toxocara canis (nematoda: ascaridae) is an intestinal nematode parasite of dogs, which can also cause disease in humans. transmission to humans usually occurs because of direct contact with t. canis eggs present in soil contaminated with the feces of infected dogs. this nematode has extraordinary abilities to survive for many years in different tissues of vertebrates, and develop to maturity in...

conclusions this blis with broad-spectrum activity may be a potential agent for the treatment or control of drug-resistant strains of p. aeruginosa infection. results among the 96 isolates of p. aeruginosa, 2 (2.1%), 94 (97.9%), and 63 (65.6%) were non-mdr, mdr, and xdr, respectively, and 1 (1.1%) was pdr. the most effective antibiotics against these isolates were polymyxins and fosfomycin. a b...

in al-ta‘liqat–which is most likely a collection of avicenna’s lectures– it is intended to answer to a paradox concerning the knowledge of the substance. this paradox can be reconstructed this way: if, by knowing something, its quiddity comes to mind, then with knowing a substance its quiddity–which is a substance–comes to mind. conversely, according to peripatetic philosophy, knowledge is a qu...