spastin isoform
Mutations in SPG4 cause the most common form of autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia, a neurodegenerative disease characterized by weakness and spasticity of the lower limbs due to degeneration of the...
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Neonatal mouse immunity against group B streptococcal infection by maternal vaccination with recombinant anti-idiotypes
We investigated whether immunization with recombinant anti-idiotypic antibody fragments mimicking the conformation of the capsular antigen can protect against infection by group B streptococcus, an important n...
