Abstract Introduction Frailty, an approximation of a patient’s reserve resulting from age-associated decline across multi-organ systems, has been shown to be independent predictor adverse outcomes. Amongst penile prosthesis surgery however, frailty is underutilized risk factor with conflicting data regarding its impact on surgical Objective To evaluate the association between modified Frailty I...

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A. Govaris, E. Botsoglou, A. Moulas and N. Botsoglou 1 Laboratory of Hygiene of Foods of Animal Origin, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, 431 00 Karditsa, Greece 2 Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Animal Production, Technological Education Institute TEI, 411 10 Larissa, Greece 3 Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University, 54...

The most common bacterial mercury resistance mechanism is based on the reduction of Hg(II) to Hg(0), which is dependent of the mercuric reductase enzyme (MerA) activity. The use of a 431 bp fragment of a conservative region of the mercuric reductase (merA) gene was applied as a molecular marker of this mechanism, allowing the identification of mercury resistant bacterial strains.

1General Thoracic Surgery, Hoshigaoka Medical Center, Osaka 873-8511, Japan. 2First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu Medical University School of Medicine, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan. 3Department of Respiratory Surgery Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Saitama 360-0105, Japan. 4Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8522, Japan. 5Departme...

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