We read with great interest C. S. Antonio et al.’s letter describing the high prevalence of Acinetobacter baumannii carrying blaOXA-143 in Brazilian hospitals (1). Recently, we carried out a similar study, and although the blaOXA-143 gene was identified, its frequency was lower than that reported by Antonio et al. (1). During 2008, a total of 803 Gram-negative bacillus isolates, 1 isolate per p...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between the triglyceride/high density lipoprotein cholesterol (TG/HDL-c) ratio, insulin resistance index and cardiometabolic risk factors in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). PATIENTS AND METHOD The present crosssectional study analyzed 62 women with PCOS and 48 healthy women (control group) aged 17- 35 years old. Body mass index (BMI), waist ...

Obesity is associated with an atherogenic lipid profile. No data exists on lipoprotein particle profiles in metabolically healthy obese (MHO) individuals. Our aim is to characterize lipoprotein size, particle, and subclass concentrations in MHO women after 3 months of weight loss through dietary restriction and physical exercise.A total of 115 nondiabetic women (aged 35-55 years) with a body ma...

INTRODUCTION It is well known that there is a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome (MS) in postmenopausal women. Recently it has become evident that adiponectin and leptin secreted by adipose tissue may be involved in the pathophysiology of MS. THE AIM OF THE STUDY was to assess the effects of the menopause on the relationships between adiponectin and leptin...

BACKGROUND Many publications link high homocysteine levels to cardiovascular disease. In Spain there is little information on the prevalence of hyperhomocysteinaemia and associated vitamin factors among the general population, and less still among children. Cardiovascular risk factors in the childhood population may be related to the appearance of cardiovascular disease at adult age. The aim of...

In this paper, we present a hardware-software cosimulation environment for heterogeneous systems. To be an efficient system verification environment for the rapid prototyping of heterogeneous systems, the environment provides interface transparency, simulation acceleration, smooth transition to cosynthesis, and integrated user interface and internal representation. As an experimental example, a...

Members of the genus Acinetobacter possess distinct plasmid types which provide effective platforms for the acquisition, evolution, and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance structures. Many plasmid-borne resistance structures are bordered by short DNA sequences providing potential recognition sites for the host XerC and XerD site-specific tyrosine recombinases (XerC/D-like sites). However,...

The genus Acinetobacter comprises 47 characterised genomic species, among which species belonging to the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus–Acinetobacter baumannii complex are the most clinically relevant. Within this complex, A. baumannii, Acinetobacter nosocomialis (formerly genomic species 13TU) and Acinetobacter pittii (formerly genomic species 3) are frequently associated with hospital-acquired i...

We show how an extended Prolog can be exploited to implement different electronic CAD tools. Starting with a computer hardware description language (CHDL) several problems like digital circuit analysis, simulation and code generation for programmable microprocessors are discussed. For that purpose a part of the MIMOLA (machine independent micropro-gramming language) system MSS (MIMOLA hardware ...