BACKGROUND Diarrheagenic E.coli (DEC) are an important cause of childhood diarrhea.Identification of DEC strains needs to detect factors that determine the virulence of these organisms. There is not much data regarding the importance of DEC as a cause of diarrhea in children in India.The prevalence of DEC in children below five years with and without diarrhea was studied using two multiplex PCR...

Often, a relatively small number of trials suffices to enhance one’s task-specific perceptual capability. In the present experiment, fast perceptual learning was investigated with respect to the perception of the heights or widths of wielded nonvisible rectangular objects. In that haptic perceptual task, inertial differences (mass and moments of inertia) are the basis for perceived size differe...

Kidney stone formers may feel doomed to a life of unpredictable flank pain, periodic surgical intervention, and concomitant loss of work and daily pleasures. Indeed, if untreated, those who have formed one calcium oxalate stone have a 50% chance of forming additional stones within 10 years (Menon & Resnick, 2002). With appropriate education, patients can exercise some control over stone disease...

Corneal ulceration is a common sight-threatening problem in horses which regularly presents to mixed practice and equine veterinary practitioners. The severity of corneal ulcers can vary greatly, and the outcome depends on rapid diagnosis, early instigation of appropriate medical and/or surgical treatment with both patient and owner compliance. Deep ulcers, melting ulcers and descemetocoeles ar...

278 TH I S F O U R-PA RT S E R I E S o n changes in the re g i s t e re d nurse (RN) workforce has re p o rted the results of several analyses designed to assess: (a) plausible explanations for the curre n t s h o rtage of RNs in hospital specialty c a re units (Buerhaus, Staiger, & Auerbach, 2000a); (b) the influence of older-aged associate degree graduates in explaining the rapid aging of the...

This study investigated the anti-inflammatory effects of DEC on the CCl4-induced hepatotoxicity in C57BL/6 mice. Chronic inflammation was induced by i.p. administration of CCl4 0.5 μL/g of body weight through two injections a week for 6 weeks. DEC (50 mg/kg) was administered by gavage for 12 days before finishing the CCl4 induction. Histological analyses of the DEC-treated group exhibited reduc...

medical education play an important role in health of people in 20st-century, but this system has to change overtime. medical education must respond to not only the demand of community at larg but also to changing in new technologies. medical education have been criticized in last two decades of 20st-century, because of producing too many specialists focus on treatment instead of health, insuff...

BACKGROUND Foreign migrant workers with work permits in Thailand are given once a year 300 mg diethyl-carbamazine (DEC) for bancroftian filariasis, and 400 mg albendazole (ABZ) for helminthiasis. Treatment effectiveness, tolerability, and safety of two treatment arms, DEC + ABZ and DEC alone, had never been fully documented. OBJECTIVE Evaluate the tolerability of the two treatment arms and an...

Founder-event speciation, where a rare jump dispersal event founds a new genetically isolated lineage, has long been considered crucial by many historical biogeographers, but its importance is disputed within the vicariance school. Probabilistic modeling of geographic range evolution creates the potential to test different biogeographical models against data using standard statistical model cho...