Veterinary staff carrying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) can be a source of MRSA infection in animals. To identify risk factors of MRSA carriage among veterinary staff, MRSA carriage and epidemiological information (sex, career, contact with MRSA-identified animal patients and others) were analyzed from 96 veterinarians and 70 veterinary technicians working at 71 private vete...

In this paper‎, ‎we study some properties of analytic extension of a $n$th roots of $M$-hyponormal operator‎. ‎We show that every analytic extension of a $n$th roots of $M$-hyponormal operator is subscalar of order $2k+2n$‎. ‎As a consequence‎, ‎we get that if the spectrum of such operator $T$ has a nonempty interior in $mathbb{C}$‎, ‎then $T$ has a nontrivial invariant subspace‎. ‎Finally‎, ‎w...

BACKGROUND In 2010, Greenland introduced the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar 13®- PCV-13) in the childhood immunisation program. The authors aimed to evaluate the impact of PCV-13 on nasopharyngeal carriage of bacteria frequently associated with respiratory infections in children. METHOD In 2013 a cross-sectional population-based study of nasopharyngeal carriage was conducte...

Background: The aggravating role of Staphylococcus aureus is well known in atopic dermatitis but has not yet been proven in psoriasis. The role of Staphylococcus aureus superantigens is emphasized in the initiation, maintenance and complications of psoriasis. We investigated the frequency of nasal, axillary, and perineal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) in patients with psoriasis and its ...

Pneumococcal carriage and resistance vary markedly among communities and are not fully explained by individual predictors. Community risk factors may explain this variation. The authors geocoded addresses from a multicommunity sample of 710 Massachusetts children previously swabbed for pneumococcal carriage in 2001. Using regression models, the authors evaluated associations between census trac...

OBJECTIVE HIV-infected adults have high rates of pneumococcal carriage and invasive disease. We investigated the effect of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on pneumococcal carriage in HIV-infected adults prior to infant pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) rollout. DESIGN Observational cohort study. METHODS We recruited HIV-infected adults newly attending a rural HIV clinic in northern Malawi b...

‎In this paper we try to extend geometric concepts in the context of operator valued tensors‎. ‎To this end‎, ‎we aim to replace the field of scalars $ mathbb{R} $ by self-adjoint elements of a commutative $ C^star $-algebra‎, ‎and reach an appropriate generalization of geometrical concepts on manifolds‎. ‎First‎, ‎we put forward the concept of operator-valued tensors and extend semi-Riemannian...

As an special intuitionistic fuzzy set defined on the real number set, triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number (TIFN) is a fundamental tool for quantifying an ill-known quantity. In order to model the decision maker's overall preference with mandatory requirements, it is necessary to develop some Bonferroni harmonic mean operators for TIFNs which can be used to effectively intergrate the informa...

UNLABELLED After administering the 10-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae protein D-conjugated vaccine (PHiD-CV) to children aged 2-18 months, we observed a reduction in vaccine-type nasopharyngeal carriage, resulting in a reduction of overall pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage, which may be important for indirect vaccine effects. We noted a trend toward redu...

background: methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) nasal carriers play role in development of nosocomial infections and may increase treatment costs and mortality rate. these isolates, in addition to beta lactamase, is resistant to other drugs. carrier frequency and spectrum awareness of drug sensitivity in these isolates will be useful in choosing more effective methods of control ...