Streptococcus pneumoniae can be classified in more than 90 capsular types, as traditionally determined by serological methods and more recently by PCR-based techniques. Such methods, however, can be expensive, laborious or unable to accurately discriminate among certain serotypes. Therefore, determination of capsular types, although extremely important for epidemiological purposes and for estim...

AIM To determine the visual benefit of cataract extraction in patients with retinitis pigmentosa and to identify risk factors for poor outcome. METHODS A retrospective analysis was undertaken of a continuous series of 142 eyes of 89 patients with retinitis pigmentosa undergoing cataract surgery between 1985 and 1997. RESULTS Mean age at surgery was 47.5 years (range 24-81 years). In 100 eye...

Purpose: To describe a new intraocular lens that can be implanted in case of rupture of the posterior capsule and lack of capsular support. Methods: This experimental study was carried out on ten Flanders rabbits. The right eye of each rabbit underwent intra capsular lens extraction and two peripheral iridectomies, and the new lens was implanted with an optic rest in the posterior chamber. Addi...

background and objectives: biofilms are structural communities of bacterial cells enshrined in a self produced polymeric matrix. the studies on biofilm formation of pasteurella multocida have become imperative since it is a respiratory pathogen and its biofilm mode could possibly be one of its virulence factors for survival inside a host. the present study describes a biofilm assay for p. multo...

Rupture of the cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) in stifle is one most common causes hind-limb lameness middle-aged and old dogs. The treatment choice involves surgical extra- or intra-capsular stabilization knee joint, increasingly preferred tibial osteotomy techniques. Postoperative rehabilitation affected limb an equally important part treatment. paper describes three cases rupture dogs method...

This paper discusses the problem of utilising multiply annotated data in training biomedical information extraction systems. Two corpora, annotated with entities and relations, and containing a number of multiply annotated documents, are used to train named entity recognition and relation extraction systems. Several methods of automatically combining the multiple annotations to produce a single...

streptococcus iniae is a major cause of serious bacterial infections in both fish and human beings. capsular polysaccharide (cps) of s. iniae is vital to evade phagocytic clearance of the host and serves as an important protective antigen of s. iniae infection in aquatic animals. the cpsdgene was determined to be highly conservative in capsule polysaccharide operon. prokaryotic expression of th...

PURPOSE The ocular humors are relatively low in protein, yet cell growth in the human capsular bag still occurs after extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) surgery. This resilient growth gives rise to posterior capsule opacification (PCO) in a significant proportion (30%) of patients. This study compared the ability of human lens cells to proliferate in serum-supplemented and protein-free me...