OXA-48 is an emerging class D carbapenemase originally identified in isolates from Turkey (14) and subsequently detected in several European and north African countries (10). Klebsiella pneumoniae is the most common host for OXA-48, but the enzyme has also been detected in Escherichia coli and Enterobacter cloacae (10). The blaOXA-48 gene is carried by the composite transposon Tn1999 or a varia...

Sir, Clonally diverse NDM-1-producing Escherichia coli (ST405, ST131, ST156 and ST101) have been reported globally, including on the Indian subcontinent. Indeed, there may be an association between isolates of NDM-1-producing E. coli ST101, phylogroup B1, that have been identified in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and Pakistan. In December 2011, NDM-1-producing E. coli (CREC-36) was identif...

The IRTools software toolkit was modified for 2003 to utilize a MySQL database for the inverted index. Indexing was for each occurrence of each term in the collection, with HTML structure, location offset, paragraph, and subdocument weight considered. This structure enables some more sophisticated queries than a “bag of words” approach. Post hoc results from the TREC 2002 Named Page Web task ar...

In 2006, Yamanaka and Takahashi electrified the scientific community by discovering that mouse somatic cells can be converted into embryonic stem cell-like cells by retroviral transduction of four transcription factors: Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc (OSKM). The first generation of mouse induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells was incompletely reprogrammed, and failed to contribute to germline transm...

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