Acinetobacter baumanii is a Gram-negative, non-fermenting, oxidase-negative and non-motile coccobacillus, [1]. It can survive in water, soil, surface of skin and hospital environment. It cause a series of opportunistic infections such as epidemic pneumonia, skin and soft tissue infections, bacteraemia, urinary tract infections and septicemia app:addword:septicemia in immunocompromised patients,...

In this paper a method for the automated identification of tree species from images of leaves, bark and needles is presented. The automated identification of leaves uses local features to avoid segmentation. For the automated identification of images of the bark this method is compared to a combination of GLCM and wavelet features. For classification a Support Vector machine is used. The needle...

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PURPOSE To isolate and characterize progenitor cells derived from adult mammalian ciliary body. METHODS The authors isolated progenitor cells from the ciliary body of adult mice, rats, and human cadaver eyes and determined quantitative growth characteristics of groups of progenitor cells called neurosphere (NS) cells, including individual cell diameter, NS diameter, percentage of NS-forming c...

The production of biodegradable plastic from microorganisms has great potential as a substitute for conventional plastic. This study aims to isolate bacterial strains capable polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) the Kampung Jawa landfill land (KJLL) and characterize biopolymers. were able produce PHA using mineral salt medium (MSM) with glucose carbon source. qualitative screening PHA-producing bacteri...

Francisella tularensis is a highly infectious gram-negative coccobacillus that causes the zoonosis tularemia. This bacterial pathogen causes a plague-like disease in humans after exposure to as few as 10 cells. Many of the mechanisms by which the innate immune system fights Francisella are unknown. Here we show that wild-type Francisella, which reach the cytosol, but not Francisella mutants tha...

Several plasmids have been described in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, a gram-negative coccobacillus. Recently, the nucleotide sequence of pVT736-1, a cryptic plasmid of A. actinomycetemcomitans VT736, was determined. This plasmid possesses all the features necessary for rolling circle replication. The present study involved a transcriptional analysis of pVT736-1. Results of Northern (RN...

A 35-year-old man with pre-existing rheumatic heart disease and aortic regurgitation (AR) presented with intermittent fever, ankle swelling and clinical evidence of endocarditis. Transoesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) revealed vegetations and destruction of the aortic valve (AV). Blood cultures grew a gram positive coccobacillus which was phenotypically identified as Abiotrophia defectvia (A.def...

One primary function of spatial attention is to exclude external noise [e.g., Psychol. Sci. 11(2) (2000) 139], especially in the region of the target stimulus [J. Vis. 2(4) (2000) 312]. What is not known is the spatial profile of external noise exclusion in the vicinity of the target and how this depends upon attention. The spatial region around an oriented Gabor target was segmented into four ...