An effective public health response to a deliberate release of Bacillus anthracis will require a rapid distribution of antimicrobial agents for postexposure prophylaxis and treatment. However, conventional antimicrobial susceptibility testing for B. anthracis requires a 16- to 20-h incubation period. To reduce this time, we have combined a modified broth microdilution (BMD) susceptibility testi...

Objective: To determine whether the distribution of Fcc receptor IIa, IIIa, and IIIb polymorphisms confers a risk factor for disease susceptibility, and correlates with the clinical characteristics and serological parameters of patients with SLE in Taiwan. Methods: Genotyping of Fcc receptors IIa H/R131, IIIa F/ V158, and IIIb NA1/NA2 was performed in 302 patients with SLE and 311 healthy blood...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine mutations and mRNA levels potential genes linked diarrhea susceptibility in order assess the health status diarrheic kids Baladi goats. One hundred female (35 65 apparently healthy) were used. PCR-DNA sequencing conducted for TMED1, CALR, FBXW9, HS6ST3, SMURF1, KPNA7, FBXL2, PIN1, S1PR5, ICAM1, EDN1, MAPK11, CSF1R, LRRK1, CFH markers revealed nuc...

background nucleus(t)ide analogs (nas), containing lamivudine (lmv), adefovir dipivoxil (adv), endeavor (etv), telbivudine (ldt), and tenofovir (tdf) are widely used for the treatment of chronic hepatitis b (chb), but long term anti-hepatitis b virus (hbv) therapy with nas may give rise to the emergence of drug-resistant viral mutants. objectives this study aimed to find and identify some new r...

conclusions the monitoring of antifungal susceptibilities of candida species isolated from clinical sources is highly recommended for the efficient management of patients. moreover, the trailing effect should be taken into consideration once the interpretation of the results is intended. results among the tested antifungal drugs in this study, the highest rate of resistance was observed against...