Standard culture methods for diagnosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia take at least 24 h. The BinaxNOW urine-based test for S. pneumoniae (BinaxNOW-SP) takes only 15 min to conduct, potentially enabling earlier diagnosis and targeted treatment. This study was conducted to assess whether the use of BinaxNOW-SP at the time of hospital admission would provide adequate sensitivity and specif...

Abstract A dwarf sperm whale Kogia sima stranded alive along the Central Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. The whale, handled by tourists and local inhabitants, was weak, had buoyancy difficulties, eventually aborted died, showing severe necrotizing placentitis other pathological signs. Both mother fetus antibodies against Brucella lipopolysaccharide. organisms were isolated from various tissues bot...

PURPOSE Pulmonary surfactants for preterm infants contain mostly animal-derived surfactant proteins (SPs), which are essential for lowering surface tension. We prepared artificial pulmonary surfactants using synthetic human SP analogs and performed in vitro and in vivo experiments. MATERIALS AND METHODS We synthesized peptide analogues that resemble human SP-B (RMLPQLVCRLVLRCSMD) and SP-C (CP...

5 Thalassinoides sp. 19 INTRODUCTION 6 Genus Trichichnus Frey, n. gen. 20 Purpose and scope 6 Trichichnus linearis Frey, n. sp. 20 Stratigraphy 6 Genus Zoophycos Massalongo, 1855 22 Correlation of Fort Hays exposures 9 Zoophycos sp. A 22 Petrology 9 Zoophycos sp. B 22 Paleontology 9 Miscellaneous burrows 23 Acknowledgments 10 Arthrophycus-like burrows 23 TRACE FOSSILS (ICHNOLOGY) 10 Scaphopod-s...

Fifty-one species in 27 genera of Pseudococcidae, plus one species of Rhizoecidae and one species of Putoidae have been recorded from Iran based on literature data and on the material in the collection of the Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum, Iran. Keys to the Iranian genera and species based on adult female morphology are provided and the distribution data of each species and their host-plants are...

This article documents the addition of 171 microsatellite marker loci and 27 pairs of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sequencing primers to the Molecular Ecology Resources Database. Loci were developed for the following species: Bombus pauloensis, Cephalorhynchus heavisidii, Cercospora sojina, Harpyhaliaetus coronatus, Hordeum vulgare, Lachnolaimus maximus, Oceanodroma monteiroi, Puccinia ...