........................................................................................................................2 INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3 THE NATIONAL MAIZE ECONOMY.............................................................................4 GUATEMALA’S AGRICULTURE AND MAIN MAIZE PRODUC...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to propose a new classification system for open fractures developed by the Classification Committee of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association. SETTING Academic and Level I trauma center. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS Consecutive patients with open fractures. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS Open fracture classification scale. RESULTS Evaluation of 34 factors identi...

We read with great interest the paper by Venditti et al. about Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) in patients with hematologic malignancies. We’d like to point out that SAB in hematologic patients could be the consequence of a bacterial contamination of transfused blood components, particularly when platelet transfusions are considered. This is because the platelet units are stored at room ...

Surgeons have the highest risk of contact with patients' blood and body fluids, and breaches in gloving material may expose operating room staff to risk of infections. This prospective randomised study was done to assess the effectiveness of the practice of double gloving compared with single gloving in decreasing finger contamination during surgery. In 66 consecutive surgical procedures studie...

There have been two anthrax cases affecting people that played and/or made animal-skin drums in the UK during the last 10 years, with single fatal occurrences in Scotland in 2006 and London in 2008. Investigations by the Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England) employing multi-locus-variable number tandem repeat analysis had previously linked the clinical cases to spores associated ...

BACKGROUND Healthcare workers' (HCWs) uniforms become contaminated with bacteria during normal use, and this may contribute to hospital-acquired infections. Antimicrobial uniforms are currently marketed as a means of reducing this contamination. OBJECTIVE To compare the extent of bacterial contamination of uniforms and skin when HCWs wear 1 of 2 antimicrobial scrubs or standard scrubs. DESI...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of tinea gladiatorum among young wrestlers and dermatophyte contamination of wrestling mats from Sari city, the capital of Mazandaran, a northern province of Iran. DESIGN 324 wrestlers (aged 9-20 years) from 7 active clubs in Sari city were examined, and skin scrapings were obtained from 135 wrestlers suspected of having tinea gladiatorum. The scraped skin sa...