New record of Haplometroides intercaecalis (Digenea, Plagiorchiidae) infecting a Brazilian snake

Phalotris matogrossensis (Serpentes, Colubridae) was reported as a new host for Haplometroides intercaecalis ( Digenea, Plagiorchiidae). The host snake was obtained from the municipality of Anastacio, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. One specimen of H. intercaecalis was recovered from the esophagus of the host and identified by the intercecal position of the vitellaria in the pre-acetabular region. This paper describes the second report of the occurrence of this trematode in fossorial snakes of the genus Phalotris in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

New reports on parasitism by Haplometroides buccicola (Digenea, Plagiorchiidae) in Brazilian snakes

The occurrence of Haplometroides buccicola (Digenea, Plagiorchiidae) in the esophagus of two Brazilian snakes is reported in the present study. The trematodes were collected from one Micrurus corallinus (Elapidae) and one Phalotris lativittatus (Colubridae); both snakes were found in Botucatu city, São Paulo State, Brazil. Morphological and morphometric analyses of the trematodes are presented. For the first time Micrurus corallinus has been recorded as a host for H. buccicola and this is the second time that P. lativittatus has been reported as a host for this trematode species.

Emerging infectious diseases in cetaceans worldwide and the possible role of environmental stressors

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Peripheral position of CCND1 and HER-2/neu oncogenes within chromosome territories in esophageal and gastric cancers non-related to amplification and overexpression

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Effective theory for trapped few-fermion systems

We apply the general principles of effective field theories to the construction of effective interactions suitable for few- and many-body calculations in a no-core shell model framework. We calculate the spectrum of systems with three and four two-component fermions in a harmonic trap. In the unitary limit, we find that three-particle results are within 10% of known semianalytical values even in small model spaces. The method is very general, and can be readily extended to other regimes, more particles, different species (e.g., protons and neutrons in nuclear physics), or more-component fermions (as well as bosons). As an illustration, we present calculations of the lowest-energy three-fermion states away from the unitary limit and find a possible inversion of parity in the ground state in the limit of trap size large compared to the scattering length. Furthermore, we investigate the lowest positive-parity states for four fermions, although we are limited by the dimensions we can currently handle in this case.

Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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First measurement of hadronic event shapes in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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Search for physics beyond the standard model using multilepton signatures in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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Search for resonances in the dijet mass spectrum from 7 TeV pp collisions at CMS

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Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV

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Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at 7 TeV in events with jets and missing transverse energy

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Measurement of the differential dijet production cross section in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV

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Search for heavy long-lived charged particles in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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Measurement of the ratio of the 3-jet to 2-jet cross sections in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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Jet momentum dependence of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

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