BACKGROUND Sporadic influenza A virus (IAV) outbreaks in humans and swine have resulted from commingling of large numbers of people and pigs at agricultural fairs in the United States. Current antemortem IAV surveillance strategies in swine require collecting nasal swabs, which entails restraining pigs with snares. Restraint is labor-intensive for samplers, stressful for pigs, and displeasing t...

PAI-1 prevents lysis of blood clot by inhibiting the urokinase and tPA induced conversion of plasminogen to plasmin. VLHL PAI-1 protein mutant was created to extend half-life over 700 hours. The objective of this paper was to test VLHL PAI-1 effects on bleeding during partial nephrectomy in mice. All animals had a left partial nephrectomy after intravenous infusion of saline or tPA. The animals...

Received Oct 15, 1998; Accepted Nov 6, 1998 Correspondence to: K. Morimoto, Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Osaka University School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Subjects and Methods Forty-five (62%) subjects of a previous study') were engaged in monitoring work in the various work zones and had been continuously exposed to MTHPA during an 8 h work shi...

PURPOSE To examine the CT and MR appearances of four packing materials commonly used in otolaryngologic surgery. METHODS The CT and MR appearances of bismuth and iodoform paraffin paste, aqueous betadine gauze, calcium sodium alginate, and triadocortyl cream were examined. CT attenuation values were measured using phantoms containing packing materials. MR characteristics were examined by pack...

Chronic wounds are a major cause for both suffering and economical losses. Management of chronic non-healing wounds requires multipronged approach. They are polymicrobial and agonizing for the patient due to associated pain. Moist dressing providing antimicrobial action is a highly desirable chronic wound management option. Here we report a hydrogel based dressing that possesses the antimicrobi...

To evaluate disinfection methods for environments contaminated with bioterrorism-associated microorganism (Bacillus anthracis), we performed the following experiments. First, the sporicidal effects of sodium hypochlorite on spores of five bacterial species were evaluated. Bacillus atrophaeus was the most resistant to hypochlorite, followed in order by B. anthracis, Clostridium botulinum and Clo...

HYPOTHESIS Promogran, a wound dressing consisting of collagen and oxidized regenerated cellulose, is more effective that standard care in treating chronic diabetic plantar ulcers. DESIGN Randomized, prospective, controlled multicenter trial. SETTING University teaching hospitals and primary care centers. PATIENTS A total of 276 patients from 11 centers were enrolled in the study. The mean...

Fig. 1 A typical tubular dress. But is it as safe as you think? To the Editor, Tubular gauze finger dressing is a commonly applied wound covering (Fig. 1). The total number of applications per year is unknown. In many emergency and clinic situations, its application is delegated to the more junior clinic staff. How much training with this material the people using it have is another unknown. Se...