Background: Human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopa-thy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is an inflammatory disease which occurs in less than 2% of HTLV-I -infected individuals. High proviral load, high HTLV-I-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte frequency (CTL) and host genetic factors such as HLA all appear to be associated with HTLV-I infection. Previous stud...

Escherichia coli 08 was the most frequent coliform isolated from the blood and liver of morbid and dead neonatal, colostrum-free piglets raised under extremely sanitary conditions. This strain accounted for 67 per cent of the typable E. coli. The next most numerous strain occurred at a frequency of 6 per cent. Hence, E. coli 08 was considered the main coli enteropathogen in our experimental, is...

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Pseudomonas sp. LAB-08 was isolated from a phenol-fed bioreactor constructed with contaminated aquifer soil as the inoculum. Strain LAB-08 utilized phenol as a sole carbon and energy source. Here, we report the genome sequence and annotation of Pseudomonas sp. LAB-08.

HLA-B27- and -B57-positive HIV-infected humans have long been associated with control of HIV replication, implying that CD8(+) T cell responses contribute to control of viral replication. In a similar fashion, 50% of Mamu-B*08-positive Indian rhesus macaques control SIVmac239 replication and become elite controllers with chronic-phase viremia <1000 viral RNA copies/ml. Interestingly, Mamu-B*08-...

Zhongping Lee,* Jianwei Wei, Ken Voss, Marlon Lewis, Annick Bricaud, and Yannick Huot School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7093...

A temperature-sensitive mutant homozygous for the recessive gene molb in Tetrahymena thermophila offers opportunity for studying the direction of microtubule assembly in vivo. At 39 degrees C the mutant fails to divide properly; the 2 daughter animals remain attached and bend over each other. As revealed by protargol staining, the bending results in acute turning and breaking of some of the lon...

ASTEROID FLYBY TARGET: 2867 STEINS. L.A. McFadden , E. Ammonito, E.A. Cloutis, A. Coradini, M.C. deSanctis,M. Fulchignoni, E. Hadamcik, T. Hiroi , L. Kolokolova, A.C. Levasseur-Regourd ,V. Psarev, J.-B. Renard. U. Maryland (Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD 20742-2421 mcfadden@astro.umd.edu), IFSI-INAF Rome, U. Winnipeg (Department of Geography, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3B 2E9, 4 Universit...