MODEL ANALYSIS OF FOMITE MEDIATED INFLUENZA TRANSMISSION.

Model analysis of fomite mediated influenza transmission.

Fomites involved in influenza transmission are either hand- or droplet-contaminated.We evaluated the interactions of fomite characteristics and human behaviors affecting these routes using an Environmental Infection Transmission System (EITS) model by comparing the basic reproduction numbers (R(0)) for different fomite mediated transmission pathway

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dSETDB1 and SU(VAR)3-9 sequentially function during germline-stem cell differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster.

Germline-stem cells (GSCs) produce gametes and are thus true "immortal stem cells".In Drosophila ovaries, GSCs divide asymmetrically to produce daughter GSCs and cystoblasts, and the latter differentiate into germline cysts.Here we show that the histone-lysine methyltransferase dSETDB1, located in pericentric heterochromatin, catalyzes hockey puck

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