OBJECTIVE The prevalence of pulmonary disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has been increasing in Japan. Adjuvant resectional surgery is often recommended to lessen disease progression when the response to drug therapy is poor. In all likelihood, as affected cases of NTM disease increase, so will the number of operations. The goal of this study was to determine the current status...

let $pi_e(g)$ be the set of element orders of a finite group $g$‎. ‎let $nse(g)={m_nmid ninpi_e(g)}$‎, ‎where $m_n$ be the number of elements of order $n$ in $g$‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we prove that if $nse(g)=nse(l_2(81))$‎, ‎then $gcong l_2(81)$‎.

BACKGROUND The inpatient and outpatient burden of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infection among young children has not been well established. METHODS We conducted prospective, population-based surveillance for acute respiratory illness or fever among inpatient and outpatient children less than 5 years of age in three U.S. counties from 2003 through 2009. Clinical and demographic data were obta...

Repeat episodes of HPV-related external genital warts reflect recurring or new infections. No study before has been sufficiently powered to delineate how tobacco use, prior history of EGWs and HIV infection affect the risk for new EGWs. Behavioral, laboratory and examination data for 2,835 Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study participants examined at 21,519 semi-annual visits were evaluated. Fourteen ...

BACKGROUND Few studies have explored how utilization of outpatient services differ for HIV/HCV coinfected patients compared to HIV or HCV monoinfected patients. The objectives of this study were to (1) compare annual outpatient clinic visit rates between coinfected and monoinfected patients, (2) to compare utilization of HIV and HCV therapies between coinfected and monoinfected patients, and (3...

Introduction: In the past 10 years, a declining trend was seen in the annual parasite incidence (API) of malaria in the Car Nicobar Island. For the past few years, the API in the island has been below one. Car Nicobar Island is struggling with malaria cases reported to have been brought from other, malaria-endemic islands. Methods: The movements of people...

CONTEXT Although bipolar disorder may have its onset during childhood, little is known about national trends in the diagnosis and management of bipolar disorder in young people. OBJECTIVES To present national trends in outpatient visits with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and to compare the treatment provided to youth and adults during those visits. DESIGN We compare rates of growth betwee...

BACKGROUND Physicians' warnings to patients who are potentially unfit to drive are a medical intervention intended to prevent trauma from motor vehicle crashes. We assessed the association between medical warnings and the risk of subsequent road crashes. METHODS We identified consecutive patients who received a medical warning in Ontario, Canada, between April 1, 2006, and December 31, 2009, ...

This study evaluated patients who were given transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) compared with a matched group without TENS prior to intervention and at 1-year follow-up. Patients who were treated with TENS had significantly fewer hospital and clinic visits, used less diagnostic imaging (31 vs 46 events per 100 patients), had fewer physical therapy visits (94 vs 107), and require...