A PCR-based assay that can simultaneously detect and differentiate five different types of nosocomial bacterial pathogens was developed. Six pairs of selected primers targeting femA (132 bp) and mecA (310 bp) of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, gltA (722 bp) of Acinetobacter baumannii, phoA (903 bp) of Escherichia coli, mdh (364 bp) of Klebsiella pneumoniae and oprL (504 bp) of Pseu...

S. M. Perez,1,2 W. A. Richter,3 B. A. Brown,4 and M. Horoi5 1Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa 2iThemba LABS, P. O. Box 722, Somerset West 7129, South Africa 3Department of Physics, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, and National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab...

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 R I. THE CRIMINAL HIV-EXPOSURE STATUTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712 R A. Origins: Patient Zero and the Presidential Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712 R B. The Statutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Peroxisomes play an important role in lipid metabolic pathways and are implicated in many human disorders. Their biogenesis has been studied over the last two decades using many uniand multi-cellular model systems and many aspects of the mechanisms and proteins involved in peroxisome biogenesis are conserved from yeast to humans. In this manuscript we review the recent progress made in our unde...

The UV absorption and emission spectra of anthracene in an argon matrix were measured. Three major spectroscopic systems were observed, assignable to anthracene molecules occupying distinct sites. The origins of these systems were red-shifted with respect to the isolated molecule by 535,69 1 and 722 cm-‘. At 17 K all lines were well resolved, with about 8 cm-’ fwhm. Addition of a small amount o...

The heat of vaporization of a pure substance at its normal boiling temperature is a very important property in many chemical processes. In this work, a new empirical method was developed to predict vaporization enthalpy of pure substances. This equation is a function of normal boiling temperature, critical temperature, and critical pressure. The presented model is simple to use and provides an ...

2. CARIDI G, BERTELLI R, DI DUCA M, et al: Broadening the spectrum of diseases related to podocin mutations. J Am Soc Nephrol 14:1278– 1286, 2003 3. RUF RG, LICHTENBERGER A, KARLE SM, et al: Patients with mutations in NPHS2 (podocin) do not respond to standard steroid treatment of nephrotic syndrome. J Am Soc Nephrol 15:722–732, 2004 4. CARRARO M, CARIDI G, BRUSCHI M, et al: Serum glomerular pe...

Pierre Aubry, Eric Brochet, Xavier Halna du Fretay, Sophie Bouton-Brochet, Hassan Ibrahim, Devices Covered Atrial Septal Defect Closure − Early Malfunction of Polyvinyl Alcohol Membrane Print ISSN: 1941-7640. Online ISSN: 1941-7632 Copyright © 2014 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Circu...

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