The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by rapid spread of different strains the severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2). severity infection ranges from mild, or even asymptomatic, to very severe. Signs and symptoms include fatigue, fever, exanthemas, upper illness, loss smell taste, pneumonia, multi-organ failure. Risk factors for a lethal course age, male gender, o...

Since the introduction of active vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 infection, there has been a debate about risk developing severe allergic or anaphylactic reactions among individuals with history allergy.1, 2 Indeed, rare cases have reported in United Kingdom and North America.3 By February 2021, rate 4.5 occurred 1 million patients vaccinated mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines,1, 3 which is higher tha...

The walnut aphid, Chromaphis juglandicola is a pest known in California for more than 100 years. The introduction of the parasitic wasp Trioxys pallidus from Iran in 1969 led to a dramatic success in the biological control of walnut aphid populations in California, and has provided sustained control of this devastating pest for the past 35 years. However, we are currently facing new walnut aphi...

Cerdulatinib (DMVT-502) is an investigational kinase inhibitor with demonstrated activity against Jak and SYK (Coffey et al., 2014Coffey G. Betz A. DeGuzman F. Pak Y. Inagaki M. Baker D.C. al.The novel PRT062070 (cerdulatinib) demonstrates efficacy in models of autoimmunity B-cell cancer.J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2014; 351: 538-548Crossref PubMed Scopus (51) Google Scholar). There are currently no ...

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by T helper (Th) 17 axis maintained IL-17A and IL-17F produced Th17 cells (Lynde et al., 2014Lynde C.W. Poulin Y. Vender R. Bourcier M. Khalil S. Interleukin 17A: toward new understanding of psoriasis pathogenesis.J Am Acad Dermatol. 2014; 71: 141-150Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (212) Google Scholar) keratinocyte (KC) stimul...

Sterol-inhibiting (SI) fungicides are widely used to manage apple scab, caused by Venturia inaequalis. However, recent observations indicate that populations of V. inaequalis in orchards in Virginia have developed resistance to myclobutanil and other SI fungicides. Little is known about the frequency and distribution of fungicide resistance in apple scab populations in Virginia. Isolates of V. ...

The city of Cork has become widely known in the TEX community, ever since it gave name to an encoding developed at the European TEX conference of 1990. The ‘Cork’ encoding, as it became known, was the first example of an 8-bit text font encoding that appeared after the release of TEX 3.0, and was later followed by a number of other encodings based on similar design principles. As of today, the ...