The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of enterotoxigenic and enteroaggregative strains ofEscherichia coli in chicken carcasses by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In this study 63 strains of E. coliwere isolated from 110 samples of chicken carcasses during processing after chilling in the poultry slaughterhouse of Shahrekord. Polymerase chain reaction assays were used to detect t...

Paa (porcine attaching and effacing associated) may be an important virulence factor E. coli of piglets with diarrhea. This study showed for the first time in Brazil the prevalence of the paa gene (22%) in E. coli strains isolated from piglets and these isolates also harboured genes for other adhesins and toxins LT II, STa and STb.

Editor Associate Editors H. Joseph Newton Francis X. Diebold, University of Pennsylvania Department of Statistics Joanne M. Garrett, University of North Carolina Texas A & M University Marcello Pagano, Harvard School of Public Health College Station, Texas 77843 James L. Powell, UC Berkeley and Princeton University 409-845-3142 J. Patrick Royston, Imperial College School of Medicine 409-845-314...

Methods We retrospectively analyzed 812 consecutive patients treated with DES implantation for STEMI. Intracoronary thrombus burden was angiographically estimated and categorized as large thrombus burden (LTB), defined as thrombus burden 2 vessel diameters, and small thrombus burden (STB) to predict clinical outcomes. Major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were defined as death, repeat myocardial ...

BACKGROUND Although much has been written on the implications of friction generated between orthodontic archwires and labial brackets, information on lingual brackets is still limited. Hence, we set out to investigate the frictional resistance exerted by different lingual and labial brackets, including both conventional and self-ligating designs. The effect of various factors, namely bracket/ba...

In this article, we present a novel Lagrangian particle tracking method derived from the perspective of tracking-by-detection paradigm that has been adopted by many vision tasks. Under paradigm, problem consists first learning function (the tracker) maps target particle’s image projection backwardly to its possible position inferred precedent information. The actual is then detected applying le...

This paper proposes an effective channel management framework which analyzes the user channel surfing behavior and constructs fast channel change stream consisting of user preferred channels. The usual channel delay is obliterated if the user requested channel is found at the Set-Top-Box (STB).