Incoming pathogens team up with harmless ‘resident’ bacteria

Anaerobic bacteria in cystic fibrosis: pathogens or harmless commensals?

2004;27:453e8. 9. Hillman DR, Murphy AS, Pezzullo L. The Economic Cost of Sleep Disorders. Sleep 2006;29:299e305. 10. Mar J, Rueda JR, Durán-Cantolla J, et al. The costeffectiveness of nCPAP treatment in patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnoea. Eur Respir J 2003;21:515e22. 11. Tan MC, Ayas NT, Mulgrew A, et al. Costeffectiveness of continuous positive airway pressure therapy i...

Incoming resident experience and comfort with procedures designated as "basic".

BACKGROUND Recent consensus guidelines have recommended uniformity in procedural training in family medicine residency programs. The consensus documentation suggestions are based on expectations of procedural training prior to residency. Few studies have evaluated the perceived baseline level of procedural competency prior to residency training. METHODS Twenty incoming PGY-1 residents complet...

Bacteria in Dairy Products in Baggage of Incoming Travelers, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 20, No. 11, November 2014 1933 to low concentrations of rifampin. To confirm that this effect was a result of persistence rather than generation of resistant mutants, we transferred the colonies growing after transient rifampin exposure of Beijing strain 1585 to a medium containing 8 mg/L rifampin. Their growth was completely inhibited, and ...

Spy agencies team up with National Academies.

Chaperones team up twice

Fungal pores feel the pull S teinberg et al. report that fungi use motor proteins to distribute their nuclear pores around the nuclear envelope. In animal cells, the nuclear lamina holds the nuclear pores in place, ensuring that they are evenly spaced. The lamina prevents nuclear pores from clustering, promoting import of cargoes through the pores and helping to organize the chromosomes, which ...