BACKGROUND Surgical gloves provide a protective barrier for patients and members of the surgical team. Although glove integrity is important in an era of blood-borne pathogens, little data exist on bacterial passage after glove perforation. This study evaluated the impact of antimicrobial surgical gloves in reducing microbial passage after glove puncture in a model of wound contamination. MET...

Non-sterile gloves are just as effective as sterile gloves in preventing surgical site infection after minor skin surgeries.

The opportunistic Propionibacterium acnes recovered frequently from failed endodontic treatments might be the result of nosocomial endodontic infections. The study was aimed to determine if gloves worn by dentists could be 1 of the sources of these nosocomial infections and to investigate the P. acnes phylotypes involved.(...) Contamination of the gloves was detected at the final stages of the ...

The title compound, C(37)H(26)N(2)O(2), was synthesized from 1,1'-methyl-enedinaphthalen-2-ol and 3-(bromo-methyl)-benzo-nitrile. The two naphthyl systems are almost perpendicular to each other [dihedral angle 83.3 (9)°] and the two cyano-benz-yloxy rings approximately parallel to each other [dihedral angle 15.5 (2)°].

The geometric and electronic structure of the active site of the non-heme iron enzyme nitrile hydratase (NHase) is studied using sulfur K-edge XAS and DFT calculations. Using thiolate (RS(-))-, sulfenate (RSO(-))-, and sulfinate (RSO(2)(-))-ligated model complexes to provide benchmark spectral parameters, the results show that the S K-edge XAS is sensitive to the oxidation state of S-containing...

Crystallization-induced diastereoselective transformation (CIDT) of an α-methyl nitrile completes an entirely non-chromatographic synthesis of the halichondrin B C14-C26 stereochemical array. The requisite α-methyl nitrile substrate is derived from D-quinic acid through a series of substrate-controlled stereoselective reactions via a number of crystalline intermediates that benefit from a rigid...

This paper explores the dual meaning of counterfactual conditionals, such as ‘if there had been gloves, then there would have been scarves’, by tracking the temporal course to envisage the possibility corresponding to the conjecture ‘there were gloves and there were scarves’ and the presupposed facts, ‘there were no gloves and there were no scarves’. To test this, we used the visual world parad...

The handling of vinyl polysiloxane (addition silicone) impression putties with latex gloves is said to interfere with the setting of these impression materials. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of handling techniques on the setting of vinyl polysiloxane impression putties using several types of gloves. The setting of these materials was evaluated by means of an elasticimeter. Fou...