Syphilis is caused by infection with Treponema pallidum subsp.pallidum, a not-yet-cultivable spiral-shaped bacterium that is usually transmitted by sexual contact with an infected partner or by an infected pregnant woman to her fetus.There is no vaccine to prevent syphilis.Diagnosis and treatment of infected individuals and their contacts is key to
Neuroblastoma (NB) represents one of the most frequent pediatric solid tumors.Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a cytokine exerting multiple biological functions.More recently, a second member of the MIF family of cytokine has been identified, the D-dopachrome tautomerase (DDT), that exerts several overlapping functions with MIF.Growi
Suppose that G is a simple undirected connected graph.Denote by D ( G ) the distance matrix of G and by T r ( G ) the diagonal matrix of the vertex transmissions in G, and let α ∈ [ 0 , 1 ].The generalized distance matrix D α ( G ) is defined as D α ( G ) = α T r ( G ) + ( 1 − α ) D ( G ) , where 0 ≤ α