Why, for the first time, the exact cause of the devastating Irish potato famine, a unique strain of a pathogen that originated in Mexico.
In 2011, officials in Germany took just 48 hours to determine that an E. coli outbreak blamed for infecting some 850 people and killing 32 came from a single source of a unique strain of the bacteria, indicated by a unique and consistent pattern in the optical map.
We report the use of this MLVA typing method to show evidence of a clonal spread of a unique strain of M. pneumoniae among children in a French primary school and their household contacts.
In 1976, a unique strain of influenza (H1N1) caused an outbreak at Fort Dix, New Jersey, causing 1 death, and creating concern over spread of this nonvaccine strain (2 ).
The lack of association could conceivably be explained if MM is associated with a specific immune defect that prevents the generation of serologic responses to HHV8 or if it is associated with a unique strain of HHV8 that has a different immunogenic profile compared to the HHV8 strains found in KS (Berenson et al, 2000).
These molecular investigations demonstrated a unique strain of LCMV, 201202467, in facility A mice, which suggests a single introduction and transmission event throughout the breeding facility.
A new, casually transmittable infection — a unique strain of bacterial meningitis — has cast a pall over the gay night life and dating scene, with men wondering whether this is AIDS, circa 1981, all over again.
Considering this probable case and the identification of a genetically unique strain of LASV in rodents and a human case from Mali, it is likely that LASV has been present in Mali yet undetected for decades.
At the other end of the sonic spectrum from their virulently infectious hits, Slipknot are also masters of a unique strain of twisted, hallucinatory sludge.
