BACKGROUND Immunization against childhood diseases is one of the most important ways of preventing childhood morbidity and mortality. AIMS The objective of this study is to review the dropout rates of immunization of children in a health center using a single dose of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT1) and three doses of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT3) vaccine. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This...

The dynamics of a thixotropic silica aerosil gel dispersed in an octylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystal were directly probed by x-ray intensity fluctuation spectroscopy. For all samples, the time-autocorrelation function of the gel was well described by a modified-exponential function over the q range studied. Compared to a pure gel sample, a dilute (0.06 g cm(-3)) gel embedded within the liquid cry...

The molecular dynamics of [-SiDMe(2)] grafted on two amorphous silica materials, mesoporous SBA and non-porous Aerosil, was investigated by deuteron ((2)H) solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Quadrupole echo (QE), quadrupole Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (QCPMG) and magic angle spinning (MAS) spectra were recorded as a function of temperature. These were analyzed to determine the rates and trajectories o...

13. Mollaret H. Conservation du bacille de la peste durant 28 mois en terrier arti? ciel: demonstration experimentale de la conservation interepizootique de las peste dans ses foyers inveteres. CR Acad Sci Paris. 1968;267:972–3. 14. Mollaret HH. Experimental preservation of plague in soil [in French]. Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales. 1963;56:1168–82. 15. Chu MC. Laboratory manual of plague diagno...

Genome Res. July , 2010 20: 972-980 John R. Edwards, Anne H. O'Donnell, Robert A. Rollins, et al. define the fine and gross structure of genomic methylation patterns Chromatin and sequence features that Genome Res. March , 2010 20: 320-331 Louise Laurent, Eleanor Wong, Guoliang Li, et al. methylome during differentiation Dynamic changes in the human Genome Res. June , 2009 19: 1044-1056 Alayn...

Obesity is associated with insulin resistance and other major cardiovascular risk factors. A common amino acid polymorphism at codon 972 of the insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) has been shown to interact with obesity in the expression of insulin resistance. The plasma concentration of the adipocyte-specific hormone leptin is increased in obesity and is correlated with adipose tissue mass. B...

REUBEN S. ASPDEN, NATHAN R. GEMMELL, PETER A. MORRIS, DANIEL S. TASCA, LENA MERTENS, MICHAEL G. TANNER, ROBERT A. KIRKWOOD, ALESSANDRO RUGGERI, ALBERTO TOSI, ROBERT W. BOYD, GERALD S. BULLER, ROBERT H. HADFIELD, AND MILES J. PADGETT* SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK SUPA, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinbur...

Lactococcin 972 (Lcn972) is a non-pore forming bacteriocin with a narrow spectrum of activity restricted to Lactococcus. Lcn972 inhibits the incorporation of cell wall precursors in the septum area, thereby inhibiting cell division. In this work, an additional inhibitory effect is described, namely, the induction of the lytic cycle of resident prophages in the lysogenic strain L. lactis IPLA 51...