Deutschland ist ein Einwanderungsland und 2019 hatte mehr als jede vierte hier lebende Person einen sog. Migrationshintergrund. Bei dieser statistisch definierten Gruppe handelt es sich um einen heterogenen Personenkreis; ...

Habituation of wild great apes for tourism and research has had a significant positive effect on the conservation of these species. However, risks associated with such activities have been identified, specifically the ...

The famous Watts–Strogatz (WS) small-world network model does not approach the Erdős–Rényi (ER) random graph model in the limit of total randomization which can lead to confusion and complicates certain analyses. In this ...

The genome of influenza A viruses (IAV) is encoded in eight distinct viral ribonucleoproteins (vRNPs) that consist of negative sense viral RNA (vRNA) covered by the IAV nucleoprotein. Previous studies strongly support a ...

Background. Needle and syringe sharing among people who inject drugs (PWID) can result in a rapid regional spread of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) variant. Such outbreaks have been identified recently in several ...

One of the most widely used methods to detect an acute viral infection in clinical specimens is diagnostic real-time polymerase chain reaction. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, mass-spectrometry-based proteomics ...

Recent international communicable disease crises have highlighted the need for countries to assure their preparedness to respond effectively to public health emergencies. The objective of this study was to critically ...

Die gesundheitliche Ungleichheit ist heute eines der wichtigsten Themen für Public Health weltweit. Der Digitalisierung von Gesundheitsangeboten wird dabei häufig das Potenzial zugesprochen, die gesundheitliche Chancengleichheit ...

Motivation The understanding of the ever-increasing number of metagenomic sequences accumulating in our databases demands for approaches that rapidly ‘explore’ the content of multiple and/or large metagenomic datasets ...