BACKGROUND Antimonials are still being used for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) treatment among HIV co-infected patients in East-Africa due to the shortage of alternative safer drugs like liposomal amphotericin B. Besides tolerability, emergence of resistance to antimonials is a major concern. OBJECTIVES This study was aimed at assessing the clinical outcome of VL-HIV co-infected patients when tr...

OBJECTIVE To examine the behavior of interleukin-12 and verify whether it can be used to differentiate septic conditions in children. METHODS Septic children aged between 28 days and 14 years, prospectively enrolled from 01/2004 to 12/2005, were divided into sepsis (SG; n=47) and septic shock (SSG; n=43) groups. Interleukin-12 levels were measured at admission (T0) and 12 hours later (T12). D...

Sodium stibogluconate (SSG) is the first-line therapy for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in south-eastern Nepal. Recent studies from the neighbouring state of Bihar, India, have shown a dramatic fall in cure rates with treatment failure occurring in up to 65% of VL patients treated with SSG. A prospective study was conducted at a tertiary-level hospital located in south-eastern Nepal from July 199...

THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EXAMINE THE EFFECT OF MANIPULATING DEFENSIVE RULES: with and without man-marking (MM and NMM) on exercise intensity in 3 vs. 3 small- sided games (SSGs). Twelve adolescent soccer players (age: 16.2 ± 0.7 years; body mass: 55.7 ± 6.4 kg; body height: 1.70 ± 0.07 m) participated in this repeated measures study. Each participant performed in four different SSGs formats...

Biobrane(®) is commonly used in paediatric burns to cover partial thickness burns and donor sites of split thickness skin (SSG). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of Biobrane(®) in dressing SSG adjacent to skin graft donor sites or partial thickness burns. A retrospective review was undertaken to determine the use of Biobrane(®) in dressing SSG, where the grafted areas were adjac...

In this paper we propose a new guess-and-determine attack on the self-shrinking generator (SSG), proposed by Meier and Staffelbach at Eurocrypt’94. The main idea of our attack consists in guessing some information about the internal bitstream of SSG, and expressing this information by a system of polynomial equations on the still unknown key bits. From a practical point of view, we show that us...

OBJECTIVES We investigated whether musculoskeletal fitness of school children aged 8-10 years was affected by frequent intense PE sessions. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS 295 Danish school children aged 8-10 years were cluster randomised to a small-sided ball game group (SSG) (n=96, four schools, five classes), a circuit strength training group (CST) (n=83, four schools, four classes) or a control g...

Our previous study showed that Semen sojae germinatum (SSG), a soy-derived Chinese medicinal material, have potential benefits for knee osteoarthritis (OA). This study was undertaken to identify the major effective sub-fraction of SSG. The 95% ethanol extract of SSG was successively fractionated into petroleum ether, ethyl acetate, n-butanol and aqueous fractions. Then we examined the effect of...