BACKGROUND The reverse sequence algorithm is often used for prenatal syphilis screening by high-volume laboratories, beginning with a treponemal test such as the chemiluminescence immunoassay (CIA), followed by testing of CIA-positive (CIA(+)) specimens with the rapid plasma reagin test (RPR). The clinical significance of discordant serology (CIA(+)/RPR(-)) for maternal and neonatal outcomes is...

This study was funded by National Institutes of Health grant no. K08 AI-073525 (S.R.D.), by a fellowship from the Consejo Nacional para Ciencia y Tecnología of the Mexican federal government (S.G.R.), and by a fellowship from the Brazilian government agencies Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (L.G.B.G.).

BACKGROUND Screening for syphilis with treponemal chemiluminescence immunoassays (CIA) identifies patients with discordant serology who are not identified with traditional screening methods (eg, CIA-positive, rapid plasma regain (RPR)-negative). We sought to describe the clinical characteristics and management of patients with discordant syphilis serology. METHODS From August 2007-October 200...

Software change impact analysis (CIA) is a technique for identifying the effects of a change, or estimating what needs to be modified to accomplish a change. Since the 1980s, there have been many investigations on CIA, especially for code-based CIA techniques. However, there have been very few surveys on this topic. This article tries to fill this gap. And 30 papers that provide empirical evalu...

Chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA) is a frequent toxicity and arguably the most feared side effect of cancer chemotherapy (Carelle et al., 2002). The incidence of CIA is approximately 65% of all patients (Wang et al., 2006). CIA could be easily noticeable by self and others in a relative short time, thus it is linked with having cancer and chemotherapy. CIA compromises patient quality of life,...

Correspondence: Anastasios Dontas, Hellenic Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Athens, Greece 9 Afroditis Str., Athens, 105 58, Greece Tel 0030 210 3245 090 Fax 0030 210 3245 090 Email [email protected] Abstract: There are now several scientifi c studies that relate this traditional dietary pattern with the incidence of coronary heart disease, various types of cancer, and other diseases. T...

سابقه و هدف: ورود گونه­­ های ماهی مهاجم دراکوسیستم ­های آبی، سبب بروز انواع اثرات منفی اکولوژیکی اقتصادی-اجتماعی می ­­شود. اولین گام در تجزیه تحلیل مخاطرات ناشی از گونه­ غیر­بومی، شناسایی خطر است بر این اساس ابزارهای متعددی برای ارزیابی خطرات تهاجمی غیربومی به منظور پشتیبانی تصمیم گیرندگان گونه ­­ها ایجاد شده است. هدف پژوهش قدرت تیلاپیای شکم قرمز (Coptodon zillii) حوضه آبریز تالاب شادگان (حوضه‌...

Consider a CIA agent who wants to authenticate herself to a server, but does not want to reveal her CIA credentials unless the server is a genuine CIA outlet. Consider also that the CIA server does not want to reveal its CIA credentials to anyone but CIA agents – not even to other CIA servers. In this paper we first show how pairing-based cryptography can be used to implement such secret handsh...