BACKGROUND Upper respiratory tract infections (URIs) represent the most frequent cause of acute asthma exacerbation. Systemic corticosteroid (CS) is presently recommended for URI-induced asthma exacerbation, although it might inhibit cellular immunity against respiratory virus infection. OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of adding a short course (2 weeks) of a leukotriene receptor antagonis...

The aggregation of heterogeneous data from different institutions in cultural heritage and e-science has the potential to create rich data resources useful for a range of different purposes, from research to education and public interests. In this paper, we present the architecture and functionality of X3ML data exchange framework, that handles effectively and efficiently the schema mapping, UR...

Objective: This study is to systematically review the clinical efficacy of Sanren Decoction on the treatment of upper respiratory infections (URI). Methods: A systematic literature search of PubMed, EMbase, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, CNKI, VIP and WanFang databases was performed for randomized controlled trials (RCT) of Sanren Decoction’s treatment on URI until October 2015. Two reviewers indep...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is the most frequent infection in patients with cirrhosis causing significant mortality. Delay in SBP diagnosis is a serious problem. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic yield of Uri-Quick Clini-10SG® vs. Multistix 10SG® reagent strips in an Emergency Department. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective study of consecutive patients wi...

BACKGROUND Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract disease (LRD) is a life-threatening complication in hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients. Lymphopenia has been associated with an increased risk of progression from upper respiratory tract infection (URI) to LRD. METHODS This study retrospectively analyzed the significance of lymphocyte engraftment dynamics, lung f...

The Web is ephemeral. Many resources have representations that change over time, and many of those representations are lost forever. A lucky few manage to reappear as archived resources that carry their own URIs. For example, some content management systems maintain version pages that reflect a frozen prior state of their changing resources. Archives recurrently crawl the web to obtain the actu...

BACKGROUND Acute otitis media (OM) is a common disease which often develops through complex interactions between the host, the pathogen and environmental factors. We studied single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in innate and adaptive immunity, and other host and environmental factors for their role in OM. METHODS Using Sequenom Massarray platform, 21 SNPs were studied in 6...

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is often used to initiate connections to applications such as voicemail or interactive voice recognition systems. This specification describes a convention for forming SIP service URIs that request particular services based on redirecting targets from such applications. Jennings, et al. Informational [Page 1] RFC 4458 SIP Voicemail URI April 2006 Table of

The aggregation of heterogeneous data from different institutions in cultural heritage and e-science has the potential to create rich data resources useful for a range of different purposes, from research to education and public interests. In this paper, we present the architecture and functionality of X3ML data exchange framework, that handles effectively and efficiently the schema mapping, UR...