In 2008, the Nontuberculous Mycobacteriosis Control Committee of the Japanese Society for Tuberculosis and the Scientifi c Assembly for Infection and Tuberculosis of the Japanese Respiratory Society (hereinafter, the Joint Guidelines Committee) published the Guidelines for chemotherapy of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease─2008 interim guidelines 1). In the background, rifabutin (RB...

A total of 332 dairy cow’s sera samples were collected from Kombolcha and Dessie districts North Ethiopia to determine the sero-prevalence infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), Brucellosis. Sera split into equal portions competitive ELISA was used for testing IBR in first portion while Rose Bengal test (RBT) Complement Fixation Test (CFT) detection Brucellosis second portion. Sero-posi...

In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET), change in topology of the network occurs due to the mobility factor of the nodes leading to the extension in size of the network. The extension of network size happens due to the entry of nodes into the network. As the topology changes, link failure between the nodes takes place due to several reasons like channel interference and dynamic obstacles etc that gi...

PURPOSE To study the changes in posterior corneal elevation after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) and photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) using Scheimpflug topography with the Pentacam anterior segment imaging system (Oculus, Inc.). SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, Albany Medical Center, and a private clinical practice, Albany, New York, USA. METHODS In this prospective study, 121 co...

Rapid and inexpensive methods for genomewide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery and genotyping are urgently needed for population management and conservation. In hybridized populations, genomic techniques that can identify and genotype thousands of species-diagnostic markers would allow precise estimates of population- and individual-level admixture as well as identification of 'sup...

BACKGROUND A Bayesian latent class evaluation was used to estimate the true prevalence of brucellosis in livestock farmers and patients with prolonged pyrexia (PP) and to validate three conditionally dependent serological tests: indirect ELISA (iELISA), Rose Bengal Test (RBT), and standard tube agglutination (STAT). A total of 335 sera from livestock farmers and 300 sera from PP patients were i...