Background: While acute pruritus is often attributable to yeast vulvovaginitis, chronic pruritus can present as the result different conditions including manifestation of a systemic

This paper studies causal inference in randomized experiments under network interference. Commonly used models of interference posit that treatments assigned to alters beyond a certain distance from the ego have no effect on ego's response. However, this assumption is violated common social interactions. We propose substantially weaker model “approximate neighborhood interference” (ANI) which f...

A case of perineal congenital defect (atresia ani) has been reported in two day old male kid and its successful management through surgical intervension.

A case of perineal congenital defect (atresia ani) with recto-vaginal fistula in a 15 day old cow calf and its successful surgical management has been reported.

The circumscription of bacterial species is a complex task. So far, DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH), 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and multiocus sequence typing analysis (MLSA) are currently the preferred techniques for their genetic determination. However, the average nucleotide identity (ANI) analysis of conserved and shared genes between two bacterial strains based on the pair-wise genome comparison...

OBJECTIVE Compare levator ani cross-sectional area as a function of prolapse and muscle defect status. METHODS Thirty women with prolapse and 30 women with normal pelvic support were selected from an ongoing case-control study of prolapse. For each of the two groups, 10 women were selected from three categories of levator defect severity: none, minor, and major identified on supine magnetic r...

Genome comparisons based on average nucleotide identity (ANI) values of four strains currently classified as Polynucleobacter necessarius subsp. asymbioticus resulted in ANI values of 75.7-78.4 %, suggesting that each of those strains represents a separate species. The species P. necessarius was proposed by Heckmann and Schmidt in 1987 to accommodate obligate endosymbionts of ciliates affiliate...