Published in Epidemiology and Infection
A total of 6234 nasopharyngeal swabs was collected during a survey of the population of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire in November 1986 as part of an investigation into an outbreak of meningococcal disease. The overall meningococcal carriage rate was 10.9%. The carriage rate rose with age from 2.1% in the 0- to 4-year-olds to a peak of 24.5% in the 15...
Published in Nature Genetics
Published in Science
The early embryo is formed by the fusion of two germ cells that must generate not only all of the nonreproductive somatic cell types of its body but also the germ cells for the next generation. Therefore, embryo cells face a crucial decision: whether to develop as germ or soma. How is this fundamental decision made and germ cell fate maintained dur...
Published in Epidemiology and Infection
During an outbreak of hepatitis A that occurred in Gloucester, UK between September 1989 and January 1991, 162 clinical cases were identified through notifications and laboratory reports, a monthly attack rate of 1.05 per 10,000 residents. The highest attack rate was seen in 5-14-year-olds. There were significant correlations between hepatitis A at...
Published in Development
The trithorax group gene brahma (brm) encodes an activator of Drosophila homeotic genes that functions as the ATPase subunit of a large protein complex. To determine if BRM physically interacts with other trithorax group proteins, we purified the BRM complex from Drosophila embryos and analyzed its subunit composition. The BRM complex contains at l...
Published in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Published in Communicable disease report. CDR review
Published in Methods in molecular medicine
Comprehensive practical guidelines for the control of large-scale epidemic meningococcal disease were updated in 1998 by the World Health Organization (WHO) (1). The guidance in this chapter is designed to assist in the management of the smaller-scale outbreaks or clusters, particularly in the educational setting (see Note 1). It focuses on countri...
Published in Methods in Molecular Biology
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
We use a microfabricated ecology with a doxorubicin gradient and population fragmentation to produce a strong Darwinian selective pressure that drives forward the rapid emergence of doxorubicin resistance in multiple myeloma (MM) cancer cells. RNA sequencing of the resistant cells was used to examine (i) emergence of genes with high de novo substit...
