Toxin-producing isolates of Bacillus licheniformis were obtained from foods involved in food poisoning incidents, from raw milk, and from industrially produced baby food. The toxin detection method, based on the inhibition of boar spermatozoan motility, has been shown previously to be a sensitive assay for the emetic toxin of Bacillus cereus, cereulide. Cell extracts of the toxigenic B. licheni...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Several factors might alter serum phosphate homeostasis and induce hyperhosphatemia in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) not requiring dialysis. However, whether and to what extent hyperphosphatemia is associated with a poor prognosis in different CKD patient groups remain to be elucidated. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS & MEASUREMENTS We utilized the "Preven...

Patients with chronic diseases frequently show a marked deterioration in their quality of life (QoL). This paper was aimed at investigating on both the prevalence psychological disorders and impact QoL patients renal failure. The survey conducted 155 patients, aged 77±11 years, 104/51 M/F, failure conservative treatment (stages IV-V) referring to Nephrology Unit Mauriziano Hospital, Turin. 13 t...

Hypertonie und Diabetes treten oft gemeinsam auf erhöhen die kardiovaskuläre Mortalität. Beide Erkrankungen sind bei COVID-19-Patienten (COVID-19: „coronavirus disease 2019“) mit schweren Verläufen gehäuft anzutreffen. Hinsichtlich der Kausalität für COVID-19 ist Datenlage widersprüchlich. Sicher ein Surrogateffekt, da meiste ältere einen Verlauf aufgrund Vorschäden aufweisen. Hemmer des Renin-...