OBJECTIVES To determine the leptospirosis seroprevalence and to identify the predominant infecting serovars among oil palm plantation workers. METHODS The cross-sectional study involved 350 asymptomatic oil palm plantation workers in Melaka and Johor. A serological test using the microscopic agglutination test was conducted in the Institute of Medical Research with a cut-off titre for seropos...

Title Mother-to-child Transmission of Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Author(s) Moriuchi, Hiroyuki; Masuzaki, Hideaki; Doi, Hiroshi; Katamine, Shigeru Citation The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 32(2), pp.175-177; 2013 Issue Date 2013-02 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/31485 Right © 2013 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.; This is a non-final version of an article published in fi...

Calculations of the radiofrequency magnetic (B(1)) field, SAR, and SNR as functions of frequency between 64 and 345 MHz for a surface coil against an anatomically-accurate human chest are presented. Calculated B(1) field distributions are in good agreement with previously-published experimental results up to 175 MHz, especially considering the dependence of field behavior on subject anatomy. Ca...

We read the editorial entitled “Non-antibiotic treatments for bacterial diseases in an era of progressive antibiotic resistance” by Steven M. Opal published in Critical Care [1]. We want to congratulate the author for this timely editorial and appreciate the efforts to highlight various non-antibiotic-based approaches being pursued for treating drug-resistant bacteria. We fully agree that there...