Determining the local circulating strain of influenza is essential to prevent and control epidemics. In the years 2004 and 2005, the National Influenza Center of Thailand received 3,854 and 3,834 specimens, respectively, from patients throughout the country, including submissions from 4 established influenza surveillance sentinel sites. In 2004, of 539 influenza-positive specimens, 461 were pos...

This study presents the degree of promotion deformation-induced γ−ε martensitic transformation by hydrogen charging and associated fracture behavior at various strain rates ranging from 10−5 to 10−2 s−1. A decrease in rate s−1 promotes regardless (65%→82% area fraction for uncharged specimens, 68%→84% hydrogen-charged specimens). Hydrogen charging, which provides 11.7 mass ppm concentration, fu...

In this paper attempts have been done to create a mortar with relatively high uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), easy casting, high flexibility, instant hardening, low cost and easy availability. The main use of this material is to physically model the mechanical behavior of jointed rock-like blocks. The effect of four parameters such as joint roughness coefficient (JRC), bridge length (L), b...

We evaluated the TDx Digoxin II (Abbott) modified procedure for interference from digoxin-like immunoreactive factors (DLIF) in pediatric patients. The effectiveness of centrifugal ultrafiltration as a means of removing DLIF interference from the serum of such patients was assessed. We used sera from 40 patients who had not received digoxin, whom we divided into two age groups: 30 neonates (les...

background the emergence of multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii complicates the therapy of the related infections. hospital isolates of a. baumannii are usually multidrug-resistant. the problem is compounded by increasing resistance to broad-spectrum antibiotics including carbapenems. objectives the aim of this study was to determine antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and distributio...