OBJECTIVE To assess the mosquito fauna in Serra da Bocaina National Park (PNSB), by collecting information through a general survey, and investigating the population behavior in habitats within the park with different vegetation. METHODS Human bait collections were conducted once a month for both the forest and households, in diurnal and nocturnal periods, three time a day, throughout 24 mont...

We use the quantum symmetries present in string compactification on LandauGinzburg orbifolds to prove the existence of a large class of exactly marginal (0,2) deformations of (2,2) superconformal theories. Analogous methods apply to the more general (0,2) models introduced in [1], lending further credence to the fact that the corresponding Landau-Ginzburg models represent bona-fide (0,2) SCFTs....

wiskott-aldrich syndrome (was) is a life-threatening x-linked recessive immunodeficiency disease described as a clinical triad of thrombocytopenia,  eczema, and recurrent infections, caused by mutations of the was protein (wasp) gene. the milder form of this disease is x-linked thrombocytopenia  (xlt) that  presents only as platelet abnormalities. mutation analysis for 15 boys with wiskott-aldr...

mitochondria are membrane-enclosed organelle found in most eukaryotic cells, which known as power house in cells. this organelle transforms energy into forms that are usable by the cell. the most common psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety can be linked to mitochondrial disorders. furthermore, mutations of mitochondrial or nuclear dna (mtdna and ndna, respectively) have been lin...

Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc) is an orphan disease, caused by mutations on chromosome 9. Epileptic seizures of mesial temporal origin can be a predominant symptom. We report on a 29-year-old woman with ChAc and bilateral MTS. Previously, few patients with coexisting ChAc and MTS were reported. The underlying pathophysiology is unknown, and further studies are needed.

Fifty-six Newcastle disease virus strains collected from 2000 to 2006 could be grouped into subgenotype VIId. However, they displayed cumulative mutations in and around the linear epitope of hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (residues 345 to 353) with time. The antigenicities of the variants that became predominant in Korea differ from each other and from the wild type.

background in this study, we evaluated the prevalence of the most common mutations occurring in enhancer ii (enhii), basal core promoter (bcp), precore (pc), and core (c) regions of hepatitis b virus (hbv) genome. objectives we also investigated the correlation between hbv variants, their genotypes, and patients’ hbe antigen (hbeag: soluble shape of the capsid antigen) status patients and metho...