TEMPORARY MIGRATION FLOW INFERENCE AND ANALYSIS FROM PERSPECTIVE OF MOBILE PHONE NETWORK DATA


The ability to detach from biofilms in the lung airways prior to transmission to another host is associated with the infectious phenotype of Mycobacterium abscessus

IntroductionMycobacterium abscessus is a pathogen recently associated with patients with chronic lung conditions such as bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis.M.abscessus is an environmental bacterium but recent evidence suggests that the pathogen is also transmitted from host-to-host.Because M.abscessus is known to form biofilms on the respiratory mu

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A New Strategy for Animal Research: Attending to Dissent

Increasingly, ethical concepts ordinarily reserved for the human research setting have been applied to nonhuman animals in research.This comes at the same time as concerns mount over challenges in translating the results of biomedical research with animals to human clinical benefit.This paper argues that applying the concept of dissent derived from

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