The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Virus: What Next?

ABSTRACT History suggests that the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus faces extinction unless it mutates to avoid already high global population immunity.The immune escape mechanisms potentially at its disposal include antigenic drift, antigenic shift via Industrial:Restaurant genetic reassortment, and intrasubtypic reassortment.Going back to the l

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Benign multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma mimicking recurrence of an ovarian borderline tumor: a case report

Abstract Introduction Benign multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma is an extremely rare tumor that occurs mainly in women in their reproductive age.Its preoperative diagnosis and adequate treatment are quite difficult to attain.Case presentation Our patient was a 23-year-old Japanese woman who had a history of right oophorectomy and left ovarian cyst

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