Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 033 (RT033) is found in the gastrointestinal tracts of production animals and, occasionally, humans. The illumigene C. difficile assay (Meridian Bioscience, Inc.) failed to detect any of 52 C. difficile RT033 isolates, while all strains signaled positive for the binary toxin genes but were reported as negative for C. difficile by the Xpert C. difficile/Epi ass...

BackgroundOlecranon fractures are common and usually treated operatively either by tension band wiring (TBW) or plate fixation (PF). The aim of this study was to assess early complications reoperations their predictive factors related those operative methods.MethodsA retrospective analysis all patients with an olecranon fracture between 2007 2017 at Turku University hospital performed. Reoperat...

To be submitted to Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1 2 Specific developmental window for establishment of an insect-microbe gut 3 symbiosis 4 5 Yoshitomo Kikuchi 1, 2* , Takahiro Hosokawa 3 and Takema Fukatsu 3 6 7 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Hokkaido Center, 8 Sapporo 062-8517, Japan 1 ; Laboratory of Novel Microbial Functions, Graduate Schoo...

Introduction CAPS is a rare autoinflammatory syndrome caused by autosomal dominant mutations in the NLRP3/CIAS 1 gene on chromosome 1q44 encoding for the cryopyrin protein, an important component of the inflammasome, leading to excessive production of interleukin-1beta (IL-1ß). CAPS encompasses three different entities of variable clinical severity: familial cold auto-inflammatory syndrome (FCA...