Eben Donges Hospital (EDH) is a regional hospital in the Boland/Overberg region of the Western Cape. It serves a diverse community whose economic stability is reliant on the intensive fruit-farming industry. This farming is heavily dependent on organophosphate (OP)-containing insecticides for pest control, often to the detriment of labourers’ health. The combination of accessibility, limited le...

We report on new collections of cephalopods (ammonites and nautilids) from the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) successions Corsicana Kincaid formations exposed along Brazos River in Falls County, Texas. An abundant fauna eight species comprising four genera ammonites is described Formation, including Discoscaphites mullinaxorum n. sp. The presence aptychi (probably lower jaws) Eubaculites, as well ...

La cepa Streptomyces sp. RL8 fue caracterizada en base a su actividad antagónica frente hongos f itopatógenos, solubilización de fosfatos, producción sideróforos, y efecto la germinación crecimiento inicial in vitro frijol Tépari (Phaseolus acutifolius Gray), bajo condiciones controladas. Se aplicó un diseño experimental completamente al azar con tratamiento bacteriano basado (T) agua destilada...

Exposure to coal dust leads to the development of coal worker's pneumoconiosis (CWP), a disease associated with an accumulation of macrophages in the lower respiratory tract. Mechanisms controlling monocyte recruitment are still poorly understood. Since monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is recognized as a potent chemotactic factor for blood monocytes, we analysed the presence of MCP-1 ...

Abstract Background In genome-wide association studies the extent and impact of confounding due to population structure have been well recognized. Inadequate handling such is likely lead spurious associations, hampering replication, identification causal variants. Several strategies developed for protecting associations against confounding, most popular one based on Principal Component Analysis...

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It is therefore very important to optimise the care of diabetic patients at primary, secondary and tertiary care level. Numerous clinical practice guidelines for management of diabetes have been compiled and circulated to health care workers, but despite this the level of diabetes care is still not ideal because of suboptimal implementation strategies. Guideline implementation problems are a si...