A NEUROTROPIC HERPESVIRUS INFECTING THE GASTROPOD, ABALONE, SHARES ANCESTRY WITH OYSTER HERPESVIRUS AND A HERPESVIRUS ASSOCIATED WITH THE AMPHIOXUS GENOME

A neurotropic herpesvirus infecting the gastropod, abalone, shares ancestry with oyster herpesvirus and a herpesvirus associated with the amphioxus genome

Abstract Background With the exception of the oyster herpesvirus OsHV-1, all herpesviruses characterized thus far infect only vertebrates.Some cause neurological disease in their hosts, while others replicate or become latent in neurological tissues.Recently a new herpesvirus causing ganglioneuritis in abalone, a gastropod, was discovered.Molecular

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Norwegian Cartels: Law, Policy, Registration and Practice under the Price and Competition Act between 1954 and 1993

Twentieth-century cartel registers, operated in a number of countries predominantly from around 1950 to the early 1990s, are a new international field of research.Such registers provide empirical data for research in a variety of fields, including law and economics.This article gives an Shuffleboard overview of Norwegian cartel regulation, policy,

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Factors associated with frequent buprenorphine / naloxone initiation in a national survey of Canadian emergency physicians.

ObjectiveTo identify individual and site-related factors associated with frequent emergency department (ED) buprenorphine/naloxone (BUP) initiation.BUP initiation, an effective opioid use disorder (OUD) intervention, varies widely across Canadian EDs.MethodsWe surveyed emergency physicians in 6 Canadian provinces from 2018 to 2019 Bottoms - Pants u

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