background: multidrug resistance in salmonella enteritidis isolates is a public health problem worldwide; the present study, therefore, was designed for antimicrobial-resistance determination in this strain. methods: salmonella strains isolated from poultry samples by biochemical positive and negative tests were subjected to pcr and identified as salmonella enteritidis. for detection and identi...

A study of the effects of different steroids on germination and tube growth of tobacco pollen (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv Petit Havana SR1) matured in vitro is presented. Application of the mammalian steroid sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone, and estradiol) resulted in a stimulation of pollen germination and tube elongation. The presence of both steroids and flavonols in the germination med...

A. Carr, Z. Mazorra, D. F. Alonso, C. Mesa, O. Valiente, D. E. Gomez, R. Perez and L. E. Fernandez Department of Vaccines, Center of Molecular Immunology, PO Box 16 040, Havana 11600, Cuba. Fax: (‡53) 7 335049 (A. Carr, Z. Mazorra, C. Mesa, O. Valiente, R. Perez, L. E. Fernandez). Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Department of Science and Technology, Quilmes National University, Bernal, Buenos...

Narcolepsy with cataplexy is a rare sleep disorder with a neurological basis which has been recently linked to H1N1 vaccination either in children or adults. Cases from Europe, United States and Brasil were registered. Authors describe a case report of a 15 years old boy who developed narcolepsy with cataplexy after H1N1 vaccination in Havana. As far as it is concerned this is the first case re...

A1 Characterization of the immunoallergic profile towards the proteins of the wheat flour in Cuban population Raúl Lázaro Castro Almarales, Mary Carmen Reyes Zamora, Beatriz Tamargo, Damaris Torralba Averoff, Raysa Cruz, Yunia Oliva Diaz, Mirta Alvarez Castello, Alexander Ciria, Alexis Labrada, Maytee Mateo National Center of Bioproducts, Bejucal, Cuba; Institute of Pharmacy and Foods, Havana, ...

this survey of salmonella and specifically salmonella enteritidis contamination in broiler flocks carried out in amol as one of the most important poultry breeding centers, used as manure, yolk sac, papers and visceral organs from dead birds. standard cultural methods were used for salmonella isolation. slide agglutination or tube agglutination tests were erformed using salmonella somatic o pol...