Estimations of the bacterial content of air can be more easily made now than a decade ago, with colony formation the method of choice for enumeration of airborne bacteria. However, plate counts are subject to error because bacteria exposed to the air may remain viable yet lose the ability to form colonies, i.e., they become viable but nonculturable. If airborne bacteria exhibit this phenomenon,...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) may attenuate the response to vascular injury by maintaining endothelial integrity and function. Our aim was to determine whether circulating HPC number and function correlate with restenosis after carotid endarterectomy. METHODS HPC number (CD34(+)/CD133(+) cells), early colony-forming units, migratory capacity, and senescence were...

INTRODUCTION Vasculitis has been reported in a few cases of chronic lymphatic leukemia and with granulocytic colony-stimulating factor therapy. Those with granulocytic colony-stimulating factor occurred after prolonged therapy and there was a rise in total leukocyte count unlike that in our patient who received just a single injection for the first time. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case o...

objective: bioactive glass 45s5 is a surface reactive glass-ceramic biomaterial, developed in 1969. bag 45s5 with particle size of 20-60 nm has the ability of bone regeneration, broad spectrum antibacterial effect, repairs and replaces diseased or damaged bone. the aim of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial activity and determine mic and mbc values of nano-bag45s5 on streptococcus muta...

PURPOSE To evaluate the results of conjunctival culture in fellow eyes of patients with unilateral nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLDO) and its changes after successful dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) surgery. METHODS In this prospective study, 71 adult patients with unilateral NLDO and 41 age and sex-matched controls without NLDO were evaluated. The patients were divided into 2 groups based on c...

the aim of present study was to investigate the effect of individual and co-inoculation of trichoderma species and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) on growth, mycorrhization, population of trichoderma, and wilt disease severity in pigeon pea (cajanus cajan l millsp). three species of trichoderma, namely, t. harzianum (th), t. virens (tr), and t. viride (tv) and consortium of amf (myc; mixture...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine if bacterial growth occurred in the amniotic fluid of laboring women. Twenty patients who required an intrauterine pressure catheter (IUPC) during labor were studied. Amniotic fluid samples were aspirated during labor and at the time of delivery. METHODS IUPCs were placed in laboring patients for a variety of reasons. Cervical cultures were...

The possibility that umbilical cord and placental blood from an HLA-identical sibling might produce stable donor-derived lymphohematopoietic engraftment was tested in a patient with juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia (JCML). After conditioning with high-dose busulfan and cyclophosphamide, cryopreserved umbilical cord blood, containing 0.5 x 10(8) nucleated cells/kg and 2.7 x 10(4) colony for...

EFFECTS OF LITHIUM TREATMENT ON GRANULOCYTES AND GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR IN PATIENTS WITH BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER Objective: Although there are conflicting results, lithium carbonate has been demonstrated to induce the production of haematopoietic cells, particularly white blood cell series. In this study, we examined the effects of lithium on white blood cells in association w...