Abstract Invasive species pose a significant threat to global biodiversity and human well-being. Despite the widespread use of long-term biomonitoring data in many natural science fields, analysis time series with focus on biological invasions is uncommon. To address this gap, we used twenty macroinvertebrate from highly anthropogenically altered Rhine River, collected over 32 years 1973 2005. ...

background hepatic fibrosis is an inclusion indicator for treatment and a major independent predictor of treatment response in patients with chronic hepatitis c. liver biopsy, considered as the “gold standard” for evaluating liver fibrosis, has carried some drawbacks. currently used noninvasive predictors of fibrosis are considered less accurate than liver biopsy. objectives our aim was to asse...

The invasion of non-native plants in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment (WBEA) area is a major economic and ecological stress, with invasions thought to be hastened by energy developments. Given the potential impacts of nonnative invasive plants and the rapid changes in land use in the WBEA, broad-scale assessments and predictive models of nonnative invasive plant distribution are needed...

BACKGROUND Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus organisms (VRE) have emerged as common nosocomial pathogens, but few population-based data are available on the impact of invasive VRE infections. METHODS We assessed the incidence of invasive VRE infections and predictors of mortality among patients identified during prospective, population-based surveillance performed in the metropolitan statisti...

invasive salmonellosis is common in tropical areas. this study examines the performance of a clinical definition for its recognition among children ages 1 to 14 years admitting to a referral pediatric hospital in tehran. 60 children were enrolled into the study during a period of 51 months. to facilitate analysis, cases were divided into 5 categories according to the likelihood of invasive salm...

background: fractures of distal radius are one of the most common fractures seen by physicians and account for 20% of all fractures seen in the emergency room. various factors contribute in secondary displacement of fracture fragments after anatomic or near anatomic close reduction and cast immobilization in distal radius fractures. this study was designed to examine the correlation between rad...

results 6 hours after ect, 126 patients (21.9%) reported headaches, and 56 patients (9%) reported myalgia. the presence of headache or myalgia 6 hours after ect was not correlated to the duration of convulsion, treatment sessions, sex, or age. but myalgia at 2 hours after treatment was correlated with sex (0.04). sex, age, duration of seizure, and treatment sessions were not predictors of heada...

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised many questions about the long-, medium- and short-term prognosis of this disease. Studies such as that Sosa Frias, et al. [1], where authors inquired prognostic factors evolution patients who developed severe phenotype COVID-19, required invasive ventilation died, showing leukogram initial chest X-ray are predictors unfavorable evolution.

chronic granulomatous disease is an infrequent primary immunodeficiency characterized by defective intracellular killing of ingested microorganisms thereby making patients highly susceptible to recurrent lite threatening bacterial and fungal infections. in this study, we review the medical course of an 8 yr old girl with ar-cgd. she suffered from recurrent dermal and deep abscesses, retractable...