Klebsiella pneumoniae, known as a major threat to public health, is the most common factor of nosocomial and community acquired infections. In this study, 50 K. pneumoniae clinical specimens isolated from bronchial, urea, blood, catheter, rectal, bile, tracheal and wound cultures were collected. These isolates were identified and carbapenem resistance was determined via an automated system, CHR...

Genotyping was performed on isolates from 4 patients. One isolate contained the rmpA gene; 3 contained rmpA and magA genes. Three of these isolates also underwent capsule serotyping; 2 were type K1 and 1 was K2. We found 4 additional patients infected with K. pneumoniae in 2009 who did not have invasive infections. Briefl y, a 21-year-old pregnant recent emigrant from Yemen and a 35-yearold His...

301 Correspondence to: Paweł Maga, MD, PhD, Klinika Angiologii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Collegium Medicum, ul. Skawińska 8, 31-066 Kraków, Poland, phone: +48-12-430-52-66, fax: +48-12-430-50-62, e-mail: [email protected] Received: February 13, 2015. Revision accepted: February 18, 2015. Published online: February 20, 2015. Conflict of interest: none declared. Pol Arch Med Wewn. 2015; 125 (...

Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor (OVSF) codes would give variable data rate transmissions for different bandwidth supplies in Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) networks. These OVSF codes are used for the channelization of codes in WCDMA. In WCDMA, effective utilization of OVSF codes has become an active area of research as the number of codes is very limited. It is a fact that the successor and predece...

In this study, we developed quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) nanosensor for the real-time detection of tobramycin (TOB). Firstly, the modification of gold surface of QCM chip was performed by self-assembling monolayer formation of allyl mercaptane to introduce polymerizable double bonds on the chip surface. Then, TOB imprinted poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-methacryloylamidoglutamic acid) [p...

BACKGROUND Clinicians are searching for new methods to diagnose and predict the course of androgenetic alopecia noninvasively. OBJECTIVE Our aim is to evaluate trichoscopic findings and their relations with disease severity in androgenetic alopecia. METHODS The videodermatoscopic findings of 143 female and 63 male patients with androgenetic alopecia were compared with each other, with those...

Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular parasite of protozoa that differentiates late in infection into metabolically dormant cysts that are highly infectious. Regulation of this process is poorly understood. Here we report that the small DNA binding regulatory proteins integration host factor (IHF) and HU are reciprocally expressed over the developmental cycle, with HU expressed during expo...

In Magnaporthe oryzae, the causal ascomycete of the devastating rice blast disease, the conidial germ tube tip must sense and respond to a wide array of requisite cues from the host in order to switch from polarized to isotropic growth, ultimately forming the dome-shaped infection cell known as the appressorium. Although the role for G-protein mediated Cyclic AMP signaling in appressorium forma...

This study aimed to analyze and synthesize the main concepts about Krav Maga in last four decades. is a review of academic literature with qualitative approach narrative nature. The searched databases are PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Web Science, SciELO, Index Medicus, Capes Platform, ProQuest Digital Dissertations, Brazilian Library Theses Dissertations (BDTD) Google Scholar, between years 1982 202...