Abstract Background Biliary pathology is a large tranche of the emergency surgical take, taking up many bed days, with patients not receiving definitive management on their primary admission. An Emergency Surgical Ambulatory Care (ESAC) service was established at our hospital in 2019, aiming to provide streamlined platform for diagnosis and patients. Most notably this included symptomatic galls...

This poster presents two GPU implementations of normalized mutual information (NMI) for a two-step image registration used in version 1.0 of the Photogrammetric Registration of Imagery from Manned and Unmanned Systems (PRIMUS) pipeline [1]. This fully-automated, sensor-agnostic application enables the precise geolocation of aerial and orbital imagery, a fundamental building block for accurate g...

In a previous study, ecs-3, a sequence from avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) O78:K80 strain chi7122, was found to be expressed in vivo in infected chicken tissues. The region encompassing ecs-3 carries a fimbrial gene cluster that is a putative ortholog of the stg fimbrial gene cluster of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. This APEC fimbrial gene cluster, which we have termed stg, is a ...

Asunaprevir (BMS-650032) is a potent hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 protease inhibitor demonstrating efficacy in alfa interferon-sparing, direct-acting antiviral dual-combination regimens (together with the NS5A replication complex inhibitor daclatasvir) in patients chronically infected with HCV genotype 1b. Here, we describe a comprehensive in vitro genotypic and phenotypic analysis of asunaprevi...

Extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC), including avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC), pose a considerable threat to both human and animal health, with illness causing substantial economic loss. APEC strain χ7122 (O78∶K80∶H9), containing three large plasmids [pChi7122-1 (IncFIB/FIIA-FIC), pChi7122-2 (IncFII), and pChi7122-3 (IncI(2))]; and a small plasmid pChi7122-4 (ColE2-like), has been used...

Numerous bacterial pathogens express an ortholog of the enzyme TlyA, which is an rRNA 2'-O-methyltransferase associated with resistance to cyclic peptide antibiotics such as capreomycin. Several other virulence traits have also been attributed to TlyA, and these appear to be unrelated to its methyltransferase activity. The bacterial pathogen Campylobacter jejuni possesses the TlyA homolog Cj058...

In order to apply the fertilization manual open-field fertigation system, it is necessary verify crop productivity. This study was carried out assess an appropriate nutrient supply ratio for in green onion (Allium fistulosum L.) cultivation. this study, we compared uptake and soil chemical properties according type of basal fertilizer (inorganic fertilizer, organic compost) (A: N60%, K40%; B: N...

Diarrhoeal disease is a major cause of illness and death among infants and young children worldwide. Among the Escherichia coli (E. coli) causing intestinal diseases, there are six well-described categories: enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC), diffusely adherent E. coli (DAEC), enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) and enterotoxigenic E....