The Enterobacteriaceae are environmental and enteric microbes. We sequenced the genomes of two Enterobacter reference strains, E. aerogenes CDC 6003-71 and E. cloacae CDC 442-68, as well as one near neighbor used as an exclusionary reference for diagnostics, Pantoea agglomerans CDC UA0804-01. The genome sizes range from 4.72 to 5.55 Mbp and have G+C contents from 54.6 to 55.1%.

This study presents a new all-steel Buckling-Restrained Brace (BRB) named Coplanar Dual Core (CDC) BRB, that consists of rectangular cross-sectional core divided into two coplanar yielding lateral bands, whose movements are constrained by an external restrainer (ER) and internal (IR). In contrast with the traditional BRB dog-bone shaped core, CDC-BRB has advantage can be easily extracted inspec...

OBJECTIVE We studied antibiotic use prior to the onset of Clostridium difficile colitis (CDC) and time interval between onset of gastrointestinal symptoms and diagnosis for two historical time periods with separate comparisons for inpatients and outpatients to determine whether time to diagnosis had decreased and whether previous metronidazole use is associated with CDC. METHOD We performed a...

A cycle double cover (CDC) of an undirected graph is a collection of the graph’s cycles such that every edge of the graph belongs to exactly two cycles. We describe a constructive method for generating all the cubic graphs that have a 6-CDC (a CDC in which every cycle has length 6). We also prove that all such graphs have a Hamiltonian cycle.

Several studies have analyzed attributable outcomes of patients infected with resistant bacteria who are compared to reference patients infected with corresponding, susceptible bacteria (1–32). We have conducted two studies, both at teaching hospitals. Study 1 (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA]) was conducted at Duke University Medical Center, a 900-bed tertiary care academic m...