INTRODUCTION Many patients with asthma remain poorly controlled despite the use of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta agonists. Poor control may arise from inadequate adherence, incorrect inhaler technique or because the condition is refractory. Without having an objective assessment of adherence, clinicians may inadvertently add extra medication instead of addressing adherence. This ...

Cátedra de Parasitología y Enfermedades Parasitarias. Departamento de Epizootiología y Salud Pública. Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. CC 296 (B1900AVW). La Plata. Argentina. *Corresponding author: [email protected] Laboratorio DIAP. Inca 109 (B1836BBC) Llavallol. Buenos Aires. Argentina. 3Centro de Diagnóstico e Investigaciones Veterinarias (CEDIVE). Alvear ...

Seasonally-resolved upper tropospheric profiles of formaldehyde (HCHO) observed by the ACE Fourier transform spectrometer (ACE-FTS) on a near-global scale are presented for the time period from March 2004 to November 2006. Large upper tropospheric HCHO mixing ratios (>150 pptv) are observed during the growing season of the terrestrial biosphere in the Northern Hemisphere and during the biomass ...

Chlamydia grows within a membrane-bound vacuole termed an inclusion. The cellular processes that support the biogenesis and integrity of this pathogen-specified parasitic organelle are not understood. Chlamydia secretes integral membrane proteins called Incs that insert into the chlamydial inclusion membrane (IM). Incs contain at least two hydrophobic transmembrane domains flanked by termini, w...

The emergence of carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae has raised major public health concern. The aim of this study was to investigate the molecular epidemiology and the mechanism of carbapenem resistance acquisition of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from 20 neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the V. Monaldi Hospital in Naples, Italy, from April 2015...

n what follows, we describe the technique and history of energetic neutral atom (enA) imaging of space plasma and present recent results from international collaborations involving enA imaging experiments as well as results from the imAge mission at earth and the cassini mission at Jupiter and saturn. both imAge and cassini carry ApL-built enA cameras. The henA instrument onboard the imAge miss...

This paper assesses the original name of Inca settlement now known as Machu Picchu. We examine three data sources: field notes Hiram Bingham, toponyms on nineteenth century maps, and information recorded in seventeenth documents. The results uniformly suggest that city was originally called Picchu, or more likely Huayna Picchu became associated with ruins starting 1911 Bingham’s publications.Es...