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Further studies need to address the tenuous relationship between mycobacteria and macrophage in relation to disease outcome.
There appears to be a tenuous relationship to gain control between M. paratuberculosis and the macrophage with survival at stake.
What's odd about this is that game shows--even if they're not fixed like they were in the '50s--are real only in a very tenuous sense.
The LAT lead says the Republican grip on the House is "especially tenuous" because the party has the slimmest majority either party's had there since 1954, Democrat fund raising is more effective than it's historically been, and because more than three times as many Republican incumbents as Democrats are vacating their seats.
The line, which linked up with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, in 1869, was built under the most hazardous conditions, using poorly paid Chinese laborers who sometimes worked suspended in wicker baskets over sheer cliffs to hack a tenuous cutting through the steep passes of the Sierras.