Demographic model of the Swiss cattle population for the years 2009-2011 stratified by gender, age and production type.

Demographic composition and dynamics of animal and human populations are important determinants for the transmission dynamics of infectious disease and for the effect of infectious disease or environmental disasters on productivity.In many circumstances, demographic data are not available or of poor quality.Since 1999 Switzerland has been recording

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Co-infection of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C and hepatitis B virus among injection drug users in Drop in centers

Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are the three prevalent viral and bloodborne infections worldwide.Considering the similar route of transmission in these infections, their co-infections would be here more challenging for health care professionals.Therefore, we investigated the rate

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Lycium barbarum Glycopeptide prevents the development and progression of acute colitis by regulating the composition and diversity of the gut microbiota in mice

In most cases, recurrent chronic colitis is caused by the recurrence of acute colitis after incomplete recovery and re-exposure to irritating factors, and the gut microbiome, which is the largest micro-ecosystem in the human body, plays a crucial role in the development of colitis.Plant polysaccharides have always been reported to have the ability

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