Sting fever

Sting fever

On August 17, The editors at USA Today had a tough call to make — whether to lead the paper with the fact that Elvis Presley has been dead for 25 years — or go with the story about the exotic virus sweeping west faster than wildfires. Anxiety won out over nostalgia, with Elvis relegated to the cover story in the Weekend section. 'West Nile outbreak expected to worsen,' read the top headline in ...

[Jellyfish sting or tattoo?].

The Diamond STING server

Diamond STING is a new version of the STING suite of programs for a comprehensive analysis of a relationship between protein sequence, structure, function and stability. We have added a number of new functionalities by both providing more structure parameters to the STING Database and by improving/expanding the interface for enhanced data handling. The integration among the STING components has...

Scorpion sting: update.

Scorpion envenomation is an important public health hazard in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Envenomation by scorpions can result in a wide range of clinical effects, including, cardiotoxicity, neurotoxicity and respiratory dysfunction. Out of 1500 scorpion species known to exist, about 30 are of medical importance. Although a variety of different scorpion species exist, majority of them pr...

Scorpion Sting 9 H

Scorpion envenomation is a major public health problem in tropical and sub-tropical countries, especially in Africa, MiddleEast, Latin America and India. At times it poses a significant lifethreatening acute time limiting cardiovascular emergency. Irrespective of different species of scorpion, similar cardiovascular effects are reported. Irrespective of the understanding of the pathophysiology ...