BACKGROUND Evaluation of two commercial lateral flow devices (LFDs) for avian influenza (AI) detection in H5N1 highly pathogenic AI infected poultry in Vietnam. OBJECTIVES Determine sensitivity and specificity of the LFDs relative to a validated highly sensitive H5 RRT PCR. METHODS Swabs (cloacal and tracheal) and feathers were collected from 46 chickens and 48 ducks (282 clinical specimens...

influenza a virus is now considered to be widespread in poultry and has demonstrated the ability to infect humans in iran. for laboratory diagnosis of these respiratory viruses, it is essential to have rapid methods, able to detect viruses in early stages of the infection in clinical specimens. the real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction n (rrt-pcr) assay has been established ...

BACKGROUND The aim was to test the effectiveness of early home-based group education on knowledge and communication about renal replacement therapy (RRT). METHODS We conducted a randomized controlled trial using a cross-over design among 80 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Between T0 and T1 (weeks 1-4) Group 1 received the intervention and Group 2 received standard care. Between T1 an...

This study reviews medical and psychosocial patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In chilrehabilitation of children and adolescents with enddren and adolescents with ESRD, medical problems stage renal disease (ESRD) and analyses data of young with the exception of growth are in many ways similar adults with ESRD from a single centre providing renal to those encountered in adult patients...

This analysis presents the survival of patients starting renal replacement therapy (RRT) in UK renal units ('centres'), and includes an analysis of survival by centre. Data from 59 of the 70 UK centres are included. This is the first year that UK centre anonymity has been removed from analysis of patient survival by centre. Survival after adjustment for comorbidity is also reported for the firs...

conclusions this study showed that the developed rrt-pcr assays are rapid, reliable, reproducible, specific, sensitive, and simple tools for detection of mers-cov. finally, a kit consisting of two assay signatures and controls was assembled, which can be distributed to public health laboratories in iran to support international mers-cov surveillance and public health response. results the upe a...

INTRODUCTION Although renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a common procedure in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), its efficacy remains uncertain. Patients who receive RRT usually have higher mortality rates than those who do not. However, many differences exist in severity patterns between patients with and those without RRT and available results are further confounded by t...

The sampling based motion planning algorithm known as Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) has gained the attention of many researchers due to their computational efficiency and effectiveness. Recently, a variant of RRT called RRT* has been proposed that ensures asymptotic optimality. Subsequently its bidirectional version has also been introduced in the literature known as Bidirectional-RRT* (...

main purpose of the present research is to invent some tools for confirming hypotheses in analytic-reasoning researches. for this regard, the analytic research is used. the present tools, weighting to reasons tool (wrt) and repeat reasoning tool (rrt) are used for evaluating hypotheses of the current research. the results of the wrt shows that reasons weight (rw) for the first hypothesis is 8 a...