the efficacy of clindamycin and monensin were evaluated in the prevention of oocyst shedding of kittens with toxoplasma gondii (tehran strain). in this study, 28 healthy kittens aged 1.5 – 2 months old divided randomly into 4 groups of seven. in group 1, kittens were fed with the infected brain tissues of mice, all of seven kittens (100 %), shed oocyst, nearly 1 week after infection, which last...

To investigate the asymptomatic shedding of herpes simplex virus (HSV) from women with recurrent genital herpes infection, and to assess whether inapparent shedding could occur, eight such women were examined thrice weekly for one month. At each visit colposcopy was performed and multiple sites sampled for HSV. During the study four women had no recurrence of HSV infection, but four had at leas...

Mycobacterium avium spp. paratuberculosis (MAP) causes a persistent infection and chronic inflammation of the gut in ruminants leading to bacterial shedding in feces in many infected animals. Although there are often strong MAP-specific immune responses in infected animals, immunological correlates of protection against progression to disease remain poorly defined. Analysis of cross-sectional d...

BACKGROUND To better understand potential transmission risks from contact with the body fluids of children, we monitored the presence and amount of CMV shedding over time in healthy CMV-seropositive children. METHODS Through screening we identified 36 children from the Atlanta, Georgia area who were CMV-seropositive, including 23 who were shedding CMV at the time of screening. Each child rece...

A down-modulation of both the 55-kDa (TNF-R55) and the 75-kDa (TNF-R75) TNF receptors is observed in neutrophils exposed to a variety of stimuli. Proteolytic cleavage of the extracellular region of both receptors (shedding) and, with TNF, internalization of TNF-R55 and shedding of TNF-R75 are the proposed mechanisms. We have characterized the TNF-induced shedding of TNF receptors in neutrophils...

1. Aberer K., Datta A., Hauswirth M., and Schmidt R. Indexing data-oriented overlay networks. In Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2005). (More details at http://www.pgrid.org) 2. Aberer K., Datta A., and Hauswirth M. Multifaceted simultaneous load balancing in DHT-based P2P systems: a new game with old balls and bins. In Self-Properties in Complex Information Systems, Springer, Berlin,...

This paper attempts to provide an economic framework for assessing why and how Internet telephony may a ect the international accounting rate system in particular, and communication over circuit switched networks in general. It reviews the regulatory treatment of Internet telephony, and compares the costs and prices of making international calls over the Internet and the public switched telepho...

For the last half century, international trade has been an important contributor to the growth of the world economy. Similarly, over the past twenty years, after China’s decision to pursue a market opening policy, the growth of the Chinese economy has been led by the rapid growth of its exports and imports. However this growth in international trade has been accompanied by an increase in the nu...

Despite debuting to little fanfare under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), dispute settlement under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been called the “backbone of the multilateral trading system.” Indeed, whereas GATT dispute settlement could scarcely have seemed more flawed, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) is widely touted for boosting confidence in an in...