BACKGROUND Various information about the genetic diversity of Escherichia coli isolates from chickens are available but a detailed epidemiological investigation based upon isolates obtained from interrelated pullet and layer flocks is still missing. Therefore, in the course of a longitudinal epidemiological study on pullets and layers, 144 E. coli isolates from chickens with or without patholog...

The aim of the study was to determine the effect of a Polish low-virulence isolate of haemorrhagic enteritis adenovirus (HEV) on the immune system in turkeys and on the course of colibacillosis in birds infected under laboratory conditions. Turkeys were infected per os with HEV at the dose of 10(4.3)EID50/mL and with E. coli (APEC) (serotypes 078:K80:H9) at the dose of 4x10(9)CFU/mL by injectio...

BACKGROUND The cholelithiasis is disease of surgical resolution with about 60,000 hospitalizations per year in the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS - Brazilian National Health System) of the Rio Grande do Sul state. AIM To describe the profile of hospitalizations for cholecystitis and cholelithiasis performed by the SUS of Rio Grande do Sul state, 2011-2013. METHODS Hospital Information System d...

Optical remote sensing instruments accumulate abundant data from across all of the earth's land surfaces, making it possible both to understand effects climate change and monitor, investigate, manage ground-level events in detail. Processing using resources located near on-board satellite sensors can bring major benefits terms minimizing analysis time quickly initiating active actions critical ...

Abstract Although GPUs have been used to accelerate various convolutional neural network algorithms with good performance, the demand for performance improvement is still continuously increasing. CPU/GPU overclocking technology brings opportunities further in CPU-GPU heterogeneous platforms. However, inevitably increases power of CPU/GPU, which not conducive energy conservation, efficiency opti...

Despite the fact that the presence of multiple large plasmids is a defining feature of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC), such as avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC), and despite the fact that these bacteria pose a considerable threat to both human and animal health, characterization of these plasmids is still limited. In this study, after successfully curing APEC of its plasmids,...

Abstract Previous studies have shown that glioma stem-like cells (GSCs) evade conventional cytotoxic therapies and repopulate as recurrent tumors. A fuller understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying biology therapy resistance GSCs is required. Our group has TAZ, a transcriptional co-factor highly expressed in about 70% glioblastomas (GBMs). TAZ its paralog YAP are oncogenic drivers br...

Colibacillosis is an important disease in the poultry industry which causes serious economic damages. As it is suggested that vaccination is one of the means to control colibacillosis, we tried to investigate the vaccine potential of a ∆aroA derivative of an O78:K80 avian pathogenic Escherichia coli containing increased serum survival gene. 490 chicks were selected as follows: For assessment of...