Using the combination method with PCR phylogrouping and fimH SNPs analysis, this study investigates the epidemiology of Extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli in China. 116 E. coli strains including (74 from Urine, 39 from other extra-intestinal sources and 3 references strains) were collected. The bacteria Genomic DNA were extracted; phylogroup and the fimH gene amplifications were determined by ...

Human activities have more than doubled inputs of nitrogen (N) to terrestrial ecosystems worldwide (1). Until recently, most of this increase was focused in the developed regions of the world. With fertilizer consumption (2), fossil-fuel emissions (3), and biomass burning (4) rapidly increasing in less developed regions, sources and distribution of anthropogenic N now occur globally (5), as doe...

UNLABELLED Although (123)I-MIBG has been in clinical use for the imaging of pheochromocytoma for many years, a large multicenter evaluation of this agent has never been performed. The present study was designed to provide a prospective confirmation of the performance of (123)I-MIBG scintigraphy for the evaluation of patients with known or suspected primary or metastatic pheochromocytoma or para...

OBJECTIVE We assessed the value of combining (123)I-IMP brain perfusion SPECT and (123)I-MIBG myocardial scintigraphy for the discrimination of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) from other types of dementia. METHODS We subjected 252 consecutive patients with clinically suspected DLB to both (123)I-IMP brain perfusion SPECT and (123)I-MIBG myocardial scintigraphy. Patients with Parkinson's disea...

We evaluated radiation-induced myocardial damage using iodine-123 β-methyl-iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid (I-123 BMIPP) scintigraphy. Between May 2010 and April 2011 we performed I-123 BMIPP scintigraphy for patients who had maintained complete response to curative radiotherapy (RT) for esophageal cancer for more than six months. We compared the area of the myocardium in the RT fields with that ...

V = U ⊕ U ′, for some other subspace U ′ ⊂ V , by Theorem 3.21. Consider T restricted to U ′. This is a map T : U ′ →W , which is injective, since U ′∩ker(T ) = {0}. And note that injective maps, in general, preserve linear independence: if we have a linearly independent set {~x1, . . . , ~xn} ∈ X in a vector space X, a linear map of vector spaces A : X → Y , and a linear combination 0 = λ1A~x1...

Proof. Suppose that U1, . . . , Um are invariant subspaces of T ∈ L(V ). We wish to show that U1 + · · ·+ Um is also an invariant subspace. Consider any ~v ∈ U1 + · · ·+ Um. By definition, we can write ~v = ~u1 + · · ·+ ~um, for some ~u1 ∈ U1, . . . , ~um ∈ Um. Since U1, . . . , Um are invariant subspaces, by definition, we know T~u1 ∈ U1 ⊂ U1 + · · ·+ Um, ..., T~um ∈ Um ⊂ U1 + · · ·+ Um. Hence...

Water having entered a stream channel from the surrounding catchment may continue to have connections with the catchment. In the stream’s hyporheic zone, water “in the channel” exchanges with “groundwater” in the bed of the stream. Hyporheic exchange flows typically occur at scales small relative to the length and volumetric transport characteristics of the stream. Nevertheless, it is well docu...