Q Fever, Free Amoeba, and Air Conditioning

Q Fever, Free Amoeba, and Air Conditioning Oral Voriconazole Dose in Children: One Size Does Not Fit All

retrospectively, and the data show that it can effective. All unduplicated patients that were active at any time between January and August 2009 and whose name appeared on the 104 day report were extracted from the EMR. The data elements that were analyzed were (1) what percentage of individuals who were on the 104 day report at one time do not appear on the report again—that is, who made a fol...

Air Conditioning Check and Air Conditioning Service

Characterizing the sound quality of air - conditioning noise q

The aim of the psychoacoustic study presented here was to characterize listeners’ preferences for a set of sounds produced by different brands and models of indoor air-conditioning units. In addition, some synthetic sounds, created by interpolation between recorded sound samples, were integrated into the set. The multidimensional perceptual space and the corresponding physical space representat...

Pathogenic Free-living Amoeba

These are Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris (the only known species of Balamuthia), Naegleria fowleri (sometimes considered not to be an amoeba at all, but more closely related to Leishmania and Trypanosoma) and Sappinia pedata. They are distinct from the more famous Entamoeba histolytica (an obligate anaerobic parasite which can cause amoebiasis, amoebic dysentery and amoebic liver ab...

First serologic survey of Q fever in free-range yaks in China

The objective of the present investigation was to determine the seroprevalence of Coxiella burnetii infection in free-range yaks in China. A total of 552 serum samples were collected from yaks in Gansu province, northwest China between April 2013 and January 2014, and antibodies against C. burnetii were evaluated using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Overall, 13.59% (75/552, 95% CI: ...