Escalating resistance to azithromycin and moxifloxacin is being reported for Mycoplasma genitalium in the Asia-Pacific region. Analyzing 140 infections, we found pretreatment fluoroquinolone-resistance mutations in parC (13.6%) and gyrA (5%). ParC S83 changes were associated with moxifloxacin failure. Combined macrolide/fluoroquinolone-resistance mutations were in 8.6% of specimens, for which r...

Our previous " exotic " particle, together with the more recent anomalous anyon model (which has arbitrary gyromagnetic factor g) are reviewed. The non-relativistic limit of the anyon generalizes the exotic particle which has g = 0 to any g. When put into planar electric and magnetic fields, the Hall effect becomes mandatory for all g = 2, when the field takes some critical value.

In order to explore phase structures in high-baryon density regime of the QCD phase diagram and study dense quark/hadronic matter which may exist in the core of neutron stars, we proposed a heavy-ion program at J-PARC (J-PARC-HI). In heavy-ion collisions at J-PARC (1-19 AGeV/c), the maximum baryon density reaches 5-10 times the normal nuclear density. We designed heavy-ion acceleration scheme a...

El propósito de este artículo es evaluar cuán útil podría ser el Procedimiento Acelerado Refinanciación Concursal (PARC) para atenuar los efectos la pandemia del COVID 19, e identificar aportes que traer su implementación al sistema concursal peruano. La estrategia gubernamental aplicada proteger sectores económicos las consecuencias 19 tuvo dos líneas acción: creación REACTIVA y un procedimien...

In a recently published article, Fukushima et al. (3) described a novel PCR-melting curve analysis (PCR-MCA) method for rapid screening of the most prevalent point mutations related to fluoroquinolone resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae. In their study, they included 22 levofloxacin (LVX)-resistant strains and 50 LVX-susceptible isolates. None of the isolates in that study were shown to harb...

Most bacteria possess two type IIA topoisomerases, DNA gyrase and topo IV, that together help manage chromosome integrity and topology. Gyrase primarily introduces negative supercoils into DNA, an activity mediated by the C-terminal domain of its DNA binding subunit (GyrA). Although closely related to gyrase, topo IV preferentially decatenates DNA and relaxes positive supercoils. Here we report...

In this paper we discuss the construction, features, and current uses of the PARC 700 DEPBANK. The PARC 700 DEPBANK is a dependency bank containing predicate-argument relations and a wide variety of other grammatical features. It was semi-automatically produced and boot-strapped from the output of a deep parser: this allowed for greater consistency of analysis and for more rapid construction.