Purpose: To evaluate the performance of the Combination Double Disc Method in the identification of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates. Materials and Methods: A total of 44 clinically relevant Enterobacteriaceae isolates were examined. The ESBL classification furnished by Combination Double Disc Test Method was concordant with that of the comparison method (Etest ESBL and molecular iden...

background and objectives : resistance among bacterial isolates is the leading cause of increased mortality and morbidity worldwide. carbapenems once thought to be effective are becoming ineffective mostly due to the emergence of carbapenemase. this study was designed to determine in vitro efficacy of modified hodge test for detection of carbapenemase production in gram negative rods. material ...

background and aim: dichotic digit test (ddt) is a valid neuropsychological tool for determining the dominant hemisphere in verbal processing; therefore, the main goal of this research was designing and investigating the psychometric properties of ddt in a sample of iranian children and then measuring its concurrent validity using the n-back task. methods: the present study was a descriptive an...

Adult laboratory mice {Mus musculus) were fed diets of chick starter mash containing 200 and 300 ppm of DDT. Some tolerated DDT feeding quite well; others died early in the experiment, shortly after feeding had begun. Some mice were able to survive for extended periods. The average number of young born to mice exposed to levels of 200 and 300 ppm of DDT was similar to that of the control animal...

The Danish Dependency Treebank (DDT) is a dependency treebank with 5,540 sentences totalling 100,200 tokens. DDT consists of 536 randomly selected texts from the morphosyntactically tagged Danish PAROLE corpus [5].1 The principles behind DDT are described in an 110 page annotation manual draft [7]. A research assistant has created the annotations manually and verified them once (at a rate of 1,...

Exposure to organochlorine pesticides, including DDT, has previously been associated with premature birth. Using an improved protocol to characterize dose and time dependent responses, the present report extends a preliminary finding by this laboratory that o,p'-DDT directly stimulates uterine contractility. Contraction frequency was determined in longitudinal uterine strips from pregnant rats ...

Production of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) producing E. coli in animals and different methods of identifications from Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, were investigated. Three hundred and fifty fecal samples, collected from apparently healthy cattle and pigs, were cultured and identified following standard procedures. ESBL phenotypic detection was carried out using combination disc te...