Amplification of the 16S rRNA gene from a blood sample obtained from a dog in southeastern Brazil was used to confirm a naturally acquired Ehrlichia (E.) canis infection. Following isolation and culturing of the new bacterial strain called Uberlandia, partial sequences of the dsb and p28 genes were obtained. The dsb partial sequence of the novel strain was 100% similar to dsb gene sequences of ...

An Ehrlichia canis isolate was obtained from an naturally infected dog exhibiting clinical signs of ehrlichiosis in São Paulo Municipality, state of São Paulo, Brazil. The isolate was characterized by PCR and DNA sequencing of portions of the ehrlichial genes dsb, 16SrRNA, and p28. Partial dsb and 16S rRNA sequences were identical to three and five other E. canis strains, respectively, from dif...

In recent years, the development of neuroimaging techniques such as high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), or single photon emission tomography (SPECT) has promoted the identification of structural and functional characteristics underlying mental disorders to a great extent. In anxiety disorders, recent...

We examine the introduction of automatic air pollution monitoring to counter suspected tampering at local level, a central feature China’s “war on pollution.” Exploiting 654 regression discontinuity designs based city-level variation in day that was automated, we find an immediate and lasting increase 35 percent reported PM 10 concentrations post-automation. Moreover, automation’s increased onl...

OBJECTIVE As axon outgrowth and dentate granule cell neurogenesis are hallmarks of hippocampal development and are also the two morphologic changes in the structure of the dentate gyrus after status epilepticus (SE), we hypothesized that molecules involved in normal development may also play a role during epileptogenesis. METHOD Using in situ hybridization, we have characterized mRNA expressi...

Let $L$ be a finite Orthomodular Lattice and $T$ the Formal Context of $L$. Then, considering as binary symmetric matrix, we find determinant formal context atomic amalgam $B_n+B_m$ two Boolean algebras $\mathbf{B_{n}}$ $\mathbf{B_{m}}$ consisting $n$ $m$ atoms, respectively using Schur complement formula\cite{p28}. We present proofs some preliminary results on table algebra $B_{n}$ characteris...

Bacterial redox protein azurin (azurin for short, or Az) belongs to a class of copper-containing proteins known as cupredoxins. We report here our detailed studies and findings on prospects for application of Az for treatment of cancer through various approaches of nanotechnology. We first present the structure and characteristics of Az protein molecule, its electronic properties and its electr...