OBJECTIVES To describe the patterns and causes of childhood injury presenting to a South African township health centre in 1991. DESIGN Retrospective review of clinic held case notes. SETTING Typical South-African urban township within Greater Johannesburg. SUBJECTS 695 subjects aged 0-19 years presenting as a direct result of injury. RESULTS Overall rates of presentation for injury wer...

Species identity is thought to dominate over environment in shaping wild rodent gut microbiota, but it remains unknown whether the responses of host microbiota shared anthropogenic habitat impacts are species-specific or if general response similar across species. Here, we compare influence exposure radionuclide contamination on four mouse species: Apodemus flavicollis, A. sylvaticus, speciosus...

A systematic checklist of fish and shellfishes the Poonthura estuary, Kerala, India is provided including notes on their conservation status. This includes 66 finfish five shellfish, belonging to 17 orders, 35 families, 60 genera. Carangiformes richest order (11 species, eight genera, three families), representing 15.4% total diversity. Carangidae, most diverse family with nine representatives,...

BACKGROUND Venous thromboembolism, including deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, results in a substantial healthcare system burden. This retrospective observational study compared hospital length of stay (LOS) and hospitalization costs for patients with venous thromboembolism treated with rivaroxaban versus those treated with warfarin. METHODS AND RESULTS Hospitalizations for adult p...

Gaia Pigino received her master's degree in natural science followed by a PhD in evolutionary biology - focusing on zoology and ecotoxicology - in the laboratory of Fabio Bernini at the University of Siena, Italy. She then joined the electron microscopy laboratory of Pietro Lupetti for her first postdoctoral position before moving to Zürich. There, supported by an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship, she...

Staphyloxanthin (STX), a golden carotenoid pigment produced by Staphylococcus aureus, is suggested to act as an important virulence factor due to its antioxidant properties. Restraining biosynthesis of STX was considered as an indicator of virulence decline in pigmented S. aureus isolates. However, it is not clear whether natural nonpigmented S. aureus isolates have less virulence than pigmente...