TO THE EDITOR—We read with great interest the paper of Sousa et al claiming that asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is a risk factor for prosthetic joint infection (PJI) [1]. We congratulate the authors for this important multicenter study [1] and Dr Duncan for the accompanying editorial that highlights the key limitations of the study [2]. The administration of antibiotics for ASB before elective ...

Newcastle Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Research Group (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 90. Asymptomatic bacteriuria in schoolchildren in Newcastle upon Tyne. A screening survey for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in 13 464 schoolgirls aged 4 to 18 years in Newcastle upon Tyne showed an overall prevalence of 1 *9%. In girls aged 4 to 6 years it was 1 4%, in girls aged 7 to 11 years it wa...

BACKGROUND A retrospective study was done on Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (ASB), among elderly diabetic patients residing in Chitwan, Nepal from 1st January 2006 to 12th December 2006. Diabetic patients above 40 years of age were included in this study where as below 40 years of age group were excluded. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of ASB among elderly diabetic patients for the Bacteriologic...

Adiabatic shear banding (ASB) is a unique dynamic failure mechanism that results in an unpredicted catastrophic failure due to a concentrated shear deformation mode. It is universally considered as a material or structural instability and as such, ASB is hardly controllable or predictable to some extent. ASB is modeled on the premise of stability analyses. The leading paradigm is that a competi...

We study the initiation and propagation of adiabatic shear bands (ASBs) in 11 homogeneous materials each modeled as microporous, isotropic and thermoelastoviscoplastic, and deformed in plane strain tension. The heat conduction in each material is assumed to be governed by a hyperbolic heat equation; thus thermal and mechanical waves propagate with finite speeds. The decrease in the thermophysic...

We report the draft genome sequence of Microbispora sp. strain ATCC-PTA-5024, a soil isolate that produces NAI-107, a new lantibiotic with the potential to treat life-threatening infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-positive pathogens. The draft genome of strain Microbispora sp. ATCC-PTA-5024 consists of 8,543,819 bp, with a 71.2% G+C content and 7,860 protein-coding genes.

We conducted a case-control study on asbestos exposure and presence of SV40 in tumor samples of malignant mesotheliomas (MMs) and bladder urotheliomas (BUs). PCR analysis revealed the presence of SV40 DNA (SV40+) in eight (42.1%) MMs and 6 (33.3%) BUs. The odds ratio for MM Asb- and SV40+ was 0.4 [95% confidence interval (95% CI), 0.03-4.0], for Asb+ and SV40- was 3.6 (95% CI, 0.6-21.0), and fo...

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) bacteriuria is a frequently encountered clinical condition, but its clinical impact is unknown. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to define the epidemiology and outcomes for patients with CRKP bacteriuria. Patients with positive urine cultures for CRKP were classified as having asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) or symptomatic urinary tract ...

The diagnosis of ASB is the most important step in managing ASB. As stated at the article the most important point for diagnosis is microbiological tests. In this context the number of specimens for culture is crucial. In guidelines ASB in men is defined as the isolation of ≥ 105 cfu/mL bacteria in a single cleancatch voided urine specimen. On the other hand in women, two consecutive urine spec...

In this meta-analytic review, Hans J. Eysenck’s theory of criminality (Eysenck, 1964, 1977) serves as a theoretical framework for examining the relations between higher order personality dimensions and antisocial behavior (ASB). The three higher order dimensions examined are referred to as extraversion/sociability, neuroticism/emotionality, and impulsivity/disinhibition (see Sher & Trull, 1994)...