The prevalence of mental morbidity including comorbidity with physical illnesses in a rural primary health centre is very high. Most common entitites in the diagnostic group according to DSM-IU-R were mood disorders (28%), somatoform disorders (27%), and anxiety disorders (17.6%). Majority of them presented with somatic symptoms. There were significant differences in rates for mental disorders ...

Partial atlE sequencing (atlE nucleotides 2782 to 3114 [atlE(2782-3114)]) was performed in 41 Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) and 44 isolates from skin as controls. The atlE(2782-3114) allele 1 (type strain sequence) was significantly more frequent in PJI strains (38/41 versus 29/44 in controls; P = 0.0023). Most PJI strains were positive for mecA, ic...

The objective of this study was to develop a new antimicrobial film, in which lysozyme was covalently attached onto two different ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers (EVOH 29 and EVOH 44). The EVOH surface was modified with UV irradiation treatment to generate carboxylic acid groups, and lysozyme was covalently attached to the functionalized polymer surface. Surface characterization of control an...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 6.1 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.9 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.3 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 7.3 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.4 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 8.1 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 7.0 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 7.0 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Materials and methods: The participants were 220 individuals – 38 men and 137 women – selected from psychiatric and psychological clinics in Tabriz, Iran. Among the participants, 153 individuals were diagnosed with cluster B personality disorder (44 with borderline disorder, 16 with antisocial disorder, 56 with histrionic disorder and 37 with narcissistic personality disorder). The remaining 67...

PAMELA and ATIC recently reported an excess in e± cosmic rays. We show that if it is due to Dark Matter annihilations, the associated gamma-ray flux and the synchrotron emission produced by e± in the galactic magnetic field violate HESS and radio observations of the galactic center and HESS observations of dwarf Spheroidals, unless the DM density profile is significantly less steep than the ben...