COVID-19 strategy in organizing and planning orthopedic surgery in a major orthopedic referral center in an area of Italy severely affected by the pandemic: experience of the Department of Orthopedics, University of Padova

Abstract Background According to the required reorganization of all hospital activities, the recent COVID-19 pandemic Table Runner had dramatic consequences on the orthopedic world.We think that informing the orthopedic community about the strategy that we adopted both in our hospital and in our Department of Orthopedics could be useful, particular

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How do eubacterial organisms manage aggregation-prone proteome? [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/3k3]

Eubacterial genomes vary considerably in their nucleotide composition.The percentage of genetic material constituted by guanosine and cytosine (GC) nucleotides ranges from 20% to 70%.It has been posited that GC-poor organisms are more dependent on protein folding machinery.Previous studies have ascribed this to the accumulation of mildly deleteriou

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