Acquired childhood bladder melanosis

Abstract Background Bladder melanosis is rare.It has Slit Curtains previously been described only in the fifth decade of life or beyond; it has not been described in childhood.Previous descriptions have generally been case reports, and so the natural history is poorly understood.Urinary symptoms present at the time of cystoscopy have frequently bee

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Attraction of Lutzomyia longipalpis to synthetic sex-aggregation pheromone: Effect of release rate and proximity of adjacent pheromone sources.

In South America, the Protist parasite that causes visceral leishmaniasis, a potentially fatal human disease, is transmitted by blood-feeding female Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies.A synthetic copy of the male produced sex-aggregation pheromone offers new opportunities for vector control applications.We have previously shown that the pheromone pla

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