Monthly Archives: April 2018

““Background. International travel by US business travelers is continuing to increase with the globalization of the economy. The objective of this study was to determine if the frequency and duration of international business travel is associated with differences in travelers’ … Continue reading →

Corneal scrapings were obtained for pathological examination and cultures. Cultures were plated on blood and Sabouraud’s agars. Her general examination was normal, as were the serum C-reactive protein and WBC levels. At this point, the infectious diseases team was consulted. … Continue reading →

, 1998). The sequences were analyzed for the presence of secretion signal sequences using SignalP (ver. 3.0; http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/) with the hidden Markov model (Bendtsen et al., 2004) and for protein localization using Psort (ver. 1; http://psort.hgc.jp/form.html; Horton et al., 2007). Phylogenetic trees … Continue reading →

uAPRs were available in 144 patients: 46 patients (32%) had TP and 21 (15%) GP; the remainder had uPCR 

The Italian National Health System provides universal coverage and is structured on three organizational levels: the central (the Ministry of Health), the regional and the local levels. At the local level, the Local Health Agency (LHA) provides both outpatient and … Continue reading →

5). Five hundred microliters of each donor culture was mixed with the same volume of recipient and then centrifuged at 16 000 g for 1 min. The bacterial pellet was spread on a BHI plate at 30 °C for 2 h. Cells on the BHI … Continue reading →

6 × the resting motor threshold). Navigated brain stimulation was used to monitor the coil position. A linear relationship was observed between test peak size and test TMS intensity, reflecting linear summation of excitatory inputs induced by TMS. SICI was estimated … Continue reading →

e. on the center of the monitor). This fixation spot represented the airport, and the rest of the radar display was the airspace. Each radar display contained several colored equilateral triangles (i.e. planes) of side length 1.15°, where color represented … Continue reading →

Up to 85% of infants born to women infected with rubella in their first trimester of pregnancy suffer serious birth defects.[5, 14] The sustained varicella transmission among crew members with different occupations suggested close interactions outside the work environment and … Continue reading →

Phenotypic (Antivirogram®; Janssen Diagnostics BVBA, Mechelen, Belgium) and genotypic assays were performed by Janssen Diagnostics BVBA (Mechelen, Belgium) to assess the development of resistance in VFs. VF was defined as loss of (rebounders) or never achieving (never suppressed) HIV-1 RNA