One hundred and twelve fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients were randomized into one of four demographically similar groups (n = 28/group). Sequential primary FMS patient volunteers were to receive daily sublingual placebo or interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) at 15, 50, or 150 IU. After a screening evaluation, analgesic or sedative hypnotic medications were withdrawn. Two weeks later, daily IFN-alph...

Confirmatory test for syphilis such as fluorescent treponemal antibody-absorption test (FTA-ABS), Treponema pallidum immobilization test (TPI), Treponema pallidum haemagglutination (TPHA) test are technically demanding and not available in most developing country settings outside of reference laboratories. By far, TPHA test has the sensitivity and specificity almost similar to that of FTA-ABS t...

From an herbivore's first bite, plants release herbivory-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) which can attract enemies of herbivores. However, other animals and competing plants can intercept HIPVs for their own use, and it remains unclear whether HIPVs serve as an indirect defense by increasing fitness for the emitting plant. In a 2-year field study, HIPV-emitting N. attenuata plants produced twic...

The clinical significance of different genetic subtypes or assemblages of Giardia lamblia is uncertain. Cases of giardiasis in south-west London between 1999 and 2005 were studied, comparing molecular-typing results with clinical and epidemiological findings from routine surveillance. We identified 819 cases, of whom 389 returned surveillance questionnaires. A subset of 267 faecal samples was s...

Pembatasan kegiatan selama pandemi Covid-19 memberikan dampak pada pemasaran ikan di Tempat Pelelangan Ikan (TPI) Palabuhanratu. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menghitung indeks persepsi pedagang terhadap Covid-19, keuntungan serta kelayakan usaha saat pandemi. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan case study. Teknik penentuan responden metode accidental sampling. Analisis data skoring, analisis dan ...

Giardia duodenalis isolates recovered from humans and dogs living in the same locality in a remote tea-growing community of northeast India were characterized at 3 different loci; the SSU-rDNA, elongation factor 1-alpha (ef1-alpha) and triose phosphate isomerase (tpi) gene. Phylogenetic analysis of the SSU-rDNA and efl-alpha genes provided poor genetic resolution of the isolates within various ...

Clinical manifestations of giardiasis vary from asymptomatic infection to chronic diarrhea. A total of 611 stool samples from Aboriginal participants residing in Jelebu, Gerik and Temerloh States, Malaysia, ages 2 to 74 years were screened for Giardia intestinalis using microscopic examination and sequence analysis of a fragment of nested-PCR amplified triosephosphate isomerase (tpi) gene. Demo...

A new series of isoxazole derivatives were synthesized by synthesizing various chalcone derivatives and cyclizing them to give resultant isoxazole derivatives (TPI1TPI20).. All the synthesized derivatives were characterized with FTIR and NMR spectral analysis and evaluated for their anti-inflammatory activity in vivo (carrageenan induced paw ooedema method in rats). The isoxazole derivatives TP...

Pseudo-chancre redux is rare and is defined as a gummatous (tertiary stage) recurrence at the site of the primary chancre (Stokes, Beerman, and Ingraham, 1944). The condition must be distinguished clinically and nosologically from chancre redux (monorecidive), which is an infectious relapse during the early phase of syphilis, at the site of the original chancre, from which treponemes may be rec...

The specific FTA-ABS and TPI tests are too costly and time-consuming to be used as screening procedures for treponemal disease. The VDRL test detects reagin, the antibody amongst others produced in syphilis and yaws and also present in a wide variety of disorders giving the biological false positive reaction. The RPR card test (Portnoy, Garson, and Smith, 1957; Reed, 1965), like the VDRL test, ...