To the Editor: We welcome the interest and enthusiasm of Halber et aL (1997) in the nonparametric randomization test that we described (Holmes et aL, 1996) not least because they called their program 'Sherlock', However, as the great detective would surely have pointed out, there are a num­ ber of flaws in the article that led the authors to an incorrect primary conclusion, that our test "is a ...

The objective of this study was to report the presence of Neospora caninum-associated abortion in bovines at a farm in the northeast region of São Paulo State. In January 2010, it was sent to the Department of Pathology, UNESPJaboticabal, a bovine fetus with an estimated age of seven months, which was natural of a dairy farm with 300 animals and an average daily production of 3,000 liters of mi...

London Hospital has checked the manuscript from the point of view of the British reader. The result is excellent and indeed this is the best, low-priced skin atlas available in the English language today. The photographs are of an extraordinarily high standard and particularly is this true of the colour illustrations, most of which occupy a full page. Some of the illustrations, for example, Fig...

Cellulitis Cellulitis is a painful, erythematous infection of the dermis and subcutaneous tissues that is characterized by warmth, edema, and advancing borders (Table 1). Cellulitis commonly occurs near breaks in the skin, such as surgical wounds, trauma, tinea infections (Figure 1), or ulcerations, but occasionally B acterial skin infections are the 28th most common diagnosis in hospitalized p...

THIS ARTICLE argues against the thinking of nurses who still believe in single room containment of every patient affected by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), despite published evidence to the contrary (Ayliffe et al 2000, Barrett et al 1998). In the light of limited resources, consideration of other single room priorities and the shortage of staff, the author asserts that a r...

Angelica dahurica (Fisch. Ex Hoffm) is an important traditional Chinese herb which is widely used in curing acne, ulcers, carbuncles, rheumatism, headaches and toothaches. A systematic antifungal bioassayguided fractionation of the ethyl acetate extract from A. dahurica led to the isolation of six coumarins, namely, suberosin, bergapten, alloimperatorin, xanthotoxol, 5-methoxy-8-hydroxypsoralen...

Second-order accurate upwind and centered schemes are presented in a framework that facilitates their analysis and comparison. The upwind scheme employed consists of a reconstruction step (Van Leer 1977) followed by an upwind step (Roe 1981). The two centered schemes are of Lax-Friedrichs (L-F) type. They are the nonstaggered versions of the N-T scheme (called ORD in Nessyahu-Tadmor 1990) and t...

In this paper, a hybrid numerical flux scheme of low diffusion ECUSP (LDE) and HLL scheme is proposed by decomposing the cell-face normal vector. In the direction normal to shocks, the HLL scheme is applied to suppress carbuncles, in the other direction, the ECUSP scheme is implemented to keep low numerical diffusion. The new scheme with fifth-order WENO reconstruction is tested by using severa...

Since the mid-1990s, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become the predominant pathogen responsible for suppurative skin infections (i.e., furuncles, carbuncles, and skin abscesses) in the United States and in many other countries. Emergency department visits for skin abscesses have increased during this period, as MRSA has become endemic in the community, but a similar incr...