INTRODUCTION Little is known about prevailing ribotypes of Clostridium difficile infection in Romania where CDI is not a mandatory notifiable disease. METHODOLOGY We studied 64 non-duplicate C. difficile isolates from patients hospitalised at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Bucharest, Romania between March 2011 and March 2012. RESULTS Sixty-three of the 64 C. difficile isolat...

accumulation, 71, 110, 111 non-ideal, 81 agarose, 33, 35, 44 pore size, 59 alkalinity, 35, 176, 183 aluminium, 44, 67, 176, 238 ammonia, 35, 176 ammonium persulphate, 33, 266 analytical techniques, 285 colorimetry, 181–182 computer imaging densitometry (CID), 181–182, 185, 202, 285 hyperspectral imaging, 182 laser ablation – ICPMS, 185–188, 285 PIXE, 175, 176 antimony, 44, 67, 135 area of windo...

Clostridium difficile is one of the leading causes of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in health care facilities worldwide. Here, we report the genome sequence of C. difficile strain G46, ribotype 027, isolated from an outbreak in Glamorgan, Wales, in 2006.

Effects of MCI-176, 2-(2,5-dimethoxyphenylmethyl)-3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-6-isopropox y-4 (3H)-quinazolinone hydrochloride, on coronary and aortic blood flows, mean blood pressure and heart rate were investigated in comparison with those of diltiazem in anesthetized dogs. MCI-176, like diltiazem, dose-dependently increased coronary and aortic blood flows and decreased mean blood pressure. In p...

Mexican journalists are frequently the victims of violence, often drug related. The purpose of the study was to assess their mental well-being. Of 104 journalists recruited from 3 news organizations, those who had stopped working on drug-related stories because of intimidation from the criminal drug cartels (n = 26) had significantly greater social dysfunction (p = .024); and more depressive (p...

A total of 316 toxigenic Clostridium difficile clinical isolates of known PCR ribotypes from patients in North America were screened for resistance to clindamycin, metronidazole, moxifloxacin, and rifampin. Clindamycin resistance was observed among 16 different ribotypes, with ribotypes 017, 053, and 078 showing the highest proportions of resistance. All isolates were susceptible to metronidazo...

Phagocytosis has long been recognized as one of the differentiated functions of the macrophage and yet many of the cellular and biochemical mechanisms underlying this process remain unclear. Rabinovitch has separated the process of phagocytosis into two phases: attachment and ingestion (1). The former is dependent both on the surface properties of the cell and on the particle and is independent...

The inaccurate placement of minority students in special education programs can take various forms including overrepresentation, underrepresentation, and misidentification. First, overrepresentation occurs when the percentage of minority students in special education programs is greater than that in the school population as a whole. Second, underrepresentation occurs when students with disabili...