OBJECTIVE To determine the mineral composition of calculi, anatomic locations of the calculi, and findings of urinalysis and bacteriologic culture of urine and calculi in guinea pigs with urolithiasis. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. ANIMALS 127 guinea pigs. PROCEDURES Records of urinary calculi that had been submitted to the University of California Stone Laboratory from 1985 through 2003 ...

The altered response to antituberculous agents of both the tubercle bacilli cultured from the sputum and from excised pulmonary lesions during and after therapy with these drugs has aroused the interest of the bacteriologist, the pathologist and the clinician. Therefore, many studies of this problem based upon clinical material subjected to wide varieties of drug-treatment regimens have been re...

A meta-analysis of six double-blinded clinical trials was undertaken to identify risk factors associated with bacteriologic outcome in 3,108 women with acute cystitis. Eleven antibiotic regimens were used, including ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, norfloxacin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and nitrofurantoin. Entry criteria for all studies were identical. Among 2,409 patients who were defined to be ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a pico-tesla electromagnetic field (PTEF) on healing of sutured and open skin wounds and clinicopathologic variables in rats. ANIMALS 64 male Fischer-344 rats. PROCEDURE An incision made in the dorsal aspect of the neck was sutured (n = 32) or left open to heal (32). In each group, 16 rats were not PTEF-treated (controls). Wound treatment consisted of ex...

This essay considers the digital avatar not simply as a name for a virtual double of the player of videogames, but as bound to or manifesting psychological drive, a kind of homunculus of the drive. Drawing on a wide range of theories that have informed technical constructions of the subject, it applies in particular an important moment in Lacan's description of the drive to the concept of the g...

We report the first description, confirmed by bacteriologic and molecular (polymerase chain reaction and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis) analysis, of an infection in animals caused by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis, affecting waterfowl.