The protective efficacy of mAbs to Cryptococcus neoformans glucuronoxylomannan depends on Ab isotype. Previous studies in A/JCr and C57BL/6J mice showed relative protective efficacy of IgG1, IgG2a >> IgG3. However, we now report that in C57BL/6J x 129/Sv mice, IgG3 is protective while IgG1 is not protective, with neither isotype being protective in 129/Sv mice. IgG1, IgG2a, and IgG3 had differe...

Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), between 1987 and 1996 we analyzed Salmonella enteritidis isolates from gastroenteritis cases in four Caribbean countries: Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. We also determined the resistance of the isolates to 12 antimicrobial agents. Of the 129 isolates of S. enteritidis available for testing, DNA digested by Xb...

1. Concerning These Notes 2 2. Introduction (First Day) 2 3. Algebraic Numbers and Integers 5 4. Linear Algebra for Number Theory 10 5. Review of Field Theory; Traces/Norms 10 6. Units: Some Notes Missing Here 16 7. Diophantine Approximation 16 8. The Trace Pairing 18 9. Linear Algebra and Discriminants 21 10. The Ring of Integers Inside the Number Field 26 11. Some Computational Aspects of Dis...

A retrospective study of 129 cases ofabdominal trauma admitted to a district general hospital over the 8 years 1964-71 is reported. Road traffic accidents accounted for 60% of the cases and had a much higher mortality than domestic or industrial accidents. Laparotomy was carried out in eighty-eight patients, but two patients with a ruptured abdominal viscus died without operation because the di...

T Slow cooling and long stirring produce particles that are large and spherical, while fast cooling and short stirring produce small, jagged particles that tend to stick together. As a result, the larger particles slide by each other more easily than the smaller ones do, producing a semisolid with less resistance to flow. High-speed videos show that the semisolid advances smoothly and evenly, p...

Hyperpolarized (HP) (129) Xe MR offers unique advantages for brain functional imaging (fMRI) because of its extremely high sensitivity to different chemical environments and the total absence of background noise in biological tissues. However, its advancement and applications are currently plagued by issues of signal strength. Generally, xenon atoms found in the brain after inhalation are trans...

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The waitoreke, or supposed South Island otter, has remained a mystery for over a century; for, despite the authoritative evidence of Haast' (1877, 1879), some highly circumstantial early Maori accounts and numerous well-documented' and impressive claims of later sightings by' amateur naturalists, zoologists generally have been only too happy to dismiss the animal as a myth. An examination of mu...