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Open AccessSafety, immunogenicity and protective effect of sequential vaccination with inactivated and recombinant protein COVID-19 vaccine in the elderly: a prospective longitudinal study
The safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in the elderly, a high-risk group for severe COVID-19 infection, have not been fully understood. To clarify these issues, this prospective study followed up 157 eld...
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Open AccessAspirin inhibits rotavirus replication and alters rat gut microbial composition
Aspirin is widely used to treat various clinical symptoms. Evidence suggests that aspirin has antiviral properties, but little is known about its specific effect against rotavirus.
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Open AccessCorrection: Successful treatment with doxycycline monotherapy for human infection with Babesia venatorum (Babesiidae, Sporozoa) in China: a case report and proposal for a clinical regimen
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Open AccessSuccessful treatment with doxycycline monotherapy for human infection with Babesia venatorum (Babesiidae, Sporozoa) in China: a case report and proposal for a clinical regimen
Human babesiosis is a worldwide disease caused by intraerythrocytic protozoa of the genus Babesia. It is transmitted by bites from ixodid ticks, and mechanically transmitted by blood transfusion. It is primarily ...
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Open AccessPreoperative computed tomography-guided transscapular sens-cure needle localization for pulmonary nodule located behind the scapula
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is an approach that is commonly used to resect pulmonary nodules (PNs). However, when these PNs are located behind the scapula, a transscapular access approach is ge...
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Open AccessAnalysis of the intestinal microbial community altered during rotavirus infection in suckling mice
Rotavirus (RV) is a principal cause of diarrhea. However, there is a limited understanding regarding alteration of the gut microbial community structure and abundance during RV infection. This study was to cha...
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Open AccessSample spinning to mitigate polarization artifact and interstitial-vacancy imbalance in ion-beam irradiation
Accelerator-based ion-beam irradiation has been widely used to mimic the effects of neutron radiation damage in nuclear reactors. However, ion radiation is most often monodisperse in the incoming ions’ momentu...
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Open AccessThe effects of autophagy on the replication of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus
Nelson Bay orthoreovirus (NBV) was first isolated over 40 years ago from a fruit bat in Australia. Normally, NBV does not cause human diseases, but recently several NBV strains have been associated with human ...
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Correction to: Earthquake and Disaster Risk: Decade Retrospective of the Wenchuan Earthquake
In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections are to be incorporated.
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Open AccessIM3D: A parallel Monte Carlo code for efficient simulations of primary radiation displacements and damage in 3D geometry
SRIM-like codes have limitations in describing general 3D geometries, for modeling radiation displacements and damage in nanostructured materials. A universal, computationally efficient and massively parallel ...
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Open AccessPathogenicity and tissue distribution of grass carp reovirus after intraperitoneal administration
Grass carp reovirus (GCRV) is the causative agent of grass carp hemorrhage and causes significant loss of fingerlings. However, little is known about how the virus is distributed in organs and tissues. The aim...
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Open AccessCree** Motion of Self Interstitial Atom Clusters in Tungsten
The formation and motion features of self interstitial atom (SIA) clusters in tungsten are studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The static calculations show that the SIA clusters are stable with bin...
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Open AccessPoly (I:C), an agonist of toll-like receptor-3, inhibits replication of the Chikungunya virus in BEAS-2B cells
Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and its mimic, polyinosinic acid: polycytidylic acid [Poly (I:C)], are recognized by toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) and induce interferon (IFN)-β in many cell types. Poly (I:C) is the ...
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Open AccessCharacterization of H5N1 influenza viruses isolated from humans in vitro
Since December 1997, highly pathogenic avian influenza A H5N1viruses have swept through poultry populations across Asian countries and been transmitted into African and European countries. We characterized 6 a...
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Open AccessSeismic velocity variations on the San Andreas fault caused by the 2004 M6 Parkfield Earthquake and their implications
Repeated earthquakes and explosions recorded at the San Andreas fault (SAF) near Parkfield before and after the 2004 M6 Parkfield earthquake show large seismic velocity variations within an approximately 200- m-w...
