AIM To evaluate the effectiveness of 2.5% povidone-iodine eye drops (PIED) compared with ophthalmic chloramphenicol (OC) for preventing neonatal conjunctivitis. METHODS 2004 neonates were enrolled from three rural hospitals in a trachoma endemic area. They were randomly assigned to receive either PIED (n = 1024) or OC (n = 974). Infectious conjunctivitis was confirmed by laboratory methods, i...

La luxation sous-talienne est une perte de rapports anatomiques entre l'astragale, calcanéum et scaphoïde. C'est une lésion rare, elle représente 1% de toutes les luxations observées en traumatologie. Nous rapportons le cas d'une patiente de 40 ans, sans antécédents, ayant subi un traumatisme de son pied droit lors de la réception d'un saut d'un lieu élevé d'un mètre (mécanisme en inversion du ...

Genetic distances were studied among Czech Red cattle, German Red, Czech Pied, Polish Red, Czech Black and White, and German Black and White cattle. DA genetic distances were calculated, and trees were constructed using the Neighbour-Joining method. Evaluating the genetic distances by microsatellites, the lowest value was between Czech and German Black and White breeds. A surprisingly high valu...

26 herds with 71 586 individual records were used. We tested a hypothesis that milk efficiency was influenced by the elevation of the farm, housing system, breed, area of altitude, and by the cooling of dairy cows. There were 20 herds from lowlands and 6 herds from mountains, 20 herds from free-stall housing, 6 herds from tie-stall housing. 8 herds consisted of Slovakian Pied cattle, 4 herds of...

L'ostéoarthropathie de Charcot est une complication grave qui touche les patients diabétiques présentant une neuropathie périphérique. La phase aiguë est rarement identifiée. Seul un diagnostic précoce peut limiter l'évolution vers des déformations du pied, voire l'amputation. Un patient âgé de 58 ans, était hospitalisé pour une suspicion de thrombose veineuse du membre inférieur droit devant l...

Character displacement can reduce costly interspecific interactions between young species. We investigated the mechanisms behind divergence in three key traits-breeding habitat choice, timing of breeding, and plumage coloration-in Ficedula flycatchers. We found that male pied flycatchers became expelled from the preferred deciduous habitat into mixed forest as the superior competitor, collared ...

Introduction: Le pied diabétique se définit comme l'ensemble des manifestations trophiques du pied survenant chez le diabétique par atteinte nerveuse, artérielle et ou infectieuse. Le pied diabétique est un problème majeur de santé publique à l'échelle mondiale avec un taux d'amputation de membres inférieurs très élevé. L'écho-doppler artériel des membres inférieurs est de nos jours incontourna...

Ecological speciation predicts that hybrids should experience relatively low fitness in the local environments of their parental species. In this study, we performed a translocation experiment of nestling hybrids between collared and pied flycatchers into the nests of conspecific pairs of their parental species. Our aim was to compare the performance of hybrids with purebred nestlings. Nestling...

Speciation can be seen as the establishment of reproductive barriers among species. Hybrid zones provide us with an ideal situation to study the process of speciation because the evolution of reproductive isolation is still in progress. Hybrids usually suffer reduced fitness (i.e. leading to post-zygotic isolation) although they may have higher or similar fitness as the parental species in some...