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IN 1946 an outbreak of a febrile illness of several days' duration occurred in the borough of Queens, New York City, among residents of a large housing unit. A distinguishing feature of the disease ...

THE health problems presented by a disease differ decidedly as they are viewed from the standpoint of the community, and from that of the patient and his physician. The primary method of study is a ...

REPORTER AT LARGE about a new disease, rickettsialpox, o which over a hundred cases appeared in Regnecy Park, L.I. The first victim was 11-year-old Edmund… ...

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Abstract Identifying B-cell epitopes play an important role in vaccine design, immunodiagnostic tests, and antibody production. Therefore, computational tools for reliably predicting B-cell epitope ...

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Sumedha Sharma Gurugram, November 22 ‘Mysterious’ deaths in Tauru block of Nuh district that had put local authorities on alert in October were caused by rodent infestation. Test reports ...

Including rickettsialpox in the evaluation of patients with eschars or vesicular rashes is likely to extend its range.

Rickettsialpox may have occurred sporadically in North Carolina in the past, but the incidence of this disease in this state is probably extremely low. As Figures 1-3 illustrate, infection with R ...

Identifying B-cell epitopes play an important role in vaccine design, immunodiagnostic tests, and antibody production. Therefore, computational tools for reliably predicting B-cell epitopes are highly ...