Land subsidence in the Aguascalientes Valley, documented since 1980s, has developed a large number of discontinuities that damage infrastructure. There is currently no methodology to accurately predict site and time at which discontinuity will occur, making it difficult make decisions urban planning or risk management. However, possible determine susceptibility an area generation fractures base...

background: during recent years transmission of dirofilaria immitis (dog heart worm) by culex pipiens and west nile virus have been reported from iran. the present study was preformed for evaluating the susceptibility status of cx. pipiens collected from capital city of tehran, iran . methods: four insecticides including: ddt 4%, lambdacyhalothrin 0.05%, deltamethrin 0.05% and cyfluthrin 0.15 %...

background and objectives: pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most important causative agents of nosocomial infections especially in icu and burn units. p. aeruginosa infections are normally difficult to eradicate due to acquired resistance to many antibiotics. recent appearance of carbapenem resistant p. aeruginosa isolates is considered a major healthcare problem. the present study was cond...

conclusions the emergence of streptococcus pneumoniae strains with multiple resistance needs permanent monitoring of antibiotic susceptibility patterns of clinical isolates. we have found that ceftazidime is not a suitable drug for choosing the treatment of pneumococcal infections. results the study showed that three strains (6%) and six strains (12%) indicated intermediate resistance and compl...

in this study, a manganite sample with a nominal formula of la0.9sr0.1mno3 was prepared by the microwave assisted sol-gel method and annealing at various temperatures. the structural and magnetic properties of the samples were investigated by xrd, fesem and ac susceptometer, respectively. xrd analysis showed that the samples are a nearly single phase. fesem micrographs showed that by increasing...

mycoplasmosis caused by mycoplasma has immensely reduced the performance of commercial animal husbandry, along with prevalence and increase of drug resistance in mycoplasma, thus new agents and therapies are urgently needed. triclosan is a broad spectrum antimicrobial agent with a favorable safety profile. in the present study, we tested the antimycoplasmal activity of triclosan alone, as well ...

conclusions these findings highlight the importance of precise and correct species identification of clinical yeast isolates via molecular approaches, and of monitoring the antifungal susceptibility of candida species recovered from clinical sources. laboratories should consider routine mic testing of c. glabrata isolates collected from sterile sites. surveillance studies of candida species and...

We evaluated the new automated VITEK 2 system (bioMérieux) for the identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of enterococci. The results obtained with the VITEK 2 system were compared to those obtained by reference methods: standard identification by the scheme of Facklam and Sahm [R. R. Facklam and D. F. Sahm, p. 308-314, in P. R. Murray et al., ed., Manual of Clinical Microbiolo...

The nature of inflammatory signals determines the outcome of T cell responses. However, little is known about how inflammatory cytokines provided to human CD8 T cells during activation affects their susceptibility to post-activation cell death. We have examined and compared the effects of the inflammatory cytokine IL-12, as well as the combination of IL-1, IL-6, and IL-23 (IL-1/6/23) on the sus...

ABSTRACT Experiments were conducted in three prune orchards in California. In each orchard, inoculations with Monilinia fructicola, the causal agent of brown rot of stone fruits, were performed on branches of trees at bloom and fruit developmental stages. Five inoculum concentrations were used in each inoculation. Six and four wetness durations were created for each inoculum concentration at bl...