BACKGROUND Peptic ulcer patients need to be treated with antimicrobials to cure Helicobacter pylori infection. Seven-day quadruple therapy is the regimen with the highest cure rates. An ultra-short quadruple therapy was evaluated prospectively. METHODS Forty-six consecutive H. pylori positive patients (33 had proven ulcer disease) were prescribed lansoprazole 30 mg b.d. on days 1-4, and on da...

BACKGROUND Lymphatic filariasis is targeted for elimination as a public health problem by 2020. The principal approach used by current programmes is annual mass drug administration with two pairs of drugs with a good safety profile. However, one dose of a triple-drug regimen (ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine, and albendazole) has been shown to clear the transmissible stage of the helminth complet...

During the past 11 years almost 4,000 necropsies have been performed at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, and of these, 924 showed malignancy of which 45 were of primary carcinoma multiplex. Two cases showed triple and one quadruple malignancy, and the remainder two primary malignant tumours.

It was shown that linked systems of symmetric designs with a1 = 0 and mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) are triply regular association schemes. In this paper, we characterize triple regularity of linked systems of symmetric designs by its Krein number. And we prove that a maximal set of MUBs carries a quadruply regular association scheme and characterize the quadruple regularity of MUBs by its par...

OBJECTIVE Apocrine carcinoma, a subtype of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast, expresses androgen receptor (AR), but often lacks estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PgR). In the present study, the author immunohistochemically defined apocrine-type carcinoma as ER-/PgR-/AR+ invasive ductal carcinoma and analyzed the significance of apocrine-type carcinoma as triple-negative br...

Multilevel non-volatile memory for high-density date storage is achieved by using the deterministic control of ferroelectric polarization. In a real ferroelectric thin-film system, eight stable and reproducible polarization states are realized (i.e., 3-bit data storage) by adjusting the displacement current. This approach can be used to triple or quadruple the memory density, even at existing f...

According to the Maastricht VI consensus, triple therapy (PPI + clarithromycin amoxicillin) and bismuth-based quadruple bismuth tetracycline metronidazole) are considered may be proscribed empirically as first-line regimens in regions with low resistance rates (<15%). In high (> 15%), well unknown this antibacterial agent, it is recommended use classical drugs main choice without (“simult...

If H is a subgroup of the symmetric group $4, then a 3-groupoid (S, f ) is called H-permutable if f ( x ~ ( 1 ) , X a ( 2 ) , X ~ r ( 3 ) ) = X~(4) ~ f ( x l , x2 ,x3 ) = x4 for every cr C H. Some classes of generalized idempotent H-permutable 3-groupoids are equivalent to Steiner, Mendelsohn and other quadruple systems. We prove that the variety of generalized idempotent H-permutable 3-groupoi...