Rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) are found in soil and diverse aquatic environments. Two species, Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium chelonae, are associated with disease and are difficult to eradicate. Biofilm formation may be a contributing factor to their mode of transmission and their resistance to antimicrobial agents. We investigated the ability of the RGM species M. fortuitum to...

BACKGROUND Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a major complication of total hip and total knee arthroplasty (THA, TKA). Although mycobacteria are rarely the causative pathogens, it is important to recognize and treat them differently from non-mycobacterial infections. This study aimed to compare the clinical characteristics, associated factors and long-term outcomes of mycobacterial and non-my...

Vaccines against the HIV-1 virus offers the best hope for eliminating HIV-associated mortality. Recombinant adenovector type 5 (rAd5) vaccine is a potential candidate for preventive vaccine strategies. In this study, we evaluated the rAd5 prime/protein boost strategy in a murine model. We used rAd5 harboring single HIV-1 genes. These genes, including gag (p24) and exon1 of tat, were amplified f...

A growing number of nontuberculous mycobacteria infection cases, especially those caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM), have been reported in the past decade. Conventional methods for mycobacteria diagnosis are inefficient and easily lead to misdiagnosis. New detection methods, such as gene sequencing, have been reported but are not widely used. The aim of the present case report was to...

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 This study was conducted to know the use of turmeric (TRM) and red ginger meal (RGM) as source phytobiotics green additive in ration broiler chickens dan effect on nutrient efficiency. One hundred eighty DOC male were randomly alloted into five dietary treatments an opened-system poultry house. The were: basal diet without additives supplementation (control; T1); control + 5g/kg ...

Testing of rapidly growing species of mycobacteria (RGM) against antibacterial agents has been shown to have some clinical utility. This work establishes the MICs of seven antimicrobial agents following the guidelines set forth by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) against eighteen isolates of Mycobacterium massiliense recovered from wound samples of patients submitted to mi...

Background: Deuteron-induced nuclear reactions are an essential tool for probing the structure of nuclei as well astrophysical information such $(n,\ensuremath{\gamma})$ cross sections. The deuteron-nucleus system is typically described within a Faddeev three-body model consisting neutron ($n$), proton ($p$), and target nucleus ($A$) interacting through pairwise phenomenological potentials. Whi...

Immunological functions were analyzed in mice lacking granulocyteymacrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). The response of splenic T cells to alloantigens, anti-mouse CD3 mAb, interleukin 2 (IL-2), or concanavalin A was comparable in GM-CSF 1y1 and GM-CSF 2y2 mice. To investigate the responses of CD81 and CD41 T cells against exogenous antigens, mice were immunized with ovalbumin peptide ...

The application of the full potential stellar seismology is made difficult by improper modelling upper-most layers solar-like stars and their influence on modelled frequencies. Our knowledge these so-called ‘surface effects’ has improved thanks to use 3D hydrodynamical simulations, however, calculation eigenfrequencies relies empirical models for description Lagrangian perturbation turbulent pr...