To better understand the natural history of Hendra virus infection and its tendency to relapse, 2 humans infected with this virus were monitored after acute infection. Virus was not detected in blood samples when patients were followed-up at 2 and 6 years. Thus, no evidence was found for prolonged virus shedding.

detected invasive cancer will have a better prognosis and live longer, provided lead-time bias does not negate the prognostic effect of lower staging by detecting cancer earlier while not influencing the natural history of the disease. The prognostic significance of non-invasive cancer (ductal carcinoma in situ), its treatment and the appropriateness of various local and systemic treatments for...

admiration for environment in general needs to be profoundly rooted in an understanding of history. urban history is unique not only in the fact that it reflects climate but also in that it cuts across many different fields. in most schools of urban studies many aspects of science and technology are taught with relation to design in order to attain skills for practice. during a student’s later ...

the practice and study of medicine in persia has a long and prolific history. the ancient iranian medicine was combined by different medical traditions from mesopotamia, egypt, india, china and greece for more than 4000 years and merged to form what became the nucleus and foundation of medical practice in the european countries in the 13th century. the iranian academic centers like jundishapur ...

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We report a case of acute idiopathic scrotal edema (AISE) in a 4-year-old boy who presented with acute scrotal pain and erythema. The clinical features, ultrasound appearance, and natural history of this rare diagnosis are reviewed. In this report, we highlight the importance of good ultrasound technique in differentiating the etiology of the acute scrotum and demonstrate the color Doppler "Fou...

Requirements, information about project’s history and information about existing situation of enterprise have important role in successful requirement engineering process during the project and in post-project phases. The first appearance of requirements is in the pre-project phase, then in the project and even in the post-project phase. Each idea and requirement has a history that can be a ver...

Alessandro Celia,c, Roberto Lorenzetb, Barbara C. Furiec and Bruce Furiec,∗ Laboratorio di Biologia Cellulare Respiratoria, Dipartimento Cardiotoracico dell’Universit à di Pisa, Pisa, Italy Antonio Taticchi Unit for Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, Istituto Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro, Italy Center for Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research, Beth I...

An "apparent life-threatening event" (ALTE) refers to an episode that is of concern to the caregiver and is associated with a combination of apnea, color change, change in tone, choking, or gagging. Although the natural history of ALTE is most often benign, there is a risk for subsequent morbidity and mortality. The provider must stabilize the infant as needed, obtain key history, identify and ...

Recent results on Java 7’s dual pivot Quicksort have revealedits highly asymmetric nature. These insights suggest that asymmetric pivot choices are preferable to symmetric onesfor this Quicksort variant. From a theoretical point of view,this should allow us to improve on the current implementa-tion in Oracle’s Java 7 runtime library. In this paper, weuse our new tool MaLiJAn...