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2009-10-23ZeitschriftenartikelBildung und Übergang in den Ruhestand Gehen Höherqualifizierte später in Rente? Skills and age of retirement: Have high skilled the highest age of retirement?Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit die höchste schulische und berufliche Qualifikation der Versicherten das Rentenzugangsgeschehen beeinflusst. Informationen darüber sind aktuell insofern von Interesse, als die ...
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2010-10-31ZeitschriftenartikelDirect Visualization of Peptide/MHC Complexes at the Surface and in the Intracellular Compartments of Cells Infected In Vivo by Leishmania major Protozoa and bacteria infect various types of phagocytic cells including macrophages, monocytes, dendritic cells and eosinophils. However, it is not clear which of these cells process and present microbial antigens in vivo ...
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2010-08-01ZeitschriftenartikelWhite-Nose Syndrome Fungus (Geomyces destructans) in Bats, Europe White-nose syndrome is an emerging disease in North America that has caused substantial declines in hibernating bats. A recently identified fungus (Geomyces destructans) causes skin lesions that are characteristic of this ...
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2010-09-14ZeitschriftenartikelPhylogenetic history demonstrates two different lineages of dengue type 1 virus in Colombia Background: Dengue Fever is one of the most important viral re-emergent diseases affecting about 50 million people around the world especially in tropical and sub-tropical countries. In Colombia, the virus was first ...
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2010-09-28ZeitschriftenartikelFactors affecting patterns of tick parasitism on forest rodents in tick-borne encephalitis risk areas, Germany Identifying factors affecting individual vector burdens is essential for understanding infectious disease systems. Drawing upon data of a rodent monitoring programme conducted in nine different forest patches in southern ...
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2009-11-09ZeitschriftenartikelA novel herpesvirus in the sanctuary chimpanzees on Ngamba Island in Uganda Background: Recent studies in non-human primates have led to the discovery of novel primate herpesviruses. In order to get more information on herpesvirus infections in apes, we studied wild born captive chimpanzees. ...
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2009-08-24ZeitschriftenartikelPrevalence and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among pigs on German farms and import of livestock-related MRSA into hospitals The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among pigs and estimate the impact of this animal reservoir on human healthcare. Nasal ...
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2010-11-05ZeitschriftenartikelA novel adenovirus of Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Adenoviruses (AdV) broadly infect vertebrate hosts including a variety of primates. We identified a novel AdV in the feces of captive gorillas by isolation in cell culture, electron microscopy and PCR. From the supernatants ...
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2009-08-17ZeitschriftenartikelEmergence of CTX-M-15 extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in Bosnia and Herzegovina Fifty-seven nosocomial Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) were collected between February 2007 and November 2007 in different wards of the Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) reference ...
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2009-05-02ZeitschriftenartikelPrevalence of known diabetes in German adults aged 25-69 years: Results from national health surveys over 15 years Aims:The few studies examining the secular trend in diabetes prevalence in Germany have yielded conflicting results. Therefore, using nationally representative samples of adults, we investigated whether the prevalence of ...
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2009-09-30ZeitschriftenartikelBeneficial and detrimental effects of human endogenous retroviruses In this mini review, we aim to evaluate the structure and function of Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) with respect to the benefit they may have for humans or the damage they may cause. Emphasis is laid on their ...
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2009-08-21ZeitschriftenartikelSimultaneous quantification of five bacterial and plant toxins from complex matrices using a multiplexed fluorescent magnetic suspension assay Proteotoxins such as ricin, abrin, botulinum neurotoxins type A and B (BoNT/A, BoNT/B) and staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) are regarded as potential biological warfare agents which could be used for bioterrorism attacks ...
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2009-11-18ZeitschriftenartikelDeletion of the rat cytomegalovirus immediate-early 1 gene results in a virus capable of establishing latency, but with lower levels of acute virus replication and latency that compromise reactivation efficiency. The IE1 and IE2 proteins encoded by the major immediate-early (MIE) transcription unit of cytomegaloviruses are thought to play key roles in the switch between latent and lytic cycle infection. Whilst IE2 is essential for ...
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2009-11-18ZeitschriftenartikelLymphocryptovirus phylogeny and the origins of Epstein-Barr virus. Specimens from wild and captive primates were collected, and searched for new members of the genus Lymphocryptovirus (subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae) utilising PCR for the DNA polymerase gene. Twenty-one new viruses were ...
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2010-05-17ZeitschriftenartikelSuperior antigen cross-presentation and XCR1 expression define human CD11c+CD141+ cells as homologues of mouse CD8+ dendritic cells In recent years, human dendritic cells (DCs) could be subdivided into CD304+ plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) and conventional DCs (cDCs), the latter encompassing the CD1c+, CD16+, and CD141+ DC subsets. To date, the low frequency ...
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2008-02-29ZeitschriftenartikelA comparison of the active surveillance of scrapie in the European Union The abattoir and the fallen stock surveys constitute the active surveillance component aimed at improving the detection of scrapie across the European Union. Previous studies have suggested the occurrence of significant ...
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2010-11-11ZeitschriftenartikelIncreasing case numbers of adenovirus conjunctivitis in Germany, 2010 In 2010 (as of 13 October 2010), the number of adenovirus conjunctivitis cases reported to the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany, has increased by more than 250% compared with same period in the previous two years. ...
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2009-08-06ZeitschriftenartikelFood intake of young people with a migration background living in Germany Objective: To explore the food intake of young migrants living in Germany. Design: Children and adolescents aged 0 to 17 years living in Germany, including 17?1% with a migration background, were examined in a representative ...
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2008-10-31ZeitschriftenartikelCAMCR: Computer-assisted mixture model analysis for capture-recapture count data Population size estimation with discrete or nonparametric mixture models is considered, and reliable ways of construction of the nonparametric mixture model estimator are reviewed and set into perspective. Construction of ...
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2010-10-21ZeitschriftenartikelHigh-throughput microarray technology in diagnostics of enterobacteria based on genome-wide probe selection and regression analysis Background: The Enterobacteriaceae comprise a large number of clinically relevant species with several individual subspecies. Overlapping virulence-associated gene pools and the high overall genome plasticity often ...