The hygienic behavior of honey bees is based on a two-step process, including uncapping and removing diseased, dead, damaged, or parasitized brood inside the cell. We evaluated during periods of 1 h the time that hygienic and non-hygienic colonies of Africanized honey bees spend to detect, uncap and remove pin-killed brood using comb inserts with transparent walls placed in observation hives. W...

Background Milk allergy is the most common food allergy in infants and young children. Typical milk allergy symptoms involve hives, vomiting, or even anaphylaxis. For cow’s milk, strict avoidance is difficult because milk proteins are very ubiquitous. Oral immunotherapy (OIT) is an effective therapeutic option to induce milk oral tolerance. However, the immune mechanisms underlying this treatme...

There is a well-known classical reduction formula by Griffiths and Harris for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, which reduces one part from each partition. In this article, we consider an extension of the reduction formula reducing two parts from each partition. This extension is a special case of the factorization theorem of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients by King, Tollu, and Toumazet (th...

Background: Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) consists of the implantation neuromodulatory devices in spinal to treat refractory neuropathic pain. Although SCS technology has been proven immense clinical benefit, complications remain including pain, infection risk, and electrode migration or displacement. Till date, there are minimal reports allergic side effects following implantation. Case Descri...

Introduction Magnetic resonance contrast agents, in particular the gadolinium-based agents, are very safe and lack the nephrotoxicity (when injected intravenously) associated with iodinated contrast media. Minor adverse effects occur infrequently and include nausea, taste perversion, and hives. Whereas these agents cannot be differentiated on the basis of mild adverse effects, they do differ in...

Honey bee mortality has recently been associated with Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), a proposed etiological agent for a new syndrome known as Colony Collapse Disorder. Bees infected with this virus show shivering wings, progress into paralysis, and finally die outside the hive. During the last years, honey bee mortality became a serious problem for Argentinean beekeepers. We herein repor...

Results 8 children had gastrointestinal imediated hypersensitivity (42.10%), 6 had increased this ratio due to hives (31.57%), 3 had rhinitis (15.78%), 1 asthma (5.26 %) and 1 had anigioedema (5.26%). The main complaints of these children were also analyzed. The most frequent complaints were skin with 9 reports (33.33%), followed by constipation with 7 (25.94%) and respiratory complaints with 6...

Plasma is used to correct coagulopathies, but not all coagulation abnormalities are clinically significant enough to require correction before an invasive procedure. We report an 82-year-old female who, in response to a mildly prolonged INR of unknown etiology, was unnecessarily transfused with plasma in advance of elective surgery. The patient suffered a moderately severe transfusion reaction,...