OPHTHALMOLOGISTS BEWARE OF ADENOVIRUSES

Ophthalmologists beware of adenoviruses

Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis caused by different serotypes of human adenoviruses is an explosive and highly contagious ocular surface infection.This is the case of a young ophthalmologist who presented a filamentary keratitis Cleaning complicating an adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis.Filamentary keratitis is a chronic and debilitating disorder relat

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The genome sequence of the oak pinhole borer, Platypus cylindrus Fabricius, 1792 [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Platypus cylindrus (the oak pinhole borer; Size Max X Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Curculionidae).The genome sequence is 147.5 megabases in span.Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 8 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X Outdoor Cocktail Table and Y sex chromosomes.The mitochondria

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Major Role of S-Glycoprotein in Providing Immunogenicity and Protective Immunity in mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Vaccines Based on SARS-CoV-2 Structural Proteins

SARS-CoV-2 variants have evolved over time in recent years, demonstrating immune evasion of vaccine-induced neutralizing antibodies directed against the original S protein.Updated S-targeted vaccines provide a high level of protection against circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2, but this protection declines over time due to ongoing virus evolution.T

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