Introduction . Vitamin D deficiency may be a natural predictor of the onset coronary heart disease (CHD) and myocardial infarction (MI) at young age. The results studies various variants association vitamin receptor (VDR) gene with risk CHD are contradictory, which leads to study genetic VDR as predictors age 45 years younger in Russian population. objective was determine distribution TaqI , Bs...

BACKGROUND Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in animals is a rare finding in Sweden. In horses, MRSA was first detected in a screening survey in 2007. In 2008, six clinical cases occurred in an equine hospital, indicating an outbreak. METHOD All MRSA isolates detected, 11 spa-type t011 and one t064 (n = 12), in infected horses (n = 10) and screening of horses (n = 2) in Swede...

Background: The link between longitudinal cognitive change and polymorphisms in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) and MEGALIN [or LDL receptor-related protein 2 (LRP2)] genes remains unclear, particularly among African-American (AA) adults.Objectives: We aimed to evaluate associations of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for VDR [rs11568820 (Cdx-2:T/C), rs1544410 (BsmI:G/A), rs7975232 (ApaI:A/C...

Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne human pathogen that causes systemic infection, fetal-placental infection in pregnant women causing abortion and stillbirth meningoencephalitis elderly immunocompromised individuals. This study aimed to analyse L. from different sources New Zealand (NZ) compare them with international strains. We used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), multilocus seque...

19A, p. 34. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, USA. J Antimicrob Chemother 2010doi:10.1093/jac/dkq343Advance Access publication 16 September 2010 High frequency of b-lactamsusceptibility in CTX-M-type extended-spectrum-b-lactamase-producingKlebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coliand Proteus mirabilis according to thenew CLSI recommendations Katia Rusch...