S.E. MSHANA1,2*, C. IMIRZALIOGLU2, E. DOMANN2 and T. CHAKRABORTY2 1 We l Bugando Un vers ty College of Health Sc ences, P.O. Box 1464, Mwanza, Tanzan a 2 Justus-L eb g Un vers ty, Inst tute of Med cal M crob ology, G essen, Germany _______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Clinical management of tuberculosis (TB) cases in developing countr...

This is a report of skin necrosis following a leakage of intravenous infusion of 5% sodium bicarbonate injection during the treatment of continuous veno-venous hemodialysis (CVVHD) in a female patient. The patient sequentially suffered from systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS), severe sepsis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndromes (MODS). She died due to refractory septic shock and MODS. B...

This paper examines what is known so far about the role of open source software development within the world of game mods and modding practices. Game modding has become a leading method for developing games by customizing or creating OSS extensions to game software in general, and to proprietary closed source software games in particular. What, why, and how OSS and CSS come together within an a...

The objective of the present study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis in HIV-infected patients. MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, African Index Medicus, ResearchGate, SciELO, and the abstracts of the main conferences on infectious diseases and tropical me...

Executive Summary As digital library projects have expanded in number, the need for standardization of their metadata has become more acute. A standard framework for this metadata is now provided by METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard), but its usefulness is limited by the lack of a satisfactory standard for metadata content. In the area of descriptive metadata, the key initiative...

BACKGROUND The dysbiosis of intestinal microbiota plays an important role in the development of gut-derived infections, making it a potential therapeutic target against multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) after sepsis. However, the effectiveness of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in treating this disease has been rarely investigated. METHODS Two male patients, a 65-year-old and ...

INTRODUCTION To validate the diagnostic criteria for disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) established by the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine (JAAM) at an early stage of trauma and to evaluate the hypothesis that the JAAM criteria can diagnose DIC with a higher sensitivity than the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) overt DIC criteria. MATERIALS AND METH...

Canine babesiosis is a tick-borne disease with world-wide significance caused by intraerythrocytic protozoa of the genus Babesia. The eicosanoids, as inflammatory mediators, are involved in the regulation of the immune response and inflammatory reaction. Metabolism of lipids is of great importance in babesiosis. In this study it was aimed to investigate the dynamics of serum concentration of pr...