BACKGROUND Few data exist describing healthcare-seeking behaviors among persons with influenza-like illness (ILI) or adherence to influenza antiviral treatment recommendations. METHODS We analyzed adult responses to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 31 states and the District of Columbia (DC) and pediatric responses in 25 states and DC for January-April 2011 by demographics an...

The distribution of microsatellite allele sizes in populations aids in understanding the genetic diversity of species and the evolutionary history of recent selective sweeps. We propose a heterogeneous Bayesian analysis of variance model for inferring loci involved in recent selective sweeps by analyzing the distribution of allele sizes at multiple loci in multiple populations. Our model is sho...

0168-583X/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2010.02.050 * Corresponding author. Address: Department of Ph University, 136 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ 088 E-mail address: [email protected] (L.S. We describe new Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS) measurements to explore the surface chemistry associated with the growth of self-assembled monolayer (S...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between focal stroke lesions of Posner's executive attention network and a specific region of interest in the frontal lobes (orbital frontal and mesial frontal) and either attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or traits of the disorder (ADHD symptomatology). METHOD Twenty-nine children with focal stroke lesions were studied with standardized ...

Fifty-three patients with biochemical relapse (BCR) after receiving external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) against locally advanced prostate cancer (stage III : International Union Against Cancer [UICC] 6th edition) between September 1997 and January 2006 at our institution, who were treated with salvage hormonal therapy (HTx), were followed for a mean period of 75.5 months. There was progression to...

Bacteria and Archaea display a variety of phenotypic traits and can adapt to diverse ecological niches. However, systematic annotation of prokaryotic phenotypes is lacking. We have therefore developed ProTraits, a resource containing ∼545 000 novel phenotype inferences, spanning 424 traits assigned to 3046 bacterial and archaeal species. These annotations were assigned by a computational pipeli...

Standard meta-analytical and pharmacoeconomic techniques were used to study the clinical effectiveness and the cost-effectiveness ratio of the prophylactic (or pre-emptive) administration of G-CSF to patients with small cell lung cancer treated with conventional myelosuppressive cytotoxic chemotherapy. In the first part of our study, we conducted a meta-analysis of the randomized clinical trial...

OBJECTIVE To determine population-based rates of the use of diagnostic imaging procedures with ionizing radiation in children, stratified by age and sex. DESIGN Retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING All settings using imaging procedures with ionizing radiation. PATIENTS Individuals younger than 18 years, alive, and continuously enrolled in UnitedHealthcare between January 1, 2005, and De...

The global seroprevalence of latent toxoplasmosis is estimated to be higher than 30%. The presence of slowly dividing parasites in tissue cysts located mainly in immunoprivileged organs was long considered asymptomatic. Recently, many studies have shown that latent Toxoplasma infections could have serious impacts on human health. Here we ran a cross-sectional study in a population of 1486 volun...