background: q fever is an important widespread reemerging zoonosis. the presence of coxiella burnetii in 100 tick-infested dogs was assessed in this study. methods: the blood samples from 100 referred dogs were acquired and evaluated by nested-pcr. results: c. burnetii was detected in 11 out of 100 (11%) blood samples. most of the positive dogs were kept outdoor and fed on raw diet. based on ou...

background :  q fever is an important widespread reemerging zoonosis. the presence of coxiella burnetii in 100 tick-infested dogs was assessed in this study. methods :  the blood samples from 100 referred dogs were acquired and evaluated by nested-pcr. results :   c. burnetii was detected in 11 out of 100 (11%) blood samples. most of the positive dogs were kept outdoor and fed on raw diet. base...

SUMMARY To understand earth processes, geoscientists infer subsurface properties such as electromagnetic resistivity or seismic velocity from surface observations of data. These are used to populate an model vector, and the spatial variation across this vector sheds light on underlying structure physical phenomenon interest, groundwater aquifers plate tectonics. However, these characteristics n...

Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii-a small obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacterium found in a variety of animals. It is transmitted to humans by inhalation of contaminated aerosols from urine, feces, milk, amniotic fluid, placenta, abortion products, wool, and rarely by ingestion of raw milk from infected animals. Nested PCR can improve the sensitivity and specif...

Many declarative query languages for object oriented oo databases allow nested subqueries This paper contains the rst algebra which is capable of handling arbitrary nested queries and the rst complete classi cation of oo nested queries and the according unnesting strategies For unnesting a two phase approach is used The rst phase called dependency based optimization transforms queries at the qu...

The correctness of nested transactions for multidatabases dif fers from that of at transactions in that for nested transactions the execution order of siblings at each related site should also be consistent In this paper we rst propose a simple but powerful theory for the se rializability of nested transactions in multidatabases and then a tech nique called Nested Tickets Method for Nested Tran...

BACKGROUND Intake of trans fatty acids is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease. Whether different classes of trans fatty acids show similar associations is unclear. We previously reported an association of sudden cardiac death with red cell membrane trans-18:2 but not trans-18:1 fatty acids. To extend these findings, we investigated the associations of plasma phospholipid tr...

Background—Intake of trans fatty acids is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease. Whether different classes of trans fatty acids show similar associations is unclear. We previously reported an association of sudden cardiac death with red cell membrane trans-18:2 but not trans-18:1 fatty acids. To extend these findings, we investigated the associations of plasma phospholipid tr...

Biomarkers of trans-fatty acid consumption have been associated with increased risks of breast and colon cancer, although no studies have examined their associations with prostate cancer risk. Using data from the beta-Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial, this nested case-control study examined the relationships between serum phospholipid trans-fatty acids and prostate cancer incidence in 272 ca...