Catherine Rabouille, Vivek Malhotra and Walter Nickel* Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands Centre for Genomic Regulation, C/ Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluı́s Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center,...

OBJECTIVE In Fukujuji Hospital, we have been conducting TST to tuberculosis (TB) non-infected staffs to find new latent TB Infection (LTBI) every year, although almost of them were BCG vaccinated, and the reliability of TST is controversial in BCG vaccinated group. Recently, a new technique, QFT-2G, is evaluated highly to detect TB infection, especially in BCG vaccinated individuals. We examine...

Transfer of patients in medical emergency situations is one of the most important missions of emergency medical service (EMS) staffs. So this study was performed to explore affecting factors in EMS staffs' decision during transporting of patients in medical situations to medical facilities. The participants in this qualitative study consisted of 18 EMS staffs working in prehospital care facilit...

BACKGROUND Practitioners of family medicine are essential to primary care practices in Korea. Resident training staffs in Korean family medicine departments have a crucial role in producing well-trained family physicians. This study assesses the aspects of satisfaction and difficulties of Korean family medicine resident training staffs. METHODS We surveyed the resident training staffs of vari...

BACKGROUND Primary care medical staffs' knowledge, attitude and behavior about health emergency and the response capacity are directly related to the control and prevention of public health emergencies. Therefore, it is of great significance for improving primary care to gain in-depth knowledge about knowledge, attitude and behavior and the response capacity of primary care medical staffs. The ...

BACKGROUND Organizational and structural obstacles are a group of major obstacles in achievement of appropriate family planning counseling. Detection of these obstacles from the viewpoint of managers, staffs and clients who are key members in health services providing system is a major step toward appropriate planning to modify or delete this group of obstacles. The present study was conducted ...

In this Communication one of the affiliations for author Prof. Ruben Martin was inadvertently omitted. Full and complete are given below: Institute Chemical Research Catalonia (ICIQ) The Barcelona Science Technology Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona (Spain) Catalan Institution Advanced Studies (ICREA) Passeig Lluïs Companys, 23, 08010

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Passeig Marı́tim de la Barceloneta, 37-49, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain, Departamento de Biologı́a (Zoologı́a), Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Darwin, 2, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G ...