UNLABELLED The in vitro activity of tigecycline (former GAR-936), a new semisynthetic tetracycline, was evaluated in comparison with tetracycline and other antimicrobial agents. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 1,326 contemporary clinical isolates collected from the Latin American region were collected in 2000-2002 period and tested with microdilution broth according to the CLSI guidelines. Th...

BACKGROUND Severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with high mortality. The choice of antibiotics should be guided by the distribution of bacterial pathogens. The purpose of this study was to analyze the causative bacteria and outcomes of patients with severe CAP in a medical intensive care unit (MICU) in Taiwan. The results may provide a basis of guidance for future empirical a...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It may be named multidrug-resistant S. aureus or Oxacillin-resistant S. aureus (ORSA). MRSA is a strain of S. aureus that developed resistance to β-Lactam antibiotics, including Penicillins, which include (Methicillin, Dicloxacillin, Nafcillin, Oxacillin, etc.) and ...

Given two sets of positive and negative examples, the inductive inference problem is to infer a small set of logical clauses which appropriately classify the examples. A graph theoretic approach is used to establish a lower limit on the minimum number of required clauses. Furthermore, the findings of this paper reveal methods for partitioning the original data and thus solving efficiently large...

The standard setup in reconstructing the three-dimensional geometry of a scene from a pair of stereo images is to have them rectified, in which case the apparent motion of points is horizontal. With pinhole cameras, it is always possible to find two homographies that rectify the images. The method of Fusiello and Irsara assumes that both cameras are the same with principal point at the center, ...