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On the role of human mobility in the spread of cholera epidemics: towards an epidemiological movement ecology

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Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Junrui Zhang, Francesco Bellando

The present disclosure concerns a Field-Effect Transistor device or sensor comprising at least one drain region, at least one source region, at least a channel region, at least a first gate connected to the channel region, at least one stack comprising at ...

2019

Single crystalline diamond diffractive optical elements and method of fabricating the same

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi

The present invention concerns a single crystalline diamond optical element production method. The method includes the steps of: ‐ providing a single crystalline diamond substrate or layer; ‐ applying a mask layer to the single crystalline diamond substrat ...

2019

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics Linked to Horizontal Gene Transfer in Vibrios

Melanie Blokesch, Frédérique Marie Jeanne Le Roux

Vibrio is a genus of ubiquitous heterotrophic bacteria found in aquatic environments. Although they are a small percentage of the bacteria in these environments, vibrios can predominate during blooms. Vibrios also play important roles in the degradation of ...

2018

The potential impact of case-area targeted interventions in response to cholera outbreaks: A modeling study

Flavio Finger, Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo

Background Cholera prevention and control interventions targeted to neighbors of cholera cases (case-area targeted interventions [CATIs]), including improved water, sanitation, and hygiene, oral cholera vaccine (OCV), and prophylactic antibiotics, may be a ...

2018

Molecular insights into Vibrio cholerae’s intra-amoebal host-pathogen interactions

Graham Knott, Melanie Blokesch, Candice Stoudmann, Sandrine Stutzmann, Charles Ulric V Van der Henst, Tiziana Scrignari, Catherine Maclachlan, Natalia Carolina Drebes Dorr, Audrey Sophie Vanhove

Vibrio cholerae, which causes the diarrheal disease cholera, is a species of bacteria commonlyfound in aquatic habitats. Within such environments, the bacterium must defend itselfagainst predatory protozoan grazers. Amoebae are prominent grazers, withAcant ...

Nature Research2018

Wireless Communication and Security Issues for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet-of-Things

Andreas Peter Burg, Anupam Chattopadhyay

Wireless sensors and actuators connected by the Internet-of-Things (IoT) are central to the design of advanced cyber-physical systems (CPSs). In such complex, heterogeneous systems, communication links must meet stringent requirements on throughput, latenc ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2018

Modeling Key Drivers of Cholera Transmission Dynamics Provides New Perspectives for Parasitology

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Melanie Blokesch, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto

Hydroclimatological and anthropogenic factors are key drivers of waterborne disease transmission. Information on human settlements and host mobility on waterways along which pathogens and hosts disperse, and relevant hydroclimatological processes, can be a ...

2017