BACKGROUND Following the 2013 USA release of the Influenza Virologic Surveillance Right Size Roadmap, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) embarked on an evaluation of data sources for influenza virologic surveillance. OBJECTIVE To assess NYS data sources, additional to data generated by the state public health laboratory (PHL), which could enhance influenza surveillance at the st...

The study was carried out to evaluate the combining ability and heterosis of seven parents their 21 half-diallel F2 populations for yield quality traits during 2013-14 season in randomized complete block design with three replications. Significant differences were observed among genotypes, GCA (general ability) SCA (specific effects all traits, except spike length. best combiner identified as E...

  Primary Hepatic Lymphoma (PHL) is rare and possibly associated with viral hepatitis and autoimmune diseases. Scleroderma could exceptionally be complicated by lymphoma. We describe PHL occurring in a 52-year-old female suffering scleroderma for eight years, with no history of cytotoxic or high-dose glucocorticoid therapy. CT scan, performed to work-up abdominal discomfort, constipation, and ...

Four allergenic proteins of Bahia (BA) grass pollen with estimated molecular weights of 45, 33, 31 and 28 kD were previously detected. Although all four proteins were reactive with BA grass allergic patient sera, the 33kD component was previously verified as a major allergen. The investigators report here for the first time, the similarities between the group I 33 kD allergen of BA grass, Pas n...

In this article we describe an implementation of Kleene algebra with tests (KAT) in the Coq theorem prover. KAT is an equational system that has been successfully applied in program verification and, in particular, it subsumes the propositional Hoare logic (PHL). We also present an PHL encoding in KAT, by deriving its deduction rules as theorems of KAT. Some examples of simple program's formal ...

Introduction: Primary hepatic leiomyosarcoma (PHL) is an extremely rare tumor, accounting for 0.2–2% of all primary malignancies, with less than 70 cases reported worldwide. Herein, we report a case 48-year-old female patient large surgically resected PHL. Case presentation: Forty eight year old woman known diabetic, hypertensive and morbidly obese presented in clinic upper abdominal pain weigh...

Lysosomes are known as key players in cellular signalling and act terminal degradation stations involved a multitude of processes. Being highly influential physiological factor, pH is essential the regulation lysosome-mediated pathological Aberrant fluctuations related to lysosomal dysfunction that correlates storage diseases neurodegenerative disorders. As such, real-time quantitative monitori...

Methods Monoclonal human IgE antibodies specific for the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 and for the major grass pollen allergen Phl p 5 and the corresponding allergens as well as a hybrid protein consisting of the Bet v 1 and Phl p 5 allergens were expressed. Using circular dichroism spectroscopy we compared the fold of the hybrid protein with that of the mixture of the two allergens. Rat ...

BACKGROUND The incidence of allergic diseases is increasing in industrialized countries and the immunological mechanisms leading to tolerance or allergy are poorly understood. Cytokines with suppressive abilities and CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells have been suggested to play a central role in allergen-specific responses. The aim was to determine whether major grass allergens induce production...