A 43 year old woman who initially presented with the nephrotic syndrome, glomerulonephritis, and antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) was given the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). One year later the patient developed progressive subcutaneous nodules on her forearms, with histopathology of non-caseating granulomas. Further evaluation of the patient showed mediastinal lymphadenopathy an...

While many anaerobic microbial communities are capable of reductively dechlorinating tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE) to dichloroethene (DCE), vinyl chloride (VC), and finally ethene, the accumulation of the highly toxic intermediates, cis-DCE (cDCE) and VC, presents a challenge for bioremediation processes. Members of the genus Dehalococcoides are apparently solely responsible...

disease, and a positive test result for antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) would not have been considered to have ssSSc. ANA positivity can occur in IPF patients, and thus we did not solely rely on this in our analysis. Rather, we highlighted the specificity of nucleolar staining for ANAs.3 In fact, in our previously described cohort of IPF subjects who were anti-Th/To-positive, we argued that, on r...

In this study, twelve Mallards living in an artificial wastewater wetland were exposed to treated wastewater containing 1 x 104 x 10 enterococci 100 ml for a period of 55 days. Faecal samples were collected before, during and after exposure and analysed for Enterococcus spp. The isolates were phenotyped using the PhenePlate system. 270 Enterococcus spp. of Mallard origin were analysed, together...

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) duckling survival is an important, but not well understood, component of reproductive success for the species. To further investigate how mallard duckling survival is related to hatch date and wetland density, we analyze duckling counts for broods in southwestern Manitoba during the late 1980’s. Various models are explored to explain the patterns in the observed dat...