COVID-19 has wreaked havoc globally with particular concerns for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where models suggest that the majority of the population will become infected.Conventional wisdom suggests that the continent will bear a higher burden of COVID-19 for Finishing Touches the same reasons it suffers from other infectious diseases: ecology, soci
Abstract An association between exposure to a risk factor and age-at-onset of disease may reflect an effect on the rate of disease occurrence or an acceleration of the disease process.The difference in age-at-onset arising from case-only studies, however, may also reflect secular trends in the prevalence of exposure to the risk factor.Comparisons o
Traits of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are phenotypically flexible and seem to reflect the ecological features Personal Care of animals.The Daurian ground squirrel (Spermophilus dauricus) is a typical fat-storing, hibernating animal.However, information on seasonal GI plasticity in this species is limited.The aim of the present study was to char