Background Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is characterised by chronic debilitating axial and peripheral joint inflammation, often concomitant with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-like gut phenotypes. However, the contribution of extra-articular pathologies to SpA not well understood. The ZAP-70 W163C BALB/c (SKG) mouse model develop arthritis, spondylitis IBD-like ileitis commencing from 1 week after...

OBJECTIVES Fifty-four methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ST398 isolates from unrelated diseased swine collected all over Germany were comparatively investigated for their antimicrobial resistance and virulence properties, and for their genomic relatedness. METHODS MICs of 30 antimicrobial agents were determined by broth microdilution. Resistance and virulence genes were detect...

The utility of sequencing a second highly variable locus in addition to the spa gene (e.g., double-locus sequence typing [DLST]) was investigated to overcome limitations of a Staphylococcus aureus single-locus typing method. Although adding a second locus seemed to increase discriminatory power, it was not sufficient to definitively infer evolutionary relationships within a single multilocus se...

In this paper, we extend our work on iterative softinput soft-output (SISO) decoding of high density parity check (HDPC) codes. Edge-local complementation (ELC) is a graph operation which can be used to give structural diversity during decoding with the sum-product algorithm (SPA). We describe the specific subgraphs required for ELC to not increase the weight of the Tanner graph beyond a specif...

Balneotherapy or Spa therapy is used in neurological, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, dermatological and gynecological diseases, in infertility as well as in metabolic disturbances. Beneficial effects of balneotherapy at the metabolic level is not fully understood. Authors have documented enhancement of antioxidants concentrations (coenzyme Q10- CoQ(10-OX) and alpha-tocopherol) of women with g...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Inflammatory innate and adaptive immune cell responses to commensal bacteria underlie the pathogenesis of human chronic inflammatory diseases. Intestinal dysbiosis has been described in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) and seems to be correlated with histologic and immunologic alterations. Purpose of this review is to discuss the relationship occurring between intestinal ...

Wellness and spa tourism has recently become a marketing strategy to attract tourists. It plays an important role in hotel industry, resorts and tourist destinations. Wellness and spa services are being required by local and international tourists. The interrelationship among motivations, satisfaction, and revisit intentions remain largely unexplored. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to ...

Sclerosing polycyctic adenosis (SPA) is a rare lesion of unknown etiology morphologically resembling fibrocystic changes of the breast. To date, approximately 41 cases of SPA have been reported. Most cases of SPA have originated in the parotid and submandibular glands, with a few cases of intra-oral minor salivary gland origin. This is the first reported case of sclerosing polycystic adenosis o...

Staphylococcal protein A (SpA) is a key virulence factor that enables Staphylococcus aureus to evade host innate and adaptive immune responses. The immunomodulatory properties of SpA have led to a hypothesis that it may have pharmacological applications as a treatment for autoimmune disease. Clinical trials are underway to test whether ultrapure SpA can be used to treat immune thrombocytopenia ...