The earthquake survivors had a higher percentage of psychiatric disorders. The risk factors that affected quality of life in survivors were age, female sex, financial loss, social network change, and mental impairment.

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The earthquake survivors had a higher percentage of psychiatric disorders. The risk factors that affected quality of life in survivors were age, female sex, financial loss, social network change, and mental impairment.

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Sporulation is a strategy widely utilized by a wide variety of organisms to adapt to changes in their individual environmental niches and survive in time and/or space until they encounter conditions acceptable for vegetative growth. The spores produced by bacteria have been the subjects of extensive studies, and several systems such as Bacillus subtilis have provided ample opportunities to understand the molecular basis of spore biogenesis and germination. In contrast, the spores of other microbes, such as fungi, are relatively poorly understood. Studies of sporulation in model systems such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aspergillus nidulans have established a basis for investigating eukaryotic spores, but very little is known at the molecular level about how spores function. This is especially true among the spores of human fungal pathogens such as the most common cause of fatal fungal disease, Cryptococcus neoformans. Recent proteomic studies are helping to determine the molecular mechanisms by which pathogenic fungal spores are formed, persist, and germinate into actively growing agents of human disease.