Recent medical topics on legionnaires' disease.

Recent Topics on Programmable Logic Array

The programmable logic array (PLA) is a basic and important building circuit for VLSI chips. After recent improvement techniques on PLA, PLA becomes more attractive for designers especially in GHz technology with deep sub-micron sizing. In this paper we will try to introduce the cross-talk problem solution in DSM, in PLA Network and also try to give the usage of PLA in GHz technology and the ad...

Important Topics on Contemporary Total knee Arthroplasty: what Does Recent Literature Say?

In this Editorial I want to comment on eight recent articles that can help us to better understand still controversial matters related to total knee arthroplasty (TKA). In this Editorial I want to comment on eight recent articles that can help us to better understand still controversial matters related to total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

The Italian Multicentric Study on Legionnaires’ disease

The general objective of the Italian Multicentric Study on Legionnaires’ disease is the investigation of some of the critical aspects of this emerging disease, with a specific interest in the Italian situation. An epidemiological study is being conducted in different Italian localities to evaluate the diffusion of Legionella spp in the environment and the efficiency of some of the control strat...

Monochloramine and Legionnaires' disease

egionnaires’ disease was first recognized in 1976 during an outbreak among attendees at an American Legion convention. The disease is a form of pneumonia caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella. Legionella thrives at warm temperatures (25–42oC [77–108oF]). It lives inside biofilm in aquatic environments, usually as an intracellular parasite of amoebae.1 This lifestyle protects it from disinf...

What is Legionnaires' Disease?