Staphylococccus aureus represents one of the most challenging human pathogens as well as a common colonizer of human skin and mucosal surfaces.S.aureus causes a wide range of diseases from skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI) to debilitating and life-threatening conditions such as osteomyelitis, endocarditis, and necrotizing pneumonia.The range of
Abstract Despite the success of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy for esophageal squamous cell cancer, the key immune cell populations that affect ICB efficacy remain unclear.Here, imaging mass cytometry of tumor tissues from ICB-treated patients identifies a distinct cell population of CD39+PD-1+CD8+ T cells, specifically the TCF1+ subset,
To what extent birds provide the ecosystem service of pest control in subsistence farms, and how this service might depend on retained natural habitats near farmlands is unexplored in West Africa.To fill this knowledge gap, we placed plasticine mimics of insect pests on experimentally grown crops on the Mambilla Plateau, South Eastern Nigeria.We re
This is the sixth - and also the last - in the present series of letters which Marcus Antonius Kappus ( 1657 - 1717, since 1687 Jesuitic missionary in the colonial Sonora) had sent to his relatives and acquaintances in Slovenia that have been preserved to the present day.Of the five letters which CINNAMON BARK we have published so far, two were wri