BACKGROUND Blood cultures are used to confirm a diagnosis of enteric fever but reported sensitivities can be as low as 40%. AIMS To determine the factors associated with a negative blood culture in Cambodian children with suspected enteric fever. METHODS In a retrospective study of hospitalised Cambodian children given a discharge diagnosis of enteric fever, the following factors associated...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare the antimicrobial effects of mtad, sodium hypochlorite (naocl) and their combination on endodontic micro-organisms. materials and methods: zone of inhibition (zi) and minimum inhibitory concentration (mic) were the techniques used. in zi technique blood agar plates were inoculated with organisms, paper discs were soaked with irrigants and maxim...

This short review describes the conceptual development in the search for the enteric neural circuits with the initial identifications of the classes of enteric neurons on the bases of their morphology, neurochemistry, biophysical properties, projections and connectivity. The discovery of the presence of multiple neurochemicals in the same nerve cells in specific combinations led to the concept ...

The purpose of this research work was to obtain directly compressible enteric recrystallized agglomerates of erythromycin containing enteric polymers by emulsion solvent diffusion technique. Selected solvent for the process includes the best solvent (ethyl alcohol), non-solvent (distilled water) and bridging liquid (chloroform) according to their solubility in different organic solvent. The dif...

This study calculated yearly estimated national hospital discharge (1985 to 1994) and age-adjusted death rates (1980 to 1992) due to bacterial, viral, protozoal, and ill-defined enteric pathogens. Infant and young child hospitalization (but not death) rates in each category increased more than 50% during 1990 to 1994. Age-adjusted death and hospitalization rates due to enteric bacterial infecti...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The introduction of mycophenolate mofetil has improved graft survival after organ transplantation; however, its use may be limited by important adverse effects. For overcoming these problems, an enteric-coated formulation of mycophenolate sodium has been developed, but pharmacokinetic data of mycophenolic acid release from this formulation are scanty. DESIGN, SETTING...

The enteric nervous system is derived from the vagal, rostral-truncal, and sacral levels of the neural crest. Because the crest-derived population that colonizes the bowel contains multipotent cells, terminal differentiation occurs in the gut and is influenced by both the enteric microenvironment and the responsivity of multiple lineages of precursors. Enteric growth factor-receptor combination...

Early pathological manifestations of Crohn's disease (CD) include vascular disruption, T cell infiltration of nerve plexi, neuronal degeneration, and induction of T helper 1 cytokine responses. This study demonstrates that disruption of the enteric glial cell network in CD patients represents another early pathological feature that may be modeled after CD8(+) T cell-mediated autoimmune targetin...

The Seventh International Conference on Vaccines for Enteric Diseases Bangkok, Thailand, 6-8 November 2013 Hosting 222 participants from more than 25 countries, the Seventh International Conference on Vaccines for Enteric Diseases (VED 2013) displayed the considerable progress that has been made in recent years towards unraveling the burden and etiology of enteric infections, alongside advances...

The Enteric-Tek wheel (Flow Laboratories), consisting of 14 different biochemical parameters for rapidly identifying Enterobacteriaceae, was evaluated and compared with the conventional method for completely identifying 301 enteric cultures, representing 36 species. The Enteric-Tek system correctly identified 264 (97.8%) of the 270 common or typical strains and 26 (83.9%) of the 31 unusual or a...