plants face many biotic and abiotic stresses at the same time during their growth under field conditions. plants responses toward combined stresses are often more complex than their responses to one type of stress in a way that the results of these responses are called as cross tolerance. this mixture of stresses activates specific models of gene expression that causes special signaling network...

Methods Records from ICU patients (including i.e. reason of admission, illness severity score, interventions and nursing workload, adverse events, outcome in the ICU) were collected in the Swedish Intensive Care Registry (SIR). Mortality data was added weekly for each episode of care (EOC). A web service was developed for individual collection of results from microbiological cultures and analys...

organ failure, the latter often being the cause of death. Most ICU patients, even those who did not previously suffer from diabetes, are hyperglycemic, which is presumed to reflect an adaptive development of insulin resistance. Marik and Preiser reviewed seven randomly controlled studies, including over 11,000 ICU patients, and found that TGC did not reduce the 28-day mortality (odds ratio 0.95...

Results Among 979 strains isolated during this period, 10.82 % (106) were ESBL producers. These bacteria were isolated in 94.33% in the inpatients specimens. Their distribution was essentially in the ICU (22.64%),the surgery (20.75%) and the pediatrics 21.21%.They were more frequently isolated from urines (36.79%), pus (33%), peritoneal liquid (15,15%)and bacteremia (12,26%).This betalactamase ...

Antibiotics are today found ubiquitous in our environment in constantly growing amounts. Antibiotics are given to animals as “growth factors”-especially to piglets, calves and chickens-to avoid weaning diarrhoea and to promote growth [1]. It is forbidden in Europe since 2006 and also in some states in USA. But they are still used widely in other countries. Antibiotics are distributed everywhere...