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Open AccessEstimating and Explaining the Prevalence of Tuberculosis for Asylum Seekers Upon Their Arrival in Germany
Up until recently incidences of tuberculosis (TB) had been declining for many years in Germany. The rise in TB cases coincided with a large increase in the number of people applying for asylum. We combine data...
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Fatigue life enhancement of TIG-welded 304L stainless steels by shot peening
Shot peening is a cold working process that leads to changes of residual stress in the surface layer and the microstructure. In this paper, we studied the effect of the stress ratio and shot peening on the fat...
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Effect of corrosion pit density on the fatigue life of aluminum 1050A
Fatigue and corrosion fatigue damage of materials is often the most important cause of frequent stops of machines and industrial equipment. For this, many researches are investigated in this field. The aim of ...
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Open AccessIn vivo virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis depends on a single homologue of the LytR-CpsA-Psr proteins
LytR-cpsA-Psr (LCP) domain containing proteins fulfil important functions in bacterial cell wall synthesis. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc) strains, the causative agents of tuberculosis (TB), the gen...
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Evolutionary history and species delimitations: a case study of the hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius
Robust identification of species and significant evolutionary units (ESUs) is essential to implement appropriate conservation strategies for endangered species. However, definitions of species or ESUs are nume...
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Length and weight of very low birth weight infants in Germany at 2 years of age: does it matter at what age they start complementary food?
We analysed at what age parents start complementary food in very low birth weight infants, determined risk factors for early introduction of complementary food (post-term age) and analysed whether the age at i...
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TGF-β1-dependent L1CAM expression has an essential role in macrophage-induced apoptosis resistance and cell migration of human intestinal epithelial cells
Patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an increased risk to develop colorectal cancer (CRC) particularly after long duration of the disease. Chronic inflammation of the intestinal mucosa i...
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Lazy, Dynamic or Minimally Recrudescent? On the Elusive Nature and Location of the Mycobacterium Responsible for Latent Tuberculosis
In the absence of symptoms characteristic of tuberculosis (TB), a condition termed clinical latency, diagnosis is currently impossible by detection of the microorganism itself and resorts to the demonstration ...
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Open AccessInverse relationship of TLR/NF-κB signalling and the Wnt/β-catenin pathway during inflammation: Deciphering the role of Frizzled1 in M. tuberculosis infection
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Medikamentöse Therapie des Fibromyalgiesyndroms
Eine interdisziplinäre Leitlinie zur Therapie des Fibromyalgiesyndroms (FMS) und chronischer Schmerzen in mehreren Körperregionen (engl. „chronic widespread pain“, CWP) wurde in Kooperation von 10 medizinische...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Sarcoidosis is associated with a truncating splice site mutation in the gene BTNL2
Nat. Genet. 37, 357–364 (2005). In the version of Supplementary Table 3 initially published online, the nomenclature of DQB and DPB alleles was partly incorrect. The errors have now been corrected and Suppleme...
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Enhanced frequency of a PTPRC (CD45) exon A mutation (77C→G) in systemic sclerosis
A point mutation in exon A (C to G transversion at position 77) of human PTPRC (CD45) has recently been associated with the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) for at least a subgroup of patients. In the pr...
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Accuracy assessment and refinement of the JGM-2 and JGM-3 gravity fields for radial positioning of ERS-1
ERS-1 radial positioning using the JGM-2 and JGM-3 gravity fields is assessed by analysing dual crossovers with TOPEX/Poseidon, neither field containing ERS-1 data. This method allows a more complete recovery...
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Early detection of autism. Diagnostic instruments for clinicians
Autism and Asperger syndrome are disorders with early childhood onset. They are believed to exist on the same spectrum of impairments of reciprocal communication and social interaction restriction of imaginati...
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Seventy-one respiratory samples were analyzed in a new commercially available target rRNA amplification assay aimed at detectingMycobacterium tuberculosis complex directly in patient specimens. The assay (Gen-Pro...
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Improvement of ERS-1 orbits using along-track accelerations from DORIS data on SPOT2
In long-arc precise orbit determinations of altimetric satellites such as ERS-1, large errors may occur from mismodelling of aerodynamic drag and solar radiation pressure. Such surface forces for non-spherical...
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Proteases and antiproteases related to the coagulation system in plasma and ascites — An approach to differentiate between malignant and cirrhotic ascites
The concentrations of several proteases and antiproteases known to be present in ascites were tested in plasma and ascitic fluid with regard to their ability to separate ascites according to malignant or nonma...
