INTRODUCTION Rhodococcus equi is an opportunistic pathogen, causing rhodococcosis, a condition that can be confused with tuberculosis. Often, without identifying M. tuberculosis, physicians initiate empiric treatment for tuberculosis. R. equi and M. tuberculosis have different susceptibility to drugs. Identification of R. equi is based on a variety of phenotypic, chromatographic, and genotypic ...

Rhodococcus equi, a facultative intracellular bacterium, causes severe pneumonia in foals. Evidence suggests that most foals become infected very early in life, when they have immature or ineffective innate immune responses. This study evaluated the antimicrobial activity of gallium against R. equi, as a potential chemoprophylactic and therapeutic agent. Rhodococcus equi was grown in media with...

Improved understanding of the epidemiology of Streptococcus equi transmission requires sensitive and portable subtyping methods that can rationally discriminate between strains. S. equi is highly homogeneous and cannot be distinguished by multilocus enzyme electrophoretic or multilocus sequence-typing methods that utilize housekeeping genes. However, on sequence analysis of the N-terminal regio...

We study the nonlinear embeddability of Banach spaces and equi-embeddability family Kalton’s interlaced graphs [Formula: see text] into dual spaces. Notably, we define a modification property that call (with text]). show if equi-coarse Lipschitzly embeds text], then Szlenk index is greater than this optimal, i.e. there exists separable space contains equi-Lipschitzly so has text]. prove does no...

BACKGROUND Bacterial culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for the detection of Streptococcus equi in nasopharyngeal washes (NPW) and guttural pouch lavage (GPL) samples have low sensitivity. In human diagnostics, processing of samples with flocked swabs has improved recovery rates of bacterial agents because of improved surface area and elution factors. HYPOTHESIS For S. equi su...

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We introduce equi-tuning, a novel fine-tuning method that transforms (potentially non-equivariant) pretrained models into group equivariant while incurring minimum L_2 loss between the feature representations of and models. Large can be equi-tuned for different groups to satisfy needs various downstream tasks. Equi-tuned benefit from both equivariance as an inductive bias semantic priors provid...

Sir: I would like to make a few comments on an article that appeared in the July 1980 issue of your Journal, 'Double-blind crossover trial of oral meptazinol, pentazocine and placebo in the treatment of pain in the elderly'. The authors state that the equi-analgesic dose of 100 mg of meptazinol is 60 mg of Talwin. The authors then compare 100 mg of meptazinol to 25 mg of Talwin, 1/2 the equi-an...

Three antimalarial drugs, artesunate, pyrimethamine, and pamaquine, were evaluated for their growth-inhibitory effects against Babesia equi and Babesia caballi in in vitro culture. B. equi was more resistant to pyrimethamine than B. caballi. B. equi was also found to be more sensitive to artesunate and pamaquine than B. caballi. Of the three compounds, pyrimethamine gave the most promise for in...