The aim of this study was to present clinical and neurological signs, laboratory abnormalities, serologic and/or molecular findings in three dogs from the region of Brno in the Czech Republic. All dogs were naturally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. The evidence of borrelial infection was proved by serial blood sampling for IgM and IgG anti-borrelial antibodies or plasma PCR. The ...

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) has an imaging model similar to that of PostScript and PDF but the XML basis of SVG allows it to participate fully, via namespaces, in generalised XML documents. There is increasing interest in using SVG as a Page Description Language and we examine ways in which SVG document components can be encapsulated in contexts where SVG will be used as a rendering technolo...

Spanish clones of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae are the most common clones recovered in recent cases of meningitis in Spain. international multiresistant Streptococcus pneumoniae clone resistant to fluoroquinolones and other families of antibiotics. Increasing resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to fluoro-quinolones: results of a Hong Kong multicentre study in 2000. Streptoco...

An Abstract of Molecular, morphological, and biogeographic resolution of cryptic taxa in the Greenside Darter Etheostoma blennioides complex DNA sequencing has led to the resolution of many cryptic taxa, which are especially prevalent in the North American darter fishes (Family Percidae). The Greenside Darter Etheostoma blennioides commonly occurs in the lower Great Lakes region, where two puta...

Background: Some studies have found a curvilinear relationship between the nortriptyline plasma concentration and the clinical rating of depression in those treated. The concentration interval of optimum response has been called the “nortriptyline therapeutic window.” Objectives: To analyze all original data relevant to the therapeutic window. Data sources: English language articles found in Pu...

Microfluidics is very important in the world of BioMEMS, particularly for lab-ona-chip devices. There are many unusual differences from conventional fluidics, such as the significance of surface forces, the high shear/extensional rate, the high heat transfer rate, the low Reynolds number, and the high Weissenberg number. In this study, aqueous solutions of high molecular-weight polymers, polyet...

(7) Claxton, L., Houk, V.S., Monteith, L.G., Myers, L.E., Hughes, T.J., ‘‘Assessing the use of known mutagens to calibrate the Salmonella typhimurium mutagenicity assay: I. Without exogenous activation.’’ Mutation Research 253:137–147 (1991). (8) Claxton, L., Houk, V.S., Warner, J.R., Myers, L.E., Hughes, T.J., ‘‘Assessing the use of known mutagens to calibrate the Salmonella typhimurium mutage...

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Background Self-management refers to the patient’s ability manage a large range of consequences such as symptoms, medication, emotions, and preferable life-style changes coherent with living chronic disease. Evaluating effect interventions targeting improve people inflammatory arthritis (IA) self-management is challenge because are complex consensus on important outcomes lacking. Solutions thes...