BACKGROUND Presently, few data exist on the level and duration of anti-protective antigen (PA) IgG in vaccinated livestock. Various adaptation of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) have been developed in studies to assess immune response following vaccination, albeit mostly in laboratory rodent models. The quantitative anti-anthrax IgG ELISA in this study describes a method of enumerat...

This paper presents an energy-based methodology to compute internal stress states compatible with foundation settlements in masonry structures. The method is based on the application of Thrust Network Analysis (TNA). TNA a lower-bound that searches for admissible force networks structures by solving constrained nonlinear optimisation problem (NLP) which constraints enforce limit analysis’ admis...

Variability of the tropical Western Hemisphere warm pool (WHWP) of water warmer than 28.58C, which extends seasonally over parts of the eastern North Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the western tropical North Atlantic (TNA), was previously studied by Wang and Enfield using the da Silva data from 1945–93. Using additional datasets of the NCEP–NCAR reanalysis field and the NCEP SS...

Three Haemophilus parainfluenzae strains isolated from the urogenital tract harbored a beta-lactamase-coding 3.2-megadalton plasmid identical, by restriction endonuclease digestion and hybridization with radioactive and biotin-labeled probes specific for the TEM-1 beta-lactamase and TnA sequences, to the 3.2-megadalton "African-type" plasmid found in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

The serological response and efficacy of Bacillus anthracis recombinant protective antigen (rPA) vaccines formulated with aluminum hydroxide adjuvant, either with or without formaldehyde, were evaluated in rabbits. Rabbits that had been injected with a single dose of 25 microg of rPA adsorbed to 500 microg of aluminum in aluminum hydroxide gel (Alhydrogel) had a significantly higher quantitativ...

Objective: Clubfoot ultrasonography is an objective means of determining severity. The purpose this study to evaluate the reliability measuring clubfoot severity by sonographic evaluation talonavicular angle (TNA) and assessing change on simulated Ponseti manipulation. Methods: Twenty-six infants with unilateral idiopathic were evaluated prospectively using clinical scoring Pirani measurements ...