OBJECTIVES To summarize available evidence on the effect of continuous infusion (CoI) of vancomycin compared with intermittent infusion (InI) in adult patients with Gram-positive infections. METHODS MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane databases were searched. Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and observational studies that comparatively assessed CoI and InI of vancomycin in terms of mortality, clini...

The study analyzes sequence variation of two mitochondrial genes (COI, cytb) in Pediculus humanus from three countries (Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa) that have received little prior attention, and integrates these results with prior data. Analysis indicates a maximum K2P distance of 10.3% among 960 COI sequences and 13.8% among 479 cytb sequences. Three analytical methods (BIN, PTP, ABGD) reve...

We analyzed the intraspecific gene genealogies of three Leptocarabus ground beetle species (L. seishinensis, L. semiopacus, L. koreanus) in South Korea using sequence data from the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and nuclear 28S rRNA (28S) genes, and compared phylogeographical patterns among the species. The COI data detected significant genetic differentiation among local popu...

Harvard Medical School has relaxed its conflicts of interest (COI) rules for faculty members who conduct clinical research, more than doubling the amount they can receive from the companies whose products they are investigating. Previous rules allowed faculty members to receive nomore than $10 000 from each company whose technology they were studying. But under new rules issued on 12 May, facul...

We propose to process and combine with state-of-the-art tools the majority of the WFPC2 images obtained as part of Archival Pure Parallel Program, consisting of observations of over 3,000 random pointings primarily in the wide WFPC2 UBV I filters. We will produce combined and cosmic-ray cleaned images, as well as object catalogs, for over 2,000 of these pointings. We will use these data to addr...

The exact species status of New Zealand's extinct moa remains unknown. In particular, moa belonging to the genus Euryapteryx have been difficult to classify. We use the DNA barcoding sequence on a range of Euryapteryx samples in an attempt to resolve the species status for this genus. We obtained mitochondrial control region and the barcoding region from Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit I (COI) from ...

With almost 40 000 species, the spiders provide important model systems for studies of sociality, mating systems, and sexual dimorphism. However, work on this group is regularly constrained by difficulties in species identification. DNA-based identification systems represent a promising approach to resolve this taxonomic impediment, but their efficacy has only been tested in a few groups. In th...

all wasp species in the genus lysiphlebus fã¶rster are solitary endoparasitoids of aphids andconsidered a taxonomically difficult group. in this study a part of coi and its2 was used to distinguishtwo closely related species l. fabarum (marshall) and l. confusus tremblay & eady in iran. thesequencing with a similarity about 99.5% showed coi's inability to separate the species l. fabarum an...

the molecular phylogenetic trees of 42 representative samples of malaysian pangasiid were constructed using cytochrome c oxidase subunit i (coi). the topologies resulting from molecular analyses, maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and bayesian inference, revealed the paraphyly of pangasius genus and monophyly of p. nasutus, p. bocourti, p. micronemus, and p. hypopthalmus with high support v...