BACKGROUND Assessment of resistance genes is imperative, as they become disseminated to bacterial flora in plants and to the indigenous bacterial community, and thus ultimately contributes to the clinical problems of antibiotic resistant pathogens. OBJECTIVES The research was to assess the antibiotic characteristics and incidence of sul3 genes of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolates recovere...

BACKGROUND Prevention and early detection of arterial stiffness are required to avoid severe cardiovascular events. Recently, new noninvasive arterial stiffness indices, the arterial pressure volume index (API) and the arterial velocity pulse index (AVI), have been developed. The purpose of this study was to examine the clinical validity of these new indices by investigating the association bet...

The management of genitourinary candidiasis (GC) is fraught with challenges, especially, in an era of increasing antifungal resistance. This descriptive cross-sectional study conducted between May 2013 and January 2014 determined the prevalence and characteristics of GC and the species of Candida among 369 attendees of a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) clinic of Ladoke Akintola University Te...

In January 1980, a national external quality-control survey was organized to evaluate assays for triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxin (T4). Currently, about 150 laboratories are involved. Each participant has received and assayed 100 quality-control samples during four periods of about six months each. The average analytical performance achieved by the participants in each six-month period was es...

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China has had a rapid increase in its economy over the past three decades. However, the economic boom came at a certain cost of depleting air quality. In the study, we aimed to examine the burden of air pollution and its association with climatic factors and health outcomes using data from Chinese national and city-level air quality and public health surveillance systems. City-level daily air p...

This report presents a toolkit for deploying applications on Grid environment called Grid Application Deployment Kit. It assists engineers and scientists in solving the problems on the Grid environment effectively based on robust Grid technologies and GridRPC API, a Remote Procedure Call standard interface for Grid-enabled applications. In this report, we also present mechanisms to reduce commu...