We investigate how leaving the parental home differs between three countries with different welfare-state and housing systems: the USA, the Netherlands and West Germany.Using longitudinal survey data, we examine the transitions of leaving home to live with and without a partner.We find that, much more than in the European countries, union formation
Antitumor and antibacterial properties of virally encoded cationic sequences
Jean-Hervé Colle,1,* Bruno Périchon,2,* Alphonse Garcia1,31Laboratoire E3 des Phosphatases-Unité RMN, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; 2Unité de Biologie des Bactéries pathogènes à Gram-positif, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; 3Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie et pôle Dde-D
Clinical and Pathological Studies on Cattle Experimentally Infected with Theileria annulata in China
Theileriosis is an important tick-borne protozoosis that causes high morbidity and mortality in cattle.In this study, the pathological and clinical characteristics of cattle experimentally infected with Theileria annulata were investigated.The clinical findings revealed typical signs of bovine theileriosis, including fever, enlargement of superfici
Isolation and identification of Mycobacterium bovis in cattle slaughtered from an abattoir in Garanhuns, Pernambuco
Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (CMT), members including M.bovis.The sanitary inspection in slaughterhouses has a great importance on public health for the removal of contaminated meat with pathological lesions.Cattle slaughtered in the abattoir of Garanhuns were subjected to macroscopic
Recombinant Forms of Leishmania amazonensis Excreted/Secreted Promastigote Surface Antigen (PSA) Induce Protective Immune Responses in Dogs.
Preventive vaccination is a highly promising strategy for interrupting leishmaniasis transmission that can, additionally, contribute to elimination.A vaccine formulation based on naturally excreted secreted (ES) antigens was prepared from L.infantum promastigote culture supernatant.This vaccine achieved successful results in Phase III trials and wa