Swine toxoplasmosis is one of the most important diseases of pigs in Japan. Toxoplasma is a causal agent of zoonoses infecting not only swine, but also many kinds of mammals, including man. Therefore, routes of infection have been examined in toxoplasmosis of man and animals. Congenital transmission has already been confirmed in man and animals, but no acquired infection has been fully understo...

We develop an approach to utilize anisotropic metamaterials to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern plasmonics--parasitic scattering of surface waves into free-space modes, opening the road to truly two-dimensional plasmonic optics. We illustrate the developed formalism on the examples of plasmonic refractor and plasmonic crystal, and discuss limitations of the developed technique an...

haemophilus influenzae, a major cause of meningitis in young children leading to death and other neurological sequelae. the disease leaves 15 to 35% of the survivors with permanent disabilities, such as, mental retardation or deafness. despite the availability of new and more powerful antibiotics children with hib meningitis still suffer from high mortality or morbidity. the emergence of multir...

Glycoproteins In their Communication on page 13198 ff., Q.-Y. Hu, F. Micoli et al. present two methods for the preparation of glycoconjugate vaccines with one single sugar chain linked to one or two positions of a carrier protein.