Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). A recombinant vaccine called Bexsero® incorporates four subcapsular antigens (fHbp, NHBA, NadA and PorA) which are used to assign a Bexsero® antigen sequence type (BAST) to each meningococcal strain. The vaccine elicits an immune response against combinations of variants of these antigens which have been grou...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic skull base surgery is now the preferred treatment option to remove skull base tumors. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the patient's sense of smell and mucociliary clearance time (MCT) after skull base surgery. METHODS Patients with pituitary adenoma underwent a transnasal transsphenoidal endoscopic approach (TTEA group, n = 36), whereas patients with other benign parasellar tumo...

Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). The BEXSERO® vaccine which is used to prevent serogroup B disease is composed of four sub-capsular protein antigens supplemented with an outer membrane vesicle. Since the sub-capsular protein antigens are variably expressed and antigenically variable amongst meningococcal isolates, vaccine coverage can be est...

......................................................................................................................................................................... Dr Tobias Bast! 2 ................................................................................................................................................................ Dr Charlotte Bonardi! 2 ...........................

If kenaf lines differ in woody core fiber length and cellulose content, it may be possible to increase the pulp quality of kenaf through breeding. Forty-eight cultiYars, breeding lines, and accessions of cultivated kenaf (HibisCIlS camzabinus L.) were analyzed for diHerences in woody core fiber length and monethanolamine (MEA) cellulose, yield, and plant size. All commercial culth-ars of kenaf ...