Aeromonas species are Gram-negative anaerobes with the natural habitat of fresh and seawater watercourses and have also been found in stagnant and flowing water reservoirs, water tanks as well as moist soil [1]. The literature primarily describes cases of alimentary tract infections [2] and occasionally sepsis or inflammation of the fascia and muscles [3]. A 75-year-old woman was admitted to th...

Mathematics has long been an important tool in infectious disease epidemiology. I will provide a brief overview of compartmental models, the dominant framework for modeling disease transmission, and then contact network epidemiology, a more powerful approach that applies bond percolation on random graphs to model the spread of infectious disease through heterogeneous populations. I will derive ...

a Swiss Centre for International Health of the Swiss Tropical Institute, PO Box, 4002 Basel, Switzerland; Medicus Mundi Switzerland-Network Health for All, http:// www.medicusmundi.ch. Correspondence to Nicolaus Lorenz (e-mail: [email protected]). doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.033597 (Submitted: 1 June 2006 – Accepted: 18 July 2006) Introduction It is to be hoped that past mistakes are not going ...

【CLC】 R734.2 DOI:10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2008.05.020 Deptment of Thoracic Surgery and Tumors, Oncology Center in Bydgoszcz; Deptment of Immunology and Nutrition, Medical University, Warsaw; Deptment of Thoracic Surgery, Olsztyn City Hospital, Olsztyn; Deptment of Human Nutrition, Medical University, Warsaw; Deptment of Surgical Research and Transplantology, Medical Research Center, Polish Acad...

One of the most fascinating aspects of nineteenth-century experimental medicine is the role of so-called vivisection in securing advances and, at the same time, earning vehement criticism. Dr. French deals with the latter in his scholarly and comprehensive study, and he traces the anti-vivisection movement in the last three decades of the ninteenth century. Objectors to animal experiments had, ...

Although the book is written by academic librarians and is dedicated to the efforts made by an urban academic library, its usefulness applies to all types of libraries wanting to create or build on diversity programming and outreach efforts .—Marcy Simons, University of Notre Dame. This beautifully designed and illustrated publication is a fitting tribute to Dr. Elliott Hinkes, an alumnus of Jo...

One of the most fascinating aspects of nineteenth-century experimental medicine is the role of so-called vivisection in securing advances and, at the same time, earning vehement criticism. Dr. French deals with the latter in his scholarly and comprehensive study, and he traces the anti-vivisection movement in the last three decades of the ninteenth century. Objectors to animal experiments had, ...

Here we discuss evolution and broad-band emission of compact (< kpc) lobes in young radio sources. We propose a simple dynamical description for these objects, consisting of a relativistic jet propagating into a uniform gaseous medium in the central parts of an elliptical host. In the framework of the proposed model, we follow the evolution of ultrarelativistic electrons injected from a termina...

The response of the iris of amphibians to alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH), caffeine, melatonin, and phenylephrine was studied. Three species of animals were used: Rana pipiens, Rana catesbeiana, and Bufo marinus. In in vivo studies, the iris was observed and photographed through a Zeiss operating microscope at 25x magnification. The appearance of the pigment patterns of each iris was...