Nontuberculous mycobacteria, which are widespread in the environment, frequently cause opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients. We report the first case of a patient with chronic granulomatous dermatitis caused by a rarely described organism, Mycobacterium intermedium. The infection was associated with exposure in a home hot tub.

Oil spills in the Arctic are becoming more likely as shipping traffic increases response to climate-related sea ice loss. To improve oil spill detection capability, we used a controlled mesocosm analyze multipolarized C-band backscatter of newly formed (NI). Artificial was grown two cylindrical tubs at Sea-ice Environmental Research Facility, University Manitoba. The physical characteristics, i...

Eight strains of Legionella pneumophila were used to optimize cleavage of DNA with BssHII, SalI, or SpeI and separation by pulsed-field electrophoresis. Isolates from a community outbreak involving a contaminated hot tub were genomically identical. Cleavage patterns were distinctly different for unrelated environmental and nosocomial strains from a single hospital.

PURPOSE Tubulysins are naturally occurring tetrapeptides with potent antiproliferative activity against multiple cancer cell lines. However, they are also highly toxic in animal models. In order to improve the therapeutic index of this class of compounds, a nanoparticle prodrug of tubulysin A (TubA) was synthesized and evaluated in vitro and in vivo. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN A thiol derivative of ...

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a maternally inherited trait that results in the production of dysfunctional pollen. Based on reliable reference gene-normalized real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) data, examining gene expression profile can provide valuable information on the molecular mechanism of kenaf CMS. However, studies have not been conducted regarding selection of reference genes f...

The quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) approach has become a widely used method to analyze expression patterns of target genes. The selection of an optimal reference gene is a prerequisite for the accurate normalization of gene expression in qRT-PCR. The present study constitutes the first systematic evaluation of potential reference genes in Rhododendron molle G. Don. E...

Plastic pollution in the world's ocean is one of major environmental challenges that affects society today, due to their persistence at sea, adverse consequences marine life and being potentially harmful human health. Rivers are now widely recognized as input source land-based plastic waste into seas. Despite key role transportation, riverine research still its infancy sources, hot-spots degrad...

Managing stressful situations in the workplace is a challenge for all, especially healthcare workers in emergency settings. The ancient practice of silently repeating a mantram or mantra—a word or phrase with spiritual meaning—has been applied to our modern day living as an innovative form of stress management that is portable, immediate, inexpensive, invisible, and nontoxic. Preliminary studie...

purpose: this study has for objective the assessment of the vigilance, mood states variations and the blood glucose levels, during a triangular effort progressive in trained athletes during ramadan fasting (rf). methods. ten trained male athletes aged 21.8 ± 1.1 years are evaluated before (b.rf), during (1st, 2nd and 3th week) and after ramadan fasting, in the blood-glucose, vigilance, and mood...