Changes in the molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) continue to be reported. This study was carried out to characterize MRSA isolates in Saudi Arabia. MRSA isolates causing nosocomial infections (n = 117) obtained from 2009-2015 at a tertiary-care facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, were studied. Molecular characterization of isolates was carried out using ...

Erika M. Kwon, Claudia A. Salinas, Suzanne Kolb, Rong Fu, Ziding Feng , Janet L. Stanford , and Elaine A. Ostrander National Human Genome Research Institute, Cancer Genetics Branch, National Institutes of Health, Building 50, 50 South Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA Program in Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA Division of ...

OBJECTIVES Our aim was to: (i) determine the current seroprevalence of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) in three large cohorts of cats from Australia; and (ii) investigate potential risk factors for retroviral infection. METHODS Cohort 1 (n = 2151 for FIV, n = 2241 for FeLV) consisted of cats surrendered to a shelter on the west coast of Australia (Perth, ...

Author details Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, D2-190, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA. Department of Biostatistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Children’s Oncology Group, Monrovia, CA, USA. Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY, USA. Department of Pediatrics, Memori...

1 Migration potential as a new predictor of long-distance dispersal rate for 2 plants 3 4 Tianhua He, Byron B. Lamont, Neal J. Enright, Siegfried L. Krauss and Laura Merwin 5 6 7 T. He ([email protected]), B. B. Lamont, N. J. Enright and L. Merwin, Centre for 8 Ecosystem Diversity and Dynamics, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin 9 University, PO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Austr...

. We denote by A1(N) and A0(N) the modular function fields with respect to Γ1(N) and Γ0(N) respectively. Let E be a set of triples of integers a = [a1, a2, a3] with the properties 0 < ai ≤ N/2 and ai 6= aj for i 6= j. For an element τ of complex upper half plane H, we denote by Lτ the lattice in C generated by 1 and τ . Let ℘(z;Lτ ) be the Weierstrass ℘-function relative to the lattice Lτ . For...

To assess quantitatively phosphocreatine (PCr), adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and total creatine (CR) in asynergic regions of ischemic human myocardium using phosphorus (31P) and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS). Patients were divided into two groups: 31P MRS and 1H MRS. In each group, patients were subdivided into three groups using echocardiography: a normokinetic [WN(P) (n = 6)...

We examined whether zinc transporter 8 autoantibodies (ZnT8A; arginine ZnT8-RA, tryptophan ZnT8-WA, and glutamine ZnT8-QA variants) differed between immigrant and Swedish patients due to different polymorphisms of SLC30A8, HLA-DQ, or both. Newly diagnosed autoimmune (≥1 islet autoantibody) type 1 diabetic patients (n = 2,964, <18 years, 55% male) were ascertained in the Better Diabetes Diagnosi...

Following the structure meaning approach (c.f. [3,4]), I argued in [5] that the prosodic peak of Contrastive-marking creates a partition of the asserted proposition into B (background) and F (Focus). The morphological wa-marking then introduces the Con operator that takes the structured meaning as its argument and yields a conventional implicature. The Contrastive-marked sentence presupposes th...