Simulating the effects of mobility restrictions in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in metropolitan areas in Portugal.

Commuting flows and long-distance travel are important spreading factors of viruses and particularly airborne ones.Therefore, it is relevant to examine the association among diverse mobility scenarios and the spatial dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 cases.We intended to analyze the patterns of virus spreading linked to different mobility scenarios, in o

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Sirenomelia: Partly human, partly marine: A congenital anomaly

Sirenomelia or mermaid syndrome is a rare and lethal malformation.It is characterized by a single lower limb with Decor various degrees of fusion, single umbilical artery, urogenital abnormalities, and absent external genitalia.Two major mechanisms proposed in its pathogenesis are the vascular steal hypothesis and the defective blastogenesis hypoth

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Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Differentiation of Inflammatory Diseases of the Outer Retina: Photoreceptoritis versus Choriocapillaritis; A Multimodal Imaging Perspective

Background and aim: Inflammatory diseases that affect the outer retina do so by different mechanisms.Some of them result from the direct, primary involvement of the outer retina (primary photoreceptoritis) such as acute zonal outer occult retinopathy (AZOOR).Others affect the photoreceptors secondarily due to the inflammatory involvement of Decor t

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