During a meningococcal (group A) epidemic, 47 Nigerian children with acute meningococcaemia without meningitis were studied. Their mortality rate was 43% compared with 8% during the whole epidemic. Those presenting with coma and shock had a mortality of 93%, but without shock or coma mortality was only 6%. Coma or shock occurring alone carried an intermediate prognosis. The outcome correlated w...

BACKGROUND Coma complicates Plasmodium falciparum infection but is uncommonly associated with P. vivax. Most series of vivax coma have been retrospective and have not utilized molecular methods to exclude mixed infections with P. falciparum. METHODS We prospectively enrolled patients hospitalized in Timika, Indonesia, with a Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) ≤10 and P. vivax monoinfection on initial m...

About half of the baryons in the local Universe are thought to reside in the so-called warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) at temperatures of 0.1-10 million K. Thermal soft excess emission in the spectrum of some cluster outskirts that contains OVII and/or OVIII emission lines is regarded as evidence of the WHIM, although the origin of the lines is controversial due to strong Galactic and sola...

Two cases of alcoholic coma are presented where extensor responses to noxious stimuli are demonstrated. Decerebrate posturing normally indicates severe structural or functional depression of midbrain function but can be caused by depressant drugs. Blood alcohol measurements are a vital test in the comatose patient as the clinical picture may be caused, or temporarily significantly worsened, by ...

Congenital ocular motor apraxia (COMA) is a unique ocular motor disorder which is characterized by a deficit in initiation of voluntary horizontal eye movement with reserved reflex eye movement. Although a portion of cases with COMA were found to be associated with other abnormalities, COMA in most patients is an isolated disorder. The most characteristic appearance of these patients is compens...

A problem with bus-based shared-memory multiprocessors is that the shared bus rapidly becomes a bottleneck in the machine, effectively limiting the machine size to somewhere between ten and twenty processors. We propose a new architecture, the Bus-Based COMA (BB-COMA) that addresses this problem. Compared to the standard UMA architecture, the BB-COMA has lower requirements on bus bandwidth. We ...

The existence of an intergalactic globular cluster population in the Coma cluster of galaxies has been tested using surface-brightness fluctuations. The main result is that the intergalactic globular cluster surface density (N IGC) does not correlate with the distance to the center of Coma and hence with the environment. Furthermore, comparing these results with different Coma mass-distribution...

BACKGROUND The bispectral (BIS) index is a processed electroencephalogram (EEG) parameter with extensive validation and demonstrated clinical utility. The study aimed to investigate the correlation between the BIS index and the prognosis of patients with coma in the ICU. METHODS A total of 208 patients with coma in the ICU were enrolled in this study. According to the BIS value, the patients ...

Neurological deterioration in alert patients with an acute CNS disorder can be subtle, but current coma scales may not clearly capture changes in level of alertness. Many coma scales include components such as eye opening and content of speech, features that are difficult to assess in intubated patients and patients with facial trauma. Two new tools have been devised by the authors. The compone...

The mesophile Acinetobacter sp. strain BD413 and the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus HB27 display high frequencies of natural transformation. In this study we identified and characterized a novel competence gene in Acinetobacter sp. strain BD413, comA, whose product displays significant similarities to the competence proteins ComA and ComEC in Neisseria and Bacillus species. Transcript...