Absent upper blind Pouch in a case of tracheo-esophageal fistula

A common upper airway and digestive tract is a rare congenital anomaly that is usually fatal and its exact incidence is not known.It is a diagnostic challenge as it requires high index of suspicion.It should be considered in a neonate with respiratory distress in a non-vigorous baby requiring endotracheal intubation, which is difficult even in expe

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A neurotropic herpesvirus infecting the gastropod, abalone, shares ancestry with oyster herpesvirus and a herpesvirus associated with the amphioxus genome

Abstract Background With the exception of the oyster herpesvirus OsHV-1, all herpesviruses characterized thus far infect only vertebrates.Some cause neurological disease in their hosts, while others replicate or become latent in neurological tissues.Recently a new herpesvirus causing ganglioneuritis in abalone, a gastropod, was discovered.Molecular

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