onychomycosis is a nail disorder associated with aesthetic problems, discomfort, physical injury and loss of dexterity. the purpose of the present study was to isolate and identify the causative fungi of onychomycosis in 2402 patients in kermanshah province, western iran in 1994 to 2010.mycologic assessment was carried out by standard methods including either microscopic or cultural procedures....

The accumulation of independent mutations over time in two populations often leads to reproductive isolation. Reproductive isolation between diverging populations may be reinforced by barriers that occur either pre- or postzygotically. Hybrid sterility is the most common form of postzygotic isolation in plants. Four postzygotic sterility loci, comprising three hybrid sterility systems (Sa, s5, ...

Accurate knowledge of the functional response of predators to prey density is essential for understanding food web dynamics, to parameterize mechanistic models of animal responses to environmental change, and for designing appropriate conservation measures. Greater flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus), a flagship species of Mediterranean wetlands, primarily feed on Artemias (Artemia spp.) in comme...

We have reviewed published anthraquinone applications for international pest management and agricultural crop protection from 1943 to 2016. Anthraquinone (AQ) is commonly found in dyes, pigments and many plants and organisms. Avian repellent research with AQ began in the 1940s. In the context of pest management, AQ is currently used as a chemical repellent, perch deterrent, insecticide and feed...

Salt tolerance is an important agriculture character in Oryza sativa (rice). This paper proposed a framework of Support Vector Machine Recursive Feature Elimination (SVM-RFE) for analysing Oryza sativa microarray data from GEO. Through preliminary selection using t-test and iterative feature selection by SVM-RFE, we obtained 541 candidate genes. We analysed top 10 genes, which may play highly i...

Demodex spp. was investigated in the 258 university students that participated in the study aimed to investigate Demodex spp. prevalence among university students in Elazig with the methods of cellophane band and standard superficial skin biopsy (SSSB). Of the students, 26 (10.07%) were established as Demodex spp. positive. Demodex spp. prevalence was observed as high among advanced age groups;...

The present study aimed to 1) determine the colonization rates of medically important Trichosporon species on normal perigenital skin and 2) determine the isolation rates of Trichosporon spp. isolated from the urine and catheters of Brazilian patients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The overall colonization rate of Trichosporon spp. was 11.15% (112 isolates). The most common spec...

"Upper limits of normal" antistreptolysin O (ASO) and antideoxyribonuclease (ADN) B titers were determined on serum specimens from various age groups of pediatric patients with no history of a recent streptococcal infection and on healthy adult hospital employees. The upper limit of normal value is that level of antibody titer exceeded by no more than 15% of the total subjects in each age group...