C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute phase reactant the concentration of which increases significantly following tissue injury or inflammation. It is present in the albumin fraction of the serum of patients and is antigenic upon injection into rabbits. We report here the development of a local latex reagent coated with rabbit anti-CRP. For this purpose CRP was isolated from pooled sera of patie...

Received: July 25, 2008. Accepted: August 28, 2008. Corresponding author: Jeong Han Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Pusan Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, Gaegeum-dong, Busanjin-gu, Busan 614-110, Korea. Tel: 82-51-890-6520, Fax: 82-51-898-4216, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright c Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, 2009 Comparison of ramos...

When tests or portions of tests are scored subjectively by raters, a rescoring will yield a change in the ratings of some examinees. In a test with a xed passing score a rescoring will result in the change of some pass/fail decisions. The number of changes depends on three things: the reliability of the rating system, the proportion of examinees that initially pass, and the policy used to incor...

Lactation anoestrous interval (time from the beginning of the annual mating period to the identification of the cows’ first subsequent corpus luteum by ultrasound scanning) was measured in 898 Brahman females. Previous analyses, including genomic prediction, were performed using a trait defined in cows which successfully weaned a calf (as 3 year olds) from their first mating (LAI: n = 629). The...

BACKGROUND Norovirus infection is the most common cause of acute self-limiting gastroenteritis. Only 3 cases of chronic norovirus infection in adult solid organ transplant recipients have been reported thus far. METHODS This case series describes 9 consecutive kidney allograft recipients with chronic norovirus infection with persistent virus shedding and intermittent diarrhea for a duration o...

The demographic study of nuptiality in African countries is not very developed and often of secondary interest in a discussion of the proximate determinants of fertility. This paper uses unusual marriage history data to examine divorce and remarriage in rural Malawi. Life table probabilities of divorce range from 40 to 65 percent and are among the highest on the continent. An investigation into...