Corynebacterium minutissimum was first isolated in 1961 from infection sites of patients presenting with erythrasma, a common cutaneous infection characterized by a rash. Since its discovery, C. minutissimum has been identified as an opportunistic pathogen in immunosuppressed cancer and HIV patients. Here, we report the whole-genome sequence of C. minutissimum.

The hydration of intestinal fatty acid binding protein (IFABP) in apo-form and complexed with palmitate, oleate, and 1-anilino-8-naphthalene sulfonate (ANS) has been studied by water 17O and 2H magnetic relaxation dispersion (MRD) measurements. These ligands bind in a large internal cavity, displacing most of the crystallographically identified cavity water molecules. Unlike most other proteins...

The use of a laser range sensor in the 3D part digitalization process for inspection tasks allows very signi cant improvement in acquisition speed and in 3D measurement points density but does not equal the accuracy obtained with a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). Inspection consists in verifying the accuracy of a part related to a given set of tolerances. It is thus necessary that the 3D me...

A National Emergency Plan was set up in Italy after the Chernobyl accident, to cope with the following nuclear risk sources: accidents in foreign nuclear power plants or aboard nuclearpropelled ships, falling of satellites using nuclear power units, transportation of radioactive materials. Moreover, this plan gives the general requirements of the emergency preparedness and response to be implem...

The aim of the present work was to develop immediate release dosage form of the solid dispersion of glimperide (GLIM) for potential enhancement in the bioavailability. The solid dispersions of GLIM were prepared with PEG6000, PVP K30 and Poloxamer 188, in 1:1, 1:3 and 1:5 %w/w ratio by using solvent wetting and solvent melt method. The in vitro dissolution parameters (%DE10min, %DE30min, %DE60m...

The two dimensional with a triangular-lattice cross sectional pattern of elliptic air holes photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is investigated in detail by use of plan wave expansion (PWE) method. Using PWE method, the dependence of dispersion on structure parameters is calculated. We compared the dispersion relations between the circular air holes PCF and the elliptic one. We find that the flatter d...