TO THE EDITOR—In a recent letter, Zhang et al expressed concerns on our recent report on hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) in China [1, 2]. We would like to address their points of concerns. First, Zhang et al stated that “the genetic relatedness of clinical isolates should be further identified by molecular analysis” [2]. It is generally agreed in publications and clinical practice th...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases® 2017;215:486–7 Nitazoxanide was commenced at a dose of 500 mg twice daily. It was well tolerated with no adverse effects. Initially, an improvement in frequency and severity of diarrhea was noted. Results of PCR analysis of stool specimens became negative for norovirus; however, the MS2 bacteriophage used as an internal control added to the patient sample was...

e120–5. [2] Travis WD, Brambilla E, Noguchi M, Nicholson AG, Geisinger KR, Yatabe Y et al. International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma. J Thorac Oncol 2011;6:244–85. [3] Van Schil PE, Asamura H, Rusch VW, Mitsudomi T, Tsuboi M, Brambilla E et al. Surgical impli...

We thank Hickey et al. [1] for their insightful comments with regard to our validation study on EuroSCORE II [2]. With regard to the era of patients, a time bias almost certainly does exist. This is a limitation of many retrospective singleinstitution validation studies, as most units do not have the number, and thus the statistical power, to use a small reference time period. It has already be...

I would like to thank Dayan et al. for their insightful comments [1] on our recently published manuscript [2]. Moreover, Dayan et al. should be congratulated for their own contributions in the field of BAV-associated aortopathy [3, 4]. The above-discussed manuscript does not give definite answer to the question of predictors for proximal aortic dilatation after AVR surgery in BAV patients [2]. ...

homogeneous locally neutral medium,we have two independent current conservation laws: one law applies to the freecharge current i and another one applies to the displacement current i. Note that in a homogeneous medium i is not necessarily negligible, but the application of the current conservation law on i can be done independently of the existence of i because the two laws are independent. In...

We are very pleased with the interest shown in our paper and the recognition of this common clinical problem [1]. The authors provided an in-depth validation and analyses of some of the existing makeshift methods and related suction pressures; however, we did not aim to collect this sort of data in our clinical study. The purpose of our study was to determine the incidence of chest tube cloggin...

In the article “Effect of 18F-FDG Uptake Time on Lesion Detectability in PET Imaging of Early-Stage Breast Cancer,” by Kristen A. Wangerin, Mark Muzi, Lanell M. Peterson, Hannah M. Linden, Alena Novakova, Finbarr O’Sullivan, Brenda F. Kurland, David A. Mankoff, and Paul E. Kinahan (Tomography, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 53–60. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.18383/j.tom.2015.00151), errors were discovered in Tab...

NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEAR PROTEINS hnRNP L, hnRNP A1 and hnRNP M Kenneth J. Dery , Shikha Gaur , Marieta Gencheva, Yun Yen, John E. Shively and Rajesh K. Gaur Division of Immunology, Clinical and Molecular Pharmacology Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope 1450 E. Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010 These authors contributed equally to the research Running title: Alternative splicing of CEACAM1 pr...