Staphylococci represent the most commonly encountered blood culture isolates. Differentiating Staphylococcus aureus from coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) is important in guiding empirical therapy, especially since the majority of CoNS are contaminants. This study evaluated three rapid methods for the direct identification of S. aureus from blood cultures. A total of 157 patient blood cul...

TAILOR is a tool for updating views, It interacts with the database administrator at view definition time to capture syntactic knowledge, structural constraints, and application semantics. It also interacts with the database user and consults the database at view update time to capture additional application semantics and database semantics, respectively. TAILOR uses this information to select ...

Epigenetic marks affecting the expression of genes are triggered by environmental stimuli, can persist throughout life or across multiple generations and can affect an individuals phenotype. In recent years there has been a revival of interest about the possible role of epigenetics in affecting complex or quantitative traits. This growing interest is partly driven by the increasing affordabilit...