This article contributes to the literature on the roots of Public Service Motivation (PSM) by turning to the psychological theory of basic human motives.The study Curio explores the differential associations of explicit and implicit basic human motives with PSM, Attraction to Policy-Making (APM), Commitment to the Public Interest (CPI), Compassion
Human Antimicrobial Peptides: Analysis and Application
Antimicrobial peptides are innate host defense molecules that have a direct effect on bacteria, fungi and enveloped viruses.They are found in evolutionarily diverse species ranging from prokaryotes and plants to invertebrate and vertebrate animals.Humans express several families of antimicrobial peptides in myeloid cells and on various epithelial N
Utility of next-generation sequencing for the etiological diagnosis of Orientia tsutsugamushi infection
Background: Scrub typhus, an acute febrile disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, is transmitted to humans through infected chigger mites.We present a case of scrub typhus in a previously healthy man from Shandong Province diagnosed using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and PCR Dog Apparel and review recent literature on NGS for scrub typhus di