High Rate of Human Bocavirus and Adenovirus Co-infection in 1 Hospitalized Israeli Children 2 3 Musa Hindiyeh 1* , Nathan Keller 2 , Michal Mandelboim 1 , Daniela Ram 1 , Jana 4 Rubinov 1 , Liora Regev 1 , Virginia Levy 1 , Sara Orzitzer 1 , Hilda Shaharabani 1 , Roberto 5 Azar 1 , Ella Mendelson 1,3** and Zehava Grossman 1** 6 7 1 Central Virology Laboratory, Public Health Services, Min...

Ayurveda recommends many simple herbs in the treatment of urological afflictions like urolithiasis. Seventyone patients diagnosed to be suffering from urolithiasis were treated with juice of the core of the pseudostem of Musa Paradisiaca and Musa sapientum. A significant segment of them passed out calculi of varying size after consuming the drug for two weeks. Recurrence of stone formation was ...

The Pearl River, with an annual mean discharge rate of ~ 10,000 ms, has profound dynamic and ecological influences on the northern shelf of the South China Sea. A coastal ocean model is set up to simulate the circulation in the Pearl River Estuary and the neighboring coastal regions. In winter the Guangdong Coastal Current, which flows southwestward and passes the mouth of the estuary, forces t...

ÐA numerical algorithm is presented for the solution of geometrically challenging two-dimensional river and estuary ̄ows, based on an adaptive triangular tessellation of the ̄ow domains of interest. The governing, shallow water, equations are discretised using a ®nite volume approach embodying variable step time integrators, to yield a method that is second order accurate in both space and time...

2 Running title: Uropathogenic E. coli from pregnant women 3 4 Nubia L. Ramos*, Musa Sekikubo*, Dang Thi Ngoc Dzung, Corinna Kosnopfel, Fred 5 Kironde, Florence Mirembe, Annelie Brauner# 6 7 Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Division of Clinical Microbiology, 8 Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, 17176 Stockholm, Sweden 9 Department of Obstetrics and Gyna...

Gas phase and aqueous phase quantum chemical calculations for the inhibition efficiency of some substituted Benzothiazole (BTH) and its 2-methyl (MeBTH), 2-amino (ABTH), 2-mercapto (MBTH) and 2-phenyl (PhBTH) as corrosion inhibitors for brass in HClO4 were investigated by means of the AM1, PM6, MNDO and RM1 semi-empirical SCF molecular orbital methods. The calculated quantum chemical parameters...

Ecosystem function measurements can enhance our understanding of nitrogen (N) delivery in coastal catchments across river and estuary ecosystems. Here, we contrast patterns of N cycling and export in two rivers, one heavily influenced by wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), in a coastal catchment of south Texas. We measured N export from both rivers to the estuary over 2 yr that encompass a seve...

The estuary of the Danshuei River, a hypoxic subtropical estuary, receives a high rate of untreated sewage effluent. The Ecopath with Ecosim software system was used to construct a mass-balanced trophic model for the estuary, and network analysis was used to characterize the structure and matter flow in the food web. The estuary model was comprised of 16 compartments, and the trophic levels var...

Nitrification, mediated by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), is important in global nitrogen cycling. In estuaries where gradients of salinity and ammonia concentrations occur, there may be differential selections for ammonia-oxidizer populations. The aim of this study was to examine the activity, abundance, and diversity of AOA and AOB in surface oxic sedime...

Environmental variables (including natural and anthropogenic stressors) and meiobenthic communities were sampled in a ‘natural’ (Rooiels) and a ‘disturbed’ (Lourens) estuary in the Western Cape, South Africa, bimonthly for 20 months. A primary aim of the study was to assess if the meiobenthic community structure is driven by different variables when comparing ‘natural’ versus ‘disturbed’ system...