background and objective: staphylococcus aureus is an important infection in hemodialysis patients. we studied the prevalence of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) and its antibiotic resistance pattern in patients receiving hemodialysis as well as in dialysis unit staff. materials and methods: from june to september 2012, we evaluated 74 cases including 61 pati...

Acatalasemia, a rare congenital abnormality characterized by an apparent lack of the enzyme catalase, was first discovered by Takahara and Miyamoto in 1947 (1, 2). The lack of catalase activity in this disease was initially noted in whole blood, but subsequent studies of the tissues of other organs such as the nasal and oral cavities, the pharynx, bone marrow and liver have revealed a similar a...

We evaluated the hematologic, rheologic, and biochemical features of erythrocytes obtained from 10 relatives of a 5-yr-old black female with hereditary pyropoikilocytosis (HPP) and severe hemolytic anemia. Erythrocyte morphology was normal in the father and five other relatives, but ghost mechanical fragility and drug-induced red cell endocytosis were increased, as was the percentage of spectri...

We studied the durations and average speeds of videopulses transmitted through chiral sculptured thin films using a finite–difference algorithm. The chiral STF was either linear or possessed an intensity–dependent permittivity. Videopulse durations tended to decrease with increasing carrier wavelength and to increase, for given carrier wavelength and polarization state, when the chiral STF was ...

The implications of a carrier model of ion and substrate cotransport are worked out. Each carrier is assumed to have one ion and one substrate binding site. The model includes features that have not been included in previously published models. These features are the effect of the membrane potential and of the assumption that all carrier forms, with or without bound substrate and with or withou...

background: equine piroplasmosis (ep) is the cause of persistent tick-borne infection with no symptoms, but the most important problem of ep is due to the persistent carrier state. carrier animals to babesia ( theileria ) equi (laveran 1901) and b. caballi (nuttall, 1910) infestation could be identified by extremely sensitive pcr-based method. the purpose of this study was to identify the causa...