A new phosphonopeptide, alafosfalin, was evaluated for in vitro antibacterial activity and for synergism with /3-lactams, using 475 Japanese clinical isolates from urinary tract infections. Alafosfalin was found to be highly active against Escherichia coli and moderately active against Serratia, Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Citrobacter, but less active against gram-positive organisms than were...

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Public health experts and medical professionals continue to issue warnings to people about the dangers of ultraviolet (UV) radiation fromthe sun, tanning beds, and sun lamps. Skin cancer is more common than any other type of cancer and exposure to sun is known to contribute to all three major types, namely, basal-cell carcinoma, squamous-cell carcinoma and cutaneous melanoma. While skin cancer ...

N-stens for 475 Australian children in Grade 6 and for boys and girls separately are presented for the Children's Motivation Analysis Test, representing the first such normative data available for this instrument.

The upconversion luminescence properties of Yb3+/Tm3+-codoped oxyfluoride tellurite glasses under 980 nm excitation are investigated experimentally. The intense blue and relatively weak red emissions centered at 475 and 649 nm corresponding to the transitions G4 → H6 and 1